The Interview -- Painfully Bad

Puffington Host ^ | 12/25/2014 | David Edmund Moody

[Slings and Arrows]

Having introduced the matter of North Korea, however, the film unfortunately does require some attention, if only to disabuse prospective viewers of any hope that it has any redeeming value. Notwithstanding the protections provided by the First Amendment, there is a valid question whether the assassination of any living head of state, no matter how heinous the individual or his regime, is suitable subject matter for a major studio motion picture. If one objects on moral grounds to any such depiction, it's hard to know where to direct one's concern. The Sony Corporation, not to mention the stars and originators of this film, are surely impervious to any objections raised from any quarter, even if Sony withheld release of the film for a few days in order to placate Kim Jung Un himself.

[Slings and Arrows]

Notwithstanding the protections provided by the First Amendment, there is a valid question whether the assassination of any living head of state, no matter how heinous the individual or his regime, is suitable subject matter for a major studio motion picture.

*cough*

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If it wasn't for double standards, liberals would have no standards at all.

[ansel12]

When you guys change the name of the source, it is confusing, we don’t know whether it is a parody site or blog joke, or what.

[napscoordinator]

I am going to take my entire family to see it anyway. It is the principle of the thing. No country should tell us what to do period.

[MeshugeMikey]

DOAP” as it has come to be called by its publicists, has garnered understandable notoriety after making its debut at the Toronto Film Festival and being picked up by the same studio that distributed “The Passion of the Christ.”

not a small deal at all.

[Sasparilla]

Not much from Puffington Host ever found at this site.

[Vendome]

Called it!

[eastforker]

I wouldn’t take anyone under 14 years of age.

[ansel12]

What does that mean?

[Slings and Arrows]

Honestly, I don’t care if it’s bad or not - it’s the audacious hypocrisy of the Left that makes me ill.

[ClearCase_guy]

I’d lay even money that the entire thing has nothing to do with North Korea but was instead an elaborate PR stunt by Sony. They had a dog of a movie, and they found a way to make the whole world interested in it.

[martin_fierro]

I don't have personal knowledge of this, of course, but I've heard it's readily available on teh torrentz.

[Nachum]

Saw it online last night. My wife and oldest son really like Seth Rogan. You know EXACTLY what you get in one of his movies.

If you like raunchy comedy, the movie is for you.

[Gaffer]

At the end of that last movie these dipwads did (something about the Rapture in LA and a party at Franco’s new house), they showed some extra clips about the movie making process and how they ‘developed’ ideas.... smoke, weed, marijuana whatever you want to call it. These Canadian (except Franco) Hollywood dipshits just smoke their butts off and get somebody to write it down.

Then they take all the best scenes and make a trailer. Nothing worthy follows. I fully expect this ‘movie’ is no different.

[Slings and Arrows]

Thank you.

There’s another quote I like to throw around that also seems relevant:

“The issue is never the issue. The issue is the revolution.”
—David Horowitz, quoting unnamed SDS leader.

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See post #15.

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That doesn’t surprise me at all.

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What isn’t?

[MeshugeMikey]

thats a fact..

succint and terribly true

[napscoordinator]

I think in some ways you are right, but I don’t think Sony thought it would get THIS out of hand. It sort of took a life of its own even if Sony originally started it.