Cowardice at the Movies

[John Galt]

[Nate501]

[Indy]

[Kane]

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/the-kim-jong ... as-leaked/

Kim Jong Un death scene

[Professor]

Kim Jong-Un death scene.

a few random thoughts:

Sony strategy - no doubt they were hacked and are responding. But, what if this response is a big ploy on Sony's part. They get hacked and DPRK threatens. Sony "decides" to pull the movie, thereby making headlines in every news outlet for days on end. Their movie is receiving massive amounts of free press (more than any movie I've heard of in recent history). Then, let's say on Dec 22 or so, they decide, "Yeah, we're going to show it anyway." Now, everyone and their mother goes out to see it twice on opening day, because its forbidden fruit. Voila - recipe for the biggest blockbuster this millennium.

What is Sony's endgame in pulling it? - Evidently Sony thinks that DPRK has more stuff that they could "release", and are withholding the movie to keep that stuff under wraps. Do they really think that this "stuff" won't be released? I don't know the intricacies of negotiating with terroristic regimes, but I would not trust them to bury the information just because I've pulled the movie.

Was it DPRK? - How do we really know it was DPRK? How will we ever know? So far, it's only the word of some US officials and then some news outlets. Evidently the "evidence" is "technical". Are we supposed to trust those that tell us it was them? Last time our govt told us that some country was doing something like this and told us to "trust them", we invaded Iraq.

[Demosthenes]

They have even blocked the screening of Team America. There was a high probability that I would not have seen this movie, tbh I would have probably just caught a shitty cam. The gauntlet has been thrown now and if it was up to me I would have a massive drive in viewing of the Interview on the DMZ.

[Philly]

Keep this in mind. If Sony eventually releases this, anyone who pays money to see it is supporting their initial move to cave. If you bootleg it more power to you.

[Professor]

[Indy]

I'm not sure this is a marketing ploy because the threat has been taken so seriously and caused so much disruption that if it turned out to be a hoax manufactured by the studio, the negative blowback would be insane. Plus I would think there'd be all sorts of legal liability.

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