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Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Film Judging by the Headlines...

Posted by David Schmader on Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 8:51 AM

...you'd think the week's most fascinating film story was the box-office clobbering of the Matt Damon war flick Green Zone by Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland. But you simply can't beat the story of the California filmgoer who responded to a fellow audience member's "shushing" by stabbing him in the neck with a meat thermometer.

Take it away, KTLA:

The stabbing occurred Saturday at the Cinemark 22 theater at 2600 West Avenue I in Lancaster. The theater was packed for a 9 p.m. Saturday screening of the Martin Scorsese horror movie 'Shutter Island' when the victim complained about a woman near him who was using a cellphone during the show. The victim was hospitalized but is expected to survive.

Shutter Island made me want to stab someone, too.

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98.6 degrees? Those things are pretty fucking blunt too.

Posted by furburger on March 16, 2010 at 8:56 AM

I'm just trying to figure out why anyone packs a meat thermometer as their weapon of choice....

Posted by attitude devant on March 16, 2010 at 9:02 AM

"Wallet, cell phone, keys, and meat thermometer. Okay, lets roll."

Posted by gttim on March 16, 2010 at 9:15 AM

Lancaster, CA is the fetid choad to the L.A. Basin's big sweaty buttocks.

Posted by rob!

on March 16, 2010 at 9:53 AM

You are entirely too kind, rob!.

Posted by The Amazing Jim

on March 16, 2010 at 10:41 AM

Well David you better not shush Paul because he loved that stupid, awkward, not suspenseful movie. to slap down Cape Fear in favor of Shutter Island made a lot of us realize Paul's better on comics and books that film and music for certain.

Posted by Paul's Cat on March 16, 2010 at 10:52 AM