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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. What are they going to do? by khasim · · Score: 4, Interesting

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

  2. For Onry the Ronery by smittyoneeach · · Score: 5, Interesting

    There will be a simultaneous viewing/tweeting of Team America at 2100 (9PM) EST on Friday, for you Twitter mongers.

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    Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
  3. You Can Watch the Interview! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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.

  4. Re:America! by Megane · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I have a feeling that Trey and Matt are going to do well in the coming week or two. I still haven't seen Team America, and I can't be the only one.

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  5. Re:America! by cheater512 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'd prefer for everyone to pirate it.

    You screw the North Koreans (and their supporters) and Sony in one go. Win Win.

    And ironically, it seems that will be the only way to watch the movie for the time being. Cause the terrorists have won.

  6. Re:Home of the Brave by cheesybagel · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So you think he wouldn't have lost a land battle in China? Why do you think he came back crying like a baby to the US President that they needed to nuke Beijing and Moscow? The whole idea was ludicrous. The Soviet Union had tested their own nuclear weapons before the Korean War started.

    I usually prefer calling the Korean War WWIII to put it into proper perspective.