Cowards.....

[Redeemer]

Who the hell threatens to blow up a movie theater?????http://deadline.com/2014/12/sony-scr...ew-1201328639/

its a sad day when people bow to terrorist and ideological cowards.

[Katie]

I'm disappointed. They should release the movie.

WTF is North Korea go a do anyway? They don't have any resources that can reach us. Is the terror they planned to rain down gonna come from their chubby little leader God? He can barely walk. How's he gonna rain terror on anyone, much less way over here in the US.

Besides, the movie is supposed to be pretty bad. Why get you panties in a bunch over a dumb movie.

[Dirty Blond]

What do you expect when Hollywood incites the DPRK with war propaganda? Sony picked a fight and got what they deserved.

[Powder]

I agree with DB.

[B-Man]

I can see why they pulled the movie. Can you imagine if they got these blatant threats, Sony said f*ck it, released the movie & then the worst happened? At the end of the day, it's just a movie. Not worth rolling the dice when it comes to legit lunatics. As for the movie... it doesn't even look that funny. I love these guys but their humour is officially predictable (d*ck jokes/celebrity jokes guaranteed to age horribly/hip-hop montages/bromance).

[oldmanwinters]

The egg's on Sony's face in more ways than one. Make a film about killing another nation's leader, and now we see that they're the emperor with no clothes. If there's anything good that came out of this scandal, however, it's that the public at least got a peak into lots of private studio discussions about their various franchises like Spider-man, etc.

Also... there's another high profile film that is now canned:
http://insidemovies.ew.com/2014/12/1...movie-dropped/

[Prowler]

The authorities have to take any sort of bomb or terrorist threat seriously, no matter how fake it might sound. Imagine if they had really blown up the theater.

[IndigoErth]

IMO... If they think it's in the best interest to pull it from theaters because they find it more important to protect potential movie goers (or the existence of theaters to show their movies beyond that one...), ok, so be it. If it's out of thought for people over profit, then good on them.

BUT instead of entirely giving in to whoever has caused it in the first place - I suggest they release it straight to digital cable for rent/own. Lets see whoever it is try to stop that.

[pennydreadful]

I think this is a little too close to political discussion and is gonna end up getting canned.

[Redeemer]

I understand why the movie was pulled, but it simply agitates me that we stand by and do absolutely nothing while North Korea threatens to attack us.
Its ridiculous, I must admit I was actually going to go see this movie......
I watch anything Seth Rogan sense watching "This is the end"

[snake]

Does anyone think they were going to do anything? It was a scare tactic. Those emails revealed a lot of things about Sony and I'm glad they were released though.

[TigerClaw]

The Alamo Drafthouse in Dallas won't be showing the Interview, Instead. They will show Team America in its place.
http://www.slashfilm.com/alamo-draft...the-interview/

[plastroncafe]

Well you know, it is called Terrorism for a reason.
I'm just sitting here being pretty tickled that Seth Rogan and James Franco have caused an international incident. Because...no matter where you stand on how things are going, that's pretty damn funny.

[XERO]

Freaks and Geeks for life.

[Wildcat]

I'm with the others...you must take any terror threat serious. So far it's a legitimate situation. Not just some hacker.

It's not about giving in its just being sensible. You gonna willingly walk into a building with a bomb threat?

The movie will get released on DVD/BR and Digital after things calm down anyway.

I just wonder if the hack was due to the movie or it was a convenient excuse for a threat.

[Katie]

The problem I have with it is that we have basically wimped out. The "terrorists" made a threat, that by all accounts is one they cannot back up, and they actually got their way.

Well that's awesome. They did what we wanted. Hey how about I don't like what the New York Times printed yesterday. Let's say anyone who reads the times is in danger of "terrorism" and get our way again.

Sheesh. I'm all for taking credible threats seriously, but the DPRK does not have any credible threat to the U.S. this is a country that runs produced films of their bombing runs that destroyed Washington DC to prove to their population how superior they are. Well now they have a real win to show their people.

It was an idiotic decision.

[BubblyShell22]

I'm glad they canned the movie because you honestly don't know if the threat was real or not. To me, if someone were to threaten my mother and say that they were going to kill her if I didn't do such and such a thing, you can bet I'd do whatever I could to keep my mom alive. Same goes with this situation. Who's to say NK doesn't have resources to carry out their threats? I'm sure they do, and good on Sony for making the smart decision.

[Leo656]

I see it Katie's way. I get it, but the studio is in a tough, almost no-win situation. If they let it run, and something DID happen, then they're assh*les for not just caving in in the interest of safety. I get that.

But this does present a very slippery slope. What if, say, a studio wants to do a movie about Martin Luther King, Jr. and some KKK affiliate or neo-Nazi organization sends a letter promising to shoot the theater up or whatever? Or a movie about women's abortion rights, and some anti-abortion person or person(s) makes a threat?

Hell, this may sound trite, but what if even some disgruntled TMNT fan who hated the last movie makes a call or sends a letter and says they're going to spread Anthrax in the theater or whatever when the next one comes out because they're not a fan of it? Again, that's just to make a point. Anybody can threaten to do literally anything, anytime, for any reason, and they can potentially do it. "Potentially".

So what are we supposed to do? Not make any movies that might "incite" people? What about that jackass who shot up the theater when the last Batman movie came out? Guy did that for no goddamn reason at all and he didn't even have the "courtesy" to make threats first.

I'm at a loss. Like I said, it's a no-win situation. This way, they're "cowards", if they didn't relent and something did happen, they'd be accused of putting profits over people's lives and not taking threats seriously. I guess, in the long run, they can just put the dumb movie out on DVD etc. anyway, but "oooooh, what if someone says they're gonna blow up every FYE and Redbox? What if they hack NetFlix?! WHAT IF, YOU GUYS?!"

I'unno. It doesn't look funny and the entire thing is probably pointless. They *probably* shouldn't have made it, but if it wasn't this, it'd be something else eventually. So... other than outlawing all public gatherings and making every type of entertainment illegal on "moral and ethical" grounds... I don't know.

[turtlefanforever]

If North Korea made a movie about killing our president there would be an all out war. They shouldn't have made the movie. It doesn't even look good. They'll probably end up airing it anyway but it was wrong to make the movie.

[TigerClaw]

Originally Posted by turtlefanforever

If North Korea made a movie about killing our president there would be an all out war. They shouldn't have made the movie. It doesn't even look good. They'll probably end up airing it anyway but it was wrong to make the movie.

Whats gonna end up happening, Movie studios will be more careful what they greenlight, They don't want something that becomes too controversial and that could cause some ramifications.