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Kerim
Istanbul Not Constantinople
Sony chickened out by not releasing The Interview on Christmas because of potential terrorist threats.
Yet no raised an eyebrow when Team America: World Police came out several years ago. Basically the same synopsis, but with puppets.
Disappointed that Sony caved in.
Yet no raised an eyebrow when Team America: World Police came out several years ago. Basically the same synopsis, but with puppets.
Disappointed that Sony caved in.
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And the leaking of their email would be a stunt to get people already interested in SPECTRE?
unlikely, methinks.
I think it's a pity they gave in, it was a comedy after all. And North Korea ready to start terrorist attacks in the US? fat chance, then the Korean War would start all over, but thistime without China chipping in.
So their bluf worked again.
Dont think I accused them of doing that. But I only thought it was the premiere that had been pulled but now it seems everyone has shat themseleves and pulled it from cinemas. Do they really think North Korea have got sleeper agents all over small town America ready to detonate themseleves in any cinema showing this?
Arent North Korea skint and on their knees anyway? Apart from the US not bowing down to them I would think Sony as a corporation would be worth more than the whole North Korean economy. Why arent the yanks and Sony crippling their feeble internet infrastructure with cyber attacks?
Now this podgy little twat with his pudding bowl haircut and his two warheads with a range of 50km will think hes a world player.
Exactly. Don't blame Sony, blame the cinema chains!
Check the tweets from the actors in this article. Before Sony "chickened out" many people, in here, actually accused Sony of all this, and especially the "rich" and "bad" Amy Pascal. Many of us in here thought "it was Sony's own mistake not taking cyber warfare seriously", when actually there WAS already a private FBI-investigation going on early this year upon request of Sony (You think Sony makes these leaks public during such top secret investigation. Now Sony is acting, CONTINUES acting, and then we STILL condemn everything Sony is doing.
Not for once I have read something like "Hunt down those damn cyber criminals" or "The US government, with help of the CIA, needs to invest more in counter-hacking measures, so companies like Sony don't become victim anymore" or "Who is the victim here? Sony or Guardians of Peace? Sony off course!" or "Time to assassinate Kim Yun-Un, AND to warn Americans who start friendships with this teenage psychopath".
And do not make mistakes here. Be careful what you wish for regarding Sony. Because next time these hackers strike again, and "SPECTRE" might be victimized in a similar way as with "The Interview".
Moreover, I fully agree with actors Seth Rogen, Ben Stiller and Rob Lowe. But I do like to point out that way earlier we could have asked ourselves these issues regarding freedom of expression, ethics and democracy. Because indeed now, Sony is doing a "Neville Chamberlain" here.
I'm not quite sure they aren't attacking the N. Koreans on a daily basis. All I know is that they'll do little to let the world know if they do.
Still, I think Sony should push through I think. But I heard their CEO singing 'I'm so ronery' so perhaps they won't.
We have to remember as well that Team America had Kim Jung Il as target, and his son, the current leader, is far more of a hothead.
That was just the action's one nutjob and TDKR kept playing.
@nobodydoesitbetter does bring up a valid point about the theatres deciding not to show the film. That's what caused Sony to pull the film altogether and I hereby retract that part of the statement.
Still kind of discouraging the movie theatres went this route and thus unwittingly giving this megalomaniac a moral victory. Should have been left up to the populace as whether this movie was worth the money or not.
Actually I still haven't seen This Is The End. I have the DVD but I never got round to watching it. Might watch it later if my wife agrees.
The point I'm making is, people can be unpredictable and do anything. It doesn't matter if it was one person or 10 people, the fact is, there are individuals out there who can find any excuse or don't even need a reason to take up some anarchist cause and that's what's scary. Sometimes the implications of what could happen based on experience just isn't worth it and it's crying shame because where will it end. This whole business ironically reeks of similarities to what SF was echoing in terms if it's message and themes but fortunately like you said, batman still kept playing but batman and the characters of his mythology aren't real so there's no one to legitimately offend. Sadly copycat acts of terror in varying degrees aren't uncommon. There was the tragic Columbine massacre and others that have been "inspired" by movies. It's beyond sad.
I think it's more a matter of fearing to have blank screens in all the cinemas...
Well I have written from the start about the real victims here (the Sony and former Sony employees). Even you, you seem to discuss only about a few millionnaires who will never have to worry about finding a job.
The former had their private data made public, but for some reason it seems the latter used the network only for professionnal matters. Is it because they were aware it was not that reliable ? They fired the IT team, and kept secret the early attacks, even to their own employees, and you think they have zero responsibility ?
In your black-and-white world, consider this : it is because I have some connection with Sony employees, that I had the scripts a bit before everyone else here it seems. Yes, believe it or not, the leak of the boss' mailbox was the "fun" part of the story for those who are really concerned by what happened. The cyber attack didn't even start with the leak of the boss' mailbox, one has to remember that. And well, the release of every employees' mailbox is next in line it seems...
I thought it looked funny and I like these films (the Seth Rogen/Evan Goldberg written films) and I was looking forward to this. Franco and Rogen make a great double act (see Pineapple Express) and I thought the trailers looked funny and the premise sounded great.
It's a real shame that Sony have pussied out. Hope it's released sooner rather than later.
I wanted to see it just because it poked fun and ridiculed a tyrant (as I said, an overgrown, overfed, overweight Asian Caligula).
http://deadline.com/2014/12/george-clooney-sony-hollywood-cowardice-north-korea-cyberattack-petition-1201329988/
A man was once forced to go into hiding for writing a book. I find it very worrying that now a few hackers can decide what we'll see or not. Let's not forget at least one Bond movie had North Koreans as baddies.
What happened to not giving in to terrorism? Now we give in merely to the threat of terrorism.
Kim Jong Un like all dictators needs to be derided and we shouldn't be compromising our free speech principals out of fear. Especially fear of someone so politically weak he has to imprison half his population otherwise they would leave or overthrow him.
I had no interest in seeing this film, and still don't. Just my 2p. It looks like a disposable comedy that would have been forgotten about after the release. I suspect that wont be the case now. So Sony wont do too bad off the film. The leaks, that's a different matter.
Oh, its always soo nice to talk about rights and free speech and whatnot. But maybe some people need to do some thinking as well. This son of a bitch prtobably feels, we have no right to ridicule him.
So lets just ban all films, books and TV shows then shall we Germanlady? In this world we currently live in where the only inalienable human right is to be offended there will always be someone who takes umbrage at something so all they need to do now is ring up and say they'll bomb a cinema/theatre/bookshop and they get what they want.
Is this how democracy dies? Not with a whimper but cowering behind the sofa.