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Crowds (and Pirates) Flock To 'The Interview'

Posted by Soulskill on from the will-win-oscar-for-best-viral-marketing-campaign dept.

Rambo Tribble writes: Many of the 300+ theaters showing The Interview on Christmas were rewarded with sell-out crowds. While reviews of the comedy have been mixed, many movie-goers expressed solidarity with the sentiment of professor Carlos Royal: "I wanted to support the U.S." Despite sellout crowds, the movie's limited release meant it only brought in about $1 million on opening day (compared to $10M+ for the highest-grossing films). Curiosity about the film seems high, since hundreds of thousands rushed to torrent the film, and others figured out an extremely easy way to bypass Sony's DRM.

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  1. My review by Jack9 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    So there's a lot more gore and less funny than you would hope. Most of the movie is pretty lame after the Eminem interview, where you're still trying to figure out the movie's "style" and probably have a bit of hope left in you. Mostly it's a mish-mash of vignettes strung together to try to tell a boring story. Reminds me a lot of the terrible Dumb and Dumber To, but not as bad. I'm not sure that's a compliment. Go watch Top Five or the revamped TMNT, which are both better films.

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    1. Re:My review by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Yep, you pretty much nailed it. At first I thought with these 2 in the movie it was going to be hilarious and then the whole hacking thing happened and I thought, well now this movie is going to end up making Sony more money than any movie ever created. Then I saw it, half of it anyway, and I'm not that interested in seeing the rest... It's not a great movie, it's not even a good movie. At least with something like Sharknado, you know what you're getting yourself into, with this, it's just not very good. It's not very funny at all aside from a few chuckles.

      This is the worst movie I've seen Rogen or Franco in.

  2. I bow to our PSYOPs Overlords by fhage · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Truly fantastic, incredible work. Please, be patriotic and mod this down.

    Do not question Official information. Carry on.