A message released by claimed hackers of Sony Pictures threatened to carry out “9/11-like attacks” on movie theaters in the United States if the movie “The Interview” was released.
The US has claimed the hackers may be linked to the North Korean government, although North Korea itself denies this. At any rate, the ability of anyone to carry out 9/11-style attacks on individual movie theaters nationwide seems preposterously unlikely, at best.
Despite this lack of serious threat, a number of major movie theater chains pulled out of showing the movie and Sony, in an act of flat out cowardice, bailed on the movie entirely, announcing that not only will it not be released on Christmas, but that there are “no plans” to release the movie at all now, not even on DVD, even though North Korea is clearly not going to “9/11” individual DVD players, for Christ-sakes.
Presumably, cooler heads will prevail eventually and Sony will release the movie somehow, because they already dumped $44 million into it. President Obama is admonishing Americans to “go to the movies,” but the reality is they don’t have that option.
The good thing to come out of this is that the American people were spared a stupid movie and that people responsible for this won't be rewarded with hundreds of millions. A few millions less in the coffers of sick Hollywood is always a positive.
Actually not really a good thing, those stupid threats actually gave that stupid movie some legitimacy. If it weren't for the threats that movie would have just been released and have gone into obsurity.
This "stupid" movie was headed for the dumpster before this marketing bonanza. This movie has already become a sensation that will likely lead to a spin off, in addition to the constant publicity and returns on rental of the original. No one was going to see this movie a week ago.
Agreed. Could turn out to be a brilliant marketing move. President Obama has now shamed Sony and the theater chains into eventually releasing it. I predict it will happen next year and will make a fortune, even though the audience will be pissed off that they wasted 10 bucks on this low brow piece of Seth Rogan trash.
North Korea should be demanding a piece of the action.
Would be interesting to see if Americans would be this upset if a slapstick buddy comedy about the US being infiltrated and Obama assassinated got cancelled.
Even more interesting would be a honest movie about 9-11 – who really was involved, and all of the cover-up. It would be hacked all-right, but not by North Korea.
The name of that movie is "Missing Links".
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It's hard to take that movie seriously on any level even as propaganda, although North Korea has certainly got itself some bad propaganda in making a fuss over it, as if it needs any.
But nonetheless I suppose the obligatory questions MUST be asked: is there CIA involvement in the film? We know the CIA gets involved in Hollywood at times (as in the zero dark thirty case) so it is always an open questions.
"Sony will release the movie somehow"
Considering the deep-penetration hack they got subjected to with the lawsuits just starting to align, there is a nonzero probability that Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. (SPE) will not be picked up by some other entertainment giant at bargain prices.
This seems similar to Salman Rushdie's predicament, albeit further down the intellectual scale. Someone goes out of their way to insult, ridicule and in this case threaten, a person or group that is not known for taking criticism well, in the extreme, and is the shocked, SHOCKED, when negative repercussions come their way.
This sort of juvenile behavior on the part of the drivers of American culture is typical. Described as an "action/comedy" it reveals much of how Americans view the rest of the world. Kim may be a despicable leader but, to make jokes about killing world leaders shows just how far the U.S. has fallen. The fact that the CIA is used as part of the plot means they're in on it too. They deserve the blowback they get.
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This is silly. The last thing anyone sane wants is war with North Korea. China would be flooded with refugees who want a better life. The regime in North Korea would lose power and its members would wind up dead. South Korea would be attacked. We would have another Afghanistan to pour money in. Only the military industrial complex and their political stooges would win.
I don't go to the movies anyway. I stopped going when they stopped using colors other than teal and orange. I don't want to see the movie and it probably sucks, but whoever is behind the threats needs to be apprehended.
> The last thing anyone sane
Who said anyone is into sanity?
> Only the military industrial complex and their political stooges would win.
Aha!
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Would be interesting to see if Americans would be this upset if a slapstick buddy comedy about the US being infiltrated and Obama assassinated got cancelled.