Category: News Author : Steven Hodson Posted: December 27, 2008
Tags : Movies, Philadelphia, shooting
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Don’t talk during movies in South Philly – it can get you shot

I haven’t seen the inside of a movie theatre for a long time but even when I was there was nothing more irritating that the jerk off in front of you who felt the need to pontificate all the way through the movie. That said I think the idea of shooting someone for committing such a social crime is just a tad extreme. Unfortunately one James Joseph Cialella, a 29 year old movie goer in South Philly got more than a little pissed at his watching of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button kept being interrupted by a father and son sitting in front of him wouldn’t shut the hell up.

When even throwing popcorn at them produced no satisfactory results he got up pulled out a Kel-Tec .380 and shot the man in the arm. The warped part is that once he had shot the man he went back and sat down to watch the rest of the movie, which is where the police found him when they showed up at the scene. Cialella has been charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault and weapons violations.

[hat tip to First Showing]

Nico

One one side i can understand the guy who was disturbed by father an son. But if you want to enjoy silence while watching at cinema you should download the movie at home.

Whonjammer

Lets say you don't want to watch the film at home, so you pay your money to watch it in the cinema. What then, should you do with unrepenant talkers who seem to think that they are in their living rooms? Paint guns? Small slingshots?
BB pistols? I also get very angry when this happens, but do not wish to do serious jail time. There must be a better way for theatre management to deal with this issue, but I imagine they simply don't care.

T Price

I visited with this young man a few weeks ago at church. He seemed genuinely glad to see me and my wife. He told us how he'd been stationed in Iraq for a time and was newly married and that we'd see him again soon. He said he was going to school and still aspired to get his degree. Jim struck me as a person who's life was on the upswing since having made some excellent decisions.

When I saw my friends picture as the man who is allegedly responsible for this shooting at the movie theatre, my heart sank as did my wifes and we're still so very, very sorry at the thought of the path which now lies ahead of him. A senseless decision where hate drove him to a place of no return.

Now as he is percieved all over the world and used as a new example of how volitile a way in which bad manners are dealt with, we will not condemn him to the darkness of his problem, but believe for that which is redeemable in the Light of God's forgiveness, even as he must answer to the letter of the statues of the law of the land.

thepeople

Thank you James. I know how you feel. Reading about what you did made me feel very, very, good.

My strategy is to no longer go to any movies. I hate talkers and I hate smokers who smoke in the outside ticket line, or next to it. I want employees who think talking is a joke to get laid off due to lack of business.

Am I an evil hater? I guess so, but society and the scum who live in it made me this way.

Every day of my life, I get more sick of all the crap for brains people who trash my livablility and think its funny.

Well when one of you gets what you deserve, I think its funny. Ha, ha ha ha ha ha ha.

As for black people who do talk during movies...

You are technically no worse than whites who do the same thing, but since we have such a bad race problem, it just seems worse to a white person.

Then that white person will take it out on some other black person by not hiring him. Its not right, but that is how the racist game is played. I know that is off topic, but I think it ties in to the movie talking issue.

Don’t talk during movies in South Philly – it can get you shot

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