'Jackass: Number 2' and 'Beerfest' were deemed as 'drivel' by Greg Boardman, a theater owner in the small farming community of Hoopeston, Illinois, who simply refused to play the hit box-office, on a personal basis, he said.
The owner told the press that the decision to shut down his two theaters and the main attractions of the 6000-people town came from a personal reason and was not founded on an open critique of Hollywood and the kind of movies it promotes. Neither was he trying to send a signal of alarm or to protect the people living there, Broadman claimed.
'The movies are so bad and I don't need the money... I just didn't think I should use my high-quality facilities to show people vomiting on the screen', the owner, who boasts one of the most high-tech sound systems in the region, said. 'There are enough theaters carrying movies like "Jackass" that if people want to see them they can. The problem now is that there are too few good movies, movies that transplant you to another place', he added. Last Friday, he re-opened the theaters that spent the last two weeks with their door boarded shut.
But, even if the decision to silently protest against the two movies went unnoticed at a higher level, most of the people of Hoopeston applauded Boardman's decision of not letting the kids see them. 'They're [the two movies] are not appropriate for really anybody, but I sure won't let my kids go into one of them. Those are his convictions and he needs to stand by them.', one of the neighbors of the theater owner stated.
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