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Top Five Theaters Won't Show "The Interview" Sony Cancels Release
tobiasly writes The country's top five theater chains — Regal Entertainment, AMC Entertainment, Cinemark, Carmike Cinemas and Cineplex Entertainment — have decided not to play Sony's The Interview. This comes after the group which carried off a massive breach of its networks threatened to carry out "9/11-style attacks" on theaters that showed the film. Update: Sony has announced that it has cancelled the planned December 25 theatrical release.
Uh huh...
Terrorists seem to win over and over.
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Well, I'm boycotting any theatre that isn't showing this movie because of a terrorist threat. If they don't want to show it because it's crap, that's fine with me.. But not because of some threat.
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"we do not negotiate with terrorists."?
Dude, you don't understand. This is like acknowledging your stalker. It will never stop now.
I can easily see how to capitalize on this by releasing it via pay per view/on-demand or other services (assuming, of course, these providers can do a better job at protecting their servers than Sony did in the first place). Who says you have to sit in a physical movie theater with a bunch of strangers that you don't talk to in order to enjoy this movie?
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And offer to show it there. You don't want it shown in theaters? Fine, it'll be shown on every TV in the country.
Not sure why they truncated my submission but the questions this raises was more interesting to me than the news itself.
For posterity: What should Sony do? Cut their losses and shelve it? Release it immediately online? Does giving in mean "the terrorists have won"?
I don't like Rogan or Franco, don't like that kind of film, but was planning to go anyway just because I was pissed off at a bunch of script kiddies pretending to be a tinpot dictator's henchmen. Sony should have acquired some 'nads and shown it anyway. At least in the theaters courageous enough to put it on the marquee.
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
All they've done is taught attackers that they can force our media around.
Really disappointed in everyone involved here. Especially the cinemas. At least Sony *was* going to follow through.
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I couldn't have cared less about the movie. It didn't really sound like my kind of humor.
But after the threat was made, I was planning on seeing it just to show the (newly become) terrorists what I think of them.
I'd have liked this to be Sony's most successful release of the year.
I'm getting mixed messages from the news, though. Has the release been completely scrubbed, or are they just canceling the formal premier?
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Now that Sony has cancelled the premier, if I want to see this movie I'll have to find a pirated copy.
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As an American, when did Americans become such fucking pussies?
Are we backing Sony at the moment?
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They should be advertising the sht out of this movie as the film that terrorists are afraid of, including funny made up quotes from bogus North Korean hackers and party officials, etc.
They should be running to the fire on this, not away. It could send a message and increase their sales at the same time. The ONLY people in the whole world who really care about this two-bit movie are the North Koreans. They're not going to pull off any real terrorist attacks. Their hack of Sony was impressive, and I can understand the studios being wary of that, but really, some consulting dollars could mitigate a lot of that risk. Run a security blitz at the studios and poke NK in the eye. It's what they deserve.
I don't know what this movie is, and I don't follow or watch movies in general, but I suddenly almost want to find out more about this movie is all about now.
Almost.
This is actually the best marketing this stupid loser of a movie could ever get, since without this too-doo, it would have opened and closed within two weeks.
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It's pretty transparent that these hackers are North Korean. Fuck North Korea.
On the other hand, fuck Sony. I can't say that enough - FUCK SONY.
This doesn't help NK in any way. Oh, this movie is blasphemous to their state-mandated religion, worshipping the rotting corpse of Kim I and Kim II? This movie was never going to be seen by anyone in that entire country, if for the simple reason that so few of them can even afford it. I doubt they can even use this hack as internal propaganda, because the simple fact that such a movie exists shows how little the outside world cares about North Korea. And nobody's fooled by their disavowal - this is just more proof that they're a bunch of thugs.
This hurts Sony. First the humiliation of the hack. Then the financial damage. Then the humiliation of acceding to terrorist demands. They may have had a bad reputation in our circles for years now, but they've now lost face in the mainstream media, too.
So yeah, our enemies are fighting and both of them are losing. Time to break out the popcorn.
Since Sony is going to eat the production costs anyway, why not declare the movie to be in the public domain and make it downloadable by anyone at no charge?
That'll piss off the terrorists, but they'll be powerless to stop its distribution.
I was planning to go see this, not that I'm interested in the movie, but to show that I won't kow-tow to terrorists and extortionists. But since Sony has caved by deferring its release, Sony has joined the ranks of the chicken-droppings.
Several sites have called for Sony to release this on the Internet, and that's what I think they should do. And someone needs to make "we don't negotiate with Young Weasel" stickers with Kim Jong Un's face in the background.
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I have to reluctantly say, that's not the point. To not show it because it stinks is fine. (I've seen the reviews, and it has all the characteristics of a true stinker.) But to not show it because some third-world dictator pitched a fit is a different thing. That truly offends me. We should be showing it precisely because it pisses him off.
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
Do we have reason to believe that this group is actually capable of or prepared to carry out the attacks that they're threatening? If theaters around the country showed the movie, can these terrorists bomb them all?
Or did all these companies simply buckle to a random threat without anything behind it? Because, yeah, I guess if someone calls in a bomb threat to the local high school, you might have to go evacuate the school while the police check it out, but you should have some plan for keeping the kids from calling in new threats every day and shutting the school down permanently.
Then *everyone* will watch it, with no large gatherings of people to target. And it'll be a big f*** you to the terrorists. Sounds like a win-win to me!
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Perhaps this is more a comment on movie than the fear of Korean Terror or hackers. Perhaps the studio has no faith in the production.
Another stupid comedy that would go quickly to cable... no big deal if it wasn't for the hackers.
'9/11 style attacks'? So if these movies are screened, attackers will sneak in, fueled up with convenience-store-bought Raisinets and armed with box knives? Or are they going to crash an airliner into each theater?
We've become a nation where a college kid wishing to avoid a final exam can call in a bomb threat to close a campus. All threats, however implausible, must be taken seriously, just in case it truly is a real threat and an attack occurs. 99.999% of the time the threat is bogus, but if one doesn't act hysterically and it turns out to be the 0.001% situation, you're screwed (more likely by lawyers after the fact, not so much by the attack itself).
By caving to the threat, they are validating the use of this strategy, and are ensuring that they will get more threats like this in the future. It works.
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Guys, you're clearly missing the massive societal benefit of this news. Say you go to see a movie, only to find out that it's terrible. What do you do to help your fellow man from wasting their time and money? Write a review? Tell your friends? That's just not good enough! Now, all you have to do is send Sony an email and they'll cheerfully pull it from US distribution!
I have the feeling the reason the show was cancelled , was because the pre-release feedback was very negative, that it was a bad film, but with those threat they saw an opportunity, and now they are priming the US market for a massive "buy it to spite terrorrist !" direct to DVD.
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If the movie was an blockbuster they'd have hired security at the theaters if it would make money. They figure it's a loser and are cutting the losses.
This comes after the group which carried off a massive breach of its networks threatened to carry out "9/11-style attacks"
I can't believe anyone is cowering to these little bastards. Who in their right mind believes any group is going to hijack planes, or even gas trucks and suicide bomb movie theaters? If they would have threatened Batman/Aurora style attacks I would have given them a little more credence. I mean why didn't they just go for broke and threaten Nagasaki style attacks? Or really go all out and threaten Chicxulub or Krakatoa?
So they managed to break Sony's "security" and steal a bunch of data. Wow! From what I've read about Sony and their IT security, this could be a 12 year old girl in Tajikistan who did this for fun. There's been no indication that there is any credible physical threat to anyone. Yet everyone's running around in a panic. What the hell has happened to this country?
The other side of promoting this fear mongering over terrorism, is that people get so scared, they believe their own bullshit. What decades of fear mongering have done is made us a nation of cowards, unable to cope with idle threats, most likely by people incapable of pulling them off. the largest army in the world, the most advanced weapons, the biggest navy by far, with the most amount and most advanced carriers, and we are still scared of unspecified threats on the internet. Sweet Jesus fuck. I think instead of spending millions on tanks, and Jets, and aircraft carriers, and shit that won't protect us, lets spend some time learning not to be affraid, and sticking up for what we believe in, instead of paying the defense industry out the nose for what ultimately won't protect us?
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If they can't secure a fuckin mall for an afternoon... What are you paying them for?
Also, WHAT "rational cautions and plausible evidence"?
All the public got so far was some overdue candid insight into scheming of a mega-corporation and what it REALLY thinks about people it uses, hires and its customers.
If that's terrorism, seems to me there's a great demand for more of it.
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The decision to not show it is based on the other movies that wouldn't be seen because 5-10% of the populace would rather not take the chance, however small, of a terrorist action. The studios count on Christmas holiday revenue and to risk that much is not acceptable.
That being said, I agree with you completely. Before, this was a hack, a nasty one at that. Now this is terrorism, and I almost pity the fools that made their veiled threat behind the keyboards...they will pay.
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A "real and present threat" on a specific mall is a very different thing from a random threat.
There are 5300 movie theaters in the USA. If half of them show the movie, that's 2650 showings. If the terrorists attack *ten* showings (likely an overestimate), that's still less than half a percent chance of being impacted.
I'd take those odds.
The alternative is that random groups start making threats against everything they don't like while carrying through on just enough of them to keep people scared, and the population lives in fear.
As Doc Martin once said "it's the thin end of the wedge."
Now that terrorists have successfully prevented a movie release with threats of "911-like attacks," everything they want done will be done using that threat as the basis.
Sony Pictures is an American company that happens to be owned by a Japanese conglomerate. Sony bought out an American company.
Put it this way, no one considers Chrysler an Italian company. Neither is Sony Pictures.
Damn, this is a horrible outcome. They've just let NK gov feel like they actually have authority and standing outside of their prison nation.
Sony decided it wasn't economically worth going to war with North Korea over this. That's all. Even the very slight risk of a theater bombing could have cost millions, so they said no.
That said, I hope they carpet bomb North Korea with Korean dubbed DVDs of the movie, complete with DVD players. Also hoping Netflix will start streaming it tomorrow, or that they just release it for free.
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Sony is really capitulating because the Hacker-terrorists found pictures of the dead hookers in a Execs closet.
So, protesting a fictional, comedic film about assassinating their leader, the "Guardians of Peace" hack the studio that produced the film and then threaten violence against theaters showing and people who might watch the film. Wow. (I guess that's in line with people who follow a certain "Religion of Peace" threatening violence against those who draw, even respectful, images of their prophet because it's against said religion.)
Narrow minded people thinking mindlessly...
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I almost pity the fools that made their veiled threat behind the keyboards...they will pay.
And I am always thinking that the FBI must know a lot more than they let on. Just think of all the resources the NSA has to track this down - taps into every internet trunk line in the world. Surely they can follow the trail to the perpetrators, and deliver a punishment to fit the crime in their own time. They may never even tell us about it, but somewhere, someday, some people will mysteriously meet up with a premature death. For sure the US Gov has an interest in this, above and beyond what they would have in hacks of Target & Home Depot, because the unique wanton destructiveness of the hack and the terrorists threats.
Yeah.. after a real, actual shooting (Dark Knight Rises) a few years ago -- people still went and saw it. An actual, physical event, with a body count, and it did not scare people away. Copycats be damned.
this is just sad. Sony perhaps looking for a reason to pull the movie to save face (IE, they know it's shit.)
Something seems off on this whole thing. They are afraid of 911 style threats... at a movie theater?! The Koreans probably got something else on the executives. Something so good that the execs are giving in to these crazy demands. The whole 911 thing sounds like an alternative explanation for whats really going on.
U.S. investigators have determined hackers working for North Korea were behind the Sony attack, and an announcement could come as soon as Thursday, U.S. law enforcement sources tell CNN's Evan Perez.
Because of the North Korean regime's tight control of the Internet in the reclusive country, U.S. officials believe the hack was ordered directly by the nation's leadership.
The hackers have exposed documents from Sony's servers, including personal information about celebrities and embarrassing emails from executives. They also said that people should avoid going to theaters to see "The Interview," which is about an attempt to kill North Korea's leader.
Sony on Wednesday canceled the film's December 25 release.
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This is a very sad day for the United States and for freedom of expression. It's so disappointing that we've allowed terrorist fear and propaganda to suppress our culture and art.
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Very likely Sony decided that even if all North Korea could do is 3 attacks of theaters like that Joker wannabe a couple of years ago, it would be enough to cost Sony a billion in lawsuits.
Is this guy off his meds again?
I thought they did, actually... purportedly along with several other not-yet-released movies, though I didn't go searching to verify this myself.
Actually, the proper term is "seppuku". "Harakiri" is a word used by lower classes...
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By induction, we should be able to issue a counter-threat to all the movie theaters that do NOT show The Interview this holiday season.
Seeing how often Hollywood remakes movies, and how much attention Kim Jong-un has given this particular picture, it may become the Oedipus Rex or Nutcracker of the next century. After this blows over, Sony's going to rake in the DVD and rebroadcast and international sales, and North Korea will redefine the "Streisand Effect"
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Sony just told the Jihadist how to make sure there will never be any movies involving Islam shown in the US.
Exactly. But since the theaters dun goofed and Sony compounded their incompetence with a double-helping of cowardice, we need to compensate. Clearly, what needs to happen now is for Anonymous to hack Sony again and release the movie to Bittorrent.
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Bog corps have a CYA (cover your ass) policy. It has nothing to do with safety. If there is a threat and only one attack is carried out, Sony could be held legally liable for not doing their due diligence. The family of the injured/deceased could sue Sony because there was a threat and Sony ignored it. USA is a nation of litigation, not the betterment of her citizens. But hey, we're in a multinational corporation-run world so the rest of the planet will have to comply. Corporations love to say "it's for your own safety" but that is really one of the biggest lies.
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First off Sony has already lost millions from the hacking. How would a bombing have cost millions to Sony?
Sony is a big corporation. They do about $200m in revenue per day. The idea that some tin pot dictator can import his censorship into the United States is unthinkable.
The head of the Port Authority was not fired for 9/11, no one is going to want to fire the head of Sony pictures for this.
Right, like that crapfest "To Kill a Mockingbird"...
I work for a sizable sports network. Sony had a ton of inventory purchased across many networks to promote the release. They pulled ALL of it, ridiculously close to airtime. Way closer than we normally allow.
They were negotiating down to the wire to not have to cancel this movie. And why wouldn't they? They stand to lose tens of millions unless they're smart about how they do a private release now.
Trust me. Sony has released FAR shittier movies than this. This one had buzz going for it. Remember that months ago, NK declared it an act of war.
This looks completely legit. A ridiculously weak - and in my mind completely wrong - move, but legit.
It's pretty transparent that these hackers are North Korean. Fuck North Korea.
Really? What would North Korea have to gain by doing this? They already have less than one friend on the global stage (ie, only partial support from China). If they go around encouraging cyber warfare like this they are only inviting more pain back towards themselves.
Even more so this is likely beyond the technical capabilties of North Korea. Some people have suggested that this hack took upwards of 100TB of data. First of all, it is unlikely that North Korea has the ability to move that much data through their connection to the internet in the amount of time that transpired. Second, even if all the "best" hackers from North Korea did their best job to steal this data and place it elsewhere, it would have been pretty easy to figure that out as well.
So really, scratch North Korea off the list.
Some people have suggested that the hackers are "sympathetic to North Korea". To this I say bullshit as well. If someone wanted to make North Korea look like victims, launching a cyber attack is not a good way to do that. And how would a cyber attack on Sony make North Korea look strong or capable?
I would say the most likely case is we have some hackers who really despised Sony and found a way in. They then laid this "North Korea" cause as a red herring.
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I know my own business insurance has the ability to file a claim if there is loss or damage due to a terrorist attack. Maybe Sony is going to try to recoup their losses on this film that way.
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Sony does things for profit. Only North Korea is free to do things to promote an ideology.
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Sony should release it via torrent sites, Bring the freakin thing to the whole world , right up to their firewalled doorstep!
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From what I've seen they DID release the other films, but not "The Interview". And I'm assuming any actual torrents of said movie will have something nasty in it; at least that's what I'd do lol.
I have this sneaking suspicion that the real damage that could be done to Sony is if the group that broke in got into the internal financial data rather than what gets reported.
Word has long been that the accounting practices of Hollywood and the music industry make Enron look pretty tame. And Sony is into both.
Imagine how many lawyers/accountants would be going over any financial records that get released. There are lots of actors and musicians that have felt they got shafted with what they were paid versus what they were actually owed.
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Did you like these guys, Bin Laden and Hussein? Would you have prefered they got a trial and a court appointed lawyer if they couldn't have afforded one? As a matter of fact, Hussein did get a trial as I recall. Only Bin Laden didn't. Was that a miscarriage of justice do you think?
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.. And Team America: World Police by the South Park guys, which completely ridiculed Kim Jong Il - was cheerfully sent to theaters without issue?
Oh, here's why- Team America: World Police was distributed by Paramount Pictures, a wholly owned subsidiary of U.S. media behemoth Viacom, which couldn't give a flying fuck about a despot on the other side of the world.
Sony, on the other hand, has its parent company headquartered in Japan, where North Korean missile tests fly over their island on a regular basis, and has actually had citizens literally kidnapped off the beach by North Korean intelligence officers.
Where does this stop? Will Sony approach media outlets like Amazon Instant Video, Google Play Movies and iTunes, only to be told off? It wasn't bad enough that Sony has suffered huge losses from the hacking, now they also eat nearly $50 million on the films' production costs and sunk advertising to date.
During the Cold War, Hollywood ROUTINELY made films depicting the Soviets as drunken bumbling incompetent bloodthirsty warmongers, with fare like Stripes, Spies Like Us, Red Dawn (original), and many many others - This, at a time when there were literally hundreds or thousands of KGB agents active on American sold and > 10,000 ICBMs pointed at us - And you could turn Johnny Carson's monologue on every night and listen to him crack about Brezhnev being a drunken idiot.
Did Sony react to a real threat? Or is this part of the new culture of not offending anyone?
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... is to give the movie away for free download.
Nothing would piss of North Korea more, unless they could convince Apple to force you to download it, like U2 did!
We shut down movies now over terrorist threats of 9/11-style attacks?
If they are so worried that a few hackers could hijack a plane, and pull this off successfully, that they are willing to sink a multimillion dollar film that's probably already in circulation on the net.....
Why do I need to have people try to feel my nuts at the airport and treat me like I'm entering jail?
If they can't stop a few nerds with laptops from hijacking a plane, how can they ever hope to stop an actual skilled boogie man terrorist jihadist child molestor movie pirate? I know a lot of us play flight sims but come on..... f**king seriously? This is a whole new dimension of retarded. Why couldn't someone do this when they were about to release Titanic or Pearl Harbor?
Borderline despicable behavior on Sony's part actually. The movie industry makes an enormous amount of money because of the freedom of speech. But when it comes time to defend that freedom this is how they behave.
This is just a ploy cooked up by sony to increase sales. You watch, after christmas the theaters will cave in and show it and then everyone will want to watch it to see what all the hoopla is about.
If Sony decides to shelf the release indefinitely, then I think they should just release it publicly for free and let the world have at it. I'd honestly rather give to Sony directly than to let any shit hacking group decide what I can and can't watch.
Hey Sony, if you want to setup a torrent, I'll be a seeder. Otherwise, let me know where I can send *cryptocurrency of the day* for a nice clean DRM free copy of the movie.
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You're missing the point. They didn't choose not to show the movie because of a terrorist threat. They chose not to show the movie because it would cost them money. Regardless of what they say, they are not taking the threat seriously. What they are taking seriously is the number of customers who would choose not to come see The Interview, and particularly the number of customers who would choose not to come see anything at a theatre that is merely showing The Interview, out of fear for their own safety. The potential for empty theatre complexes for an entire holiday season scared the shit out of the theatres, and they made the safe financial decision.
Their reaction has nothing to do with terrorism, and everything to do with the almighty dollar. Claming it's a reaction to the terrorist threat is merely the popular way to present the financial decision to the terrorist-sensitive public.
To any truly impartial person it was a miscarriage - when someone is summarily executed without a trial, it's not a good thing. We value due process for a reason - when it is applied selectively, it might as well not exist.
But since Sony has caved by deferring its release, Sony has joined the ranks of the chicken-droppings.
Sony didn't cave. Sony stood by their guns the whole time. It's the theatre chains who caved, so blame them, not Sony.
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You have a larger chance of being struck by lightning in the us than being killed by a terrorist. Lightning killed about fifty people a year (US only), which is considerably more than terrorists ten-year average.
But far less than the fifteen or twenty year average, even less than the 50 year average. The "data" has some infrequent by quite large outliers. Its difficult to compare naturally occurring random events (lightning) or accidental events involving humans (car accidents) to intentional events engineered by humans.
That said I was planning on waiting for the movie to show up on HBO but now I feel like seeing it in a theatre. I guess there really is no such thing as bad press.
The Supreme Court never said that corporation are people. That's just a talking point of the left, taken from the post-decision spin of the losing side in the court case.
All the court really said is that
(1) Groups of people have the same speech rights as individuals.
(2) The nature of the group (corporation, labor union, activist group, etc) does not matter.
(3) Media corporations (i.e. traditional news) have no special rights with respect to speech, all corporations have the same speech rights.
There are 5300 movie theaters in the USA. If half of them show the movie, that's 2650 showings. If the terrorists attack *ten* showings ...
The terrorists can be trapped. Have a few theaters where there is a double feature of "The Interview" and "Team America: World Police", that should lure the NK agents to those theaters.
This really is a sad day, those moronic scriptkiddies have won..
I really hope they can catch the persons who did this, and who made the threats. The should get life in prison if it were up to me (well actually they should just get the deathpenalty if it was really up to me)...
These morons ruined the lives of a lot of hardworking people..
I think it's incredibly naive to think that this has nothing to do with North Korea. It's extremely likely that this group of attackers is North Korean, and just as likely that they are under the North Korean government's employ. Also, they threatened attacks on movie theaters on american soil. The fact that the movie playing would be (distantly) owned by a Japanese company is irrelevant, the American moviegoers are the ones that would suffer.
That said, I think canceling showings of the film sends a shitty message, and sets a bad precedent.
Umm... so in a war, before we shoot the guy that has been shooting at us, we should stop and read him his rights?
You can't take down a full movie theatre with one suicide bomber, you would need several (at least one for each screen, somehow synchronized to maximize damage).
So you attend several ahead of time and plant bombs while you're there, there's loads of places in the average theater where you could hide an explosive. Then you set them off by cellphone. It's not rocket surgery. That nobody has done this already proves just how few terrists there actually are active on merican soil.
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He was unarmed, in another country. Summary execution for crimes committed is something tyrants and despots do, not supposedly civilised governments.
You can reduce it to a pithy generalisation if you want, but that simply shows you can nor argue the actual facts of this one particular instance, where an unarmed man who easily could have been removed and taken for trial was simply shot on sight for no other reason other than vengeance.
This just sounds like the media is trying to get an emotional reaction from the American people with regards to North Korea so they can garner support for more warmongering.
Remember Dubya?
"Iran, Iraq and North Korea form an axis of evil..."
I'm still waiting to hear what 'evil' these countries have actually done - and the "proof" of their links to 9/11 and Al-Qaeda.
Political correctness is really just herd psychology pushed by insecure people who desperately seek social conformity.
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Sony, you can't release this thing in theaters, and the same will probably be of brick-and-mortar retail. Your reputation is going in the crapper because of the awful things your executives say in email. Release the movie on a torrent. Let people watch it online. For free. It's not like these idiots aren't going to eventually distribute all of your dirty laundry anyway. Show us you at least have some dignity, if not class.
and here is why we need an outlets like TPB to do the things that corporations and governments won't or can't do.
Dear Sony,
Release the movie for free on the internet. Perhaps issue a bargain-rate DVD as well. If the people behind the hack really don't want this movie out there (as opposed to this being a smoke-screen), and you really are concerned that capitulation will inspire future attacks; up the ante and do the opposite.
To be sure: there is a fiscal cost... but that ship has sailed. Take more of a hit now to save ongoing bleeding.
Heck: Start a commercial campaign about how you stand up to terrorists.
Congratulations, you've just fallen victim to the reverse-Streisand. Can't say that I blame you though, this is the biggest one since New Coke.
I am not your blowing wind, I am the lightning.
Sony secured the movie...for future release. If you saw the trailer, you know where they secured it.
I only look human.
My mother is a halfling and my dad is an ogre, so that makes me an Ogreling
Was John Kerry involved in making this decision?
I only look human.
My mother is a halfling and my dad is an ogre, so that makes me an Ogreling
You're forgetting, there are 18,000 different theatres, it's not so easy, there's no magic to stop these kinds of things (if they're real, that is) as you imagine. Even the NSA, police, etc.. can't read minds, use a crystal ball, or have Superman's x-ray vision, even with all the data they collect.
But even if it is a ruse as we suspect, the hackers still hold tons of personal information about Sony's employees, their addresses, medical records, etc.. so possibly Sony is more concerned over abuse of that data, and is trying to appease NK.
Not that it matters, because appeasement never works. Never in the history of man has it worked, as an end to itself. Even war has a better track record of stopping aggression than appeasement. Unless the appeasement is used merely as a delay tactic, then it may have some strategic value there.
Look back up at my post, now look back down, you're on the Internet. Now look back up. I'm a signature.
Shit! release it on YouTube in a private channel. Then get everyone who wants to see it to send an email to someguy@sony.com with "x-mas gift" in the subject line.
Rather than run it normally, show it for free, or at least at a huge discount.
Get as many people to see it as possible. That would send the message that you are going to achieve the exact opposite should you try this garbage again.
Umm... so in a war, before we shoot the guy that has been shooting at us, we should stop and read him his rights?
"Execution" and "Self-Defense" are different.
Last time someone made fun of North Korea and its leaders exactly nothing happened.
Same with demonizing them as "invadorz" instead of Chinese.
Or that time James Bond fought a North Korean villain who made himself into a rich and powerful white man.
In fact... Last time anyone actually went out and committed a terrorist attack killing a bunch of people in a a theater - it was a crazy, white, male, American. With store and online bought guns.
And the movie was kept in theaters despite the bodycount.
Why?
Cause it was a final sequel of a very successful franchise whose last movie made over a billion dollars.
In other words...
Corporations have brass balls when gold is on the line.
And again... If they can't really cover a mere 18000 targets...
What good are they? Along with all the other "terrorist fighting" measures?
Trillions of dollars and unquantifiable liberties went up in smoke - and 18000 theaters turns out to be "too much"?
Maybe they should think outside the box on this one? Or more like inside a different kind of a box.
Maybe what's needed is a better kind of a theater? A safe and secure kind, where nothing bad can happen.
We can call it Security Theater.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
Or one idiot with a truck full of diesel fuel and fertilizer.
Such a bomb would completely level a movie theatre and most of any mall it was in.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.