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Topic: Talker shot during Benjamin Button
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Geoff Jones
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 579
From: Broomfield, CO, USA
Registered: Feb 2006
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posted 12-26-2008 08:47 PM
http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_update/20081226_Phila__man_shot_because_family_talked_during_movie.html
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A South Philadelphia man enraged because a father and son were talking during a Christmas showing of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button took care of the situation when he pulled a .380-caliber gun and shot the father, police said.
James Joseph Cialella Jr., 29, of the 1900 block of Hollywood Street is charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault, and weapons violations.
"It's truly frightening when you see something like this evolve into such violence," said police spokesman Lt. Frank Vanore.
Police were called to the Riverview Theatre in the 1400 block of Columbus Boulevard about 9:30 p.m. where the gunshot victim, a Philadelphia man who was not identified, told police a man sitting near him told his family to be quiet and threw popcorn at his son.
After exchanging words, Vanore said Cialella allegedly got out of his seat to confront the family when the father got up to protect them. That's when the victim was shot once in the left arm, sending others in the theatre running to safety.
Cialella then sat down to watch the movie. Police arrived a short time later and arrested Cialella and confiscated his weapon, Vanore said.
On Yelp, there are numerous posts complaining about the talking at the theatre. Here's one example:
http://www.yelp.com/biz/united-artist-theatre-riverview-plaza-philadelphia
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Aside from that, this theater is terrible. Nothing ruins your movie going experience faster than jackasses having LOUD conversations, people letting their kids be loud and obnoxious, jackasses checking their text messages during the film.
I'm normally not one to blame companies for stupid things that people do, but for f*ck's sake, the management of the theatre could have sent an usher in to shut people up once and a while. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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Frank Angel
Film God
Posts: 5305
From: Brooklyn NY USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 12-28-2008 04:29 AM
Mike's got it right. Lay it right at the feet of incompetent management who won't make it a priority to patrol the auditoria regularly and make it known that any behavior which disturbs other patrons will result in a door slamming behind that perp's sorry ass. Post it on signs, print it on your tickets, and then enforce it. It won't take very long before people will get tired of being thrown out on their butts every time they start acting disruptively.
Here you have a theatre that evidently has already gotten a reputation for being one crappy place to see a movie, and precisely because of patrons' rude behavior. So along with a patron getting shot in the arm, the theatre is shooting itself in the foot by bad management. They think they are saving money by not hiring enough ushers and assistant managers and even security guards whose primary function is to deal with rowdy idiots. When in fact, by NOT enforcing policy, they are destroying their customer base.
Just look at all the comments on that review page -- people who the theatre has already lost as patrons, all telling other potential patrons in no uncertain terms to avoid that theatre like the plague. Obviously people hate the place, and rightfully so. The one major reason that people give when asked why they have developed an "I'll wait till it comes out on DVD" attitude, just like Geoff said, is precisely because of ill-behaved patrons in a theatre that tolerates it.
And sorry to say, Eric, but being afraid to enforce basic policy rules because someone might get shot, that's not the answer. That means you're paralyzed and just throwing up your hands letting the inmates run the asylum. By that measure, you would let people have anything they want from the concessions for free for fear that your servers might get shot. If you don't draw the line in the sand someplace, you wind up with a theatre like this theatre in question were the locals all know it's a terrible place to go and admonish everyone to stay away. How long do you think they can generate enough business to keep the doors opened if they continue to let patrons rule the place and drive others away?
Theatres too cheap to hire proper security deserve to have the place turn into whatever lawless hell hole the patrons turn it into. It's gross mis-management, pure and simple.
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