Motherfucking Cinemark owns every cocksucking theater in Marin County

[Miller]

And I just learned today that their asshole CEO donated ten grand to getting Prop. 8 passed.

Guess I'm not seeing any movies in the theaters any time soon. Not unless I want to drive into the city.

On the bright side, I don't have to see that hideous fucking "Front Row Pete" cat cartoon anymore.

[zagloba]

There's still the Rafael Film Center (http://www.cafilm.org/rfc/index.html)

[pseudotriton ruber ruber]

I'm surprised that you object to a cocksucking theater. Or are you complaining about being deprived of cocksucking theaters because you dislike the management's politics? Maybe you can go to cocksucking plays or ballets more?

[Miller]

There's still the Rafael Film Center (http://www.cafilm.org/rfc/index.html)

Yeah, but that's strictly arthouse. If I want to see mainstream, first run movies, my choices have narrowed considerably. Although not entirely gone: there's still Fairfax 5, the Lark Theater, and the Tiburon Playhouse. So I've got options. But every theater I usually attend has been bought out by those Texan bastards. The Century Cinema in Corte Madera, where I've seen every single Star Wars film since I was a little kid? Cinemark. Century Larkspur, two blocks down from my apartment? Cinemark. The big mall theater in Northgate? Cinemark. The crappy Regency theater across the highway? Cinemark? Rowland Plaza, up in Novato? Cinemark. These fuckers are everywhere.

[Kyla]

So go to the City, or to Petaluma (if you'd be willing to go all the way to Novato, it's only another fifteen minutes or so to Petaluma). Or just wait til the movies are out on DVD, I guess.

[mswas]

Oh you poor poor leftists enslaved to the completely ineffectual boycotting of businesses owned by people you don't like to their complete and utter ambivalence.

[The Batman]

Just go to Cinemark.
What's the big fucking deal? Who cares what their CEO does with his money? You don't have to make every aspect of your life, especially one as trivial as going to the movies, a civil rights struggle or a political statement.

Just lighten up and go where it's most convenient.

[Miller]

Just go to Cinemark.
What's the big fucking deal? Who cares what their CEO does with his money? You don't have to make every aspect of your life, especially one as trivial as going to the movies, a civil rights struggle or a political statement.

Just lighten up and go where it's most convenient.

It seems to me that the trivial aspects of my life are where it's easiest to make a political statement, no? I mean, if my employer had donated money to Prop. 8, I'm not going to quit over it, because I need to pay rent and buy groceries. I can't afford to sacrifice my career to make a political statement. But I don't need to go to the movies. This is precisely the sort of area in my life where I can most afford to make a political statement.

[matt_mcl]

Wow, some of these comments come from a place of privilege. Look, even if we're not going to bring Cinemark to its knees, financing our own oppression is just something that many of us are not going to want to do.

[Equipoise]

I feel for you Miller. I attended a large demonstration a few weeks ago in front of a local Cinemark. My husband and I used to go to this theater all the time, it was our favorite theater in Chicago, but we haven't been back since Prop 8 and won't go back. We're not casual moviegoers either. Last year we saw over 150 films in the theater (not all at this one). Luckily we have many many other theater options.

What's the big fucking deal? Who cares what their CEO does with his money? You don't have to make every aspect of your life, especially one as trivial as going to the movies, a civil rights struggle or a political statement.Oh you poor poor leftists enslaved to the completely ineffectual boycotting of businesses owned by people you don't like to their complete and utter ambivalence.I'll assume nobody gave money to a cause to take any of your rights away or voted to take something away from you that was legal, none of their business and didn't hurt them in the least.



Look, even if we're not going to bring Cinemark to its knees, financing our own oppression is just something that many of us are not going to want to do.Exactly. It's not even my own oppression, since I'm not gay, but I have sympathy for your struggle and I'll do what little I can to help.

[The Flying Dutchman]

And I just learned today that their asshole CEO donated ten grand to getting Prop. 8 passed.

Was that his own money or Cinemark's ?

Does that make a difference for you ?

[Equipoise]

Was that his own money or Cinemark's ?
He was the CEO. Hello? Who pays his salary?

[5-HT]

Going out to the movies sucks nowadays anyway. You won't be missing much.

[elucidator]

Its a bit like a tree falling where nobody can see nor hear it. If the target of your boycott is unaware of your boycott, hardly matters. I've been boycotting Coors Beer for forty years now, to no noticeable effect.

Flip side of that is, when times is tough, theaters, movies, that lot get clobbered. There's a decent chance that these people will go broke whether you boycott them or not. And, of course, if a hundred people lose their jobs, its a lead pipe cinch at least one of them is gay, no?

For people like me, who support the causes of oppressed groups but don't actually belong to any of them, it gets even more complicated. If I boycott every corporate entity that has some complicity in oppression, I will be living in a cave, eating roots and berries. And no intertubes, either!

So, what I'm getting at is lean in a direction. Things being roughly equal, buy what you want from somebody who doesn't piss you off. But if you want to see a movie, fuck it, go see the movie. If your hearts in the right place and your head is screwed on right, that counts. The rest of it, not so much.

[Rigamarole]

So the CEO is a woman then? Because if it's a man and he owns all the cocksucking theaters in the county I can't imagine why he'd donate in support of Prop 8.

[Equipoise]

Its a bit like a tree falling where nobody can see nor hear it. If the target of your boycott is unaware of your boycott, hardly matters. The CEO is very aware of the boycott. There have been demonstrations at Cinemarks all over the country. The one in Chicago attracted a few hundred people on a Saturday night. Several people who were heading to their movie ended up marching with us. The infuriating thing was that Milk was going to open there, and many of us were trying to let people know to go see it elsewhere. Yeah, he'll give money to take away gay rights, but will gladly take money from gays via a movie about a gay icon. I've seen Milk twice, and I had planned to see it there, since it's super easy for me to get to, but I went elsewhere.

Sure, it's not going to make a dent in their bottom line, but so what? He knows. They know.

Flip side of that is, when times is tough, theaters, movies, that lot get clobbered. There's a decent chance that these people will go broke whether you boycott them or not. And, of course, if a hundred people lose their jobs, its a lead pipe cinch at least one of them is gay, no?Collateral damage. Cinemark is not going to go out of business though. A better example of that scenario is El Coyote in Los Angeles, where the manager gave money to Prop 8 and the restaurant has been under siege ever since. I haven't heard what's going on recently, but the last I heard, she quit. But, it turns out that her mother owns the place, and her mother is very old, and when she dies, the daughter will inherit the restaurant! Her "quitting" was just a meaningless symbolic gesture. I hope the gays in LA keep up the pressure.

So, what I'm getting at is lean in a direction. Things being roughly equal, buy what you want from somebody who doesn't piss you off. But if you want to see a movie, fuck it, go see the movie. If your hearts in the right place and your head is screwed on right, that counts. The rest of it, not so much.Sigh.

[Manda JO]

Its a bit like a tree falling where nobody can see nor hear it. If the target of your boycott is unaware of your boycott, hardly matters. I've been boycotting Coors Beer for forty years now, to no noticeable effect.
[snip]
So, what I'm getting at is lean in a direction. Things being roughly equal, buy what you want from somebody who doesn't piss you off. But if you want to see a movie, fuck it, go see the movie. If your hearts in the right place and your head is screwed on right, that counts. The rest of it, not so much.

Symbolism matters to people: we wear wedding rings, put up Christmas trees, dedicate trees. Not everyone has the same sensitivity to symbolism, but it seems to be hard-wired into the human brain and isn't something that can really being dismissed: it may be a purely symbolic gesture, but that doesn't make it merely a symbolic gesture.

[CircleofWillis]

He was the CEO. Hello? Who pays his salary?

So he is an employee of the company. If I want a burger, do I have to scan the payrolls of all company employees at McD's to make sure none of them voted for or express an opinion that I strongly disagree with? Shit, I'm gonna be starving before I can get my Big Mac on.

This is kinda like protesting holiday treats cuz you are a vegetarian who doesnt like the name referring to animal parts... though they don't really.

[Little Nemo]

Oh you poor poor leftists enslaved to the completely ineffectual boycotting of businesses owned by people you don't like to their complete and utter ambivalence.How is this any different that poor poor rightists boycotting Disney because it decided to support gay rights?

[elucidator]

Wait a minute, I thought we were boycotting Disney?! Where's the memo?

(I remember a couple of my friends, much more sternly Correct than I. When I was taking the Err Apparent to see the Disney flick all the kids wanted to see, they wouldn't let theirs go with. Fucking Trotskyists, they just will not lighten up!)

[5-HT]

How is this any different that poor poor rightists boycotting Disney because it decided to support gay rights?

Don't forget to keep your business away from any store where the employees say "happy holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas"!

[sailor]

There's still the Rafael Film Center (http://www.cafilm.org/rfc/index.html)
Misleading thread title!

[Derleth]

Oh you poor poor leftists enslaved to the completely ineffectual boycotting of businesses owned by people you don't like to their complete and utter ambivalence.What's this? A conservative frightened of competition in addition to being terrified of social change? God, you must wee in your knickers every time someone so much as mentions buggery, you delicate flower! Whatever will you do when that narrow margin you have dies and leaves the world to people who don't care about miscegenation?

Some liberals should put you on the endangered species list. After all, it wasn't that long ago California was voting for Ronald Reagan.

[The Batman]

It seems to me that the trivial aspects of my life are where it's easiest to make a political statement, no? I mean, if my employer had donated money to Prop. 8, I'm not going to quit over it, because I need to pay rent and buy groceries. I can't afford to sacrifice my career to make a political statement. But I don't need to go to the movies. This is precisely the sort of area in my life where I can most afford to make a political statement.


Then why are you complaining? You didn't get to bake that cake and eat it too, too bad. Maybe you should boycott a company with only one store in the whole county so that way you don't have to suffer for your beliefs.

It is very ineffective to boycott a company for something like this. And no, it does not compare at all to the boycotting of segregated buses in the 60's. Cinemark or it's CEO didn't pass prop. 8. Voters passed prop. 8. And it's only through voting that it will be overturned, not by boycotting movie theaters or picketing outside of them.

So if you can fool yourself into thinking your personal crusade against their CEO is going to have any effect then you can also fool yourself into thinking that you are giving money to their employees who did vote against 8 and that donated some of their money to fight it; and that way you can make your life a little easier and just go watch a movie.

[Little Nemo]

Wait a minute, I thought we were boycotting Disney?! Where's the memo?

(I remember a couple of my friends, much more sternly Correct than I. When I was taking the Err Apparent to see the Disney flick all the kids wanted to see, they wouldn't let theirs go with. Fucking Trotskyists, they just will not lighten up!)That's the problem with these things. You never know who you'll end up in bed with. cite (http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C01E3DB143EF93AA25755C0A961958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all) cite (http://www.religioustolerance.org/disney.htm) cite (http://www.cfaba.org/cf05046.htm) cite (http://www.stormfront.org/truth_at_last/archives/disney.htm) cite (http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-3985713.html)

[Bryan Ekers]

I suggest seeing movies in their first week and never buying anything from the concession stands. The profit realized by the theatre from Miller will be trivial, possibly even negative.

[kaylasdad99]

Motherfucking Cinemark owns every cocksucking theater in Marin County

And I just learned today that their asshole CEO donated ten grand to getting Prop. 8 passed.

Guess I'm not seeing any movies in the theaters any time soon. Not unless I want to drive into the city.Not even if they're showing Deadwood: The Movie?



d&r

[elucidator]

What? The way they betrayed our commitment and our loyalty? Just ending like that, without warning or consultation? Don't speak that name again.

[mhendo]

I suggest seeing movies in their first week and never buying anything from the concession stands. The profit realized by the theatre from Miller will be trivial, possibly even negative.Good point. Most theaters make basically nothing on ticket sales during the first couple of weeks that a movie runs.

If i like a cinema, i will often wait until near the end of a movie's run to go and see it, knowing that more of my money will got to the cinema itself, rather than the movie company. And if you don't like a cinema much, seeing it in the first week and not buying anything at the concession stand at least assures that basically all you money will go to the movie producers.

[matt_mcl]

I notice that nobody's dealt with my point above, which is: even if Miller was entirely alone in boycotting Cinemark, he does not feel the need to fund his own oppression. I have no idea why everyone seems so astonished at this fairly basic and sensible position. What, are we required to do business with people who are using the money they make from us to campaign against our equality?

[5-HT]

I notice that nobody's dealt with my point above, which is: even if Miller was entirely alone in boycotting Cinemark, he does not feel the need to fund his own oppression. I have no idea why everyone seems so astonished at this fairly basic and sensible position. What, are we required to do business with people who are using the money they make from us to campaign against our equality?


I agree completely. Organizing an actual boycott is great and all if that's what you want to do, but its completely reasonable to take the position that you simply don't want your money going people like this. Its the principle of the thing.

[Miller]

Then why are you complaining?

Because I like going to the movies, and if I have to drive an additional forty five minutes to get to a non-Cinemark theater, I'm probably not going to bother most of the time? I thought that part would be pretty obvious from the OP.

It is very ineffective to boycott a company for something like this. And no, it does not compare at all to the boycotting of segregated buses in the 60's. Cinemark or it's CEO didn't pass prop. 8. Voters passed prop. 8. And it's only through voting that it will be overturned, not by boycotting movie theaters or picketing outside of them.

No, but if they're voting in favor of (or, more to the point, donating large sums of money to) laws like this results in some sort of backlash, people are going to be less likely to vote (or donate) to them. Plus, the boycott itself is a tool for raising awareness of the issue.

And I don't see where anyone compared it to the Montgomery bus boycott.

So if you can fool yourself into thinking your personal crusade against their CEO is going to have any effect then you can also fool yourself into thinking that you are giving money to their employees who did vote against 8 and that donated some of their money to fight it; and that way you can make your life a little easier and just go watch a movie.

I doubt it will have any effect on the CEO. I don't expect to bring Cinemark to its knees. But we are in the middle of a huge recession, and theaters are already in trouble from competition with Netflix, DVDs, on demand cable, and streaming internet video services. A local boycott can make enough of a dent in a theater's profits that Cinemark will decide that it's more profitable to sell of its California theaters. How likely is that to happen? I don't know. But I think it's worth a shot.

[Starving Artist]

I notice that nobody's dealt with my point above, which is: even if Miller was entirely alone in boycotting Cinemark, he does not feel the need to fund his own oppression. Okay, I'll take a stab at it:

He's not paying to fund his own oppression; he's paying to see a movie! The fact that people may do something with the few pennies profit they will take home from the dollars you spend with their business does not mean you have paid them in order to facilitate whatever it is you're opposed to. You have paid them for the service/products they offer which you want to avail yourself of.

I have no idea why everyone seems so astonished at this fairly basic and sensible position. What, are we required to do business with people who are using the money they make from us to campaign against our equality?Of course you aren't required to, and it's questions such as this that harm your credibility. If anyone is astonished at this "basic and sensible" position, it's because it's neither basic nor sensible.

Boycotting can be an effective tool to influence the way a company does business, but to boycott as a single individual is merely tilting at windmills. It reminds me of an old George Carlin gag where Carlin as a newsman reports that a man has barricaded himself inside his house...but he's alone and unarmed and no one is paying any attention.

Neither will anyone be paying attention to Miller's noble self-flaggellation as he deprives himself of enjoyment that he would otherwise derive in order to make a point that no one is aware of but himself.

(And besides, Miller is very likely doing business with Prop. 8 supporters every day anyway, and probably paying them far more than he ever would to Cinemark's CEO. You can't try to deprive everyone you disagree with of your money or you'd scarcely be able to spend it at all.)

Boycotts are only effective when the boycottee knows he/it's being boycotted, and he/it considers the numbers of those doing the boycotting to be sufficient to result in unacceptable losses.

IMHO, it would be better to agitate where it will have some effect, and not let high-minded but ineffectual nobility deprive me of an otherwise enjoyable aspect of my life.

[elucidator]

For that matter, I could withhold my valuable patronage because I think his dog is ugly.

A boycott can be a very powerful tactic, as witness MLK and the bus boycott. But its tricky, it demands a great deal of unity, first off. As nearly universal agreement as can be possible, the community concerned must largely agree on the target. If you got a list of 50 companies that pissed you off, its a lot tougher, the impact is diffused.

Now, I don't live out there, so this Cinemark means squat to me, and I go to about two movies a year. Is this the right target? Maybe not, as I mentioned above, if they are likely to go broke anyway......well, I'm sure you take my point. From what I gather, the Mormons seem to be a major villain in this piece, but how the Hell do you boycott the Mormons?

Tactics, pals and gals, tactics. A well-placed and thoroughly organized boycott can hit like a hammer. But a poorly thought out threat that fizzles just makes you look weak, and causes our mutual enemies to enlicken their chops.

Who can call such a boycott, and make it stick? What group or person has that much clout in the community, that is widely accepted to speak on your behalf? If there is no such, then that is step one.

Unity. Absitively, posolutely essential. You tell me you got that, and I'll say far out and go polish my dancing shoes, to be smartly dressed at your victory party.

[Bryan Ekers]

I notice that nobody's dealt with my point above, which is: even if Miller was entirely alone in boycotting Cinemark, he does not feel the need to fund his own oppression. I have no idea why everyone seems so astonished at this fairly basic and sensible position. What, are we required to do business with people who are using the money they make from us to campaign against our equality?

Careful, there. I'm not even slightly astonished that Miller wants to boycott something, nor need his reasons matter to anyone other than himself. I just thought I'd point out that if he doesn't want the chain to get any of his money, but he still likes to see movies, there is a strategy he can use. Additionally, he can go out of his way to cost the theatres money, i.e. littering up the bathrooms, but that seems more frat-prank than protest.

Unless I'm not counted in "everybody", in which case never mind.

[Miller]

Boycotting can be an effective tool to influence the way a company does business, but to boycott as a single individual is merely tilting at windmills.

Then I guess it's a good thing I'm not the only one doing this, isn't it?

[Starving Artist]

My apologies. The OP made it appear you were, and, being involved in other threads and only skimming this thread (and not particularly of the belief that one must read every single post to a thread before posting), I must have missed where you said otherwise.

[Mr. Moto]

You know, a majority of voters in your state voted for that proposition. Shouldn't you just bail on California entirely if you were to be consistent in your efforts?

I know that sounds silly - but considering that there are calls for a boycott of Sundance because it is in Utah - maybe the silliness of this suggestion ought to make people consider how ridiculous that one sounds.

Spend your money as you see fit - hell, I still refuse myself to send any funds toward Roman Polanski or Jane Fonda. But I don't kid myself into thinking that they're hurting financially from my choices.

[Tristan]

You should go to the Tiburon Playhouse. You would be helping to support a locally owned business, and keeping my mother in a job (she's the manager)!

:D

[billfish678]

Are they opening a branch in Deadwood by any chance?:)

I hear they serve really good BBQ pork sandwiches...something about a secret ingredient?

[elucidator]

Sowlent Green.

[Vinyl Turnip]

From what I gather, the Mormons seem to be a major villain in this piece, but how the Hell do you boycott the Mormons?

I've stopped buying JCPenney dress shirts and Bryclreem, but they seem to be going strong.

To those who'd tut and cluck over the impotence of a personal boycott: have you no concept of taking an action simply for one's own satisfaction, or because it's the right thing to do? I've no delusions that McDonald's will suffer perceptibly if I stop eating there because I see the fry cook picking his nose with the spatula handle, or because their meat contains more fecal matter than a dysenteric orphan's diaper---but I have a choice to make, however small, and I choose not to support them with my money. Ineffectual? Palliative? Sure. So what?

[elucidator]

I'm looking at it less from a personal perspective and more from the political. I want them to win, put baldly. And I think the crucial point is organization. The proponents of this nasty bit of business are very well organized, and have been for years. Say what you will about the Forces of Darkness, they've got that shit down.

Now I don't mean this as a criticism so much as an encouragement. Organization is the judo of politics, it is the means by which you maximize your leverage. If you have the organization required to mount an effective boycott (a daunting standard, to be sure), you may not need the boycott. If you have the organization required to use that tactic, you have many other tools at hand.

I think the Forces of Darkness are overplaying their hand. By pressing to nullify marriages already made, they can be seen as mean-sprited and vindictive (which, of course, they are...)

Personally, I'm convinced you will win, that this is only a setback, not a defeat. Take heart, pals and gals. And organize!

[Miller]

Just to add the O. Henry twist to this pit thread, for Christmas, my uncle got me a $50 gift card to Cinemark theaters.

[jtgain]

I used to post on a gun rights board and everyone was all concerned about how XYZ business felt about a person's right to carry. I always concluded that I didn't care.

I go to a movie theatre and judge it based on sound quality, picture quality, comfortable chairs, cleanliness, etc. I couldn't care less if the owner was a child molester. I just want to watch a movie, not play politics in my leisure time.

I just hope that all of the toilet paper company CEOs didn't support Prop 8 because you will have to be out in a farmer's field looking for corn cobs.

[Heffalump and Roo]

To those who'd tut and cluck over the impotence of a personal boycott: have you no concept of taking an action simply for one's own satisfaction, or because it's the right thing to do? I've no delusions that McDonald's will suffer perceptibly if I stop eating there because I see the fry cook picking his nose with the spatula handle, or because their meat contains more fecal matter than a dysenteric orphan's diaper---but I have a choice to make, however small, and I choose not to support them with my money. Ineffectual? Palliative? Sure. So what?
Exactly. And most of us do that every day. We choose where we take our business based on either our tastes or our principles or our causes.

But that's not what this is about. Miller is getting upset because the principle on which he stands is now getting uncomfortable. So people have suggested that he either feel uncomfortable or compromise on his principle. He seems to be inclined to do neither, while still complaining about it here. While the boycott may be ineffective, this rant is also ineffectual.

Just to add the O. Henry twist to this pit thread, for Christmas, my uncle got me a $50 gift card to Cinemark theaters.
:D What to do. What to do.

[Bryan Ekers]

What to do. What to do.

How many adults can you get in on a $50 card? Five, maybe? What you do is make it expensive and negative for the theatre with the five of you moving around and engaging in coordinated nuisance attacks:

Accidentally-on-purpose knock over garbage cans
Take up all bathroom stalls in one men's room, hold them for ten minutes
Have all five in one theatre during a show but scattered around. Have individuals carry on loud cellphone conversations lasting around 15 seconds, rotate through the group five or six times.
If the theatre has arcade games, have one group member stand lookout while another unplugs them.

There's quite a lot of subtle anarchy that can be sown, if you put your mind to it.

[Heffalump and Roo]

There's quite a lot of subtle anarchy that can be sown, if you put your mind to it.
Yep, and I'm sure that the owners of Cinemark theatres from Texas (who will be unaffected by all of this since the people who will have to deal with this are the local theatre managers) will say to themselves, 'hmm, maybe I should have donated less to that Prop. 8 campaign in California. . . or was that more. I can never remember which." as they ride in their limousines to their black-tie gala events for New Year's Eve.

Yep, that'll show 'em.

[Bryan Ekers]

Hey, I didn't say it was anarchy that'd bring about change. It's just as pointlessly empty as Miller's one-man boycott. At least this way he gets to stick something to someone.

[jali]

So he is an employee of the company. If I want a burger, do I have to scan the payrolls of all company employees at McD's to make sure none of them voted for or express an opinion that I strongly disagree with? Shit, I'm gonna be starving before I can get my Big Mac on.

This is kinda like protesting holiday treats cuz you are a vegetarian who doesnt like the name referring to animal parts... though they don't really.

Remember the boycott of South African investment and businesses?

Remember the Montgomery Bus boycott?

I'm sure there were many naysayers-I'm glad people of conscience won the day.

[Silophant]

How many adults can you get in on a $50 card? Five, maybe? What you do is make it expensive and negative for the theatre with the five of you moving around and engaging in coordinated nuisance attacks:

Accidentally-on-purpose knock over garbage cans
Take up all bathroom stalls in one men's room, hold them for ten minutes
Have all five in one theatre during a show but scattered around. Have individuals carry on loud cellphone conversations lasting around 15 seconds, rotate through the group five or six times.
If the theatre has arcade games, have one group member stand lookout while another unplugs them.

There's quite a lot of subtle anarchy that can be sown, if you put your mind to it.

Please, unless you're pissed at the managers and employees of the local theatres, don't do this. It won't affect the corporate at all, just make life miserable for the lower levels.

[Miller]

It's just as pointlessly empty as Miller's one-man boycott.

Who said anything about it being a "one-man boycott?"

[rhythmonly]

[slight hijack] Miller, do you remember the old drive-in between San Rafael and Petaluma? Nothing like coming back from a night in the city, and looking over to your right, only to see a schlong the size of a Cadillac on the screen.[/slight hijack]

[Lord Ashtar]

I can't help but find it funny that the OP used "cocksucking" as a pejorative in his title. Ya know, since it's all about Prop 8 and whatnot.

[Bryan Ekers]

Who said anything about it being a "one-man boycott?"

Well, you said "Guess I'm not seeing any movies in the theaters any time soon."

I guess if you have multiple personalities it might be a two- or three-man boycott.

[Omegaman]

It makes me think of the saying, "every journey starts with one step".

[Miller]

Well, you said "Guess I'm not seeing any movies in the theaters any time soon."

Right. And I'm not the only one who feels this way. Cripes, how do you think I heard about this dipshit CEO? I read about other people boycotting Cinemark for the same reason. NPR did a piece on it, too. It's not exactly a national phenomenon, but there are a lot of people talking about this.