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"Team America" Gets Post-Hack Yanking At Alamo Drafthouse, Too

Posted by timothy on from the meet-your-new-program-director dept.

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.)

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  1. Re:What are they going to do? by Translation+Error · · Score: 5, Informative

    They're computer crackers. What are they going to do? Why all the fear?

    There's always been fear about the 'evil hackers' and the terrible, magical things they can do. From Wikipedia:

    Mitnick served five years in prison--four and a half years pre-trial and eight months in solitary confinement--because, according to Mitnick, law enforcement officials convinced a judge that he had the ability to "start a nuclear war by whistling into a pay phone", meaning that law enforcement told the judge that he could somehow dial into the NORAD modem via a payphone from prison and communicate with the modem by whistling to launch nuclear missiles.

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  2. We're turning into wimps by MetricT · · Score: 4, Informative

    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?

  3. Not the Drafthouse fault. by sconeu · · Score: 4, Informative

    The Nerdist blames Paramount.

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  4. Re:Texas theater running "TA" by SternisheFan · · Score: 4, Informative
    You're correct, it's Paramount that has no balls.

    http://www.thedailybeast.com/c...

  5. Re:America! by Actually,+I+do+RTFA · · Score: 4, Informative

    I think everyone who believes in free speech ought to buy a ticket,

    The movie is neither courageous nor a triumph of free speech. It would be both if North Koreans had made it. But it's not.

    It didn't even look like a good movie

    And giving money to corporation for a shitty in return may be an American way, but it's not one I want to encourage.

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