Reply #61: El Paso, TX

[Pikku]

I went to the 10:50 and the 4:45 showings. They were both full houses, but the latter had people sitting in the steps, too.

The earlier crowd was more vocal. I guess that's because the "true believers" attended the first showing opening day. The later showing had a lot more gasping, I guess at stuff they hadn't seen before, like Rummy shaking hands with Hussein, the carnage in Iraq, and the stiffing of veterans at home. The last one was a biggie. El Paso is a military town.

The film broke at the very end of the first showing (at the "fool me once" part), and you could tell how angry people were by their reaction to the interruption. Yells, clapping and stamping, and boos. Nobody would have yelled like that if Shrek had been interrupted.

No protestors, but the local ABC and CBS affiliates were outside the theater after the 4:45 showing got out.

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