CNN: Woman dies while watching "The Passion" .....

[MayAMonkeyBeYourPinata]

Originally posted by shartley

She actually had a heart condition, and the movie most likely triggered it.

[Crime Dog]

I'm with shartley. Hype. I'm sure people have strokes and heart attacks in theaters at other times as well.

I believe it was coincidence.

[sps16]

Originally posted by dansim


im pretty sure he could afford it, but im also sure there are investors, and production budgets we dont hear or read about. He will make back more than what he spent, thats for sure.

its not that i don't believe he could afford it, its just that he went over hollywoods head and made a movie that will gross probably over 100 mil in the first weekend and none of that money will go to hollywood.

[Crime Dog]

Um. Can I ask why it should? Hollywood isn't Mel's boss.

[Dryden]

Originally posted by sps16
its just that he went over hollywoods head and made a movie that will gross probably over 100 mil in the first weekend and none of that money will go to hollywood.

No, he didn't go 'over Hollywoods' head.' Mel Gibson went to Hollywood, and Hollywood said, "You want us to front $30 million for a concept/art house foreign film, featuring no-name actors, all speaking in Aramaic and Latin, which will open over the pre-Easter Oscar season when absolutely nobody is going to movies, and your screenplay is based on the Bible?"

... laughter.

Of course, now Harvy Weinstein is probably yelling at his secretary, "Get me a Jesus picture!!!!"

[Crime Dog]

LOL. Oh man...Dryden, that was a GREAT post! I enjoyed that!

[sps16]

Originally posted by Dryden
No, he didn't go 'over Hollywoods' head.' Mel Gibson went to Hollywood, and Hollywood said, "You want us to front $30 million for a concept/art house foreign film, featuring no-name actors, all speaking in Aramaic and Latin, which will open over the pre-Easter Oscar season when absolutely nobody is going to movies, and your screenplay is based on the Bible?"

... laughter.

Of course, now Harvy Weinstein is probably yelling at his secretary, "Get me a Jesus picture!!!!"

haha, well thats what i meant

[Albinonewt]

Remember, a bunch of folks died watching saving Prive Ryan. And no small number of WWII verterns ended up back in various kinds of therapy after seeing it.

I think the deaths were coincidental, and the news just brought it up to tie into the therapy angle.


Remember one thing about the Passion. It is bringing in basically a whole new audience of people to the movie theatre. Meaning, a that a lot of ultra religious eighty year old grandmothers are going to the movies for the first time in decades. In other words, a crowd of people that isn't normally in the theatre and is typically the most susecptible to injury is now in the theatre. Its probably not so much the movie that's the issue here, its the new (older) audience.

[1stdeadeye]

Originally posted by Albinonewt
Remember, a bunch of folks died watching saving Prive Ryan. And no small number of WWII verterns ended up back in various kinds of therapy after seeing it.

I think the deaths were coincidental, and the news just brought it up to tie into the therapy angle.


Remember one thing about the Passion. It is bringing in basically a whole new audience of people to the movie theatre. Meaning, a that a lot of ultra religious eighty year old grandmothers are going to the movies for the first time in decades. In other words, a crowd of people that isn't normally in the theatre and is typically the most susecptible to injury is now in the theatre. Its probably not so much the movie that's the issue here, its the new (older) audience.

So basically you are saying that old people drop dead all the time.

But Newt, the devine taking of this women sells so many more tickets!

[Trina]

I think it was the movie theater popcorn...

[lopxtc]

I was thinking it was a really stale Ju-Ju Bee that did it. Think about the that headline

"Woman killed by Ju-Ju Bee at theather...."

I can see temples around the country saying they had nothing to do with this womans death.

LOL

Aaron

Originally posted by Trina
I think it was the movie theater popcorn...

[p8ntball1016]

Originally posted by 1stdeadeye


So basically you are saying that old people drop dead all the time.

But Newt, the devine taking of this women sells so many more tickets!

no! old people dying? how is that possible?