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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. America! by Iniamyen · · Score: 5, Funny

    Fuck yeah!

    1. Re:America! by halivar · · Score: 5, Insightful

      "North Korea? Oh, Fuck no!" - Sony, Paramount, et al.

    2. 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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    3. 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.

    4. Re:America! by TechyImmigrant · · Score: 3, Insightful

      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.

      So when the terrorists win, so does free speech?

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    5. Re: America! by jd2112 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Because subjecting the American public to the "Annie" remake should be punishment enough.

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    6. Re:America! by godel_56 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      In all seriousness, though, I think Sony ought to release the movie and I think everyone who believes in free speech ought to buy a ticket, whether they see it or not. Let's turn this movie into a blockbuster! That's the American thing to do! Well, at least back when Americans acted like Americans.

      You've got to be joking! Everyone buys a ticket and gives a huge profit to Sony and Fox?

      Fuck that, I don't think so.

    7. 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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    8. Re: America! by Culture20 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Next, I guess we'll see, It's A Wonderful Life Transformer Terminator.

      "Every time a bell rings, I'll be back." *transforms into a pickup truck and drives through the wall*

    9. Re: America! by reve_etrange · · Score: 3, Insightful

      It is probably just a viral marketing campaign by Sony.

      The sad thing is, it would actually be better that way.

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  2. 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?

    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. Re:What are they going to do? by cheater512 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Yep. Put 9/11 on anything and Americans freak out.

    3. Re:What are they going to do? by Stormy+Dragon · · Score: 5, Funny

      Spottswoode: From what I.N.T.E.L.L.I.G.N.C.E has gathered, it would be 9/11 times 100.
      Gary Johnston: 9/11 times a hundred? Jesus, that's...
      Spottswoode: Yes, 91,100.

  3. Model Move by magusxxx · · Score: 4, Funny

    If there was ever a time to re-release Zoolander, it's now!

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  4. If you want a copy... by wolfman_jake · · Score: 5, Funny

    It shouldn't be to difficult to get one, I hear Sony's security isn't the best.

  5. Alternative #3 by LesPeters · · Score: 3

    Perhaps a screening of the final episode of "M*A*S*H"?

  6. Other films cancelled. by nimbius · · Score: 5, Funny

    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'

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  7. 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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  8. Those responsible have been sacked by flink · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

    1. Re:Those responsible have been sacked by pla · · Score: 4, Funny

      A m00se once bit my sister... No realli!

  9. How about the 2012 Red Dawn showing? by mlts · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sounds like the Alamo Drafthouse needs to show the 2012 remake of Red Dawn...

  10. 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?

    1. Re:We're turning into wimps by MightyMartian · · Score: 4, Insightful

      North Korea really hasn't even proven it has a missile that reliably reach Japan. The country is a total basket case run by a violent, completely detached dynasty. It represents a significant regional threat, but if it were to ever do anything truly belligerent, China would yank support and the regime would collapse.

      That, to my mind, is the chief threat of North Korea, that when the Kims finally do lose grip, the regime's collapse will be violent for North Koreans and their neighbors.

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  11. Re:Texas theater running "TA" by SternisheFan · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Related news from The Telegraph (I know...)

    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...

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

    The Nerdist blames Paramount.

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  13. Cowards by jeffmflanagan · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Maybe we shouldn't turn chicken every time some worthless sociopath threatens violence.

  14. 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...

  15. It Almost Makes Sense by organgtool · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

  16. Re:Neville Chamberlin was not available for commen by myowntrueself · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.

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