Blue Story?......

[ToraToraTora]

https://news.sky.com/story/blue-story-vue-defends-dropping-gang-film-after-25-incidents-in-24-hours-11869779
... The new Clockwork Orange? I applaud the cinemas that have pulled this film but when they do that to films they end up with cult status.

[emmie]

which is what happened i believe, families taking their children to see Frozen 11

[retrocop]

//They should invite rival gangs to empty football stadiums midweek & let them have at it. No holds barred / no prosecutions / no emergency services. See who turns up. //

Some entrepreneurial undertakers perhaps ?

[pixie374]

That may not be a bad idea, apg. There would need to be a heavy police presence outside and nearby, but one advantage would be that it would attract a lot of thugs to the same place, and hopefully get them off the streets faster. It is a honey trap, basically.

[chelle7272]

//Would any of the members of AB want to take their children/grandchildren to see a Disney film in the same multi-plex this gang film is being shown? //

I'd have no problem with it being shown at all. I would have an issue if gangs truned up ready to start trouble.Which is why cinema chains were right to withdraw it, at least temporarily, and should not have been accused of some of the things I read for protecting their staff, premises and other visitors.
Shame that the message the film apparently is trying to get across is not getting through, and probably won't now.

[emmie]

not a bad idea at all..

[teacake44]

For some reason there's a big thirst for violent films, TV is awash with such, why the big surprise of this reaction by such scum. The film makers saw an opportunity to make big money and couldn't care less about anything else that happens. I hope the film loses money.

[AuntPollyGrey]

chelle, I have no problem with it being shown. However, Multi-Plex cinemas are filled with children at this time of year, especially with 'Frozen 2' out now. Its dangerous to have a Gang film shown at the same time as children are in the cinema complex, if potentially this would cause fights.

[AuntPollyGrey]

Teacake I don't think the film is about gratuitous violence. It addresses the problems young kids have growing up in a Gang Culture.

[emmie]

yes it does ^^

[emmie]

its supposed to be some form of love story. so i read

[woofgang]

I think its Romeo and Juliet esque

[teacake44]

Whatever its supposed to be about, if you have a young lad standing outside the cinema with a machete in hand ready for battle ( as he sees it) then this film needs to be pulled for good, all the signs are there for copy cats, or shall we all wait for some young kids to get killed that have gone to the cinema to see something else?

[naomi24]

//no film or book is ever going to turn someone violent. //

I don't believe that. I think some people, especially the young, are very much influenced by what they see and read.

[teacake44]

^ Especially when their IQ is well below average in most cases.

[New Judge]

Shame really. I've just celebrated the fortieth anniversary since the day I last went to a cinema. I was thinking of giving them another try but this has put me right off! :-)

//I think some people, especially the young, are very much influenced by what they see and read.//

Indeed:

https://labour.org.uk/manifesto/

[TheDevil]

I think this says more about Birmingham than is does the film that the cinema is showing.

[Peter Pedant]

// yeah I heard that but a load of knife wielding scum seem to want to see it and then cause trouble.//

no - - - yes ---- I thought of
1) 1958 rock and roller film and the audience felt obleeged to dance in the aisles and then break up the cinema

mods and rockers and Margate

or the Notting Hill riots ( no cinema )

or scum

same trigger - different men - different reactions.

but hey it is 2019 and AB
so we are back to the c/p of:
yes yes let's rip their finger nails out,
and yes those that speak Jamaican street lingo we send back to Calais or somewhere - Brixton or sumfing - somewhere forrin !

[AuntPollyGrey]

Teacake //or shall we all wait for some young kids to get killed that have gone to the cinema to see something else? //

That's why I suggested it could perhaps be shown when the cinema would normally be closed to other patrons.

I don't want to live in a society where anything that may create unrest in some circles is banned. Banning a book or film just makes more people want to see it to be honest.

[Peter Pedant]

// //I think some people, especially the young, are very much influenced by what they see and read.//

and as you get older, you dont get wiser ( oh heavens no, just look at a standard Aber as almost live proof of that one)

you just recognise the same old lies

(ter daah !)

[Peter Pedant]

Banning a book or film just makes more people want to see it to be honest.

yeah - I know two authors ( Ab speak - should that be "orfurz" ?)
andie Hughes - bless hi andie!
and Nigel West who was in my years at skool
spy writer
and yes! or no! he was DESPERATE to have his then latest book banned like Spy Catcher, ( for giving away secrets see?)
Nigel West's Really Dangerous Russian Spies or something

but they didnt ( didnt give away any secrets see?) and he lost out on a million extra sales
it wasnt the Book they didnt want you to read ! instead
The Book they didnt give a toss if you read or not .....

ho hum it is a cruyel world outside AB