"The core importance of movie theatres is that it's the only place where the audience can't press the stop button."
Bong Joon-ho, at the Golden Globe Symposium (interpreted by Sharon Choi)
This Chrome extension takes away users' control to pause, skip, and scroll through the timeline.
Even though users can always 'escape' the cinema mode, it provides a friction to be in the movie.
- Select a movie that you want to immerse yourself at netflix.com
- Play it
- Press C or toggle the switch from extension menu
- Download the package
- Turn on developer mode on chrome at chrome://extensions/
- Press 'Load Unpacked' and select the package (as a folder)