Sony canceling the release of The Interview

Lemon Loaf said:
I don't think anyone actually thinks that North Korea is truly communist now, and not really ever. The problem is that it's a dictatorship and they have a really huge cult of personality around their leader.
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u wud be surprised when u hear so-called experts appear on tv or on op-ed columns talking about how we shud apply rational-actor game theory and other cold war deterrence models when dealing with dprk.

Lemon Loaf said:
Do you mean withheld the movie? They didn't, did they? I believe they just said it was okay if theaters didn't want to show it due to the threats, but many theaters are still showing it anyway. It's up to each chain, not to Sony.
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no my understanding is that sony have actually cancelled the movie. at first some major theatres refused to show it, and this precipitated the response by sony to actually cancel the release. no doubt the streisand effect will come into play and more ppl will view the film than would have under a conventional release

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and on that note, im gonna order a dvd of team america
 
kim jong-un caught them fapping.

Eh, well I just read that too. Fear the reaper.
 
They said there was potential for it to show later on...just not on the December release date.
It's a great marketing ploy though for a rescheduled release to get more views.

Either way, I don't really care about the movie. If it's a Seth rogen comedy the it was bound to be not funny anyhow.
 
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on the bright side, every minute dprk spends hacking sony and killing **** movies is every minute spent not hacking critical infrastructure. exposing american movies and outing hollywood as the awful overpriced morons they are, wat heroes.
 
We actually discussed this in my class today after finals, and my teacher was annoyed that 'they're censoring what we're doing here in the US through cyber terrorism', which I guess is a valid point, but honestly, that movie sounded like a bad idea from the start. Who okayed it to begin with?
 
the amoral cretins who run sony, who realised a little too late that pyongyang doesnt exactly understand nor appreciate irony, and that a regime that assassinates ppl in various countries, blows up foreign planes and politicians, and kidnaps children off foreign beaches in broad daylight are probably willing to kill sony execs and bad actors in equally unpleasant ways.
 
I like how ppl online are all angry and saying our freedom is being taken like have u not seen whats been going on in the world the entire year of 2014 lmao

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KarlaKGB said:
the amoral cretins who run sony, who realised a little too late that pyongyang doesnt exactly understand nor appreciate irony, and that a regime that assassinates ppl in various countries, blows up foreign planes and politicians, and kidnaps children off foreign beaches in broad daylight are probably willing to kill sony execs and bad actors in equally unpleasant ways.
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yea pretty much but lets view it anyway cuz freedom and amurica
 
This is basically just like that stupid movie, "Innocence of Muslims". People (that stupid person who made the movie/Sony) made a movie (Innocence of Muslims/The Interview) that offended a bunch of hypersensitive crybabies (Muslims offended by it/North Korea) who responded with threats of violence (riots/basically the same rhetoric that North Korea repeats week after week).
 
oath2order said:
This is basically just like that stupid movie, "Innocence of Muslims". People (that stupid person who made the movie/Sony) made a movie (Innocence of Muslims/The Interview) that offended a bunch of hypersensitive crybabies (Muslims offended by it/North Korea) who responded with threats of violence (riots/basically the same rhetoric that North Korea repeats week after week).
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the innocence of muslims was such a bad movie it was great, the reaction of snackbarians throughout the world made it even sweeter
 
Well, Obama has spoken and said that it was a mistake for Sony to cancel the movie. He said other countries should not be able to censor what is shown in America.

I think Obama sent the right message that other countries shouldn't be able to control what is shown in the US.
 
I really dunno my opinion of the actual film because obviously I haven't seen it and not completely sure the plot of it, but they're basically backing into a corner by not releasing it I guess.. I don't know really maybe I'll look it up some more.
 
I really wanted to see this movie. Sigh. I'll just have to wait until someone releases it online, because you know it's bound to happen.
 
Seems a classic case of big mediahype, big flop movie to me.

Kinda funny the guy threatening Sony says it might instill fear this movie, I guess threatening filmmakers doesn't?

I don't give a rats ass about this movie, but it should have been brought out. Ah well. Freedom blabla, outraged yadayada, future of the world nagnag. I heard it all before.
 
Just watched it. If you like their other movies, This is The End, Superbad, etc.; you'll love this. I truly enjoyed it. I'll probably end up writing more about it somewhere else every soon, because I'm a loser and this is how I spend my Christmas break.
 
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