Sony cancels the release of "The Interview"

[Parlay44]

I watched it this morning. It was pretty funny. But it was full of gay humor, butt sex, sticking things in anuses.
Not something I'd want my kid to see that's for sure. Not to mention pedestalation of beta/closet gay males.
Lotsa gay stuff. At one point one of the characters was forced to shove a small missile into his ass and they
made a joke about it saying he got fucked by Robocop. They even showed 2 guys kissing for god's sake.

I know it's a comedy but anything closely resembling Alpha male behavior or authority was mocked as being crazy.

 

[Parlay44]

Evidently they edited out a gay orgy scene as well.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/sony-pictures-cut-kim-jong-un-gay-orgy-scene-out-interview-1481139

 

[Kissinger2014]

I also watched it last night. Not sure why the North Koreans got so bent out of shape about it. If I was a North Korean leader, I would have found "Team America" much more belittling.

Overall, the movie was funny but by no means did it live up to the hype.

 

[rudebwoy]

This crap movie is featured on YouTube.

 

[HonantheBarbarian]

I wanted more Korean tittties. We only got a brief flash.

 

[samsamsam]

Looks like it has made 18M so far. 15 online and 3 in theatres.

http://variety.com/2014/film/news/sony-the-interview-has-made-over-15-million-online-1201388557/

 

[runsonmagic]

I liked it. I think there was unfair expectations put on the movie by the Sony Hack. I went in expecting another Joe Rogan comedy, and really enjoyed it. Like The Great Dictator with more gay jokes. Might write an article on it.

 

[turkishcandy]

Looks like Roger and Franco are on a gay agenda. In every movie they give out a weird gay-ish bromance vibe, this time they kissed and acted like it's nothing, just bro's celebrating. This is worse than gay propaganda. This is normalizing straight guys kissing on the mouth.

Faggots

 

[Enigma]

The "publicity stunt to move digital" hypothesis doesn't make a single bit of sense.

They had 2 million rentals/purchases in the first 3 to 4 days, which they made $15 million on. That's fucking AWFUL for a movie with this amount of hype. "Neighbors", another Seth Rogen comedy with a fraction of the publicity, did $50 million in its opening weekend earlier this year.

Just translating that 2 million number to theaters, at an average of $10 a ticket, that's 25% more in revenue.

The kicker is that each of those purchases/rentals is paying for 2 to 10+ people to see the movie -- and multiple times -- whereas a ticket is just one person.

And the people who see it in theaters don't own the movie. If they want to watch it a second time or show it to a friend, they have to pay again, whether in theaters or once it's released on DVD, etc.

Plus, the theaters don't take a cut first week and only get small percentages from then on. They make most of their money on concessions.

Then consider that the movie was downloaded illegally AT LEAST 50% more than it was downloaded legally. I'd estimate it was closer to 100 to 200%, at about 4 to 6 million illegal downloads.

That's fucking HUGE. Releasing movies digitally guarantees that a quality rip will be available to pirates day 1, as opposed to now, where some movies don't even have quality copies until the movie hits DVD, and it's still very rare at release.

With this movie, everybody who wants to see it will already own it a month or two from now, whereas it would possibly still be in theaters the other way. So after the movie had already made more money in theaters, it hits the DVD/digital market, where it makes even more money on top of that.

Not to mention the hit to the international market they'd take by going completely digital. You think people in most non-Western countries are going to pay you $15 to download something online?

If this movie didn't have this impossible to replicate publicity, the digital release would have been a complete and total disaster. Not to mention the other Sony movies the pirates leaked or the lawsuits filed against them.

 

[kaotic]

I got honeydicked when I watched this movie.

 

[enderilluminatus]

Piracy will die before most movies skip theaters. Both will happen before 2020.

 

[TigerMandingo]

Franco could very well be a homo. He took that Allen Ginsberg role very seriously when that movie came out a few years back.

 

[Enigma]

Piracy will die before most movies skip theaters. Both will happen before 2020.

They can't even stop people from buying cocaine and heroine online, and you think they'll shut down piracy within the next 5 years?

 

[TheSlayer]

Piracy will die before most movies skip theaters. Both will happen before 2020.

Not sure if serious.

 

[enderilluminatus]

Piracy will die before most movies skip theaters. Both will happen before 2020.

They can't even stop people from buying cocaine and heroine online, and you think they'll shut down piracy within the next 5 years?

Mexican drug cartels != Major media corporations

 

[Enigma]

Piracy will die before most movies skip theaters. Both will happen before 2020.

They can't even stop people from buying cocaine and heroine online, and you think they'll shut down piracy within the next 5 years?

Mexican drug cartels != Major media corporations

:huh:

What do Mexican drug cartels have to do with what I just said?

 

[enderilluminatus]

They profit from online drug sales, right? I'll admit, I never perused the silk road.

 

[Parlay44]

Piracy will die before most movies skip theaters. Both will happen before 2020.

They can't even stop people from buying cocaine and heroine online, and you think they'll shut down piracy within the next 5 years?

The only way the kill piracy is to make everything affordable to the regular person instead of gouging them for as much as they can. Corporate greed is what drives piracy.

 

[enderilluminatus]

Or they can pass a law which gives the government the right to censor the internet which they are actively looking to do.

 

[Enigma]

They profit from online drug sales, right? I'll admit, I never perused the silk road.

Well, for one, the "Silk Road" doesn't even exist anymore, unless you count the bastardized "3.0", which isn't even affiliated with the original. The term you're looking for is "darknet markets" or DNMs, a general term describing the dozens of online black markets that now exist.

Most online drug transactions happen domestically, e.g., seller in US shipping to buyer in the US.

I guess you could say that indirectly helps the cartels, but I still don't see how that's relevant to the fact that the combined efforts of several governments have not succeeded in even slowing down domestic drug sales via the internet and postal services (both government and private).

The only way the kill piracy is to make everything affordable to the regular person instead of gouging them for as much as they can. Corporate greed is what drives piracy.

Even that would only slow it down. You'd still have people with little expendable income, whether in the US or overseas, who would rather download things completely free.

You'd still have people who want to make a profit of their own by undercutting the studios with bootlegging.

This shit is not going away anytime soon. Piracy being completely eliminated is about as likely as the New World Order being instated and all of humanity being enslaved, since that's about what it would take to stop the world's pirates.

It's just as stupid as prohibition, the war on drugs, the "war on terror", or any of these other neverending whack-a-mole games that soak up resources.