http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/12/27/movie.shooting/index.html
This man deserves an award.
Let this be a lesson to all you movie talkers!
This man deserves an award.
Let this be a lesson to all you movie talkers!
My Hero - Don't talk in the theater...or else!
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If you take sexual advantage of her, you're going to burn in a very special level of hell. A level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater
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That's absolutely fricking awesome. That guy will never EVER have the balls to back chat anybody again. 
Shame the shooter got arrested though.
Should have shot him in the balls.
Shame the shooter got arrested though.
Should have shot him in the balls.
That's absolutely fricking awesome. That guy will never EVER have the balls to back chat anybody again.
Shame the shooter got arrested though.
Nah - You'd run more of a risk of him screaming all the way through the movie then
I am sort of surprised that anyone would want to go to the cinema on Christmas Day - don't they have anything better to do?
I can't imagine that the cinema could have been very crowded on Charistmas Day so why didn't the man just change his seat?
I wonder how old the son was? If he was a child he will be likely to very traumatised and I think it is sad that anyone would find that acceptable or funny.
EDITED TO ADD - The victim was 31 years old so I think we can assume that his son was definitely a child.
I can't imagine that the cinema could have been very crowded on Charistmas Day so why didn't the man just change his seat?
I wonder how old the son was? If he was a child he will be likely to very traumatised and I think it is sad that anyone would find that acceptable or funny.
EDITED TO ADD - The victim was 31 years old so I think we can assume that his son was definitely a child.
Interrsting.
of the four cinemas complexes in my city only one opens Christmas Day and it has only be doing do for the last handful of years. I have never known anyone who has gone to the cinema on Christmas Day. Boxing Day is the day that many of the big movies open in Australia.
eXtreme circumstances naturally call for eXtreme measures. But no need to actually shoot the guy?! 
The best thing about being in a cinema during family popcorn night is listening to the banal comments of the audience, especially if it's a really dodgy movie and you no longer care about the plot and stuff. 
It's only when they start throwing their drinks at you and having sex behind your chair and stuff that I'd then reach for the figurative firearm. (Me, I'm a pacifist. Actually, I'm a coward.)
I remember Mark Kermode recommended the best way to watch There Will Be Blood in the cinema: buy all the seats in your row, the row in front of you, and the row behind you, then sit right in the middle of the cinema and take it all in.
[[groan] - everyone]
The best thing about being in a cinema during family popcorn night is listening to the banal comments of the audience, especially if it's a really dodgy movie and you no longer care about the plot and stuff. It's only when they start throwing their drinks at you and having sex behind your chair and stuff that I'd then reach for the figurative firearm. (Me, I'm a pacifist. Actually, I'm a coward.)I remember Mark Kermode recommended the best way to watch There Will Be Blood in the cinema: buy all the seats in your row, the row in front of you, and the row behind you, then sit right in the middle of the cinema and take it all in.
It's the cheapest way for the family to feast on a turkey.
[[groan] - everyone]
I'm good for $100 toward his attorney fees. This guy is a true hero.l
Well that's fucked up.
Although it's nice to see gun violence in Philly that doesn't involve gang warfare.
Although it's nice to see gun violence in Philly that doesn't involve gang warfare.
Oh, great- as I was about to post a reply I read this. Now I've got yet another duel on this BBS.
DON'T TALK DURING THE MOVIE OR WE'LL THROW YOUR ASS OUT!!!!
Viva la Drafthouse!!!!!!!
Is there any reason why Americans seem to be so badly behaved in cinemas? Certainly it isn't a problem I run into here. I can only remember being annoyed at talkers twice in my life and in both cases they perps were elderly ladies who I expect were hard of hearing and where asking their companions what was happening in the movie.
I have never been annoyed by teenagers or children and the rare occasion a phone rings the person usually walks outside to talk on it or simply turns it off.
In have been to the cinema 28 times this year and not once was a annoyed by anyone.
I have never been annoyed by teenagers or children and the rare occasion a phone rings the person usually walks outside to talk on it or simply turns it off.
In have been to the cinema 28 times this year and not once was a annoyed by anyone.
That's it...I'm moving to Tasmania. 
My friends and I have a long standing tradition of going to the movies on Christmas Day. They're as much my "family" as my family, and I enjoy spending time with them. We started more than a decade ago when we would drive around in the evening after family dinners looking for a place to go, but everything was closed. Then we found out the theaters were open, so we went...
They were always empty, we were the only people there, and it was a lovely experience.
Now, more than a decade later, they're packed with more peons than a Saturday night. I wanted to go see The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, but it was sold out. We were forced to see Seven Pounds instead. It was a horrible, horrible movie. The peons have begun to ruin my Christmas Day tradition.
On topic, the victim was 31 years old and brought his kid!?! Obviously his kid must have been a kid! Which he brought to a 3 hour romantic drama!?! Dude...you deserved to be shot more than I thought.
My friends and I have a long standing tradition of going to the movies on Christmas Day. They're as much my "family" as my family, and I enjoy spending time with them. We started more than a decade ago when we would drive around in the evening after family dinners looking for a place to go, but everything was closed. Then we found out the theaters were open, so we went...
They were always empty, we were the only people there, and it was a lovely experience.
Now, more than a decade later, they're packed with more peons than a Saturday night. I wanted to go see The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, but it was sold out. We were forced to see Seven Pounds instead. It was a horrible, horrible movie. The peons have begun to ruin my Christmas Day tradition.
On topic, the victim was 31 years old and brought his kid!?! Obviously his kid must have been a kid! Which he brought to a 3 hour romantic drama!?! Dude...you deserved to be shot more than I thought.
Well if one has the budgetI remember Mark Kermode recommended the best way to watch There Will Be Blood in the cinema: buy all the seats in your row, the row in front of you, and the row behind you, then sit right in the middle of the cinema and take it all in.
Actually when I went to see There Will Be Blood the couple next to me blabbed on all the way trough the trailers and such beforehand. Fine. At least it wasn't the movie. But when the movie had ver clearly started, the logos had rolled and the first had started and they still didn't shut the hell up, I rather loudly asked "Excuse me, but are going to be talking for the entire film?" And I got a very snippy "No we're done now!" back. True they did shut up after that but jeeeeez, some people just need to go to a damned coffee shop or something instead of a movie!As for getting on topic and the actual shooting...damn that's bit extreme! And I hate people who talk during movies.
And this is a bad thing...why, exactly?
Reminds me of the time I saw Star Trek: First Contact and there were these idiot little brats sitting right behind me yapping it up. I whirled around and gave them the distinct impression that there would be an ass kicking given to them, by me, if they didn't get the hell out of there immediately.
They left.
Actually, before going back on topic, I heard an interesting anecdote mentioned on the Kermode podcast about a man who saw TWBB in a cinema in London, and when he left the cinema after the film ended, the skies were ablaze - it was the day of the famous Cutty Sark fire last year. It seemed to enhance the atmosphere anhd frame of mind of the young cinemagoer.Well if one has the budgetI remember Mark Kermode recommended the best way to watch There Will Be Blood in the cinema: buy all the seats in your row, the row in front of you, and the row behind you, then sit right in the middle of the cinema and take it all in.
We now return to our regularly scheduled thread...
My first thought was, were the victim's black?
I haev attended "black" theaters and "white" theaters and there is usually more conversation going on in the black ones.
I haev attended "black" theaters and "white" theaters and there is usually more conversation going on in the black ones.
