Seattle Theater Employee Warns Customers that 'Prometheus' Features an Abortion

[Newsjock]

http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/07/02/theater-employee-warns-customers-that-prometheus-features-an-abortion

A man named Jorge who attended a recent showing of Prometheus got a politically charged spoiler alert from the employee who was tearing his tickets. "I have to warn you," Jorge recalls the employee telling him and his guest. "Halfway through the movie, the main female character will perform a self-induced abortion."

This happened at Regal Cinemas Thornton Place Stadium 14 in Seattle. "I asked some other people entering the same auditorium if the same guy had warned them about the contents of the movie, and they said he did," says Jorge, who asked that we not use his last name.

... Today, The Stranger contacted Thornton Place theater manager Jeff Loewen, who said company policy barred him from speaking to the press. "I can't say anything about it," Loewen said when asked about the incident. He added, "There is no one at the theater level that you could talk to, and anyone at the corporate office wouldn't know about it." That is to say, the people who know what happened won't speak, and the people who can speak don't know what happened.

[Downtown Hound]

1. New Republican platform:

No more abortions for women impregnated by bio-engineered alien slime that mutates DNA.

GO USA!

[kentauros]

2. But, the "baby" lived.

So, what's the problem?

Although I think if I was the person tearing their tickets, I'd warn them about the absolute mess of a movie it was (and I don't mean the little bit of gore.)

[trumad]

3. LOL

It lived and came out a Republican.

[Aristus]

4. Seattle? Really? I'm ashamed.

This happened in true-blue, liberal Seattle?

This sort of thing is supposed to happen out in East Bumfuck, Mississippi, or someplace...

[Honeycombe8]

5. Well, it's not REALLY an abortion. SPOILER ALERT

It's not really an abortion, if men can get it, too. This is the Alien....it embeds in the body, sometimes in the gut of a man or woman. Therefore, it's not really in her uterus. It's in her abdomen, like it is in a man's abdomen.

Also...is it an abortion when the thing inside is an alien creature?

[MrScorpio]

6. Spolier alert:

It was actually a C-Section.

Both Mother and Baby Space Alien Squid lived happily ever after.

[freeplessinseattle]

7. geez, they couldn't come up with some better PR statement

than the whole we can't speak to that. How hard can it be to come up with some neutral comment. At least let the public know if the employee was even reprimanded.