I dont need no stinkin title
After the wife made me watch Black Swan I would have welcomed someone to have shot me and put me out of my misery!
Latvian cops cuffed a 27-year-old man on Saturday for allegedly popping a cap in a fellow cinemagoer for eating popcorn too loudly during a screening of Black Swan. According to a report by local news agency Leta, regurgitated in the Guardian, the 42-year-old victim died of wounds sustained during a screening of the …
and noisy teenagers that can't shut up through a movie...
are the main reasons I hardly ever go to the cinema anymore.. yes its nice having a huge screen and big dolby digital surround sound.. but I prefer being able to curl up on the sofa with my mrs and not have to put up with the local teens chatting amongst themselves and making a racket while I watch a movie..
not to mention the fact that its almost a TENNER a pop nowadays..
I guess if I moved out to a posh area maybe it wouldn't be so bad
plus the fact that despite paying the best part of ten quid, there are 20 minutes of adverts to sit through before the movie actually starts.. of course I could show up 20 minutes later but then run the risk of having to sit right at the front in the corner..
my sofa on the other hand is always placed in optimum viewing position for my tv, and the movie starts exactly when I want
I seldom go to the cinema for much the same reason. However I've found the perfect way to do it. If there's something I *really* want to see and think will be good on the big screen, I take a day off work and go by myself in the early afternoon. As long as it's not half-term, you pretty much get the screen to yourself, it's off-peak so usually cheaper and no kids - utter bliss!
Still most good films are just as watchable at home. The exceptions are the big blockbusters/CGI-a-thons where it pays to be immersed in the action. Example - last film I saw in cinema (on my own, place to myself) was the Star Trek reboot.
Sorry to disabuse you, but posh kids can't behave themselves in cinemas either.
While we're busy popping caps into people, can we save a few rounds for the dense ones who can't follow the plot and have to keep asking their partner (in a loud whisper) where this bloke came from, who's he then, I reckon he's the murderer, etc?
Not that impressive in Black Swan - Chloe's much better for that and I'd say has the better, if more conventional, narrative. Black Swan is a bit of a film buff's film with some nice quotes, blurring of subjective and diegetic and, of course it has Natalie Portman in it. Want to borrow my copy of Natalie Portman Watches Paint Dry? The ballet stuff shows just how barbaric the practice is - the sooner it's banned the better!
Oh come, it's not her fault: imagine... it's the end of the 90's... you're trying to build an adult film career... the top man from one of the biggest movie franchise ever calls and asks you to be in his newly-relaunched trilogy... what DO YOU SAY??
A shame all of them got so royally let down by his George-ness :-(
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Forgive me, but this feels tasteless in the extreme. A man asks another cinema goer to eat their food more quietly and is shot dead for it and all you can do is make cheap jokes? Just because they're foreign doesn't mean their death is any less serious or tragic...
They are pretty much all serious, and the majority are tragedies for those closely involved. I invite you to spend the rest of your life sitting in the serous corner weeping while thinking of this endless litany of woe.
The rest of the human race will continue finding what laughs it can.
Mental bastard on the loose is carrying a weapon where it's not even allowed, shoots a father of four. Well, well. We're gaining an incredible international fame by all the crap that's happening around lately. Hey, 1-up, my fellow citizens, we're doing real good! Uh-oh...
It’s amusing if the guy eating the crisps gets shot (as originally reported) but tragic if the complainer does, as we now know.
At least the surviving members of the audience managed to hold onto the little weasel - let’s hope he gets to share a cell with a fellow homicidal maniac who finds him strangely attractive, in a ‘terpsichorean’ sort of way (see earlier anagram).
the worst part of this tragedy is that he was shot in front of his daughter. how is it possible, that no one mentions this FACT!
the criminal has got doctorate and a lawyer degree. the rumour has it, that the shooter actually fired THREE shots it the victims chest. some scary stuff indeed!
/PS: I speak Latvian.../
" What we need here is a Countdown-style Filth-O-Tron to turn terpsichorean into some hideous term of abuse "
sore chin taper, hear nice sport, share nice port, iposh canterer, tire near chops, seer point char, o trench i rapes, hie ports nacre, pets near choir and so forth. For the perp whilst serving Bubba of B Block Tan Spire Chore might fit the crime best.