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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 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.

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

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

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      Any insufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.
    4. 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*

  2. 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.

  3. 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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    Good people go to bed earlier.
  4. 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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    When someone says, "Any fool can see ..." they're usually exactly right.
  5. 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
  6. 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.

  7. 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.