movies

[Radbird]

Sony Cancels 'Interview' Release After Theaters Drop Out While Fox Folds Similar Movie

"Those who attacked us stole our intellectual property, private emails, and sensitive and proprietary material, and sought to destroy our spirit and our morale — all apparently to thwart the release of a movie they did not like. We are deeply saddened at this brazen effort to suppress the distribution of a movie, and in the process do damage to our company, our employees, and the American public," the company said.

Well it looks their thwarting attempt was successful. Hard to believe we're shaking in our boots over this.

[planet planet]

I'm not a Hobbit fan, but the movie today was spectacular (especially in 3D)!

[mikechamp]

I'm not a Hobbit fan, but the movie today was spectacular (especially in 3D)!

I'm looking forward to seeing it, but I'm going to wait until the diehards are done viewing it in their costumes before I venture to the cinema.

[slide_into_first]

Were the Sony hackers really working for N Korea or is that a misleading leak? I bet the CIA is behind it.

[go birds]

Oldboy was alright. Granted, I saw it a full decade after it came out so there were years of intervening hype shadowing my impressions, but I wasn't a big fan. In fact, I didn't think it was that much better than the (albeit unnecessary) Spike Lee remake.

I watched the spike lee remake. I didn't know there was an original.

You might have been the only one to watch the remake, that was a bomb of epic proportions.

By all accounts the original is waaaaaaaaaay better.

It was OKAY. Not great but not completely awful. It was def corny. And then there was the ending.

[Maclowery]

I'm not a Hobbit fan, but the movie today was spectacular (especially in 3D)!

I'm looking forward to seeing it, but I'm going to wait until the diehards are done viewing it in their costumes before I venture to the cinema.

Plenty of we Tolkien Die-hards are rolling our eyes at this entire Hobbit debacle. I truly wish Jackson had just done his fantastic LotR trilogy, and made one amazing, silly, light-hearted stand-alone film for the Hobbit, as Tolkien's work was. But Hollywood. Damn. I am not even going to see this one in theaters. /nerd pout

[Famous Mortimer]

Sony Cancels 'Interview' Release After Theaters Drop Out While Fox Folds Similar Movie

"Those who attacked us stole our intellectual property, private emails, and sensitive and proprietary material, and sought to destroy our spirit and our morale — all apparently to thwart the release of a movie they did not like. We are deeply saddened at this brazen effort to suppress the distribution of a movie, and in the process do damage to our company, our employees, and the American public," the company said.

Well it looks their thwarting attempt was successful. Hard to believe we're shaking in our boots over this.

I wish people had taken death threats this seriously when they were being made to women over the whole Gamergate fiasco.

It's not a "brazen effort to suppress the distribution of a movie", is it? It's more "the complete success of an attempt to suppress the distribution of a movie".

[Swirls]

I'm not a Hobbit fan, but the movie today was spectacular (especially in 3D)!

I'm looking forward to seeing it, but I'm going to wait until the diehards are done viewing it in their costumes before I venture to the cinema.

Plenty of we Tolkien Die-hards are rolling our eyes at this entire Hobbit debacle. I truly wish Jackson had just done his fantastic LotR trilogy, and made one amazing, silly, light-hearted stand-alone film for the Hobbit, as Tolkien's work was. But Hollywood. Damn. I am not even going to see this one in theaters. /nerd pout

Yeah, that's what I don't get. The Hobbit itself is short enough you can read the entire damn book in 9-10 hours if you're a fairly fast reader and you're not interrupted every 15 minutes.

For Chrissakes, in the first movie it was like 45 minutes into the movie before Bilbo left the goddamn Shire! That was like a two-page scene in the book.

Why sit through nine hours of watching film when you could read the book in the same amount of time? Thank God Peter Jackson didn't try to split the original trilogy into a 3-part series for each book. Jesus.

[JL21]

I saw Top Five last night, which was very solid. It gives off a Woody Allen vibe with a little bit of Richard Pryor's ruthless honesty and self-reflection (on Rock's part) sprinkled in. It's very clearly a personal work for Chris Rock.

Mostly, I'm just happy that Chris Rock found a way to make something that audiences and critics will embrace. He deserves it.

[MrCrowesGarden]

The two film critics where I work loved Top Five. I'm hoping to see it tomorrow.