Ash Ketchum

This deserves its own thread.

Breaking story:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-...rora-colorado/

resinrats

Hokeyboy

It's got one: Gunman opens fire on midnight DKR crowd: kills 10-12

iggystar

That's so crazy and sad! Before we left for the movie (me, my brother and daughter), my mother told me, "You guys be careful." I was actually puzzled and asked her what she expected would to be happening at a movie? We live in Detroit, but go to the movies in the suburbs and I've never attributed violence at this kind of movie.

GoldenJCJ

That theater is about 20 minutes from my house.

It sounds like a crazy gunman so this probably could have happened at any theater but the Aurora Mall is a shithole. There is no way in hell I'd hang around that area at night unless I was looking to be murdered. Hell, that place is dangerous even in the daytime. There was a shooting at that same mall a year or two ago.

I've got tickets for The Dark Knight Rises at another Aurora theater tonight. Luckily it's a much better part of town.

RichC2

I have some friends in Aurora that made that exact same comment.

B5Erik

This is insane. Shooting helpless people like that? That's the act of a coward.

I just have to wonder if this will impact how theaters handle security in the future...

It's just a horrible, sad story. And totally pointless.

Troy Stiffler

I mentioned that Nolan really taps into the audience's psyche. But holy shit.

GoldenJCJ

The badass thing about this is that for the rest of their lives the wounded survivors can start off their stories with "Do you want to know how I got these scars?"

gp1086

I am so sad about this.

Mr. Cinema

Deadline also reports that WB had attached a new trailer for The Gangster Squad, which shows a scene of someone shooting up a theater. Ouch. Talk about bad timing. Apparently the trailer was playing with showings this morning, but was supposed to be pulled.

ezln94

a live feed

http://www.radioreference.com/apps/a...n=wp&feedId=43

Troy Stiffler

And I joke. But this is really bad. As a movie guy, it hits closer to home than a politician getting shot or a high school or college.

It's kind of a shame that the guy didn't kill himself when he was done. O well.

Double_Oh_7

You going to post this in every forum about the shooting?

Tom Creo

Why would anybody take a 3 month old to a movie theater, let alone a midnight screening?

xage

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Troy Stiffler

All twenty of them!

The Antipodean

Just makes me very sad for my home country, and its total lack of gun control. Other nations have had crazed gunmen too, but the US has a knack for it.

PenguinJoe

Apparently he originally wanted to stage his rampage during a screening of "Battleship" but no one was in the theater.

Solid Snake

what the fuck are you doing in the movie forum? Get your ass back in the HD forum.

Giles

... whoah... someone must have pissed in your coffee.

Dragon Tattoo

Ash Ketchum

The New York Post found a Dark Knight comic with a gunman-in-a-movie theater scenario:

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/nationa...sJkadLOePIOdtI

At the bottom of the article, you'll find the comic book panels being cited.

They're not saying it inspired the killer, just pointing out the parallel.

Solid Snake

Is your detector not working?

arminius

So you would have been alright if he used explosives or gas bombs, just guns should not be used by nuts. Maybe we can pass laws to make evil illegal. That should do it.

Look what this asshole did. Do you really think that if only he did not have a gun he would have just lived a full and productive life. Do you know how easy it is to make explosives or pyro? What really matters is was he circumsized and how did this cause his insanity.