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"Team America" Gets Post-Hack Yanking At Alamo Drafthouse, Too
Slate reports that even old movies are enough to trigger a pretty strong knee jerk: Team America, World Police, selected as a tongue-in-cheek replacement by Dallas's Alamo Drafthouse Theater for the Sony-yanked The Interview after that film drew too much heat following the recent Sony hack, has also been pulled. The theater's tweet, as reprinted by Slate: "due to circumstances beyond our control,” their Dec. 27 Team America screening has also been canceled." If only I had a copy, I'd like to host a viewing party here in Austin for The Interview, which I want to see now more than ever. (And it would be a fitting venue.)
Fuck yeah!
They're computer crackers. What are they going to do? Why all the fear?
I'm so glad we have all of these draconian spy laws to invade every part of American citizens' lives while our corporate and government overlords continue to fold to terrorism without any resistance at all. I'm going to watch my copy of Team America on Dec 27th and good fucking luck to North Korea to stop me.
If there was ever a time to re-release Zoolander, it's now!
Care killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.
It shouldn't be to difficult to get one, I hear Sony's security isn't the best.
Perhaps a screening of the final episode of "M*A*S*H"?
I don't understand why it would draw any heat at all.
Troll is not a replacement for I disagree.
Damn, that thing's just down the street. PARTY TIME!!!!! :P
Bukowski said it. I believe it. That settles it.
I loathe the politically correct decision makers. They are ruining America and other places, too. People don't have a right not not be offended, the Supreme Court has opined, so let's just do what we want. If you're offended, be offended, but have enough human decency and common sense to understand that not everyone feels the same way you do. Live and let live. As long as no one is touch you physically, stealing your property, or preventing you from pursuing freedom and happiness, go your merry and let others do the same.
I would not have pulled the movies. Those asshats would have done nothing. It's already on the InterWebs and just a matter of time before it's everywhere. Failing to act because you are threatened = cowardice. Full stop. I once had a new bully threaten me one day at school years ago. He said if you show up to the dance, I will pummel you. I showed up. He attempted to fight me and I cratered him, despite his size and strength with overwhelming violence of action. He didn't suspect it from a nerdy kid with glasses. Never bow to terroristic threats, ever. To do so means you have negotiated with fear -- and lost.
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Bukowski said it. I believe it. That settles it.
mrs doubtfire: showing cancelled due to creaking theater entrance that sounded like a terrorist attack (even though keith said he closed it quietly)
saving private ryan: cancelled immediately after theater realized the entire film involved the concept of war, which was like terror but with more rock music
Batman: dark knight rises cancelled, banes coat reminded an elderly woman of an episode of mash. Dark knight cancelled by studio confused and frightened about 'unstoppable forces' and 'immoveable objects.' Batman & Robin cancelled by studio executive who simply found the nipples and codpieces too uncomfortable.
hot tub time machine: violates numerous causality laws and in the spirit of preserving much of our modern understanding of thermodynamics, has been cancelled by a studio that mistook the word 'causality' for 'terrorist'
Good people go to bed earlier.
All your movies are belong to us!
There will be a simultaneous viewing/tweeting of Team America at 2100 (9PM) EST on Friday, for you Twitter mongers.
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
We regret the inconvenience. The move that was to replace the move that has been yanked, has been yanked. Those responsible for sacking the ones responsible for yanking the movie to replace the yanked movie wish you to know that they have been sacked.
Sony is pulling the most elaborate and effective promotion of their film ever!
Who knows, maybe this is all a big hoax? But likely just really good crisis management, creating immense interest in their movies.
I'm sure the DPRK isn't too happy about this Series.
In Soviet Russia, Trojan exploits YOU!
I can only imagine what is going through the minds of WWII vets who put their lives on the line to defend this country just to watch it devolve into a bunch of cowardly sissies.
Between "post-hack yanking" and "Don't jerk and drive", I'm losing my mind reading news stores.
Sounds like the Alamo Drafthouse needs to show the 2012 remake of Red Dawn...
A few days ago I mentioned this is turning out to be the best publicity every for Sony and to rush out and buy stock because if the movie ever does get released everyone will go see it.
You are ordered to transfer $1m into my bank account or I'll <description of violent act redacted so I'm not prosecuted by UK anti-terror laws>
I know we're screwed when even Texas is cowering to this crap. Do they think North Korea is going to hack their guns or something?
The United States has the planet's largest ocean between us and North Korea, the most powerful military the world has ever seen, and enough nuclear firepower to take the entire surface area of North Korea and give it escape velocity. And yet we wimp out on... showinging a 10-year old movie because it might make a tin-plate dictator mad? Seriously?
Sign up for duty then if yer so gung ho. Now you know how they get soldiers... Wise up and ignore the propaganda, son.
The REAL Team America!
Cheney/Nugent 2016!
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
They should run a protest viewing of the Hugo Weaving film "The Interview" instead.
I'm pretty sure it is a better film than the Seth Rogen one anyway.
Yes, I've seen it. It is top notch.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.c...
It's a movie. If we want to see it then let us see it. If you don't like Sony then that's your problem.
The Nerdist blames Paramount.
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
Put a DVD copy of the movies in a satellite, launch it and beam the movies down to NK in every electronic format possible from AM radio to HD. Put the movies on loop and hit play.
Maybe we shouldn't turn chicken every time some worthless sociopath threatens violence.
If only I had a copy, I'd like to host a viewing party here in Austin for The Interview, which I want to see now more than ever.
https://archive.org/details/TE...
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Wrong movie - hit send way too fast that time.
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My bucket list includes seeing the movie that has America, land of the free and home of the brave, cowering like a paranoid yuppie housewife in the corner of her safe room in her gated neighborhood protected by her ADT security system because she heard there were some brown people around.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
They aren't on usenet or torrents from what I can tell. I think this whole incident is just a publicity stunt.
They thought it was a porno as they were told the theater would be full of mukin pussies.
Seems to me that complying with the demands of a dictatorship is an ill-advised policy.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
See title.
We're turning into wimps
While you guys staying inside America have been imagining yourself as having courage, sorry to break it to ya, to those of us outside looking in, you guys HAVE BEEN WIMPS ALL ALONG
The Truman Show is an allegory about North Korea.
I find it funny that a movie that is a social commentary on how America does whatever it wants with complete disregard for the consequences of its actions on anyone else in the world is being pulled because a few people in a country that we don't even like are upset. I guess it's appropriate since the themes of the movie apparently aren't as relevant today.
Sony should take a three step response:
1. Release the movie into the wild. Invite anyone and everyone to download view and disseminate it as far as possible.
2. Offer a large bounty to any person or group that can conclusively track the hackers down.
3. Offer a bounty to the person or group that inflicts the most digital damage to the hackers.
Kind of a wanted dead or alive approach.
what a lot of people don't realise is that after he came back from placating hitler he increased military spending significantly. If not for him, when war broke out Britain would have been squashed.
This is whats called 'international diplomacy' and was actually pretty masterful; he delayed the start of the war and ensured that Britain was prepared for it.
In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.
Precisely!
- so that it's set in Cuba instead.
(I am not kidding. In fact, call it THE INTERVIEW II: HAVANA GILA MONSTER" and make frequent in-joke references to the previous one, even though -- especially because! -- nearly no one has seen it.)
But this time, assassinate Castro, instead.
jrnl: http://tinyurl.com/c2l8yr / foes: http://tinyurl.com/ckjno5
Germany was spending far more on their military during that time than Britain was. If Britain and France had stepped in earlier, Germany would have been totally unprepared and the war would have ended quickly. Not to mention all of the horrors of the Holocaust that would have been prevented.
If Britain and France had managed to delay the war to "prepare" even more, say a few years, the Luftwaffe would have been dominated by jets, German ballistic missiles would have been longer range and more precise, and they might even have become a nuclear power. I really don't think this is the analogy you're looking for.
I am a proud traitor to my species in alliance with my mother the Earth in opposition to those who would destroy her.
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Here's my theory: Sony was worried that some crazy person is going to batcrap crazy in one of these theaters think that North Korea has sympathizers like ISIS does. The two are not synonymous. You don't see people running around saying that North Korea is regime of peace and North Korea hates us because we stole their oil. By the same token, nobody in Hollywood got all first amendment defensive about the guy who made Innocence of Muslims and wound up in jail (how convenient). Further, nobody in Hollywood decided to close theaters when Dinesh D'Souza came out with multiple movies that some might say would motivate Tea Partiers to do what the left keeps trying to b.s. everyone into believing that they do. Bottom line: Hollywood is a cesspool of hypocrisy.
in a position of power in the USA who isn't a freedom-hating authoritarian with a subhuman IQ?
The only result which makes sense is to leak the film. Torrent it, because Sony has already written it off, after going down on Kim Whatever.
Streisand Effect.
You are welcome. Freedom Rings. GOP (NK Version) Defeated.
I betcha it's Sony's corporate attorneys.
They are telling management that if the film is released and someone somewhere shoots anyone near a theater a theater showing "The Interview" and the shooter mentions North Korea, then Sony would be liable to the victim and victims family because Sony either knew or should have known that the controversy caused by the movie would excite DPRK loyalists into committing such an act of violence.
And they would be correct. If someone did get shot under those circumstances, almost any attorney in the US would accept filing the suit against Sony for just that reason.
How do we have to threaten to get all of these movies nuked?
Some mornings it's hardly worth chewing through the restraints to get out of bed.
sony should give it away for free to make every american gets a chance to watch it away from mass groupings of people.
Mark Smith
into the thread with no mention of Hans Brix?
They would never have stepped in earlier because they were happy with Hitler being a staunch anticommunist.
This is also why WW2 went on for so long - the allied waited out for Nazi Germany and USSR to destroy each other and only opened the Western front when it was clear that USSR would stay
"It's such a fine line between stupid and clever" -- David St. Hubbins, Spinal Tap
The Korean War vets.
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Everyone seems to think this about Sony caving to "the terrorists" but that's not really the case.
This is about "the lawyers".
How so?
Movie release threatened by 'the terrorists"
Sony releases movie anyway
Some American goes to see movie and trips on loose floorboard and breaks leg
American thinks"Oh Noes "the terrorists" loosened that floorboard and made me fall"
American hires "the lawyers" to sue Sony for being so irresponsible to release movie when "the terrorists" where making threats
Judge agrees awards American a gazillion dollars
Multiply by 2000 theatres
Sony goes bankrupt
Team America: NetFlix streaming (or DVD) is your friend..........
because this is slashdot where nuance is not allowed?
Why?
I googled butterscotch pudding and Team America, got nothing of value.
What is the connection?
I haven't seen Team America but I have seen butterscotch pudding.
No brain, no pain.
Stand up for free speech
Matt and Trey are going to have a field day over all this.
Where was North Korea when The Notebook and Twilight hit theaters?
Show me on the 1st Amendment bobblehead where the moderator touched you...
Are you sure it wasn't canceled for a lack of hot tub Eloi and hot tub Morlocks?
Cult classics are usually good movies (Big Lebowski), or really bad movies (Plan 9 From Outer Space).
So which is Battlefield Earth? Or is it a cult classic only to those actually in a cult?
Remember, the new defense secretary backed a pre-emptive strike on North Korea in the case that they tested such a missile.
Writing in Time magazine and The Washington Post in 2006, Carter, a physicist with a Yale doctorate who had served as assistant secretary of defense under President Bill Clinton, and William J. Perry, former secretary of defense, argued that the U.S. should launch a "cruise missile or precision bomb with an ordinary high-explosive warhead" to destroy a planned test launch by North Korea of its Taepodong 2 missile, which would be capable of carrying a nuclear device to Hawaii, Business Insider reports.
The North Koreans at the time were preparing to launch the missile, which would violate an agreed-on moratorium, and both men felt that was sufficient provocation for President George W. Bush's administration to launch a "surgical strike" to take out the missile on the launch pad.
"If North Korea persists in its launch preparations, the United States should immediately make clear its intention to strike and destroy the North Korean Taepodong missile before it can be launched," Carter and Perry, both college professors at the time, wrote in the Washington Post.
he increased military spending significantly.
The parliament increased spending. The prime minister doesn't have the power to decide how taxes are spent.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."