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Crowds (and Pirates) Flock To 'The Interview'
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.
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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I didn't go see it, I won't download it. I don't care about the movie.
I find the whole business with it, the hack & blaming North Korea to be a stupid fucking incident and I'm not rewarding Sony for being a cunt.
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Everyone should watch this movie just as an act of patriotism.
It's very convenient for the government that everyone buys into the idea that the crackers were under orders from the North Korean government when there is no concrete evidence; they get to try to shove through new bills that will infringe upon our liberties in exchange for 'safety.' It's very convenient for Sony that people are this easily manipulated; they'll go and see the movie en masse thanks to all the nonsensical fearmongering.
They're just taking advantage of this for their own ends, as they often do. And the 'patriotic' American public is as dumb as ever.
You mean to say there were problems with radically altering the release plans for a major motion picture at the last moment!
Trying to do a for rent feature on kernel, which correct me if I am wrong normally just provides users with some code to redeem their move on some other VOD providers site, on short notice meant software issues and implementation holes is no surprise.
Now if Sony had been planing from the begging to make the Interview the first major direct to VOD feature release, we might have story. All we have here is "there were problems with a rush job".
Honestly I think the fact the mostly people seem to be able to pay their money and watch the file issue free speaks pretty highly of the folks that put it all together so quickly.
Its a little surprising that risked doing a seetheinterview.com and actually "screening" the movie there rather than just having a bunch pointers to youtrube, amazon prime, xbox-live, playstation network; in other words the folks that have been doing this for a while.
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Yeah, I heard the headlines, North Korean hackers bla bla.
And honestly I don't see the point if this were true.
I wonder however if this whole initial retraction to show the movie had to do with something along the lines of China owning AMC movie chain now. I dunno. But I wonder.
What ever the reason, I'm not going to see the film.
The hype is just to much, and I distrust, "to much"
I'm REALLY (surprised) that timmyboy didn't "write" this (article) like a retarded fifth grader (who has) just discovered the "existence" of parentheses. Editors, why don't you hang yourselves? Dice, why don't you hang the editors and then hang yourselves?
Franco's acting was so bad it made Rogen look positively Shakespearean, and Rogen is a complete hack.
If you have to see it, download it, don't pay a penny for this tripe, it was so bad you would have to have a fake terror attack associated with it just to sell it.
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The sorry state of the US becomes clear when people even have the idea that it "supports the US" going to watch a crap movie. How dumb can one get?
Not saying that Sony would have been planning this exactly, but I don't see why a movie should create as much fuss or - if so - why we should care, "force" corporations to show it, etc. As far as I can tell, people are going to it to somehow "stick it to the man"? It's a crappy comedy that happens to insult a foreign leader, who got insulted. Whoopee-do.
If there was some kind of black comedy portraying, say, Obama as the worst kind of racial stereotyping, released in Korea, are we going to have a war over that too?
The modern digital war is now about hearsay, childish attacks, "what they said about me", and threatening action on the back of the worst (or zero) evidence.
I really hope you don't start WWIII because of pissing about like this.
Don't ban the movie. Don't make a fuss about it either. Let it blow over into the history of stupid things people haven't liked. When you have the PRESIDENT having to say that a corporation should show a movie, because of some political motive, it really is the beginning of the end.
I'll wait for "The interview 2: puttin' Putin down"
.... wouldn't that have pissed NK more than this movie?
Sony is playing off the mass-media hubbub of the "North Korea thing" to seed the movie around – in the same way that software vendors, rock bands, and so on have leverage what amounts to "free advertising."
Surprisingly easy-to-circumvent DRM (from Sony?), articles about the overwhelmed servers, and the advert-aticle of the post (TFA). All classic indicators that someone is trying to create a 'cult classic,' but clumsily.
Or, perhaps, it's because it sucks and they know it. . .
The Interview is free to air broadcast material. Nothing more. It's a stupid jingoistic "America knows best" drivel. Not even funny as propaganda. I regret wasting 2 hours of my life watching such a stupid stupid movie.
There was a guy at Florida State that was making a dark comedy about "Trickle Down Economics".
The plot involved stimulating trickle down by assassinating the families of the Forbes 100 billionaire list.
He was strongly advised to halt production, and did.
Do you think he might be more warmly received today?
Great to see the US supporting a Japanese coproration
This must be seen! Hear hear!
I myself had no plans to see it. I didn't care about it one way or the other. If I were to go see it now that "terrorists" made the threat, I would in fact be giving those bastards what they want. I changed my behavior due to their actions.
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It's my machine to do with as I please. If you can't respect that then I won't "rent" or "buy" your film. I'm glad it was released because I oppose censorship and this would set a bad precedent, but it's not worth giving up MY rights to see your probably stupid film either.
What about bluray, digital (and rental), streaming, and licensing for TV and such?
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Great PR job.
"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!"
It's what it is, which makes the whole "hacking" story look like a publicity stunt.
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"The movie was hands down the best cinematic experience I have ever had. It was a sophisticated roller coaster of emotion that flung and looped the the center of my being to places I have never been. It has romance,it has action, and such a splendor of visual effects that that I literally wept. To put it in perspective I love this movie like I love my wife, except I'd save this movie from a fire. Before I saw this movie I had cancer, saw the movie, no cancer. The movie was so fantastic that time actually stopped. It has a run time of zero minutes because the creative genius behind it was so great that the the fabric of time was effectively torn. This rivals the birth of Christ and I highly recommend this film."
The decision of Sony to limit the release to the US as of now (presumably because they still want to be able to negotiate with cinema chains in Australia, Europe and elsewhere) means people who want to see it have no choice but to pirate it.
If Sony had made the online release (through the special website at the very least) global then piracy wouldn't be anywhere near as much of a problem.
I don't like N Korea, but an assassination comedy being approved by a world leader as he praises Sony's decision to show this movie in American theatres which never should have been made in the first place is fucking stupid. As if there isn't already enough problems in this world.
Real patriots like Snowden.
We should unite in a demand that the government indemnify him, so he can come home. He deserves that from us.
Because as we've learned from another recent news item, only 5% of the world's population lives in the US.
Finally, there is an easy way to pay for a major release directly to the studio! I'm downloading the torrent. If I end up actually watching it past 1/3 of the movie length, I will go and pay the rental fee on seetheinterview.com, after watching.
Every movie should have a voluntary payment option like this, directly to the studio. I will use it every time I watch a copyrighted movie past its 1/3 length.
Thanks the North Korea!
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If you have ever seen a seth rogen film, and they are pretty much all the same, this one was kind true to that.
A simple comedy. I though james franco was pretty funny, again, not because the movie was intelligent, but because he had delivered his lines well. There were a few funny jokes, made much better by the delivery. The actors at least thought they were being funny.
Its the kind of film you want to have a few drinks and a joint before you watch it though. Some nudity, but not much, the oblig anal rape scene, lots of sex jokes and seth rogenesque buddy buddy dialog... Its similar to national lampoon or austin powers or something like that. Not that seth rogen is near as funny as mike myers, i dont mean to say that.
Point is, it was worth the download to me. And I do not support america (although against NK, well lesser of two evils right.)
I should like to point out that the movie was filmed in BC canada and stars a canadian. So its hardly the most patriotic movie for americans in the first place. So in short, i disagree with the previous comments I have seen posted today.
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Anybody else notice how you cannot watch the rental from a linux browser(chromium, opera, firefox)?
skip to the disclaimer at the end of the credits. The Interview has nothing whatsoever to do with Kim Sucks Cock or whatever his name is.
So, basically, fear (OMG INVISIBLE HAXXORS FROM A COUNTRY WE KNOW NOTHING ABOUT EXCEPT THEY'RE PROBABLY NOT AMERICAN) is now being used as a marketing ploy/gimmick/tactic, and it appears to have worked brilliantly. It sparked a lot of interest in an almost-unheard-of film in a very short amount of time. Well done Sony.
I personally have no intention of going out of my way to see the movie (or even to download it, legally or not) - not because I hate Sony or I'm anti-anything-in-particular, I just don't find Seth Rogan and co funny and I don't think I would enjoy the film, based solely on the fact that I've not enjoyed any of his other films to date. That's just personal opinion, anyway.
If you saw the trailer, you knew it was going to be a sophomoric bromance pic. The jingoistic fervor that has embraced the marketing campaign is even stupider than the picture, but it had an enormous number of laughs in it, if you went in not expecting a lot of nuance and deep meaningful insight.
If you thought you were striking a blow for truth, justice and the American Way, well, bless your pointed little head.
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