Texas-style testosterone poisoning does some good for once:
What Exapno said. They picked probably one of the most mentally unstable world leaders in a film about killing said leader, dumb move from the get go.
By the way, the threats may be idle but all it takes is one crazypants person to decide to take out a theater of people (it’s happened before), would you want to die for seeing a probably very stupid Seth Rogen/James Franco movie?
I’ll take my chances rather than cave into idiot threats. And if I really wanted to see it (IE if it were a good film) , I’d see it even if theaters had already been bombed.
Btw…I don’t remember any crazy threats being made when that modicum of mental health, Idi Amin, was parodied.
Of course. Because mentally unstable world leaders have to be pandered to.
I also don’t remember America shitting its collective pants when Marvel Comics made Nixon the head of The Secret Empire and when he committed suicide.
I like this idea!
Regards,
Shodan
This had nothing to do with vague terroristic threats, people forget Sony was already attacked. They are not worried about what might happen, they are scared shitless of what already did happen.
At least until we uncover how deeply China has infiltrated the computer systems of U.S. companies and figured out a way to block access.
Diplomacy is the art of saying ‘Nice doggie’ until you can find a rock.
- Will Rogers
Not necessarily, maybe just a happy medium between pandering and intentionally poking the bi-polar bear.
The medium is to never make a film like
The Naked Gun
Hot Shots
Team America
again?
Nor run any story lines about North Korea such as appeared on 30 Rock?
Never parody a dictator again such as seen a billion times over the last 45 years?
That’s some medium.
Btw…hadn’t North Korea ALREADY made threats about the film ages ago?
You know, it’s not as if this was completely unpredictable. North Korea protested loudly when they were cast as the Bad Guys in the James Bond Movie Die Another Day, Pierce Brosnan’s last appearance as Bond
They just never thought N. Korea would ever get really serious about things.
Interestingly, South Koreans protested about Die Another Day, too:
I didn’t say that was the medium, you did.
The Naked Gun and Hot Shots were so long ago I don’t think any leaders parodied in those are still around.
Also, this movie isn’t just a parody, it’s about killing a world leader. Don’t you think that sort of thing is just asking for trouble? Don’t you think a crazypants person might take that as a threat and answer it with threats? My issue is why did they ever think it would be a good idea? Maybe the entertainment community doesn’t need to worry about diplomacy but a little bit wouldn’t be a bad idea, either.
Does North Korea think supressing this film will prevent people from forming a negative opinion of the nation, and the Dear Leader? Anyone who knows anything about NK already knows they are a pariah state, and the dear leader is a laffable bufoon, and NK is all bluff. If not, then this blow-up is certainly exposing their craziness to a wider audience than the film itself would have ever done.
The movie looks like such a waster pile of dreck that I’m more annoyed by the attention it’s getting by not being released than by the fact that it was made at all.
I don’t think the hacking or the threats are a PR stunt. But making lemonade out of lemons by “caving” to the “terrorists” for a short while before “defiantly” reversing course and showing the film anyway would get a lot of “America, fuck yeah!” types into theater seats on Christmas who otherwise probably wouldn’t have gone. Like me.
You’re right though that this likely isn’t what actually happened.
The news about Sony pulling the Christmas Day release of The Interview leaves unanswered (at least, to me), the question of whether the movie is being completely scrubbed by Sony, or if they’re just not releasing it on Christmas Day like they’d planned to.
What’s the scoop?
There’s another thread in which The Interview is being discussed in general terms.
So far Sony hasn’t said anything about delaying the release, just pulling it is all that’s been announced. I read somewhere a theory though that if they pull it completely and don’t release it, that maybe insurance will pay out, so the studio wouldn’t lose any money over this. As opposed to if they put it in theaters or do a VOD release where it might make money or it might lose it. That makes sense to me, so I wouldn’t be too surprised if it’s never officially released.
Nope. It was dumb, crass and senseless beyond belief, the equivalent of a couple of 12 year olds egging each other into writing a “funny” story about shooting people at school and then wondering why they’re being called into the principal’s office for a Please Explain.
What’s the point of releasing a film if national theater chains refuse to play it?