The terrorists have won!
 

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Cause of your nice shoes? Seems like you have a lot of nice shoes.

Cowards. I would have gone to see it totally out of spite.

I'm still going to see it , even if I have to kill somebody !

Who gets your closet?

So maybe they'll just go ahead and release it and we can ALL watch it on Netflix and HBO.

Why couldn't they have threatened those god awful Hobbit films damnit!

Here's a solution....

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/new...america-759037

Cause....'MERICA!!!

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Hackers 2 Sony 0

Pathetic and cowardly.

http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=289243

Q'ish

Funny, it doesn't look Q-ish

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From hackers?

Cops hate losing. Would rather see people dead than lose.

Sony should release it on the internet and claim that South Korea released it.
Ok, maybe not South Korea, but you get the idea.

I wonder what Anonymous thinks of this? Have they been one-upped by a bunch of North Korean Government Employees?

That's a very good point, but keep in mind that this movie includes Seth Rogan. While I'm against terrorism, I'm also strongly opposed to any movie that involves Seth Rogan.

To some extent, I wonder if perhaps the North Koreans just have extremely good taste in movies.

They might feel differently if it was Dennis Rodman.

I'm also having trouble envisioning North Korea pulling off a terrorist attack in the United States. You land a bunch of North Koreans in Los Angeles on a submarine, and their brains are going to explode.

Plus, it's going to be hard to pull off an attack in a theater with a World War II rifle and a Korean winter uniform.

This is completely ridiculous. My bet would be they have some juicy information on some top execs at Sony. That would be the only logical explanation I can think of.

National Security

Good point. I wonder how many e-mails to mistresses there were.

As an act of freedom of expression, American Exceptionalism, and unadulterated dumbassery, I acted out the whole trailer in my living room tonight. One of our cats played the tiger. I hope I have not put his life in danger.

Their submarines at least are Soviet 50's era that were decommissioned roughly 25 years ago.

Sony isn't an American held company.

It's likely that Japan pulled the plug on the release.

The hackers threatened to release the Bond 24 script and details, a film that Sony has budgeted at $300+ million dollars.

Is there anyone who doesn't already know the plot of a Bond movie? 90% of America could write a Bond movie in a long weekend.

Then how do you explain The World Is Not Enough or License to Kill?

:D

Brain Damage?

I don't recall. Are those the ones where an evil supervillain tries to kill Bond, but he overcomes them with some amazing physical stunts and nifty gadgets, and then beds down some attractive women?

That makes a ton more sense now. I didn't believe this was all over an insane threat of violence.

The fact of the matter is that Austin Powers killed the Bond franchise. Absolutely slayed it. It was so pitch perfect that it's impossible to watch some of those old Bond films, which were fun but always a bit campy in the 70's, without busting out with laughter.

The "reboot" with Daniel Craig, IMO, has been phenomenal. Quantum wasn't nearly in the same league as Casino Royale, let alone, Skyfall but it was head and shoulders above the past two decades of Bond films.

Sony has a lot invested in 24 and expect it to be the best Bond film of all time as well as being its highest grossing Bond film of all time.

And lastly, it's a damn shame (IMO) that Pierce Brosnan's talents were wasted during that era. I have no doubt that he would have been an absolute badass if he had been given scripts like Skyfall and Casino Royale.

Honestly, I've only seen one Bond movie since I was 12, so I don't keep up. But it does seem like Pierce Brosnan would have been the perfect Bond.

You're due for a Bond marathon! It's a great way to spend a holiday week!

Then, do yourself a favor and follow it up with Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery.

You'll never look at those old Bond films the same. :D

Just like Blazing Saddles pretty much killed the western.

Sam Mendes...
Goddamn, glad the Bond franchise landed him

Pretty sure this is all a ploy by Sony to pump up ticket sales when they eventually release it. The 'Merica crowd will see it purely out of patriotism. It's ****ing brilliant.

Uncanny.

Yeah, this was my take on it. I really don't know whether to see it out of spite or to not see it out of spite.

If the disparaging and denigrating emails hadn't been released, I'd agree.

But what's been released has been very, very damaging.

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LMAO

Wait, a country has a mom?

The newer Bond Movies with Daniel Craig are indeed awesome. Good scripts, great acting.
What is really refreshing is that it puts the Bond Character in a more human light. The new Bond Character gets the shit kicked out of him, he bleeds, he feels.

I was actually looking forward to this movie. Now I absolutely have to see it.

You dirty bastard you've killed him.

Expect a sternly worded letter soon from PETA.

Your crazy.

So Sony pulled the movie... I can't decide if the terrorists won or if we all won.

I gurantee this movie will be a big pile of crap.

Liberals will always bow out!

Yeah. Seth rogan is in it. It's a dead giveaway.

Why the **** would you make this a political thing.

You don't have the slightest idea if the person who made the decision is Liberal or not.



That being said, Sony should have had the balls to release and made it free for everyone.

If they had clue it would be every where right now.

You all can just shut your whore mouths about Seth Rogan!

cuz liiibbbruulllsss, that's why!

Huh? Seth Rogen is great. I could kinda understand your Jack Black hate, but now I'm starting to think you just don't like chubby comedians.

Test: Chris Farley - funny or no?

Why should it be released for "free"? That's insane.

They're a Japanese owned for-profit company operating in the US. They're not an arm of the government.

Yet another reason to target the film...

Because the point of the "HACK" was to stop the film for being viewed.

I want every one to see that movie now.

We can't give in to this kinda BS.

Seth Rogen is moderately funny in relatively small doses.

Jack Black is gawd awful.

Chris Farley was marginally funny in tiny doses.

Well, IMO, it was stupid for Sony to allow the film to be made using a real-life dictator, especially when said dictator has shaky relations with the US and Japan.

Did no one at Sony stop to think about the ramifications of a film whose premise is to assassinate a real life leader? This whole mess could have been easily avoided had they instead used a caricature of Korea and its leader.

Amy Pascal should be looking for a job today, not overseeing Sony strategy.

"We"? Who's "we"?

Do you work for Sony?

Society.

Sorry, it is really disappointing.

Has the market not tired of the Rogen/Franco combo yet?

Who else watched that last piece of shit they made?

It's not a "societal" issue.

Sony decided to make a film about assassinating the leader of a nation. North Korea warned of repercussions but didn't budge. It was a dumb move on their part.

Don't you think the leader of China or even Putin would be outraged if Sony would have greenlit a movie about assassinating either? The whole idea of using a real life person was just a bad idea.

Your avatar is spectacularly well chosen.

Kind of like that Red Dawn remake a couple years ago. The invading country was originally supposed to be China but they chickened out and made it North Korea instead. :doh!:

I love it when douchebag leg wetters are victims of their own wussiness. LMAO

I fully expect South Park to have an "Interview" episode soon... Kim Jong Brah..

DT

I've seen some celebs slamming Sony for caving.

What choice did Sony actually have when the exhibitors decided not to show the film? Open it in 20 independent theaters across the US?

LMAO

I'd put dollars to donuts that the final decision came from Japan, not Culver City.

All of those people are already in my Twitter feed. A few comments from people powerful enough in the business to withstand any blowback, BTW.

This is the part of that article, IMO, that's most relevant to the situation:

Some might find it slightly odd, though, that a Japanese company stands accused of being un-American.

I didn't realize that North Koreans are also intolerant Muslims.

I would put Jack Black above Seth Rogan, and I'm not a big fan of Jack Black. But it's not a chubby thing. Will Ferrell is not chubby and he's almost as bad as both of those guys. I may even put him below Jack Black.

Chris Farley had his moments on Saturday Night Live. I would put him in the realm of comedy, whereas Ferrell, Black, and Rogan are all tragedy.

But Chris Farley should not have won the SNL best cast member tournament we had a while back. Fat or skinny, he's not in the same league as Eddie Murphy in his prime.

Whoa. Will Ferrell? Are you a "comedy died with the Three Stooges" guy or something?

Why is it I desperately want to watch this movie while drinking a Boulevard Crown Town Ale???

We might be brothers. Ferrell is awful (except in Stranger Than Fiction and Everything Must Go).

Ever seen Hot Shots 2? How about Team America: World Police? Is Kim Jong Un regarded in higher esteem than his dad or Saddam Hussein?