The Interview

mossy said:
What's he going through?
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Bedell mentioned the main thing. Iran announced in 2006 that the fatwa will remain in place permanently. Rushdie also still gets a package for Valentine's Day every year from Iran reminding him that they are going to kill him and his family (the same day they announced the permanent fatwa in 2006). I think the bounty on his head is right around 3 million dollars. He still has to have armed guards when he goes certain places. Not allowed in certain countries (him and The Satanic Verses). And all that is just recent. The things that happened in the first decade+ of its release were even worse.
 
zitothebrave said:
But some Japanese-Korean fusion is great. Made some Ramen with some short ribs in a Korean style (couldn't do true BBQ because of lack of charcoal)
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Japanese Korean food, including yakiniku and kimchee, is way better than the Korean originals. Been to Seoul a few times and the only good food I could find was on the American base. Although I did not try the dog ramen.
 
I'm really disappointed at so many levels. I really enjoy Franco and Rogen as performers and the trailers to the movie looked absolutely hilarious.

What's next? Are the Japanese going to object to their portrayal in "Unbroken" and threaten Angelina Jolie's life and get that movie pulled? Are heroin addicts going to be too uncomfortable with Reese Witherspoon's portrayal of one in "Wild" that they will threaten to attack movie theaters? Are fairy tale characters going to be so out of joint about "Into the Woods" that theaters will fold to the threats of wicked witches for fear of Steven Sondheim being turned into a toad?

What is really puzzling to me is how Sony didn't make some suggestions to Rogen as the movie was being put together. They could have said "Seth, great concept, but could you change the name of the country to North Krapistan and change the name of the leader to Long Duk Dong (with respect to the late John Hughes)?" But they didn't. Probably wanted to be edgy and, truth be told, this isn't that big of a deal.

I have watched a lot of stuff crumble in my lifetime and this appears to be another Great Leap Forward (hope the descendants of Mao don't come after me) for the "take the fun out of life" crowd (which has now gone international). Everybody--and I mean everybody--gets offended by everything. I grew up in the 1950s and 1960s and the mass media--while a lot more tame in those days--made light of a lot of things that people don't even touch now. In the 1970s (and I'm being facetious here), a couple of my friends and I wanted to start a religion where The National Lampoon would be the scripture and The National Lampoon Radio Hour would be the Sunday service. When you think back at who was writing for that magazine and the topics they covered with no-holds-barred depiction, it's a wonder P.J. O'Rourke still lives and breathes.

And I don't know the reason for the lack of skin and overabundance of nerves that pervades our society today. Mrs. 50# thinks it's lack of community and shared experience that makes people defensive of their portrayals. I tend to agree that's a big part of this. We can't laugh at ourselves if we can't appreciate that it's all in good fun and if you don't know the alpha, it can be uncomfortable being the beta.

Anyway (and again I'm being facetious), I wasn't for invading North Korea until this little event.
 
I think Sony is more afraid of what the hackers were planning to release on Christmas day.

Not the terror threats, I'm speaking about the other batch of goodies the hackers stole from Sony. Maybe Sony has some really big stuff they were afraid of the hackers releasing.
 
Also, best thing I've read since yesterday are my conservative friends posting on Facebook how this is Obama's fault because the country is so weak and scared trickling down from his leadership.
 
Heywood said:
Also, best thing I've read since yesterday are my conservative friends posting on Facebook how this is Obama's fault because the country is so weak and scared trickling down from his leadership.
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ummmm BO has no bearing on this. This is what makes them look stupid at times.
 
Heywood said:
I think Sony is more afraid of what the hackers were planning to release on Christmas day.

Not the terror threats, I'm speaking about the other batch of goodies the hackers stole from Sony. Maybe Sony has some really big stuff they were afraid of the hackers releasing.
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Lot's of tasty emails would have flooded the market, some of them are highly racists in nature. How the company operate and "other" scandals is the word.

Basically blackmailed, but like the local radio announcers said, you put stuff out on the internet, it is the Wild Wild West and it is their fault for putting recordable data out there for people to exploit.
 
AerchAngel said:
ummmm BO has no bearing on this. This is what makes them look stupid at times.
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One of them deleted their status because I called them out on it. He said because Obama is a pussy the rest of America is scared since it trickles down and countries like North Korea can make threats to us and not worry about us doing anything.

So I said so what should Obama do to North Korea to make them afraid, go to war? Which would by default mean against Russia and China as well.
 
Heywood said:
One of them deleted their status because I called them out on it. He said because Obama is a pussy the rest of America is scared since it trickles down and countries like North Korea can make threats to us and not worry about us doing anything.

So I said so what should Obama do to North Korea to make them afraid, go to war? Which would by default mean against Russia and China as well.
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America is scared because the power elite--across the spectrum--wants them to be scared. It's become ridiculous.
 
AerchAngel said:
ummmm BO has no bearing on this. This is what makes them look stupid at times.
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Really? He could hold a press conference and discuss it and condemn NK and talk about how he was going to strike back. This is cyberwarfare. I think the president has a duty to stick up for his country.
 
Krgrecw said:
Really? He could hold a press conference and discuss it and condemn NK and talk about how he was going to strike back. This is cyberwarfare. I think the president has a duty to stick up for his country.
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hmmm, last time I checked, Sony headquarters is a Japanese own company and their HQ is in Japan.

The cyberwarfare is international, not just US alone. We have no jurisdiction overseas in regards to entertainment.

Besides, if they didn't put crap out on the internet via email that get them blackmailed the onus is on the executives.

This is something BO has no business in, it is not a threat to our country. If the spineless wimps at Sony wants to be limp dicks, it is on them, not our country.

Government should stay out of entertainment business. They are in enough crap in our lives now.
 
AerchAngel said:
hmmm, last time I checked, Sony headquarters is a Japanese own company and their HQ is in Japan.

The cyberwarfare is international, not just US alone. We have no jurisdiction overseas in regards to entertainment.

Besides, if they didn't put crap out on the internet via email that get them blackmailed the onus is on the executives.

This is something BO has no business in, it is not a threat to our country. If the spineless wimps at Sony wants to be limp dicks, it is on them, not our country.

Government should stay out of entertainment business. They are in enough crap in our lives now.
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Sony Pictures is an American company. The people threatened were Americans. The threat was directed towards America.

The president does have a duty to protect and defend America. BO needs to retaliate and make the world know that this stuff won't be tolerated. All he had to do is a simply return the favor in cyberwarfare
 
Krgrecw said:
Sony Pictures is an American company. The people threatened were Americans. The threat was directed towards America.

The president does have a duty to protect and defend America. BO needs to retaliate and make the world know that this stuff won't be tolerated. All he had to do is a simply return the favor in cyberwarfare
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And you don't think we been doing that since the internet was available.

He shouldn't say anything. If the officials were too stupid to put stuff out there on the internet then there was nothing the hackers could do. Russia does this, China does this, but no one said anything, even when Cheney was president. If he should say anything, he would tell Sony to release the movie and that is all, there is your defiance. Shaking your fist angrily is not going to get you anywhere and would be on deaf ears.

This is a non-issue with pussies at Sony HQ afraid their dirty little secrets will be exposed. Note to their execs, keep your nasty secrets to yourself and you won't blow 50 mil in producing a movie (I wouldn't have watched that crap in the first place)
 
Krg, do you honestly think BO going on the mic or interview telling NK that this stuff won't be tolerated is going to scare Little Kim?

Even if he did it, the far right would want more. They'd want red blood and more war.

War with North Korea = War with China and Russia.
 
krg likes Presidents who put on a show apparently. This is the second time in like a month he wants the president tostand out there and say some **** they have no control over.

Also, how ****ing easy is it to hack Sony? This is the second major hack in a few years. Really doesn't make me want to buy a PS4.
 
BTW some good out of this. Dallas area theater to have a free showing of Team America: World Police instead of the Interview. And this is fantastic publicity for the movie. Turned what should have been an eh comedy into something that small theaters will be showing for years.
 
George R.R. Martin has some thoughts regarding this -

http://grrm.livejournal.com/

"In a stunning display of corporate cowardice, Regal, AMC, and every other major theatre chain in the United States have cancelled their plans to show the new Seth Rogen/ James Franco comedy THE INTERVIEW, because of -- yes, seriously, this is not a SOUTH PARK sketch (though I expect it soon will be) -- threats from North Korea."
 
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