Posted on 12/26/2014 3:53:33 AM PST by Las Vegas Dave
50% isn’t exactly “they hate it”. Especially when you take in genre consideration, about 25% of critics just plain don’t like whacky dumb guy comedy, so the rotten score pretty much ceilings around 75. Of course I also don’t like that style of movie. But I do like honesty. And in a world where there’s 2 movies out in the 20s 50 is clearly not “they hate it”.
No. Even bad movies can make money, the critics don’t like most Rogen movies, yet they haul in the cash. But they have to get released wide to do it. Something moving a release from 3000 theaters to 100 kills the revenue, it’s just not logistically possible to make money that way.
Why would Sony give up all the emails and financials and information one would assume to be confidential for a movie? I doubt that Sony allowed emails degrading Jolie, Denzel and others just to prop a bad idea for a movie. I suspect someone who was upset changed Sony’s computer’s password to “password” and let the world’s hackers have at it.
I won't discount it - we'll probably never know the rest of the story...
Critics hate ‘The Interview’
Because that is their job!
“Fairing?”. Come on now, that’s not fare.
I just watched it and it wasn’t that bad. Granted it probably won’t bring home any awards, it still had a good ending.
FWIW, kids in public schools are introduced to things far worse in their daily regimen. (IMHO)
Buy a ticket at a theater - throw it away. Download the baby, run it while you're out walking the dog...
Goodness! Deliberately offending Kim? The horror! He only has the world’s only operating death camps.
The movie called him a liar, a murderer, a closet homo, and implied that people all around him are conspiring to overthrow him.
Good stuff. Just what the world needs, not leaders fawning all over him or conservatives acting like we should tip toe by him.
Ridicule is a weapon.
Seth Rogen is in it. Nuff said. You should know from that bit of casting that the movie was shallow and moronic.
Yeah, I saw it. It was pretty good, better than your average movie nowadays, but not the best these guys have done together.
I think a lot of the FReepers who are panning it here would have hated any movie from that genre of comedy, so I can’t take their opinions too seriously.
Yeah, the theory makes no sense whatsoever, but anyone that would believe it is probably not going to be bothered by the lack of sense.
I think the reviews seem about right for this kind of comedy, it amused many of us who watched it with no expectations, and half the critics agree, and the more snobby the critic, of course the more they dump on a goofy comedy that doesn’t have the critics in mind.
As far as this stuff goes, it was better than average for the crude Rogen/Ferrell type humor.
Since the typical critic is a lefty....who cares?
Im starting to wonder. Sony execs write to each other saying the movie is bad and then with the North Korea angle it’s patriotic to see the movie. Sony will make more money off this than they would’ve without the hack.
Ishtar was the bomb with Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty.
Not always. I loved "Animal House", "Caddy shack", and "Back to School."
I thought the jokes in this one were flat and predictable.
on the other hand the I thought the actor that played Kim and the actresses that played the CIA agent and Korean diplomatic attaché all did great jobs.
SPOILER ALERT:
Any movie where a tank shoots down a helicopter is good.
Someone told me it was very stupid.
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