The Final Solution

December 19, 2007 - 8:30 AM by

What to do when you’re a movie theater owner and your copy of the latest feature film is flawed?

Well it depends upon the flaw. And the audience.

In Israel’s resort city Eilat, proprietors of a movie house screening the film The Golden Compass discovered their copy is damaged – the movie’s ending sequence is missing.

(How that happens, someone please explain)

Not wanting to lose revenue, proprietors began offering up a discount to the chopped version and viewers actually signed on (!)

“Shlomit” of the cinema told local press that the replacement film will be in Israel in a few days but in the interim…”anyway it’s the last few minutes and nobody misses anything anyways.”

Are the audiences showing up? “Sure,” Shlomit says. “And we tell them about the end and they go in and have a good time. They guess the ending anyway.”

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4 Comments on The Final Solution

  1. Benji on Wed, Dec 19th 2007 11:36 AM

    2. That is absolutely hilarious and unbelievable.

    Would these people pay to see a shortened version of “The Sixth Sense” or “The Usual Suspects?” I think I’ve just been inspired…Stephanie, where’d you find that story??? : )

  2. Stephanie on Wed, Dec 19th 2007 4:33 PM

    3. My mainstay: Maariv daily. Tuesday edition

  3. lirun on Thu, Dec 20th 2007 1:56 AM

    4. loved that movie

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