SONY Pictures succumbs to their new master.
Posted on 12/18/2014 2:18:18 PM PST by Thistooshallpass9
Now they're canceling 'The Interview' because North Korea threw a hissy fit? Man, this is such an embarrassment. I have no idea if this movie is any good or not. It sounds pretty stupid and it has Seth Rogen in it, so I doubt we're dealing with Citizen Kane here. Still, that fat little psycho in North Korea deserves to be ruthlessly insulted. Mocking genocidal maniacs is as American as apple pie. I'm all for it. As long as we remember that, as enjoyable as it is to make fun of this puffy dimwit, there really isn't anything funny about what's going on in that country.
Many of the citizens are starving to death. They don't even have electricity in most areas of the country. Their GDP per capita is about 1/50th of ours. Innocent people are regularly locked away in political prison camps, where even the family members of dissidents can be imprisoned and murdered. Anyone who tries to leave the country can be killed. Anyone who practices unsanctioned religions can be killed. North Korea is probably the most backwards, despotic, evil regime on the planet.
And that just makes it all the more tragic that Sony caved to them. So they threatened to attack movie theaters for showing the movie? Who cares? Let them try. The US could end the North Korean regime in half an hour. Kim Jong un might be a bloodthirsty despot, but he's also a childish, ridiculous bully who poses no physical threat to anyone outside of his borders. He lacks the ability to blow up an American movie theater even if he wanted to. And he doesn't really want to because, foolish as he might be, he knows that attacking the United States would be the quickest form of suicide. You could probably send one team of SEALS in there and overthrow the whole government before lunch.
Yet these people actually succeeded in waging cyber war against an American corporation, and then succeeded in convincing that same corporation and hundreds of movie theaters to cower in fear? Is this what America has become? This is like the chubby bully on the playground kicking a UFC fighter in the shins, and the UFC fighter runs away crying. It's almost impossible to believe that this is happening.
Look, I'm not an interventionist guy. I don't think the US should go around picking fights. But we're still the US. This is our country. When absurd little nations like North Korea try to smack us around, we have to respond in a way that makes it clear we're the big boys on campus. You can't let them win. Ever.
Just like they'd do if the Catholic Church objected to a movie.
Cannot let 2nd amendment people defending free speech look like heros. The government and powers that be would rather succumb to Kim than see that happening.
Disclaimer: I know the following proposal will not work because the left likes KJU and hates Christians...
So next time Hollywood makes a movie mocking Christians, traditional values, and patriotism, all we have to do is threaten to blow up the theater and they’ll completely pull the movie?
No, they're canceling "The Interview" because they had their system hacked and their dirty laundry aired.
An early 20th Century liberal, Lewis Sinclaire said it best: class is not about wealth, it is about what you do with wealth, whether using money to buy books or beer.
Oh my, how liberals have changed. Obama is very similar to the dictator Buz too.
Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea by New Regency was just cancelled and Paramount is forbidding theaters from showing Team America: World Peace.
We are now officially a country of pussies.
IOW...they are being blackmailed.
It's pretty funny really.....We've got big time LIBS being expose for talking racist, sexist, homophobic..etc..etc...
Let the e-mails free!!!
Whoops, Police not peace
Caving in to the enemy.
Obama’s foreign policy in the last 6 years. Now Sony is following by example. If we have a spineless government, then, how can anyone in the country, or any company, feel secure in what they do? Freedom of speech is valid, but only if North Korea and other tin-pot dictators say so.
No. They’re postponing it because terror attacks were threatened and none of the big chains wanted to be the site of the {Our Brand} Christmas Massacre. And you can’t really blame them, sure PROBABLY nothing will, PROBABLY it’s all a bluff. But if your job is to protect the brand your job is to say “no, we aren’t opening this movie on Christmas”.
Team America: World Peace
Just to let ya'll know, "Team America: World Peace" is available on Netflix if you haven't already seen it.
This would have been fine if they had hacked movies like...Steel Magnolias, Bridges of Madison County, The Color Purple, etc. ...movies that should have never been released...
There’s more behind this than anyone is letting on. Now they’ve cancelled at least one movie about NK that was in production and Paramount doesn’t want theaters to show “Team America”.
I personally think it has a lot more to do with what is in the emails than anything. Things like illegal Hollywood political activities, illegal fundraising and coordination etc.
I hope “Hollywood” hasn’t threatened the media enough that they won’t broadcast what’s in the emails. I can’t wait to see the contents. It must be really bad! Hilarious!
“Paramount is forbidding theaters from showing Team America: World Peace.”
Well, let’s be clear here. Paramount is forbidding theaters from showing Team America WITHOUT permission. Just like any studio would if someone was stupid enough to publicize that they were having a public airing of a film they don’t own the rights to without getting permission first.
Message: If you don’t like how Hollywood treats your group, threaten to kill studio executives.
Its crazy.
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