The Interview

[EthanH]

What some of these comments seem to be missing is that Sony didn't just cancel the theatrical release, they apparently canceled any release of any kind.

From this NYT article:

"A Sony spokesman said the studio “has no further release plans” for the $44 million comedy."

They buckled to an even more significant degree than is being indicated in these comments. They aren't only trying to avoid safety issues (with regards to a theatrical release), they are also trying to prevent further targeting of their company.

And unless Sony executes one hell of a reversal, I seriously doubt this is a publicity stunt.

 

[Homercidal]

NK Hacker1: "We should totally hack Sony's website and steal a bunch of their information!"
NK Hacker2: "Yeah, lets get salaries for their top executives and show those capitalist dogs how much their bosses make and they don't!"
NK Hacker1: "Yeah, let's also steal some of those movies they make so people won't go see them in theaters!"
NK Hacker2: "Yeah, let's put them out on the Internet so nobody wants to go see it!"
NK Hacker1: "Yeah, if we release it TO THE ENTIRE WORLD nobody will know how badly our country sucks and how stupid we look to other countries! There, I did it!"
NK Hacker2: "Yeah... Wait, what??"

 

[illinoisbrassman]

I would guess Sony pictures is probably doomed anyway. The email and info releases, gave actors/actresses a bunch of negotiating leverage, if they even choose to work for sony anymore. I think they are pissing off segment of the public, by pulling the film as well.

While I probably would not have gone to see it originally, after the fuss NK was making, and the hacking to prevent its release I had given serious consideration to going to see it. Had a little patriotic ferver been whipped up instead of caving into demands a mediocre movie at best, probably could have been a hit in the theaters.

I also fear that this sets a dangerous precedent, Not happy with a corporation, just hack their computer network and blackmail them with their own info and they will give in. Lets face it, we have all sent a work email that we would not like the public to read.

 

[Hello]

I kind of wonder what the Google metrics on searches for leaked copies of the movie are going to look like.

I will bet that searches for "The Interview Movie" and related searches already have increased by quite a bit.

I bet the search for "who is Kim Jong Un" is probably a bit higher.

This doesn't affect me, but if a movie studio is caving under the pressure then I do believe it looks pretty bad. I mean, no one seemed to give two ****s when the terrorists in Die Hard were German.

If this is a stunt then shame on Sony for trying to make a perfectly lame movie a headline. I like both actors, but they're just kind of goons, which makes them likable to me.

 

[Grannyknot]

I am amazed that people care this much.
Its just another run of the mill cringe comedy flick.
The genre hasn't produced anything new & exciting since the early 2000s.

Even if this isn't about the movie itself and more about the principal, have a gander at book censorship in America for a real shocker of something that is ongoing here, and doesn't even have a foreign power involved.

 

[hunter_le five]

It's all a cover up. The movie was terrible, and Sony needed a compelling reason not to release it. Go ahead and continue to believe believe the DPRK has anything to do with it, sheeple. It was a false flag operation. #SonyGate

 

[krackin]

It's all a cover up. The movie was terrible, and Sony needed a compelling reason not to release it. Go ahead and continue to believe believe the DPRK has anything to do with it, sheeple. It was a false flag operation. #SonyGate

And if it isn't, everything considered, who really gives a ratz azz?

 

[chocotaco]

Prediction:

The Interview will be released early next year to a box office record despite being an awful movie. This whole kerfuffle will go down in history as the most intricate and successful viral marketing campaign ever.

 

[hunter_le five]

Heh, solid "Spaceballs" reference.

 

[drainbamage]

I bet the search for "who is Kim Jong Un" is probably a bit higher.

This doesn't affect me, but if a movie studio is caving under the pressure then I do believe it looks pretty bad. I mean, no one seemed to give two ****s when the terrorists in Die Hard were German.

If this is a stunt then shame on Sony for trying to make a perfectly lame movie a headline. I like both actors, but they're just kind of goons, which makes them likable to me.

It's not even the first time a head of state has been portrayed this way on film: Team America, Hot Shots Part Deux, etc. I've heard there was a British film released several years ago that depicted the assassination of George W. Bush (don't know a title), and we didn't threaten terror attacks over it.

 

[DrunkleJon]

And to think I saw a commercial saying that the movie was being released on christmas day less than an hour ago...

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[MaxStout]

Payback's a-comin'...

 

[drainbamage]

Hopefully this is still happening:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sony-hack-activists-drop-interview-758529

 

[Grannyknot]

Where the hell was N Korea when Grey's Anatomy announced another season.

 

[Tin4]

I bet the search for "who is Kim Jong Un" is probably a bit higher.

This doesn't affect me, but if a movie studio is caving under the pressure then I do believe it looks pretty bad. I mean, no one seemed to give two ****s when the terrorists in Die Hard were German.

If this is a stunt then shame on Sony for trying to make a perfectly lame movie a headline. I like both actors, but they're just kind of goons, which makes them likable to me.

Ze Germans are the respectable butt of jokes.

I am amazed that people care this much.
Its just another run of the mill cringe comedy flick.
The genre hasn't produced anything new & exciting since the early 2000s.

Even if this isn't about the movie itself and more about the principal, have a gander at book censorship in America for a real shocker of something that is ongoing here, and doesn't even have a foreign power involved.

I'm with you. Everyone knows our own government is still openly spying on us right? Did everyone forget that? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills here.

It's all a cover up. The movie was terrible, and Sony needed a compelling reason not to release it. Go ahead and continue to believe believe the DPRK has anything to do with it, sheeple. It was a false flag operation. #SonyGate

I wish they had that sort of foresight I really do, but just with the thinly veiled reference, there's more strength in letting us believe they have that power than to disprove it.

It's not even the first time a head of state has been portrayed this way on film: Team America, Hot Shots Part Deux, etc. I've heard there was a British film released several years ago that depicted the assassination of George W. Bush (don't know a title), and we didn't threaten terror attacks over it.

Well, what could Saddam do? We annihilated him the first gulf war. We annihilated him so good we didn't even kick him out. We were all "Nah. We're cool, you can have it.".

Where the hell was N Korea when Grey's Anatomy announced another season.

Throwing up with the rest of us.

 

[hunter_le five]

Holy hell, now this:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2014/12/18/paramount-bans-showing-team-america.html

Also:

I really don't give a sh!t about the movie. I find it troubling that we are letting DPRK dictate what films we watch now, though.

 

[MaddBaggins]

I hope Kim Turd lets me watch The Hobbit. That's my one movie theater experience each year. Please don't ruin it for me Kim!

 

[drainbamage]

Obviously any mention of Hobbits is a thinly-veiled reference to Kim Jong Un.

BANNED.

 

[GilaMinumBeer]

My understanding of this is that the decision to drop the interview was not so much the threat to US soil but the threat to japan where Sony is founded. considering that they are already witness to test missiles making it threateningly close to japan borders.

 

[MaddBaggins]

Obviously any mention of Hobbits is a thinly-veiled reference to Kim Jong Un.

BANNED.

Crap! I bought tickets already.

 

[EthanH]

It's all a cover up. The movie was terrible, and Sony needed a compelling reason not to release it. Go ahead and continue to believe believe the DPRK has anything to do with it, sheeple. It was a false flag operation. #SonyGate

I LedOL. Pitch-perfect replica!

 

[Tin4]

Holy hell, now this:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2014/12/18/paramount-bans-showing-team-america.html

Also:

I really don't give a sh!t about the movie. I find it troubling that we are letting DPRK dictate what films we watch now, though.

I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

This guy starves his own people, commits some of the greatest atrocities we've seen in terms of human rights violations, but singing puppets makes him butt hurt?

Really? This is the pressure we cave to? A man child throwing a a hissy because people don't like him or his Daddy due to, oh I don't know, putting a good percentage of his population in prison camps for no damn reason?

This is BS. The more I think about it the more I hate it and wish there was some form of protest we could make.

Thoughts?

 

[drainbamage]

I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

This guy starves his own people, commits some of the greatest atrocities we've seen in terms of human rights violations, but singing puppets makes him butt hurt?

Really? This is the pressure we cave to? A man child throwing a a hissy because people don't like him or his Daddy due to, oh I don't know, putting a good percentage of his population in prison camps for no damn reason?

This is BS. The more I think about it the more I hate it and wish there was some form of protest we could make.

Thoughts?

It doesn't say what happens if the theater plays Team America anyway. I'm guessing some sort of fine, or at worst Paramount stops sending them new releases to screen.

What's the legality of doing free public screenings as a protest?

 

[gratus fermentatio]

I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

This guy starves his own people, commits some of the greatest atrocities we've seen in terms of human rights violations, but singing puppets makes him butt hurt?

Really? This is the pressure we cave to? A man child throwing a a hissy because people don't like him or his Daddy due to, oh I don't know, putting a good percentage of his population in prison camps for no damn reason?

This is BS. The more I think about it the more I hate it and wish there was some form of protest we could make.

Thoughts?

Maybe we could hire some good hackers to hack Sony pictures & threaten them if they don't release the film. I'd love to see a B-2 stealth bomber do a night run over North Korea, dropping DVD's of the movie; but they'd have to drop DVD players to play it & electrical generators to provide electricity & fuel to run the generators.

Since there is no DPRK embassy or consulate here in the USA, we'd have to go to another country that has one to protest. Really the only things left for us to do is to post on the internet, write letters to our govt. officials & Sony pictures, sign George Clooney's petition, wear Tshirts that say what we want them to & put bumper stickers on our vehicles. None of which, either in part or whole, provide enough satisfaction for me.

I'd like to see the US cut ALL contact with DPRK, no food, no fuel, no medicine, no negotiation on anything; not even their so-called nuke program. If they launch a missile to "test" it, we launch one that flies right over their part of the penninsula. We hack everything of theirs that we can & plant some nasty viruses, we disrupt what communications they have (that we can) & basically do everything we can to make their lives as difficult as we can without actually going to war. But we all know none of that will ever happen, the US govt. tends to be quite weak & stupid when it comes to dealing with North Korea; at least that's historically how the US has dealt with DPRK since 1953.
Regards, GF.

 

[Airplanedoc]

I'm more pissed with Sony and carmike studios than I am with nk. Fortunately I can hurt both of them by not giving them my money

 

[MaddBaggins]

This is BS. The more I think about it the more I hate it and wish there was some form of protest we could make.

Thoughts?

 

[illinoisbrassman]

I vote we send Dennis Rodman, Miley Cyrus, Ray Rice, Adrian Peterson, maybe get Canada to throw in Justin Bieber, and send them all on a one way trip to NK.

 

[passedpawn]

I vote we send Dennis Rodman, Miley Cyrus, Ray Rice, Adrian Peterson, maybe get Canada to throw in Justin Bieber, and send them all on a one way trip to NK.

I bet Jane Fonda would get in on that trip. I never got over her NVA stunt.

 

[passedpawn]

This is BS. The more I think about it the more I hate it and wish there was some form of protest we could make.

Thoughts?

I'd say the movie was a protest.

Sony rolled over hard on this one. It's not the American way to fold under such weak pressure from such a sad dictator. Maybe it was the threat to Japan that was the fear. Seems like there's something I'm missing here.

 

[illinoisbrassman]

This is BS. The more I think about it the more I hate it and wish there was some form of protest we could make.

Thoughts?

Boycott Sony Products