Re: paleonet Bible Belt creationists threaten IMAX film industrywith extinction

[Frank Holterhoff <frank@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

One response to your statement I forgot earlier:  I don't know to what 
extent the individual IMAX theaters in the entire system are or are not 
financially connected.  But if they are to any extent, then aren't we 
helping the "bad" ones by patronizing the "good" ones?

Of course, this is a terrible thing, and the implied chilling effect on 
production of future films is even worse.  But I don't see a boycott as 
the way to go here.  For one thing, the IMAX people would have to 
believe that, in the event of a boycott by pro-evolutionists, they would 
not only lose money, but they would lose more than an anti-evolutionist 
boycott would cost them if they ran the film; that seems unlikely to me 
(that they would believe that).

Perhaps I'm thinking too hard about the dollars-&-cents aspect here, and 
not hard enough about the statement to be made.  But I imagine the IMAX 
mamagement to be relatively susceptible to the former, and relatively 
impervious to the latter.

RT Patterson wrote:

> I didn't suggest boycotting the system -- just the few theaters that refuse
> to air films with even a whiff of the 'e' word in them.  I attend the IMAX
> theater here in Ottawa regularly and will continue to do so.
> 
> Tim Patterson

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