Boomer’d

Submissions and the art of giving up at the right time

“This is aw-ful.”

We are approximately 4-8 minutes into a feature-length film. Barely anything has happened yet. But one of the audience members is already convinced that we will not be finishing the film. The movie has been Boomer’d. To Boomer something is to give up on it exceedingly early and pass down a judgement, based on very little, that is as cer…