A 23-year old Texas man was run over by a pickup truck and fatally injured in the parking lot of a movie theater after he got into an argument in the rest room with other patrons regarding the ending of the movie 300: Rise of an Empire. Apparently, the dispute centered over whether the movie would or should have a sequel. According to this story, police are still looking for the driver of the truck and a passenger who drove away from the scene after backing the truck into the victim.
https://aattp.org/texas-man-run-down-ki ... movie-300/
Count me among the "no sequel" voters, but not if there's anyone in a pickup truck nearby.
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I'm glad I don't know this woman:
Florida woman set man's car on fire after he refused to buy her McFlurry
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I did not like Rise of Empire enough to get in a fight about it. Eva Green as Artemisia, however is a different story.
Suitguy is not bitter.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
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There are things worth fighting over in this world, & whether a movie should have a sequel is not one of them.
What's scariest about all these recent "Lethal Actions" in & around movies is that no-one goes into a theater thinking they're going to be killed by someone who's irate about their cell phone use, or their opinion of the movie, or whatever. Maybe now they do.
Umpteen zillion years ago, my brother, as a theater employee, tried to calm down an irate patron & had popcorn thrown all over him. Which was creepy & got much retelling on his part, but at least the patrons weren't carrying guns, or running people down with their trucks in those days. The patron was either in the wrong theater (the owners ran 2 theaters, a subway stop away from each other; one followed the other in the ad block in the paper), or had read the start-time wrong, or something like that.
What's scariest about all these recent "Lethal Actions" in & around movies is that no-one goes into a theater thinking they're going to be killed by someone who's irate about their cell phone use, or their opinion of the movie, or whatever. Maybe now they do.
Umpteen zillion years ago, my brother, as a theater employee, tried to calm down an irate patron & had popcorn thrown all over him. Which was creepy & got much retelling on his part, but at least the patrons weren't carrying guns, or running people down with their trucks in those days. The patron was either in the wrong theater (the owners ran 2 theaters, a subway stop away from each other; one followed the other in the ad block in the paper), or had read the start-time wrong, or something like that.
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It's amazing how crazy people apparently didn't exist before the sensational stories like this started getting nationwide attention 15-20 years ago....
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It's all the internet's fault, so Blame Al Gore...littlebeast13 wrote:It's amazing how crazy people apparently didn't exist before the sensational stories like this started getting nationwide attention 15-20 years ago....
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We go to this theatre a lot. You can actually buy reserved seats online so you don't have to get there 30-40 minutes early for popular shows.
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It may be easy to get seats, but parking is murder.BackInTex wrote:We go to this theatre a lot. You can actually buy reserved seats online so you don't have to get there 30-40 minutes early for popular shows.
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