Posted on 12/17/2014 3:32:28 PM PST by Bettyprob
Adding creative insult to corporate injury in the wake of the massive hacking of Sony's computer files, the film that may have triggered the incident, The Interview, is an intensely sophomoric and rampantly uneven comic takedown of an easy but worrisomely unpredictable target, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. In the relatively sparse annals of irreverent major studio comedies that pissed off foreign nations, for big laughs this one doesn't rate anywhere near Borat or Team America: World Police; the latter prominently included the present North Korean boss man's father, Kim Jong-il, among its many targets.
Given the unique cloud under which this dubiously timed Christmas Day release will be opening, it doesn't seem likely that all the unsought publicity will motivate anyone who wouldn't have been interested in the film in the first place to see it — and may, instead, keep some away. The circumstances suggest grosses notably lower than the $100 million-plus nabbed by last year's apocalyptic Seth Rogen/Evan Goldberg/James Franco outing, This Is the End.
As political satire goes, The Interview has the comic batting average of a mediocre-to-average Saturday Night Live sketch, with a few potent laughs erupting from an overall mash of sex, drugs and TV broadcasting jokes that feel rooted in a sense of humor primarily characterized by a frat-boy/altered state/prolonged adolescence mind-set.
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Anything that pisses-off little Kimmy I want to see.
A bootleg copy will show up on line in a few days and it will go viral before Holder’s men have a chance to gun the leaker down...in 3, 2, 1
I’m not interested in it.
I wouldn’t have been seeing this drek anyway as all Hollywood comedy’s these days are unwatchable.
The problem is that as bad as it might be, it was
made in America, to be shown in America and now it’s
not. That is appeasement, either by the company or
our own government. Either way, a sad statement on
the condition of our nation today.
When you knuckle under to violence and blackmail...
you get more of it, just wait.
Won't lose sleep over this film. It will still be profitable.
This is almost like a replay of The Innocence of Muslims debacle. Except this one comes with seriously harsh cyber attacks. I almost think the North Koreans are bluffing about 9/11 type attacks, but I understand why some theaters don’t want to show this now.
A good movie producer would find some way to interweave all four events (the movie, followed by the cyber attacks, followed by death threats, followed by investigations) into a new product. What was most likely a ‘nothing there’, straight to Netflix type movie has become far more important in a symbolic sense.
Yeah. I’ll just stay home and watch The Mothers In-law again.
The mothers the mothers the mothers in law (set to music).
Funny stuff.
Wasn’t going to see it before, and still not going to see it.
Biggest disappointment in years. Sad that we have backed down to North Korea of all places. Wow! Just Wow!
When you knuckle under to violence and blackmail... you get more of it, just wait.
Exactly. I fear this will set a horrible precedent.
I heard something to the effect of “this was better when it was released as ‘Team America.’”
I wouldn’t have been seeing this drek anyway as all Hollywood comedy’s these days are unwatchable.
Big deal what you think. Nobody is interested in hearing your crap. This is NOT about you. You are so selfish. This is about censorship. What a fool you are. I wish you would leave and I am not talking Free Republic.
I am always amazed when people come on to a thread to say they haven’t or won’t see something. Or the ones who have an opinion but haven’t seen something.
I want to see it. The trailers were hilarious and Rogen and Franco are becoming a good comedy team. Just the part alone where the CIA babe tells them they want them to “take out” Un is hilarious.
It will pop up somewhere streaming, pay-per-view and we’ll all get a look see, except for those on record here as opting out.
So my options are:
A. Pay to see what the critics and commercials make appear to be a mediocre film, to support Hollyweird.
B. Not see it, and apparently support North Korea.
What a choice!
I had no plans to see it because it looked too dumb. But now I will find a way to see it just for spite. It is probably the last Sony movie I will ever pay money to see and as far as that goes I no longer feel any brand loyalty to Sony, a company that allows crap like this to block the release of a movie. Besides, the are as good as or better offerings from other electronics manufacturers.
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