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[IMADreamer]

It's nuts they are cancelling all the showings. America just lost to North Korea who doesn't have power most of the time. Pathetic. I miss the good old days when they would have said [expletive] off North Korea and if those threats of 9-11 style attacks happened we would have liberated [expletive] out of them with tomahawk missiles. We might as well just close this country down now if we are going to fold every time North Korea threatens us.

[AWvsCBsteeeerike3]

Yeah, we should blow up N. Korea and tell China to [expletive] off if they don't like it. Russia too, really. Though, russia's struggling with their own banking crisis, or they're on the verge of one over the next year or so, so it might behoove us to just let them go.

[IMADreamer]

I didn't say blow them up. I said blow them up if they do some sort of attack on the US because of this movie.

Not showing the movie is just cowardly. Where does it stop?

[Vidor]

Just started watching "Gigi". Oh my God, Maurice Chevalier leering at a six-year-old and singing "Thank Heaven for Little Girls" is one of the creepiest things I have ever seen.

[Vidor]

Oh, and Gigi's grandmother and aunt are training her to be a high-class prostitute.

This film won Best Picture of 1958. "Vertigo" and "Touch of Evil" came out in 1958.

[Famous Mortimer]

It's nuts they are cancelling all the showings. America just lost to North Korea who doesn't have power most of the time. Pathetic. I miss the good old days when they would have said [expletive] off North Korea and if those threats of 9-11 style attacks happened we would have liberated [expletive] out of them with tomahawk missiles. We might as well just close this country down now if we are going to fold every time North Korea threatens us.

Unless America owns Paramount and Sony, America didn't lose. A couple of multi-billion dollar corporations showed themselves for the risk-averse [expletive] bastards they are.

[go birds]

countries have gone to war on MUCH dumber things.

like religion for instance

[Vidor]

Watched about 2/3 of "Gigi" before I went to work, and I was assuming that it was one of those horrible whiffs by Oscar that we all agree shouldn't have happened, like "Cavalcade" and "The Greatest Show on Earth" and "Forrest Gump". Turns out it's on the National Film Registry. Weird.

[TheoSqua]

I didn't say blow them up. I said blow them up if they do some sort of attack on the US because of this movie.

Not showing the movie is just cowardly. Where does it stop?

The thing is removing the film wasn't a political decision, it was a business decision. The budget for The Interview was $44m, let's add $15m more and call it $60m. The Interview was tracked to make 70-80m domestically.

The hack to Sony will likely cost them hundreds of millions of dollars from privacy breach, loss of confidence, paying for identity protection, etc. etc. etc. The movie chains stand to gain a few million from the movie while the risk of being hacked by North Korea is potentially a loss of tens of millions. So the movie chains are deciding the risk isn't worth the investment and passing on the movie. Then Sony sees them already at a financial loss for this film, that the film will likely bomb in the north american market since most chains aren't showing the film, and decide it's not worth the potential loss of more money from hacks/publicity and just cancel the film. Releasing the movie guaranteed a loss, now they have an outside shot of collecting on any insurance policies they have or trying to release the movie at a more opportune time.

But every decision there had nothing to do with politics and everything to do with finances. If it had been Anonymous or a 3rd grader from San Antonio doing the hacking the same principal would have applied.

[Vidor]

I didn't watch the trailer, but this still makes Simon Pegg look like the least convincing assassin ever. Or maybe it's Halloween at the local gay bar.

http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/traile ... egg-debuts