Crowds (and Pirates) Flock To 'The Interview'

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Crowds (and Pirates) Flock To 'The Interview'

Posted by Soulskill on Friday December 26, 2014 @05:24AM 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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My review by Jack9 · 2014-12-26 05:28 · 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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Re:didn't go didn't download, don't care by Anonymous Coward · 2014-12-26 05:36 · Score: 5, Funny

Why do you hate America?
Re:didn't go didn't download, don't care by AmiMoJo · 2014-12-26 05:42 · Score: 5, Informative

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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Re:Fascist moderators! by Free+Censorship · 2014-12-26 05:54 · Score: 5, Insightful

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.
It's complete crap by koan · 2014-12-26 05:59 · Score: 5, Informative

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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