Hollywood chickens out in war against terror
There’s another movie coming out this week called “The Interview” wherein the two main characters are invited to do an interview with the leader of North Korea and as a result of the invitation, they’re recruited by the CIA to assassinate that leader. Apparently, North Korea didn’t like the premise of the flick and they’ve either hired hackers, or they’re hacking the producer, Sony, themselves. Someone issued a threat in regards to the movie, according to Hollywood Reporter;
“Soon all the world will see what an awful movie Sony Pictures Entertainment has made,” the message from the hackers read in part. “The world will be full of fear. Remember the 11th of September 2001. We recommend you to keep yourself distant from the places at that time. (If your house is nearby, you’d better leave.)”
So the two main actors, Seth Rogen and James Franco, cancelled personal appearances to promote the flick and the premiere has also been cancelled out of fear of an attack. Last night, Carmike Cinemas, cancelled it’s planned screenings of the movie.
If we here at TAH acquiesced to every terroristic threat, our “Stolen Valor” page would be empty. On September 12th, 2001, my wife and I toured the White House for the first time – there was no line. I plan on going to to see this movie in a theater – I never go to theaters and the movie sounds like utter crap, but in this case I will just because someone tells me I shouldn’t.
The Department of Homeland Security says that there is no credible threat to moviegoers, but Hollywood caves to a message posted on line. Way to encourage more threats, Sony.
Category: North Korea, Terror War
Pay me a half of what Franco or Rogen make and I will show up.
Pussies.
Left Wing Liberal Weak-assed, limp wristed PUSSIES….
/well most of them except Gary Sinise,
Pay me 1/10 of what Rogen and Franco make and I’ll smoke NDtBF a myself.
I’ve stopped bothering with war movies that have “enemies” in them other than the ones we’re actually fighting. Koreans, Chinese, Russians, South Americans, Aliens from the Outer Limits…Hollywood caved on terrorists about Sept. 12, 2001.
Remember the awfulness that was “Sum of All Fears”? Where the writers made the Muslims into white supremacists? Ben Affleck once again touched something and turned it into a POS.
I’d go, for the same reason, someone says “not to”. But the budget is limited and the movie looks like a waste.
The fallout from the hack is hurting Sony bad. They are reeling financially from this and actors are now less likely to work with them in the future because of the potential for leaked emails in the future.
I wouldn’t doubt that there’s much more damaging info out there still to be released, and Sony is backing away to avoid future damage.
Also, when the hell did we associate North Korea with the war on terror? Are we talking about the large contingent of Muslims in North Korea now?
Since when did the war against terror become the war against just Islamic terrorists? FFS.
The Norks threatened to nuke us last year. Remember all the missile movements and threats and posturing they did?
NDtBF is still pissed off that the South Park guys made a movie that poked fun at his dad 10 years ago, and so I guess they figure that acting like lunatics is a good way to get people to take them seriously.
Seriously?
Problem is, they’re right. Any chance there will be an “Interview 2” green-lighted by Sony? Or that ANY major studio will even touch on the Norks anytime soon?
Bluster wins when you’re dealing with preening hippies.
Now take the film “A Good Day to Die Hard.” The Russians were the bad guys in that one, and they helped film it! They LIKE being the bad guy in a movie! 😀
And apparently ol’ Daddy Kim thought “Team America” was pretty funny, and is said to have owned the only copy, bootleg or otherwise, in North Korea!
Which means that NDtBF is a whiny little bitch even by Nork standards!
Chicken shit actors and executives gonna do what chicken shit hacks have always done, run and hide like the yellow stained cowards they are.
No surprise that they are nervous, the toughest thing they have to overcome is whether they will get high and get laid or get laid first and get high second….
VOV…Truer word have not been spoken.
Did the James Bond movies get this kind of grief?
Oh wait, this was a comedy… Did the “Spies Like Us” movie get this kind of grief?
How about any movie that involves an assassination plot against a US President?
Yeah, Fork the Norks.
Ah, but remember that in “Spies Like Us” the “bad guys” weren’t really the Russkies, the actual “bad guys” were – who else? – the “Greedy Corporate Executives” because of course they were (and almost always are.)
Which is funny to me because last time I checked, Hollywood was not run but a hippie co-op. 😉
I’ve always liked Franco and Rogan as actors (and I probally wouldn’t mind partying with them one night) so I was going to see this movie on “On Demand” at home, but just like Jonn and Woodman said, now I’m going to see it a the theater.
Well, now I’m definitely going to see it in theaters.
I’d be tempted to see this in a theater just to spit in Kim Jong Un’s eye, but based on the see-worthiness of the movies those two normally do, I think I’ll go see American Sniper twice instead. Not sure I can name a worthwhile movie either has ever done.
Franco was in “The Great Raid.”
believe he was also in Flyboys… but in general his other movies have been (kindly) mediocre. Rogen’s are uniformly awful.
According to MSN headlines, it’s a mot point – Sony is not releasing the picture at all.
Funny how the Norks didn’t get upset over the second “Red Dawn”?
Or Olympus Has Fallen.
Or Stealth. Then again, seeing Jessica Biel stick that ass of hers up in the air while crawling through Nork mud was actually pretty hawt.
My wife is looking over my shoulder, so I can neither confirm nor deny the arousing qualities of Jessica Biel’s perfectly-shaped ass…
Always count on snot-spined lefties to puss out to political correctness. FUCKIN’ WUSSES!
The general rule for the wife and I is that Seth Rogan movies are usually good enough for a Red Box night. I don’t mind dropping a buck twenty nine but shelling out $20 for two tickets (plus overpriced popcorn, drinks, etc) is usually reserved for movies that require a big screen to really appreciate.
It’s the cost that deflates my going to the theaters.
If it’s a choice between the box office ticket price along with the popcorn and soda prices, or watching it online from Amazon for $2.99, I’ll take Amazon instead.
If nothing else, Rogen’s fans will hit the theaters just to see what the big deal is.
FFS. I have been looking forward to this movie for months. With Carmike pulling out, Im screwed. All of the theaters around Ft Benning are Carmike
From what I understood, at least as of yesterday, it will be up to the individual theater franchisee to decide whether to show the movie or not – the Carmike company just decided not to make it a standard, mandatory showing. So keep hope alive!
I’ve been fooled by trailers before, but the movie looks hilarious.
I’m going to see it. The Norks are welcome to try and stop me. They’re also welcome to suck my capitalist American dick (especially NDtBF Kim’s hot sister!).
On a truly sobering note, one of the articles I read mentioned the previous and current Chief Information Security Officers for Sony Group – stepping down in August was Phil Reitinger, the former Director of the National Cyber Security Center at DHS, and he was replaced by John Scimone, who worked as a senior security advisor for DoD’s JTF-GNO (Global Network Operations), part of US Cyber Command.
The hacks themselves appear to have happened under Mr. Reitinger’s time there, but I’d love the inside scoop on when and how they were discovered and what Mr. Scimone has done since.
I understand computer security is a tough field, where most of the time the real threats are unknown, but having read a bit about some of the attack vectors used, I’d have hoped for better from people who held these positions.
I will refuse to see it in any theater with one of those Gun Free Zone signs. It sounds like this may be one time where we might actually need a gun.
Well, looks like it’s a non issue now since Sony is pulling the scheduled Christmas release.
https://www.yahoo.com/movies/sony-cancels-theatrical-release-for-the-105474068892.html
Terrorists 1
Hollywood 0
And with that, this movie enter the land of legends.
People are going to pay a LOT of money to see it.
Sony should just go to DVD release. They couldn’t pay enough for better publicity.
No doubt.
That does it! I’m going to spend the next 10 years making fun of Fatty Kim III, pointing and laughing.
Not to worry, Fatboy, you beanbrained little snot, I can still see it where you can’t get at it.
And I’m going to use your name until you shrivel up and die.
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Okay, now I’m bored.
Jonn,
This is the kind of shit that caused Mark to create Hollywood Halfwits.
The more things change…
I’m certain that Kim Jong Un kicks puppies and stomps on kittens just for shits & giggles when he’s not torturing people after raping his stuffed teddy bear!
So, now Sony has cancelled the whole thing. Sure it was a crappy movie, but it was our crappy movie. I call it terrorism.
Yo! NDtBF! ….Go fuck yourself, in the ear with a frozen trout, sideways.
Fuck it, Iv been thinking about this for a awhile do here it goes,
Anytime anyone in the US post anything on the internet about North Korea they find it and read it,
So here goes Kim fucking duck Il
you suck the donkey dick your dad used to have flown to his train every day.
the only thing good your family has done for anyone in koreas is give hot girls jobs as traffic cops
Hard to believe the same industry that brought us “Team America, World Police” would cowtow to these morons. Highly disapointed…but not surprised.
QUESTION: “Also, when the hell did we associate North Korea with the war on terror?” (Mark L)
ANSWER: January 29, 2002. That was the first State of the Union Address after 9/11. You may recall that a new phrase for the terrorist club was introduced: the Axis of Evil. Its charter members were North Korea, Iraq, and Iran.
Also “war on terror” is not to be used, as of a couple of years ago. I guess some people didn’t get the memo.
JohnE: That’s because Team America was released in 2004.
If the Aurora Theater shooting in 2012 had not happened, Hollywood would be telling NDtBF to go screw himself. What they’re worried about is liability – if they show the movie and some nutjob shoots up the theater (whether inspired to do so by the movie or not) the theater owners and the studio would face a multi million dollar suit because “they were warned.”
Sucks to say it but this is more about fear of litigation than it is about fear of terrorism.
sadly, I think you hit the nail on the head
Word now is that the origin of the hack is a Sony insider who fed the info to the Norks.
The release of a large number of memos and e-mails with nasty contents, e.g., serious racist comments, etc., continues.
Maybe we’ll get to see the movie at the drive-in this summer. I have room in the back of my car for two unpaid entrants, but you have to pay for your own popcorn and no, I will not share the speakers with you.