Sony Hackers threatening 9/11 attacks.

[KingBeasley08]

Who thought making a live action movie about North Korea would be a good idea to begin with? Were those people high while making it? And was Sony as high to go along with them too?

Who cares? Freedom of speech brah. If someone wants to make a movie about Muhammad doing lines of coke or killing Kim Jong Un, they should do it. Couple of bs threats shouldn't stop them

[DonDadda59]

Who thought making a live action movie about North Korea would be a good idea to begin with? Were those people high while making it? And was Sony as high to go along with them too?

Judging by the email leaks that were part of this fiasco, they don't exactly have geniuses working at the high level positions at Sony. Just a bunch of spoiled (racist) trust fund babies.

Somewhere, Kim Jung Un is doing the schmoney dance as I type this.

[BurningHammer]

Who cares? Freedom of speech brah. If someone wants to make a movie about Muhammad doing lines of coke or killing Kim Jong Un, they should do it. Couple of bs threats shouldn't stop them

Sure you can, but consequences are not that fun to be dealing with. Oh, and people who invested on the movie care.

[tomtucker]

no fukking way !! .........then there is no stopping these so called hackers.........just post a treath and you can get any movie you want cancelled........

[Jailblazers7]

Who thought making a live action movie about North Korea would be a good idea to begin with? Were those people high while making it? And was Sony as high to go along with them too?

My guess is that James Franco pitched the idea. And sold it a really subversive high art because it's a commentary about how US culture is trying to destroy one of the few powerful places left in the world that hasn't submitted itself in some significant way to western ideals. And then he gets it made only to be disappointed when it receives a C+ in his film class because it isn't funny at all.

[KingBeasley08]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJYgORlRgwc

Very relevant

[Draz]

Who wanted to see this shit anyways

[Dresta]

Is there anywhere left in the world left to live that isn't full of cowards these days (well, apart from shitholes)?

Is courage so worthless a virtue these days? Are people so unwilling to take a minuscule risk about something they care about. This sets a precedent, and it's not a good one. It just means loads of films won't be made at all as produces stick to safer topics.

[tomtucker]

Is there anywhere left in the world left to live that isn't full of cowards these days (well, apart from shitholes)?

Is courage so worthless a virtue these days? Are people so unwilling to take a minuscule risk about something they care about. This sets a precedent, and it's not a good one. It just means loads of films won't be made at all as produces stick to safer topics.

exactly, most dumb fukks don

[SCdac]

Definitely wack to cancel (postpone) the release altogether.

If it wasn't set to be released on Christmas day I don't think it would have been cancelled. That's a huge day for movie attendance and the ***** Sony company has been thoroughly owned so they probably want to cut the losses now. They've gotten the publicity they wanted.

But there is a backlash from the public I feel (whether it'll last in today's ADD online society is another thing...).

"You've GOT to be kidding me. Since when does a third rate Communist country dictate what we do in America. Sony, you're nothing but North Korea's bitch. Pathetic." ...has 1,500+ likes in the comments of Buzzfeeds FB post.

"It's a good thing the prime minister of Malaysia wasn't grumpy and mean. We'd never have had Zoolander" has 800+ likes.

Similar pages have similar comments with similar amounts of likes. Clearly people are scratching their heads wondering if this is a dream.

I think it all comes down to bad timing, economics of the situation, weak cyber security exposed massively, fear of reprisal, "controversial" subject matter, and companies having no backbone.

[dazzer87]

Michael Moore twitter

[DonDadda59]

Michael Moore twitter

Macho ain't gonna like that last tweet

[IamRAMBO24]

Who thought making a live action movie about North Korea would be a good idea to begin with? Were those people high while making it? And was Sony as high to go along with them too?

Funny you said that. Sony bought drugs for Rogan and Franco during the shooting of the movie.

[IamRAMBO24]

My guess is that James Franco pitched the idea.

Actually Seth wrote most of the jokes and pitched the idea.

[IamRAMBO24]

so now cnn is saying 'most major theater chains' pull 'the interview' .. and they said it's looking more and more like sony may not release it lol .. the U.S. isn't supposed to give in to shit like this ? .. this is a movie playing here, our backyard .. nobody's damn business .. you're gonna cower to some foreigner's threats ? .. I don't believe this shit .. thought this would get laughed off .. very surprised

How is this cowardice? It would be a PR disaster for Sony if they forced the theaters to show it and there really was a massacre. Why play with fire when it has already burnt you once? The first threat was real. The second threat is still unknown. Sony is taking the smart route and being overly cautious. The damage would be more disastrous than what the movie is capable of pulling in. It's all business. There's nothing dumb about it.