TGIF/ Curtis Jackson

It's Friday and I find myself pondering, "Fifth from the store or drinks at the bar?" Just kidding, that's a no-brainer, a fifth is far more economical.

What I'm really thinking about is the news I just read about 50 Cent's Get Rich or Die Trying being pulled from a theater outside of Pittsburgh. On Thursday, a 30-year-old man got into an argument with three guys in the theater's bathroom after he watched the movie. The article says that the fight spilled out into the concessions area and Shelton Flowers was fatally shot. Lowes Corp. owns the theater and decided to pull the movie until the investigation is over to assure the safety of their patrons.

50 Cent was on The View today (formally one of my favorite shows) and said, "I feel for the victim's family in this situation. But you know, these weren't kids. This was a 30-year-old man who had a dispute with three other guys." Fiddy makes a great point here, there's really nothing else to say about it. This was a grown man and it REALLY doesn't matter if he had just watched Zathura, Chicken Little or a 50 Cent flick. One resident told All Hip Hop.com that this isn't the first shooting at the theater and that the place just doesn't have enough security for the neighborhood that it's in.

The only sense I can make of this is that Lowes believes this film brings out certain types of people who are more violent than others. Surely, they can't believe that this movie makes people more violent than say, Jarhead? All Hip Hop also says that the chief of police in Toledo, Ohio has called to have the movie pulled from local theaters out of fear that it will cause violence. The theaters refused, but they did agree not to show it at midnight. I kinda don't get the distinction between violence in war films, violence in Mafia flicks, violence in Quentin Tarantino flicks and then the horrible, unthinkable violence in "urban films." When Tom Cruise or John Travolta kill people, it's all good. Al Pacino sells dope and kills people- He's a genius! But an semi-autobiographical movie that uses violence to tell a true story has people terrified and worried about their safety. WTF?

I'm going to see Get Rich or Die Trying as soon as my bullet-proof bustier arrives in the mail.