AMC, Regal, and other chains are pulling The Interview

[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.