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That's horrible. Talking during a movie - for shame!
The alleged shooter seems like such a nice man.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | December 29, 2008 at 12:15 PM
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Posted by: Anthony St. John | December 29, 2008 at 12:22 PM
And that's why they call it the city of brotherly love.
Posted by: SW | December 29, 2008 at 12:22 PM
I went to see that movie last night (awesome, btw) and, although I would never actually SHOOT someone just because they are talking over the movie and annoying the crap outta me to the point I wanna scream bloody hell and rip their heads off, I can understand this man's frustration.
Posted by: Siouxie | December 29, 2008 at 12:23 PM
"We're safer if people can carry concealed weapons!"
How's that again?
Posted by: Brainy Jello | December 29, 2008 at 12:33 PM
Brainy, if I were carrying in that theater, the city would've been saved the cost of a trial for this guy. And if he thought others were carrying, he probably never would have pulled a stunt like that. Just sayin'...
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | December 29, 2008 at 12:39 PM
He was shooting his mouth off. Somebody needed to muzzle that guy.
Posted by: SW | December 29, 2008 at 12:44 PM
The movie theater industry has already capitalized on this tragedy. Last night, right after the trailers, but before Marley and Me started, the local theater had a 30 second spot featuring Mr. Cialella's mug shot with the words "DON'T", "TALK", "DURING", "THE", "FILM" splattered onto the screen with gun shot sounds.
Posted by: BoscoH | December 29, 2008 at 12:59 PM
boscotti...That's wonderful!!! I don't regard it as capitalizing -- they're performing life-saving preventive viewer education.
I can almost forgive the people who are saddled with idiot relatives who ask, "Is that the same man who was hiding in the closet before?"
But I can't deal at all with the ones who say, "Yeah...that guy reminds me of Dickie, that time we were down at the quarry? And the cops came? Remember? And Sheila's old man popped out of the bushes and told me he had a knife and was gonna..." etc, etc, etc.
In fact, if we had concealed carry in Chicago, I'd be spending what's left of my 401(k) on ammo.
Posted by: Betsy | December 29, 2008 at 01:25 PM
Bosco, that was between the dancing popcorn and singing Coke, right? Yeah, I saw that too.
Posted by: Layzeeboy | December 29, 2008 at 01:26 PM
And rattling your cardboard candy box is enough for a kneecap.
Posted by: SW | December 29, 2008 at 01:28 PM
"you can have my beer when you pry it from my cold, dead....owwwwwww!"
Posted by: insomniac | December 29, 2008 at 01:36 PM
That's when the victim was shot once in the left arm...
I'd have done worse.
Posted by: Jack Bauer | December 29, 2008 at 01:40 PM
SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you.
Posted by: Punkin | December 29, 2008 at 01:56 PM
I've no doubt the founders had this very situation in mind when they enshrined our 2nd Amendment rights.
Posted by: OSweet | December 29, 2008 at 01:57 PM
I've always been in favor of tasering people who use cell phones in movies (even on silent they're too bright), and I would taser the talking bro, too.
Stealing beer? They should be tasered, THEN shot (after they wake up).
Posted by: Allen at Division | December 29, 2008 at 01:59 PM
insomniac: get out of my brain! I swear that was word for word what I was going to say!
*cue the Twilight Zone music*
In fact, if we had concealed carry in Chicago, I'd be spending what's left of my 401(k) on ammo.
Posted by: Betsy | 01:25 PM on December 29, 2008
Yeah Betsy, but how far are two shells going to get you?
;)
I've mentioned elsewhere that we had to leave the theater showing The Dark Knight twice this summer (and get refunds) because people just wouldn't shut up, to the point where even my mild-mannered wife was considering violence. This idiotic woman was defending her right to bring her 4 your old to see that movie, and to have a conversation throughout. And since management was unwilling to do anything about it, we left.
Posted by: Jeff Meyerson | December 29, 2008 at 02:12 PM
I found the above referenced theater PSA. Click here.
Posted by: BoscoH | December 29, 2008 at 02:27 PM
The "Button" movie had a "button" man in the audience?
ah ... nevermind ...
When I wuz young (yes, THAT long ago), one SHHHHHHH from the ticket-taker wuz enuf to keep us quiet ... upon fear of being kicked out, and our parents learning of our indiscretion ... and not getting our 16-cent admission refunded ... (I SAID it wuz a long time ago ... )
Posted by: OtheU(manity) | December 29, 2008 at 02:32 PM
Sadly, Mrs. Thunking is a movie talker, actually a questioner. From the first scene she will ask "Who's that?" "What did he just say?" "What just happened?" "How is this gonna turn out?" As the movie progresses, the questions and answers become longer and longer, to the point where we watch 15 seconds, then spend a minute discussing what happened in that 15 seconds, then watch another 15 seconds... We only rent movies now, and it takes 2 night to watch one.
Posted by: random thunking | December 29, 2008 at 02:55 PM
Yo, Jeff! Remember: I watch "24" -- I can get more mayhem outta a couple of bullets, a butter knife and my bare hands than a whole infantry division.
Posted by: Betsy | December 29, 2008 at 04:52 PM
Stealing Schneider Weisse, Sierra Nevada, Erdinger, Duvel or Widmer Porter: Felony
Stealing Sam Adams, Molson, LaBatt's Blue, or Beck's Dark: Misdemeanor
Stealing C00rs, Bud, Miller: a public service
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | December 29, 2008 at 04:55 PM
Ok, Meanie - which beer drinker is most likely carrying a gun - a SchneiderWeinie, or a Miller drinker? Using that logic, which one would you roll for beer?
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | December 29, 2008 at 05:10 PM
If someone is voluntarily drinking a Miller, then you're dealing with a psychotic in any case (har!).
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | December 29, 2008 at 05:44 PM
*waiting for Meanie's beer roll decision*
I prefer pretzels with my beer.
Posted by: NotSherly | December 29, 2008 at 05:45 PM
refresh. refresh.
I feel refreshed.
Posted by: NotSherly | December 29, 2008 at 05:47 PM
Exactly. So you'd be nutso to try to steal beer from a psycho. Much easier to swipe it from a SchneidieWeinie.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | December 29, 2008 at 07:05 PM
Jeff,
...we had to leave the theater showing The Dark Knight twice this summer (and get refunds) because people just wouldn't shut up, to the point where even my mild-mannered wife was considering violence.
That is the reason I haven't watched a movie in the theater in 6 years.
Posted by: Spiny Norman | December 29, 2008 at 07:25 PM
why the picture of Shreck?
Posted by: Jazzzz | December 29, 2008 at 07:46 PM
*Tries to fathom why I would want, even hypothetically, to steal a Miller*
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | December 29, 2008 at 08:00 PM
You can't have my beer.
Posted by: Mrs.Schneider | December 29, 2008 at 08:09 PM
There is a special level of hell reserved for child molesters and people who talk in a theatre.
Posted by: fred | December 30, 2008 at 08:21 AM