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LLLR's was going to release the score. I hope they are still doing it. and I hope there's a nice big final liner notes page message that reads:
FUCK YOU, KIM JUNG UN-DEAD.
That despotic inbred and whoever had a part in this over there, are all bluster. They've been caught lying about their abilities, at least twice Photoshopping images to make it seem like they have mroe might, I think one time they even used an image from a film of a fighter jet to show they have a powerful fighter jet, and they had to threaten the lives of their citizens to appear to mourn painfully over Kim Jung-Dead's death (that was widly under reported in the propaganda cable news networks).
They were going to do nothing. They're all talk and Photoshop.
Was Un-Dead going to have people killed in theaters? No.
Was he going to sit naked alone in his mansion while eating cans of frosting and tubs of Häagen-Dazs while morning the fact he was born without a penis and that no one will take him seriously? Yes.
Right now, if Sony has any balls, they'd get in on the action:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/12/17/if-n-korea-is-upset-about-theaters-showing-the-interview-theyre-really-not-going-to-like-this/
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How is this viewed as un-American or having to do ANYTHING to do with FREE SPEECH?!
Sony is a JAPANESE owned company. They made a film to MAKE A PROFIT.
If the US owned theater chains decided to NOT SHOW the film [they blinked first!], exactly what the hell does anyone expect the studio to do? Anyone who thinks this BUSINESS move has anything to do with American politics is an idiot.
But OK, let us use our brains and say the movie was released and attacks did happen....would everyone rally behind the movie theatre chains and Sony and say "AMERICAN #1!"
Did we all forget the Comedy Central/South Park controversy with Mohammed and the altering of episodes?
Do Americans know that US movie studios decide NOT to show movies in other countries because of the religious views of said countries? Sex in the City 1 and 2 were not released in countries with a LARGE Muslim population nor are religious themed movies like NOAH or EXODUS released.... but I don't hear anyone crying over these instances.
Give me a break! And mind you, I write this as a former United States Marine, not some bleeding heart liberal.
Also, PEOPLE ARE DOING CRAZY nonsense like this:
http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Arrest-Made-in-Connection-with-Bottle-Bomb-Explosion-at-Theater-261436231.html
And THE DARK KNIGHT RISES shootings were only two years ago. Between the negative publicity of the very public Sony hack, is it any wonder why the studio wants to avoid any more negative press?
Also everyone who really cares about this is in my opinion full of shit. Last week everyone on the internet was saying "Sony, Rogan and Franco have just masterminded this market gimmick to get everyone to see the movie with the banner "THE MOVIE NORTH KOREA DOESN'T WANT YOU TO SEE"
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Dec 18, 2014 - 6:30 AM
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At first, I sort of bemusedly thought that the Anti-Rogenistas have really gone too far.
Who knows, the hackers could be mercenaries that hack for the highest bidder. Many suspect an inside job. Investigators are implying that NK is involved due to similarities in the malware, etc., that have previously been used.
While no particular actions (bombings, shootings, etc.) yet have been specified as far as we know, the wording of one threat - “Remember the 11th of September 2001. We recommend you to keep yourself distant from the places at that time. (If your house is nearby, you’d better leave.)” certainly could be construed to insinuate such. Perhaps more specific threats were made that were backed up with data to prove they could do what they’ve threatened and it hasn’t been publicized yet.
The fact that this hack has gone very deep, likely more deeply than we know, only underlines the point that some folks have been making for years now about cyber warfare and how lax most internet security truly is.
Gone pointed that out quite clearly in the thread about the email hack.
One might not necessarily have to kill and maim to wage war and create casualties. Ruining the financial structure, power grids, etc., could bring a nation to its knees just as assuredly.
While I don't yet think this hack rises to that level, it certainly has been financially and publicity devastating to Sony.
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Dec 18, 2014 - 9:18 AM
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MikeP
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At the risk of posting an exceedingly unpopular view:
I would say that when a film-maker's right to free expression (especially for a film that is, by most accounts, juvenile and trivial) puts the lives of innocent people in ANY risk of possible harm, then those "rights" need to take a back seat.
I'm gonna have to kind of agree here. Free expression and all, how in the hell did a movie ( although a comedy) about assassinating am actual, living, world leader, one widely seen as a disturbed dictator, even get the green light? Did no one anticipate some trouble down the road?
And to be glib but honest, anything keeping Seth Rogen out of theaters is a good thing.
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Dec 18, 2014 - 9:22 AM
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Ado
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At the risk of posting an exceedingly unpopular view:
I would say that when a film-maker's right to free expression (especially for a film that is, by most accounts, juvenile and trivial) puts the lives of innocent people in ANY risk of possible harm, then those "rights" need to take a back seat.
I'm gonna have to kind of agree here. Free expression and all, how in the hell did a movie ( although a comedy) about assassinating am actual, living, world leader, one widely seen as a disturbed dictator, even get the green light? Did no one anticipate some trouble down the road?
And to be glib but honest, anything keeping Seth Rogen out of theaters is a good thing.
I agree, a one note guy at best, scruffy beard - big glasses, see I am funny!
Ditto on James Franco
Aside from that - Sony never should have backed down, a major blunder, and they are going to lose a lot of talent because of this whole thing.
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