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*I haven't actually seen Ted, but their Axe body spray cross-promotion tells me what I need to know.
Also, what elganador said. "Pro-life," apparently, now applies irrespective of the fetus's species.
But honestly I don't think the kid was doing anything other than trolling on about the only squirm worthy(and forced at that) scene in a movie of a series that is supposed to be at it's core of the syfi horror genre. People who work at movie theaters aren't generally regarded as socially inawkward and incapable of geeking out perhaps inappropriatley. Anyhow this obviously has nothing to do with the managment of the theater. There's no politics here and besides who the fuck returns free tickets? So much handwringing in this town, oy vay!
Also, this never would've happened if she wasn't a barren whore.
so the human couple couldnt previously have kids, and she internalized the blame as her fault..who knows - maybe it was the man's fault. i took it to mean that our modern sperm/egg combo is growing weaker despite all the modern technology, and 'alien' DNA is much stronger (fresher from the source of life- those crazy albino giant things) and thus more fertile.
Also, it's not a darling little baby, it's a horrible alien tentacle monstrosity. Nobody wants that shit.
"Holy shit, you pedantic nerd ass, nobody fucking cares about quibbly sci-fi bullshit! Go back to your action figure collection!" you say. Point is: you don't take a situation that is very specifically not presented as an abortion, and even if it was for an abortion is clearly not analogous to a human pregnancy, and describe it as an abortion unless you've got political motivations.
That's the theater I saw this movie at, although looking at my old stubs it appears this happened more than a week after I was there. Still, I'm probably going to be there again, and if this little warrior of Christ decides to start warning me about stuff in, say, I don't know, Ice Age: Who Fucking Gives A Shit ("Just to warn you, this movie presents an unrealistic image of the magic zoo hugbox that was Noah's Ark") his manager is going to get an earful.
Plus, what the hell: the whole movie was about how aliens sired human life on Earth, and some biblethumper takes issue with a parasitic extraction to save a woman's life?
- minimum wage drone tells someone something about a movie they've paid to watch.
- it being a political topic, said someone decides that it's a Really Big Deal and starts raising all kinds of hell because some minimum wage drone had the temerity to tell them something about a movie they were gonna watch.
- said injustice is SO GREAT it gets covered by journ... uh, the Stranger, and many self-righteous words are spilled over the horrible, horrible incident of a minimum wage drone telling some dude something about a movie he was about to watch.
Really? REALLY, STRANGER?
I saw this movie at the Thornton Place theater. I see a lot of movies there with friends who live nearby. If that proselytizing employee had tried that shit with me, I'd have had him in front of his manager within minutes. He'd be lucky if I didn't punch him in the nuts just for being an asshole.
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Otherwise reasonable people tend to become entitled assholes on their worst behavior upon entering a movie theater. Somehow, they feel that the "high" $12 ticket price means they can abuse the minimum-wage employees and managers (many of whom are also earning minimum wage). Protip: complaining about how expensive movie theater tickets are at someone who doesn't earn enough in one hour to see a movie makes you look like an ass.
From the quote, it sounds like UNIDENTIFIED MINIMUM WAGE EMPLOYEE have had a political/moral objection to the scene. However, I think @29 is probably closest to the truth. It's gross.
Protip 2: Complaining about virtually anything at Regal will get you free tickets. Just to get your entitled ass off of their case. Why would you send the tickets back? One mediocre, predictable plot point in one mediocre, predictable movie was spoiled for you. Move on with your life and stop trying to get UNIDENTIFIED MINIMUM WAGE EMPLOYEE fired.
Jorge freaked out over something trivial. Returning the tickets makes me think that he really wants that entry level employee to be fired. If you dont want to be subjected to subliminal social, political or even religious imagery, then going to the movies really isnt the thing for you as its basically everywhere.
That said, Dominic's reaction is comically over the top.
*No, she did not know the story of Anne Boleyn. Yes, she was a moron.
For what it's worth if we do decide to read the alien c-section as an abortion, the opposition to it is indeed troubling, since clearly the pregnancy is both endangering the life of the mother and a result of rape (the sex with her human partner is consensual but the sex with his alien side is not).
you should take it down and apologize!!!!!!!!!
On a similar note, I recently overheard a woman clutching her pearls over the CHILD PORNOGRAPHY in Brave. Specifically, the scene at the end where the main character's kid brothers are running around naked. You only see them from behind (just as you did their father and most of the other men earlier - kilt joke), and only for a few seconds, and oh yeah, they're not real people. They don't even look like real people, and they were made on a computer. The most amusing thing was that she was speaking to her daughter, who is apparently the only child in the history of mankind to not have a nudist phase growing up.
@29: I feel better knowing I'm not the only one who couldn't take that scene. I swear, that sequence was written to push all my specific "overload" buttons.
(not to mention the spoilers in the photo caption and in the article itself)
zero respect. zero.
few years back i went to watch "rape of the soul" which was this wacky conspiracy theory "documentary" at landmark metro and the employee didn't really give away any spoilers but she was like, "uh...just so you know, you can always get a ticket refund if it's within 15 mins of the start of any movie". Is there really such a 15 min rule, never used it since but i did end up getting a refund that day.
Oh bullshit. Then why didn't they spoiler the rest of the movie?
I personally would have liked a spoiler before I watched 'The Butterfly Effect' that it was going to be the evil shit I had ever seen. (As I was a kid at the time.)
Otherwise, It would have to be the lamest most pointless way ever to make the statement 'abortion is bad'. He could have worn a t-shirt for that.
That being said. Abortion is bad. As a person who was once a fetus, I feel fully justified to make that statement. :)
(I couldn't same the same for hypothetical alien monstrosities though, but maybe I'm just racist. :P)