Comment Re:There is a difference. (Score 1) 589
I'd take those odds.
You'd be an idiot to take those odds for 2 hours of entertainment. A 0.5% chance of getting killed each day would mean you'd probably be dead within the year.
Risk/reward-wise, it would be better to knowingly have unprotected sex with an HIV-positive partner than to watch a movie where you have a 0.5% chance of getting killed. There's (supposedly) a 1% chance or so that AIDS gets transmitted through heterosexual unprotected sex per act. I imagine you'd get more entertainment out of the sex than the movie. And, even if you do get HIV, you'd still have a decade or so of good life left before the AIDS gets you. Blown up movie theater = dead right away.
If you're going to use statistics, make sure you know how to use them at least mostly correctly...