That doesn't mean a privately owned movie theater can't pick and choose what movies it shows. The owners are annoying for sure but that hardly violates any bill of rights amendments.
+1 Gschuette. Only one hurting from this is that theater, everyone will go across town instead. I love how they screwed up and started showing Sex Drive instead of a kids movie!
The movie company has the right to produce whatever they can get through the censors and think will sell. Conversely, the owner of the theater has the right not to show that movie in his theaters.
Seems the rights are all in harmony.
If a business owner chose not to sell Chinese products in his store, would you be as incensed? What if a Church refuses to marry homosexual couples?
If I refuse to buy a Dixie Chicks CD, it isn't censorship. It's me exercising my free will as a consumer.
I'm not refusing to watch this film because of it's content. I'm refusing to spend $9 on silly movie. I'd rather ride for the 150 miles the $9 would buy me.
Well, then, that, clearly goes for all movies, these days. A question of random economics as opposed to targeted content issue. I rarely catch movies in theatres anymore- and I know few who do. Speaking of which- Ever watch Rocky Horror on DVD/VCR, etc.? Really a preternatural experience without all of the sexually-repressed nerds throwing toilet paper at the screen.....