Sony Cancels The Interview

[mp170.6]

The group had never been heard of until this.  The point is this will encourage terrorists to make threats any time there is a movie, book or record that they don't like.  Heck, it worked!

 

The storyline of the movie did more than enough to encourage the threats. 

 

Did you honestly expect North Korea to remain silent in light of this film?

[Tank]

The group had never been heard of until this.  The point is this will encourage terrorists to make threats any time there is a movie, book or record that they don't like.  Heck, it worked!

 

i understand the point completely, but it only takes one incident for this to become another nightmare. would you have risked going to see it in a theater? what if this group proves to be every bit as violent as they've threatened to be? i understand the slippery slope here, but in this case with so many unknowns, i don't think it unreasonable to error on the side of caution. sony can still make their money from this movie in other ways and find ways to get their products into people's hands without putting them at nearly so much risk.

[nando714]

North Korea responsible for Sony hack.

Per fbi investigation

Act of war?

[TobiasFunke]

North Korea responsible for Sony hack.

Per fbi investigation

Act of war?

HA!

[HaloCory22]

If it really is North Korea who did this then why are we even thinking this is a threat? They probably couldn't even get a missile to hit Hawaii, much less every theater in the nation that shows it.

[mtangelsfan]

i understand the point completely, but it only takes one incident for this to become another nightmare. would you have risked going to see it in a theater? what if this group proves to be every bit as violent as they've threatened to be? i understand the slippery slope here, but in this case with so many unknowns, i don't think it unreasonable to error on the side of caution. sony can still make their money from this movie in other ways and find ways to get their products into people's hands without putting them at nearly so much risk.

 

One can take that argument on any threat.  That is part of the risk of freedom.  I would rather be free than safe.

[mtangelsfan]

The storyline of the movie did more than enough to encourage the threats. 

 

Did you honestly expect North Korea to remain silent in light of this film?

 

Not the point.  Should that be a consideration from now on?  Who could we piss off if we make this? 

[Amazing Larry]

North Korea responsible for Sony hack.

Per fbi investigation

Act of war?

 

Word is Sony asked the president whether or not threat was credible and he told them he was too busy watching Django to be bothered.

Edited December 17, 2014 by Lawrence

[Thomas]

Dear Sony. 

 

 

Really, this is getting embarrassing. 

[HaloCory22]

Team America didn't piss them off but this did?

[Thomas]

North Korea responsible for Sony hack.

Per fbi investigation

Act of war?

 

 

If this is an act of war than the US has been at war with the majority of countries in the world for some years now.

[Thomas]

Team America didn't piss them off but this did?

 

How can you stay mad at little puppets? Especially ones that make fun of Alec Baldwin.

[HaloCory22]

Maaaatt Daaaamon

[DB24]

Uhhh….did they just essentially let the terrorist win?

[Tank]

One can take that argument on any threat.  That is part of the risk of freedom.  I would rather be free than safe.

 

fair enough.

 

so would you have gone to see this in a theater?

[Stradling]

I would have tank, I love mt's response of preferring freedom over safety.

[mp170.6]

Not the point.  Should that be a consideration from now on?  Who could we piss off if we make this? 

 

The movie was intended to be inflammatory toward North Korea and Kim Jong-un.  They writers and producers KNEW it was going to further strain relations between the US and North Korea.  They KNEW that Kim Jong-un, given his past history, would have done something to retaliate. 

 

What do you have to say to American hostages held by North Korea?  F you...your life doesn't matter, we're going to produce this movie anyway, enjoy being tortured, try not to get killed? 

[Stradling]

Sony should buy the rights to Blazing Saddles and re-release it, just to get some street cred back.

[Stradling]

The movie was intended to be inflammatory toward North Korea and Kim Jong-un. They writers and producers KNEW it was going to further strain relations between the US and North Korea. They KNEW that Kim Jong-un, given his past history, would have done something to retaliate.

What do you have to say to American hostages held by North Korea? F you...your life doesn't matter, we're going to produce this movie anyway, enjoy being tortured, try not to get killed?

Don't write comedies anymore they might offend someone.

[mp170.6]

Don't write comedies anymore they might offend someone.

 

You're missing the point. 

 

This isn't some average joe the movie is mocking, it's a lunatic dictator who is holding Americans hostage.  And we purposely set out to anger him.  The production of this movie lessens the chance any American captured by North Korea will ever come home alive. 

[mtangelsfan]

The movie was intended to be inflammatory toward North Korea and Kim Jong-un.  They writers and producers KNEW it was going to further strain relations between the US and North Korea.  They KNEW that Kim Jong-un, given his past history, would have done something to retaliate. 

 

What do you have to say to American hostages held by North Korea?  F you...your life doesn't matter, we're going to produce this movie anyway, enjoy being tortured, try not to get killed? 

 

I am not arguing whether it was a good idea to make the movie or whether the movie is good or not.  

 

Using your logic we shouldn't have made Zero Dark Thirty.

[mancini79]

Eff these hackers. Where were they when Dumb & Dumber 2 came out.

[mp170.6]

I am not arguing whether it was a good idea to make the movie or whether the movie is good or not.  

 

Using your logic we shouldn't have made Zero Dark Thirty.

 

Answer my question, mt.  How do you justify your position to American hostages subject to daily suffering at the hands of Kim Jong-un's regime?

[Stradling]

Answer my question, mt. How do you justify your position to American hostages subject to daily suffering at the hands of Kim Jong-un's regime?

How stupid mp. Why in the hell should artists consider that before making a movie, a comedy at that? Did the South Park guys care about that? Did Tarantino worry about offending African Americans when he wrote Django? Or should Edward Norton have cared about portraying a racist in American History X? Its called make believe.

[1nutkruk]

Time to send in a rogue CIA agent.