AMC, Regal, and other chains are pulling The Interview

[Aries Walker]

Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

Dude, filming started last week.

It'll be released in November 2015.

Yes, I know. The script wasn't up-to-date, though - it was an earlier version.

[DaneMcCloud]

Originally Posted by Aries Walker

Yes, I know. The script wasn't up-to-date, though - it was an earlier version.

Well, that's a given. Lines always change somewhat when actually filming takes place but the script is as done as it can be before filming.

[BigRedChief]

Originally Posted by Aries Walker

That would be a nightmare scenario if there ever was one; a movie theater responsible for a mass terror attack, possibly on US soil. Even if it was only a one in a thousand chance, that's a frightening prospect.

We already had one. Since it was a nutjob and not terrorists, it doesnt count?

[Baby Lee]

Originally Posted by Aries Walker

a movie theater responsible for a mass terror attack, possibly on US soil.

Originally Posted by BigRedChief

We already had one. Since it was a nutjob and not terrorists, it doesnt count?

I'm certain you didn't mean to quote the word 'responsible' there.


Certain.

[tk13]

I get the arguments on how we shouldn't cave to some foreign entity and all that... I think the biggest factor is Aurora though. If that hadn't happened I wonder if this would've received the same response. They know it can actually happen now. And there's really no way to stop it if some rogue idiot decides to go forward.

[DaneMcCloud]

Originally Posted by tk13

I get the arguments on how we shouldn't cave to some foreign entity, it's true... I think the biggest factor might still be Aurora though. If that hadn't happened I wonder if this would've received the same response. They know it can actually happen now. And there's really no way to stop it.

I agree.

Do you guys realize how easy it would be for a foreign country with nearly endless wealth to hire a mercenary(s) to walk into the Chinese Theater on Hollywood Blvd to shoot up the place and escape?

It could literally shut down the movie theater business as we know it in America.

[unlurking]

Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

I agree.

Do you guys realize how easy it would be for a foreign country with nearly endless wealth to hire a mercenary(s) to walk into the Chinese Theater on Hollywood Blvd to shoot up the place and escape?

It could literally shut down the movie theater business as we know it in America.

Just like the Taliban have proven they can do to a school in Pakistan. I'm sure it would be just as easy to hire mercenaries to do that here, right? Or to attack abortion clinics maybe? Might as well say it would be easy to attack a restaurant or a fast food chain? Maybe a federal building?

All of these places have been attacked on our soil, by our own citizens. Yet we still don't close them down. Nope. We'll wait until a foreign threat, that DoD has stated is non-credible BTW, and then we'll close these things down.

We should not be playing the what if game and appeasing terrorists/dictators out of fear.

[Gravedigger]

So now that we've pulled the movie they won't attack us right?... We gave into their demands! They can't attack us now. We're acting like a bunch of 5 year olds and we just got punked. If they're going to attack us, they would do it anyways because everyone knows what happens in the movie anyways. Someone needs to get this movie, and feed it to the Internet so it eventually gets around anyways. Sony can say they got hacked and the movie was a bootleg copy, nothing they could do. I hope Anonymous gets on this.

[alnorth]

Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

I agree.

Do you guys realize how easy it would be for a foreign country with nearly endless wealth to hire a mercenary(s) to walk into the Chinese Theater on Hollywood Blvd to shoot up the place and escape?

It could literally shut down the movie theater business as we know it in America.

You are talking about a nation that routinely says they are going to destroy America about 4 or 5 times a year.

This is not a threat that we're pretty sure they won't carry through, but not completely sure, so maybe we should be safe.... no, we know for 100% absolute certain that they were making yet another empty threat and absolutely nothing whatsoever would have happened. This is not something thats in doubt, nothing would have happened, and the movie theater chains are all a bunch of gutless reeruns.

[unlurking]

I originally had no plans to see this, then I was interested in seeing it because **** NK, now I again have no interest in seeing it because **** Sony.

[Aries Walker]

I think Rob Lowe said it best: "Neville Chamberlain would be proud."

[unlurking]

Originally Posted by Aries Walker

I think Rob Lowe said it best: "Neville Chamberlain would be proud."

Saw that this morning. Great comment.

Also see that another North Korea film as now been cancelled (not Sony)...

http://money.cnn.com/2014/12/18/medi...l?iid=HP_River

A Steve Carell "paranoid" thriller "that was to be set in North Korea" has been scrapped, according to Deadline and other entertainment news outlets...

[Gravedigger]

If nobody attacked America for Team America: World Police, then why would they do it for this movie? I don't remember any crazy terror threats when that movie came out.

[Baby Lee]

Originally Posted by Gravedigger

If nobody attacked America for Team America: World Police, then why would they do it for this movie? I don't remember any crazy terror threats when that movie came out.

Apparently they've pulled showings of TAWP as well now.

[Aries Walker]

Originally Posted by Gravedigger

If nobody attacked America for Team America: World Police, then why would they do it for this movie? I don't remember any crazy terror threats when that movie came out.

They couldn't; they didn't have the hacking hook-up. Plus, Kim Jong-Il was in charge then, and he didn't have as much to prove.