Discussion for article #231357
Duh?
The film going public is spared another Rogen-Franco masterpiece, and global politics aside, that’s a good thing.
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Well, considering that nobody else in N Korea can afford a computer and/or internet access…I guess this is less than earth-shattering confirmation.
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The thing I really hate about this is having North Korea force me to defend James Franco’s right of free expression! Man, I cannot stand him as an “actor”…thanks Kim Jong-un!
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Are certain agencies too focused on rectal feeding and domestic eavesdropping when a DPRK-hated Japanese corporation’s Hollywood Studio trumpets another, this time graphic, Dear Leaderpalooza starring former DPRK god James Franco and prompting the dog eat dog producers of H-wood to fear actual hungry dogs???
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Way to go, Sony, you craven assholes.
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They should airdrop crates of DVD copies of this movie all over North Korea as a response.
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So when are we going to zap Kim Jong Un’s computer?
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Duh. And so? It’s just a stupid movie.
I thought “This is the End” was one of the funniest movies I’ve seen in a while.
The first time I saw a promo for The Interview, I couldn’t believe that movie had been made, and was conviced that there would be hell to pay. I had no idea how swift the payment would be made. I don’t condone cyber crime (or any other crime for that matter!) but Sony had this one coming to them, and they, and other movie makers, had better learn from this.
Is there any chance that someone is spoofing DPRK’s IP identity?
I hear you. I don’t like either of these guys or their films and yet to have North Korea be the decider is awful. If it turns up on youtube, there’ll be a rush to see it.
You mean the one where James Franco plays…James Franco? Any ways, it’s all subjective. My point was that I hate North Korea for putting me in a position of defending some stupid movie I was never planning on seeing in the first place.
Sony’s not off the hook either. I would’ve hoped that a multi-billion dollar company with all their intellectual property would’ve had better security. Basically showing the world how vulnerable they (hopefully) were and giving credibility to the possibility of a physical attack.
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So the FBI is saying what the President should be saying. At least someone is saying it.
I don’t understand these type of responses – calling Sony “craven” or, like Rob Lowe, “appeasers”. I’m not saying Sony is blameless in all this, quite the contrary, but I don’t see them as acquiescing to NK. There really wasn’t much Sony could do about it once the movie theaters started pulling out (all for strictly legal reasons). What should have Sony done at that point?
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Imagine how N. Korea would react should anonymous hack into Kim Jong Un’s Netflicks account and park a bunch of really cheesy bible thumper based movies there. Or if they’d hacked into the centrifuges that process their uranium,(stuxnet). I can imagine them going nonlinear over something like that.
And here we are acting like sniveling cowards over a damned movie. That movie, good or bad, should be shown everywhere On TV, Netflicks, theaters. DVD’s…everywhere. And dropped in all sorts of media all over N. Korea. Blanket the place.
Sony acted like cowards.
Sony did what they did because of legal ramifications. They were in a no-win situation They felt they could get sued should somebody get hurt/killed watching the movie in a theater that gets attacked. I think we should not have our actions or freedom of expression dictated by N. Korea. My choice were I in such a position would be to release the movie.
I’m a little surprised that they had the ability to do this. Lets hope they can’t hack into someone’s nuke codes…
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