I bet you have exited many movie theaters in your lifetime where you wish you could have gotten your money back. I know, for me, there have been more than a couple of times. I think the worst movie I have ever seen in a movie theater was probably Shazaam, the movie with Shaquille O'Neal who plays a genie that has been in hibernation for like a million years. Needless to say, following the movie my three wishes would have been to have the time back that I lost, the money back that I spent, and to be brainwashed into thinking that I had never seen the movie. But none of those things happened. In fact, I may have suffered brain damage from the whole encounter.
However, for some lucky movie-goers you now have the chance to get your money back for some movies that you went to go see (and that probably made your gf or bf break up with you). I think you can call it "justice".
You think I'm lying? I'm not. Sony pictures recently settled a lawsuit that began back in 1991 that will pay movie-goers a total of $1.5 million dollars. But before you start claiming that you watched every Sony pictures movie during their original theater runs, let me inform you that it only qualifies for a select number of movies. Those movies include: Vertical Limit, A Knight's Tale, The Animal, Hollow Man and The Patriot (sadly).
The reason behind the settlement, and the $5 refund, is due to the use of a fake film critic that Sony used to promote these films. This critic (that Sony made up) maybe said a total of 4 words for each film, which is really retarded. The lesson here? Even when you get out of school you still musn't cheat and make up crap. You'd think that something so public such as making up a critic and using him as a promotional tool would be incredibly obvious right? Someone must have thought otherwise. But that someone will go down as the dude who got people back their money for watching some really crappy movies (except the Patriot). And for that I'm going to check out the background of the critic who got me to see Shazaam. He was the little red guy on my left shoulder.
You think I'm lying? I'm not. Sony pictures recently settled a lawsuit that began back in 1991 that will pay movie-goers a total of $1.5 million dollars. But before you start claiming that you watched every Sony pictures movie during their original theater runs, let me inform you that it only qualifies for a select number of movies. Those movies include: Vertical Limit, A Knight's Tale, The Animal, Hollow Man and The Patriot (sadly).
The reason behind the settlement, and the $5 refund, is due to the use of a fake film critic that Sony used to promote these films. This critic (that Sony made up) maybe said a total of 4 words for each film, which is really retarded. The lesson here? Even when you get out of school you still musn't cheat and make up crap. You'd think that something so public such as making up a critic and using him as a promotional tool would be incredibly obvious right? Someone must have thought otherwise. But that someone will go down as the dude who got people back their money for watching some really crappy movies (except the Patriot). And for that I'm going to check out the background of the critic who got me to see Shazaam. He was the little red guy on my left shoulder.
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