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Well, here we are. I guess that it was destined to come to this.


Posted by: derka derka

Posted by: Recon Number 54
I honestly do suspect that the remodeling will make it impossible for someone to say/realize "this is the spot" or "this is the seat". To not do so... poor business and poor PR decisions.
Which from the businesses point of view should be enough to owe to the families.

Although offering them a free screening at the theatre was a bit distasteful, remodelled or not.

I didn't get the feeling they were offering a show and popcorn.

More of a "last night before we open, an opportunity for you the families to come together (if you choose) and have something quiet and dignified out of sight and interference from the public". Call it a memorial, call it a tribute, just a chance for the names to be read once more... I don't know. I didn't get the feeling they were advocating something tacky.

Certainly not "woohooo come see the new Superman moooveeee! and we're sorry about your dead ones. Don't forget to turn off your cell phones as a courtesy to others!"

  • 01.02.2013 7:59 PM PDT

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Agreed. All the changes are good and add variety. Do we really want another Halo 3? Just running around with one gun and no armor abilities? It's good that 343 wants to try something new. Do we really want the same thing for three more games?

It owes them their phone number, and plastic handcuffs.

  • 01.02.2013 8:01 PM PDT

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I think we've moved far enough away from "too soon" for me to post this.

Uncomfortable realization:

All the kids whose parents died in the theatre now have the same origin story as Batman.

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Posted by: Recon Number 54

Posted by: derka derka

Posted by: Recon Number 54
I honestly do suspect that the remodeling will make it impossible for someone to say/realize "this is the spot" or "this is the seat". To not do so... poor business and poor PR decisions.
Which from the businesses point of view should be enough to owe to the families.

Although offering them a free screening at the theatre was a bit distasteful, remodelled or not.

I didn't get the feeling they were offering a show and popcorn.

More of a "last night before we open, an opportunity for you the families to come together (if you choose) and have something quiet and dignified out of sight and interference from the public". Call it a memorial, call it a tribute, just a chance for the names to be read once more... I don't know. I didn't get the feeling they were advocating something tacky.

Certainly not "woohooo come see the new Superman moooveeee! and we're sorry about your dead ones. Don't forget to turn off your cell phones as a courtesy to others!"
They were probably offering the families a chance at closure, but they must have had some idea the families would have took it differently and thought they were being disrespectful about it.

Seems to me as if they didn't go through the pros and cons of where they were offering.

  • 01.02.2013 8:02 PM PDT

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Posted by: Maximus Decimus
Agreed. All the changes are good and add variety. Do we really want another Halo 3? Just running around with one gun and no armor abilities? It's good that 343 wants to try something new. Do we really want the same thing for three more games?


Posted by: Silentone2
I think we've moved far enough away from "too soon" for me to post this.

Uncomfortable realization:

All the kids whose parents died in the theatre now have the same origin story as Batman.
too soon

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close the room that the people were killed in as a memorial, I doubt people would like to sit in that room anyways. Open the rest of the theatre though
I'm not sure, but I get the impression that they remodeled the multi-plex. In which case, they probably moved walls and changed room numbers so that there would be no way to say "this is the room where it happened". Things would be moved and switched around enough that "that place" would be gone.

If they are at all sensitive or smart, they probably also have a small quiet alcove somewhere with a plaque expressing their shared grief, condolences and empathy to the survivors, their family and the community.


I saw the remodel part. I would assume, like you, that they changed the room. I don't think the theatre should be shut down. It is still a business. Should highways where people die in accidents be shut down as well?

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Posted by: zoobkillerninja
I don't see a problem with opening the theater back up.

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This. No one could have prevented what happened on that day.
Posted by: zoobkillerninja
I don't see a problem with opening the theater back up.

  • 01.02.2013 8:11 PM PDT

Signatures are for little kids.

As long as they cleaned the place up it should be reopened.

Expecting it to be closed forever is not very logical... but sometimes grief can make regularly logical people into illogical people with unrealistic expectations.

  • 01.02.2013 8:13 PM PDT

Signatures are for little kids.


Posted by: Silentone2
Uncomfortable realization:

All the kids whose parents died in the theatre now have the same origin story as Batman.
Thank you. I think being able to see the humour in the darkest of places is a gift.

I hope if any of them become Batman they'll be able to speak in a voice that doesn't sound like an angry growl, like Adam West (the best Batman ever).

  • 01.02.2013 8:17 PM PDT

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*scrunches nose*

Too soon? Yeah, too soon.

I honestly do suspect that the remodeling will make it impossible for someone to say/realize "this is the spot" or "this is the seat". To not do so... poor business and poor PR decisions.
hey, never said it was sensitive, just listed a way to get people to see a romcom in that theater.

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