Are you saying Holmes would have done this at the midnight screening of any movie at all? Are you saying that the indication (dyed his hair red; did he have the Joker’s smile painted?) that Holmes identified with the Joker had nothing to do with this massacre?
Some movies have more political portent than other films. This one has been extremely controversial since before the release.
Nutty people are nutty people. Where they get the inspiration for their decor from might vary, but they were still at their core nutty people. If this guy was more of an Oliver Stone fan he might have popped 2 weeks ago at a showing of Savages. More into animation might have been Ice Age 3 last week or Brave a month ago. Blaming where they got the idea for the decor (oh and Joker’s hair is green most of the time, sometimes purple, never red) is focusing on the wrong area.
“Are you saying Holmes would have done this at the midnight screening of any movie at all? Are you saying that the indication (dyed his hair red; did he have the Joker’s smile painted?) that Holmes identified with the Joker had nothing to do with this massacre?”
I’m saying you can’t blame the movie for this. This is all on Holmes. It could have been Snow White and someone could have identified with the evil queen and went on a poison apple spree. This is all Holmes! If you can’t see that then you are very myopic. I guess you think we should we should censor this movie? You sound like the gun grabbers. Maybe we should outlaw knives because they have been used to kill people. NO! It’s all on the killer. He drove himself to do this, not the movie!