# The Interview - seen it thread (open spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 26, 2014, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-interview-seen-it-thread-open-spoilers/708190 "2014-12-26T04:16:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2014, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-interview-seen-it-thread-open-spoilers/708190/21 "2014-12-29T05:23:06Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > As far Dave’s sexuality goes; it’s just James Franco Adam Westing himself. Trying to figure that out, I read that James Franco (an actor I’m not familiar with) apparently, on screen and off, regularly tries to confuse the public as to his sexuality. Daniel Tosh does this as well (though I’m pretty sure he’s quite straight). ---
**Author:** ![Emtar\_KronJonDerSohn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/58956e/32.png) [@Emtar\_KronJonDerSohn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emtar_KronJonDerSohn)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2014, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-interview-seen-it-thread-open-spoilers/708190/22 "2014-12-30T01:04:05Z")
I saw it, I thought it would be stupid, I wasn’t wrong, but I didn’t feel cheated out of $5.99 either. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2014, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-interview-seen-it-thread-open-spoilers/708190/23 "2014-12-31T02:51:19Z")
> [@tapu](#): > > I was appalled. At how it was literally about assassinating a real-life world leader (despicable as he may be). Why, really, couldn’t they have made all their political points with some fictionalization \*and a made-up name. \* [Yeah, it’s not like anyone has ever gone so far as to make a movie about killing the real-life leader of North Korea before.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0372588/?ref_=nv_sr_1) ---
**Author:** ![robert\_columbia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@robert\_columbia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robert_columbia)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2014, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-interview-seen-it-thread-open-spoilers/708190/24 "2014-12-31T02:57:59Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > [Yeah, it’s not like anyone has ever gone so far as to make a movie about killing the real-life leader of North Korea before.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0372588/?ref_=nv_sr_1) I guess NK is ronrier than ever. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2015, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-interview-seen-it-thread-open-spoilers/708190/25 "2015-01-02T14:45:21Z")
My wife and I streamed it on New Year’s Eve. Even though I had low expectations, and this is the type of movie I find funny, I thought it was only so-so laugh-wise. Yeah, the scenes with Skylark and Kim Jong Un hanging out were the funniest part of the movie (HE was honeydicking ME? I was honeydicking HIM!). I agree with the OP on this: > [@Shalmanese](#): > > … > I thought there were a couple of points though that felt a bit off. The finger biting scene, especially, seemed to come from a different movie and served no purpose since Skylark doesn’t even seem aware and it’s never brought up again. The tank crushing the people in the Jeep also seemed extremely tonally off for what was essentially a fun romp. > … Yeah, what was up with biting off the fingers? And running over the NK soldiers with that tank, why was it necessary to actually show the blood spray as they’re being crushed like grapes? That really killed what comedy vibe there was. ---
**Author:** ![FuriousGeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecae2f/32.png) [@FuriousGeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FuriousGeorge)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2015, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-interview-seen-it-thread-open-spoilers/708190/26 "2015-01-05T14:46:28Z")
Finally got around to watching this. Absolute dreck. Deserved every bit of the panning it got pre-scandal. I like Rogen, I like Franco, I liked **This is the End** a lot. This was awful. It seemd like an hour and a half of the worst unrelated, improvised, unfunny SNL sketches semi strung together with a couple of pinches of gross out gore for funsies. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2015, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-interview-seen-it-thread-open-spoilers/708190/27 "2015-01-05T14:51:20Z")
We watched it over the weekend. Pepper Mill has wanted to se it ever since she got a preview of it way in advance of the trailer release. She had been bitterly disappointed in Son’y decision to pull it from release. So she was very happy when it became available on demand. All three of us sat down to watch. All three of us were disappointed, including Pepper Mill, who complained that all the best material got put into their trailer. Our feeling was _They had an international incident over THIS?_ ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2015, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-interview-seen-it-thread-open-spoilers/708190/28 "2015-01-05T15:43:57Z")
Saw it on VOD. If the Norks do take out the makers of this film, it will be a tragedy for them and their families, not so much for film making. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2015, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-interview-seen-it-thread-open-spoilers/708190/29 "2015-01-05T16:09:52Z")
I turned it off thirty minutes in. I was bored. I love the people involved with this movie but comedy should make me at least giggle. Franco’s character was so annoying I found myself flinching whenever he took the screen. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-interview-seen-it-thread-open-spoilers/708190/30 "2015-01-27T22:29:43Z")
This movie is out on Netflix now so you can watch it and hate it without feeling like you wasted money. I thought it was a good Seth Rogen, James Franco movie. Some genuine laugh out loud moments. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2015, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-interview-seen-it-thread-open-spoilers/708190/31 "2015-01-28T15:44:50Z")
I thought it was funny in places, certainly not hilarious. The plot held my interest, certainly a unique premise. The finger-biting scene was indeed out of place and jarring. Overall I found it more interesting than funny, but I did watch it by myself. Maybe some comedy movies need an audience to be funny. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2015, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-interview-seen-it-thread-open-spoilers/708190/32 "2015-01-28T16:35:41Z")
Also saw it this weekend. It was the best movie by any means, but it was certainly better than I expected. I think Randall Park as Kim was easily the best part. I could’ve gone for more Lizzy Caplan too. As far as the violence goes, it reminded me a lot of Pineapple Express, which takes a left turn at the end and gets extremely violent. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2015, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-interview-seen-it-thread-open-spoilers/708190/33 "2015-01-28T17:45:34Z")
> [@tapu](#): > > I was appalled. At how it was literally about assassinating a real-life world leader (despicable as he may be). Why, really, couldn’t they have made all their political points with some fictionalization \*and a made-up name. \* > > Sony hardly has a leg to stand on when it whines about backlash. Not sure I agree with you, but I did find it funny that the film included the standard “any similarity to persons living or dead is purely coincidental” in the end credits. They named the country, they named the leader, it’s not coincidental at all, it was completely intentional. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-interview-seen-it-thread-open-spoilers/708190.md?page=1)