It's a Seth Rogen buddy movie. With those words alone you know "The Interview" is crap but it pulled down a million dollars on Christmas Day alone. There will probably, hopefully, never be a more crisp example of lemming cinema in which one knows something is worthless but does it anyway.
At first there was the hype from the FBI about the terroristic North Koreans rampaging through the virginal Sony's unmentionables drawer. The story was hogwash but it set up Sony as a victim and they were ready to play after that. (CBS: Was FBI wrong on North Korea?)
It turned out the hack came from inside information from a long-term Sony employee. The biggest flaw to this is that Sony is run with no more security than a putt-putt golf course. Once you're in, you get everything. If you want an interview, how about one with Sony's chief of security as that could be amusing. Maybe they don't even have one.
Today CNN said it's your 'patriotic duty' to see "The Interview" and this shows they don't seem to understand the news is the last place anyone would ever look for a definition of what constitutes patriotism. (CNN Money: For moviegoers, 'patriotic duty' to see 'The Interview')
Note: no surprise that appears on their Money page.
Patriotism is what I deem to be best for America and doing it. Patriotism damn sure is not what some plastic-faced pundit tells me it ought to be.
Once Sony was staged as the helpless victim, it was all gravy for them. Miraculously, three hundred theaters appeared for the opening they had canceled. Miraculously, there's a perfect print, untouched by hackers, that could be distributed to all of these theaters. It was amazing to see how many miracles came to the pitifully victimized Sony.
Tenure at a university has nothing to do with the popular conception of job security but rather it's to keep political and religious considerations from having anything to do with one's employment. Just as you see the state interfering constantly in what can be said in public schools, that isn't possible with universities as they have no leverage due to tenure.
There is no tenure in Hollywood and state interference in movies is nothing new as that goes back to blatantly jingoistic crap like "The Green Berets" during Vietnam and I believe that one starred John Wayne who never had anything to do with any war anyway. The movie was top to bottom hogwash.
(Ed: Hollywood is quite capable of making hogwash without assistance from Washington)
Yah ... but ... I believe there's supporting documentation but I'm not on such a wild-eyed conspiracy hunt that I want to find it. I wouldn't view it as a conspiracy hunt but rather Washington trying to buy some public relations and Hollywood being slutty enough to sell that.
Given the state's willingness to interfere in Hollywood and that there are no protections against it, seeing yet another instance of it with "The Interview" is disturbing. What Sony does or doesn't do with the movie is none of Obama's business.
(Ed: you're seriously telling me there's Christmas in this)
Sure. The Christmas is the freedom of choice you exercise. You can see the flick or not based on its merits and not with any regard to what the state may have said. The latter has no Christmas but freedom of choice always does.
(Ed: there would be no freedom of choice if Sony had not released the movie)
True enough but that was a business decision and not a matter of national significance. That North Korea was screaming about it only drove up the publicity. No-one believed he would do anything as they never have.
At first there was the hype from the FBI about the terroristic North Koreans rampaging through the virginal Sony's unmentionables drawer. The story was hogwash but it set up Sony as a victim and they were ready to play after that. (CBS: Was FBI wrong on North Korea?)
It turned out the hack came from inside information from a long-term Sony employee. The biggest flaw to this is that Sony is run with no more security than a putt-putt golf course. Once you're in, you get everything. If you want an interview, how about one with Sony's chief of security as that could be amusing. Maybe they don't even have one.
Today CNN said it's your 'patriotic duty' to see "The Interview" and this shows they don't seem to understand the news is the last place anyone would ever look for a definition of what constitutes patriotism. (CNN Money: For moviegoers, 'patriotic duty' to see 'The Interview')
Note: no surprise that appears on their Money page.
Patriotism is what I deem to be best for America and doing it. Patriotism damn sure is not what some plastic-faced pundit tells me it ought to be.
Once Sony was staged as the helpless victim, it was all gravy for them. Miraculously, three hundred theaters appeared for the opening they had canceled. Miraculously, there's a perfect print, untouched by hackers, that could be distributed to all of these theaters. It was amazing to see how many miracles came to the pitifully victimized Sony.
Tenure at a university has nothing to do with the popular conception of job security but rather it's to keep political and religious considerations from having anything to do with one's employment. Just as you see the state interfering constantly in what can be said in public schools, that isn't possible with universities as they have no leverage due to tenure.
There is no tenure in Hollywood and state interference in movies is nothing new as that goes back to blatantly jingoistic crap like "The Green Berets" during Vietnam and I believe that one starred John Wayne who never had anything to do with any war anyway. The movie was top to bottom hogwash.
(Ed: Hollywood is quite capable of making hogwash without assistance from Washington)
Yah ... but ... I believe there's supporting documentation but I'm not on such a wild-eyed conspiracy hunt that I want to find it. I wouldn't view it as a conspiracy hunt but rather Washington trying to buy some public relations and Hollywood being slutty enough to sell that.
Given the state's willingness to interfere in Hollywood and that there are no protections against it, seeing yet another instance of it with "The Interview" is disturbing. What Sony does or doesn't do with the movie is none of Obama's business.
(Ed: you're seriously telling me there's Christmas in this)
Sure. The Christmas is the freedom of choice you exercise. You can see the flick or not based on its merits and not with any regard to what the state may have said. The latter has no Christmas but freedom of choice always does.
(Ed: there would be no freedom of choice if Sony had not released the movie)
True enough but that was a business decision and not a matter of national significance. That North Korea was screaming about it only drove up the publicity. No-one believed he would do anything as they never have.
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