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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?
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 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.
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.
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.
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...
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?
You are forgetting the implications of tort law.
Even if a physical attack is very unlikely, the costs of the lawsuits which would occurs afterwards would make proceeding a rather risky thing either way.
Don't believe me? The lawsuit against the theater which didn't prevent the Aurora theater shooting continues: http://deadline.com/2014/08/ci...
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Sign up for duty then if yer so gung ho. Now you know how they get soldiers... Wise up and ignore the propaganda, son.
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.
Sony hack: Obama considers 'proportional response' against North Korea
The White House calls the hacking of the Sony studio a "serious national security matter," while Hollywood stars compare cancellation of The Interview to Neville Chamberlain's'appeasement of Adolf Hitler and a second film called Pyongyang is also pulled.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
The Nerdist blames Paramount.
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
Maybe we shouldn't turn chicken every time some worthless sociopath threatens violence.
Wrong movie - hit send way too fast that time.
XKCD:Xeric Knowledge Comically Dispen
Actually, it is reportedly Paramount that forbade the public showing of the movie.
-- I have monkeys in my pants.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/c...
They got the numbers. It wouldn't take much of a push. These two are a gift! Bigger than a Reagan revival
Remember, to the coward and the timid, they look like heroes, taking action!
The slogan is unbeatable: 'I would do it again in it a minute' That is exactly what people want to hear.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
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.
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.
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.
The reason only a few countries have ever tried to wage war on American soil is because we have very few people of your mentality and stuff.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
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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.
And that lawsuit would be gently brushed aside by Sony's legal team. Heck, they'd probably send in their youngest intern to handle the distraction.
In 1952: "The Court reverses its position on movies in Burstyn v. Wilson, asserting that "liberty of expression by means of motion pictures is guaranteed by the 1st and 14th Amendments."(citation)
The reason the Interview was pulled out of theaters is because the distributors didn't want to see the lucrative Christmas boxoffice affected by people avoiding theaters due to these threats. Annie and Night at the Museum are expected to sell far more tickets than the Interview and the theater chains didn't want to see those profits reduced. As for why Paramount prohibited these screenings of Team America, well, they're probably worried they'll fall into North Korea's crosshairs and get hacked, etc. Damn cowards.
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Matt and Trey are going to have a field day over all this.