One Shooting I Can Understand

[silverscreenselect]

I've been in the situation so many times of people carrying on in a movie theater like they're in a football stadium. Finally, someone took offense to it:

http://news.aol.com/article/man-alleged ... ies/287893

And since the only people working in theaters are a bunch of 18-year-olds who can't stand up to either adults or their own peers and have their hands full just trying to clean up each screening room between shows, the idiots who carry on can usually do so with impunity.

If I was on the jury, I'd be arguing for extenuating circumstances....

[ghostjmf]

I hope you are being facetious here. Hope you are. Hope hope hope. Because my reaction was "& why was he carrying a gun, concealed, of course, into a theater in the 1st place?"

I tend to like lively audiences, the rare times I actually go to theaters. I do not like being the only one laughing at the funny parts, if there are funny parts, that's for sure.

I do not like people yelling out what is going to happen next, or reciting dialog along with the characters, but then I tend not to go to the 100th showing of cult films, anyhow.

What I like least at music festival main-stage multi-act concerts (I go to a lot more music festivals than movies) is people chatting away with each other while waiting for their favorite act to come on, oblivious of the surrounding people for whom the act currently on stage is their favorite act. A lot of shushing goes on. My favorite was from a very young Irish woman who managed to sound like everybody's Mom.

Fortunately folkies very seldom are packing heat, I guess.

[Thousandaire]

I'm with SSS.

And I still don't care about Caylee Anthony.

[Beebs52]

No sweat, then. I'm sure she doesn't care about you, either. Since she's dead and all.

[BackInTex]

While I agree and concur with the feelings of the shooter, I don't agree with or condone his solution.

I myself have 'warned' some folks to be quiet during a movie. They looked at me as if to say 'Shut up yourself old man' (they were high schoolers). They continued to talk. I got up, walked by them and said, 'thats it'. I proceeded to the front of the theatre where they had a uniformed deputy (fully commissioned and packing heat) on duty for crowd control (Friday night and all). He came into the theatre with me and asked me to point them out. I did, noting that two had disappeared. They were hiding. He found them in the exit hall. He talked to them.

About 30 minutes later he came back in and ushered them out. I guess someone else, seeing that I had the balls to do what I did, did the same thing when the teens continued to talked (though low enough not to disturb me, but obviously disturbing them).

[Estonut]

And I still don't care about Caylee Anthony.

Not to be judgemental, but you're a narcissistic prick, completely devoid of empathy.

2 people defended your statement last time you made it. They read way more into it than you had stated, giving you the benefit of the doubt. They felt you were commenting on unbalanced news reporting. Nope. As it turns out, you're just an asshole.

Now go cry to the moderator!

[clem21]

And I still don't care about Caylee Anthony.

Not to be judgemental, but you're a narcissistic prick, completely devoid of empathy.

2 people defended your statement last time you made it. They read way more into it than you had stated, giving you the benefit of the doubt. They felt you were commenting on unbalanced news reporting. Nope. As it turns out, you're just an asshole.

Now go cry to the moderator!

Well I think y'may have been a tad judgmental even though you clearly were trying not to be.

[Estonut]

Well I think y'may have been a tad judgmental even though you clearly were trying not to be.

That was a play on his original statement, which was:

Not to be callous or anything, but who the hell cares???????

I was clearly being judgmental, just as he was clearly being callous.

[littlebeast13]

Well I think y'may have been a tad judgmental even though you clearly were trying not to be.

That was a play on his original statement, which was:

Not to be callous or anything, but who the hell cares???????

I was clearly being judgmental, just as he was clearly being callous.

I wonder what he thought of ES's callous pic?

lb13

[peacock2121]

While I agree and concur with the feelings of the shooter, I don't agree with or condone his solution.

I myself have 'warned' some folks to be quiet during a movie. They looked at me as if to say 'Shut up yourself old man' (they were high schoolers). They continued to talk. I got up, walked by them and said, 'thats it'. I proceeded to the front of the theatre where they had a uniformed deputy (fully commissioned and packing heat) on duty for crowd control (Friday night and all). He came into the theatre with me and asked me to point them out. I did, noting that two had disappeared. They were hiding. He found them in the exit hall. He talked to them.

About 30 minutes later he came back in and ushered them out. I guess someone else, seeing that I had the balls to do what I did, did the same thing when the teens continued to talked (though low enough not to disturb me, but obviously disturbing them).

I can see this happening.

I can picture your body language and the kind of stride to your walk as well.

I wish I could have observed it.

[peacock2121]

And I still don't care about Caylee Anthony.

Not to be judgemental, but you're a narcissistic prick, completely devoid of empathy.

2 people defended your statement last time you made it. They read way more into it than you had stated, giving you the benefit of the doubt. They felt you were commenting on unbalanced news reporting. Nope. As it turns out, you're just an asshole.

Now go cry to the moderator!

He has a gun.

Be careful.

[WheresFanny]

I hope you are being facetious here. Hope you are. Hope hope hope. Because my reaction was "& why was he carrying a gun, concealed, of course, into a theater in the 1st place?"

Me, too. It's a movie theater, for goodness sake! It's not like they were on the Concorde or anything.

[littlebeast13]

I hope you are being facetious here. Hope you are. Hope hope hope. Because my reaction was "& why was he carrying a gun, concealed, of course, into a theater in the 1st place?"

Me, too. It's a movie theater, for goodness sake! It's not like they were on the Concorde or anything.

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lb13

[kayrharris]

I hope you are being facetious here. Hope you are. Hope hope hope. Because my reaction was "& why was he carrying a gun, concealed, of course, into a theater in the 1st place?"

Me, too. It's a movie theater, for goodness sake! It's not like they were on the Concorde or anything.

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lb13

And Fan is up very early today. I have to go to work early and shouldn't even be here now.

[littlebeast13]

Me, too. It's a movie theater, for goodness sake! It's not like they were on the Concorde or anything.

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lb13

And Fan is up very early today. I have to go to work early and shouldn't even be here now.

It is already quarter to nine. How early is early down in the South?

lb13

[kayrharris]

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lb13

And Fan is up very early today. I have to go to work early and shouldn't even be here now.

It is already quarter to nine. How early is early down in the South?

lb13

Since I don't usually drag myself in until 10:30 or later, I need to be there by 9:30. I'm almost
ready and I only live 5 minutes away.

[WheresFanny]

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lb13

And Fan is up very early today. I have to go to work early and shouldn't even be here now.

It is already quarter to nine. How early is early down in the South?

lb13

I was just about to say "It's a quarter to eight! That's only early to Obscenely Rich Bastards. Ha!"

[Obscenely Rich Bastard]

And Fan is up very early today. I have to go to work early and shouldn't even be here now.

It is already quarter to nine. How early is early down in the South?

lb13

I was just about to say "It's a quarter to eight! That's only early to Obscenely Rich Bastards. Ha!"

I didn't make all this money by staying in bed all day! It's hard work to lie, cheat, and steal it away from the little people....

[silverscreenselect]

I hope you are being facetious here. Hope you are. Hope hope hope. Because my reaction was "& why was he carrying a gun, concealed, of course, into a theater in the 1st place?"

I tend to like lively audiences, the rare times I actually go to theaters. I do not like being the only one laughing at the funny parts, if there are funny parts, that's for sure.

I do not like people yelling out what is going to happen next, or reciting dialog along with the characters, but then I tend not to go to the 100th showing of cult films, anyhow.

Yes I was being facetious. I've been too closely involved with guns on a couple of occasions to wish an experience like that on anyone, even someone annoying.

However, I believe one of the main reasons people don't go to movies much anymore is the complete lack of manners that other people display in the movies. These nitwits are usually teenagers who congregate in groups and engage in conversation throughout the film. And it's one thing to speak into the ear of the person next to you; it's another to make yourself heard over the theater soundtract to the last person in your group five or six seats over. And they are usually trying to show off their wit and/or wisdom, neither of which is usually apparent to anyone outside the immediate group.

When I grew up, theaters were single screen, with adults serving as managers and/or ushers, who were not afraid to display their authority and give someone the heave ho when deserved. I remember going to Saturday matinees where a theater full of 10-14 year old boys would be a lot quieter during a screening of The Fly or Jason and the Argonauts than what I've seen and heard in the last year from people who should supposedly know better.

Now, in addition to the conversation, you have cell phones and people who answer them and feel obliged to spend a couple of minutes explaining why they can't talk to the other person, or, even worse, spending even longer giving their mini-Roger Ebert critique of the film in progress.

Fortunately, a lot of what I see is somewhat immune to the idiot brigade. There's not that many groups of teenagers making their way into showings of Milk or Doubt. However, I enjoy seeing a popular movie in a big theater filled with people. The crowd makes funny scenes funnier, suspenseful scenes more suspenseful and exciting scenes more exciting. It's so frustrating to have the mood broken, inevitably by people who never have anything to say that's remotely as interesting as what they are interrupting.

[peacock2121]

I hope you are being facetious here. Hope you are. Hope hope hope. Because my reaction was "& why was he carrying a gun, concealed, of course, into a theater in the 1st place?"

Me, too. It's a movie theater, for goodness sake! It's not like they were on the Concorde or anything.

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZIIIIIIIINNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!

lb13

tee hee