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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: TomSea on September 25, 2019, 11:49:51 am
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Batman shooting victim's family 'horrified' by Joker film's violence
24 September 2019
Families of those killed while watching a Batman film in 2012 have written to Warner Bros with concerns about the new Joker film and urging the studio to join action against gun violence.
Twelve people died in a cinema showing The Dark Knight Rises in Colorado.
They included Jessica Ghawi, 24, whose mother Sandy Phillips told BBC News she was "horrified" by the Joker trailers.
Read more at: https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-49816205 (https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-49816205)
I care little about the Hollywood movies or Batman; but there is quite a bit of coverage about this, so I am posting for the forum.
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What the heck does the Joker movie have to do with something that happened seven years ago? This is a pathetic attention grab by these people. Yeah, sorry for your loss, but you really don't have to bring it up every time Hollywood releases a violence-strewn movie (which seems to be about every other week).
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What the heck does the Joker movie have to do with something that happened seven years ago? This is a pathetic attention grab by these people. Yeah, sorry for your loss, but you really don't have to bring it up every time Hollywood releases a violence-strewn movie (which seems to be about every other week).
Or they could just not go see it. That speaks louder.