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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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Your definition of "patriotism" seems strange. Mindlessly chanting "USA! USA! USA!" doesn't really qualify as "patriotism" in my book. Real patriots are fighting the NSA's mass surveillance and any silly draconian laws the government is trying to pass in response to this very convenient hack of a company with notoriously bad security.
That sort of patriotism is about as sincere and effective as a flag lapel pin. It's fitting though that all this happened at Christmas, because seeing the movie now is just crass consumerism. Don't confuse the two.
That's just it... The movie is, by most accounts, shit. North Korea is annoyed but almost certainly wasn't responsible for the hack. Going to see it does nothing other than line Sony's pockets.
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The US government is not trying to censor this movie, and there were no serious threats to begin with, so freedom of speech is safe.
This is just chest-thumping nonsense. You don't need to see a movie produced by an evil company that routinely abuses its customers in order to support freedom of speech.
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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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Because not believing, with little evidence, NK is competent enough to pull this off makes you a B357 K0r34n 1337 h4xx0r.
What on earth makes you think that NK has to have the native talent? The didn't figure out how to make nukes on their own either. They didn't home-grow their substantial currency counterfeiting operation, either. They likewise don't design and build their own military equipment. But that doesn't stop them from having nukes, from doing big business in phony currency, and sinking other people's ships.
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