Give me what I want!
Reg
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Well, I think it was pretty much "give me what I want" syndrome. The film did not deliver what these people wanted and so it upset them and they felt cheated. I could totally understand that part of their issues and expectations. That was fine but the wanting their money back thing was just dumb. Maybe they ate too much turkey and pie. Maybe they were just infected with the madness of Black Friday...which really is a sick and twisted thing that can leave you questioning where we are as a society. I had a bunch of funny things running through my head to say to them but my guess is they would not have found them funny. I mean, I agree with Ed, if you are going to form an angry mob do it for something worthwhile...like there should be an angry mob in front of the White House every day that Bush and Cheney are still in office. There should be an angry mob waiting for Congress every day they do nothing to stop the Bush/Cheney madness. Come on though, an angry mob forming to get their 10 bucks back after a movie? Granted, they weren't carrying torches and I hope none of them had a taser handy but the problem with angry mobs is that they don't always go after the right people. It was not the cinema managers fault the Coen brothers made a film that did not conform to their expectations. I would have suggested writing the Coens a nasty note or just not going to see the next film they made but they probably took out all their frustrations on the poor bastards that work for the cinema. I think the only cinema experience I ever had that was worse was when I went to see The Last Temptation of Christ on it's opening weekend. I mean I went at that point because I thought the protesters would add to the experience but what happened was there were just a lot of people outside the theatre yelling at each other. Thankfully this was before 9/11 and taser crazy cops because I think the cops that were there would have tasered some people. I don't think anybody should go to a movie and end up getting tasered but based on some of the stories I heard about Black Friday I think a lot of people should have been tasered that day. Many of them before they ever left the house to shop.
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'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
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Well, I think it was pretty much "give me what I want" syndrome. The film did not deliver what these people wanted and so it upset them and they felt cheated. I could totally understand that part of their issues and expectations. That was fine but the wanting their money back thing was just dumb. Maybe they ate too much turkey and pie. Maybe they were just infected with the madness of Black Friday...which really is a sick and twisted thing that can leave you questioning where we are as a society. I had a bunch of funny things running through my head to say to them but my guess is they would not have found them funny. I mean, I agree with Ed, if you are going to form an angry mob do it for something worthwhile...like there should be an angry mob in front of the White House every day that Bush and Cheney are still in office. There should be an angry mob waiting for Congress every day they do nothing to stop the Bush/Cheney madness. Come on though, an angry mob forming to get their 10 bucks back after a movie? Granted, they weren't carrying torches and I hope none of them had a taser handy but the problem with angry mobs is that they don't always go after the right people. It was not the cinema managers fault the Coen brothers made a film that did not conform to their expectations. I would have suggested writing the Coens a nasty note or just not going to see the next film they made but they probably took out all their frustrations on the poor bastards that work for the cinema. I think the only cinema experience I ever had that was worse was when I went to see The Last Temptation of Christ on it's opening weekend. I mean I went at that point because I thought the protesters would add to the experience but what happened was there were just a lot of people outside the theatre yelling at each other. Thankfully this was before 9/11 and taser crazy cops because I think the cops that were there would have tasered some people. I don't think anybody should go to a movie and end up getting tasered but based on some of the stories I heard about Black Friday I think a lot of people should have been tasered that day. Many of them before they ever left the house to shop.
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'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
