Movie Theater Democratic Remote Control

You keep your ticket stub with you. You sit down. You punch your ticket stub numer into the remote control in the arm of your seat, insuring that you cannot operate more than one remote. If you do not punch in your number, you will not be allowed to vote.

When voting, one merely pushes a button on one's remote control. If more than 50% (or whatever percentage is determined to be the right amount) of the theater's patrons presses the same button within, say, five seconds, the requested event will come to pass.

Such as switching to the next scene, to avoid all that tiresome dialogue. But there could be two "Switch Scene" buttons. One that switches to the next segment, and one that switches to the next segment--only these two segments are different lengths. In this way, one could skip so-and-so's tedious explanation of such-and-such, but catch the other person's reply, or we could avoid a longer boring scene, like the orgy sequence in "Matrix Reloaded." Likewise, if the volume is too loud, we could all turn it down. And if a patron in the theater is being an asshole, we could summon the bouncer. Which is a separate idea I'll be posting.