The Interview | Limited Release on December 25, 2014

[cory]

This was the perfect kind of "see once in theaters with a crowd" type thing, I worry it will play flat as a rental, if Sony is forced to go that route.

[AniNate]

But still if a hack gets ahold of Disney emails and release all the Disney information and ask them not release Avengers 2 and Star Wars.

 

Those films fall into the category of "Too Big to Fail". Plus they're not as reliant on the domestic dollar as this film is.

[Kvikk Lunsj]

Those films fall into the category of "Too Big to Fail". Plus they're not as reliant on the domestic dollar as this film is.

But what if the hacker doesn't want any of those films to be seeing worldwide. So those movies are worth the risk since the studio than all the sudden cares about money. 

[AniNate]

But what if the hacker doesn't want any of those films to be seeing worldwide. So those movies are worth the risk since the studio than all the sudden cares about money. 

 

It's also pretty much guaranteed money, whereas there was still some doubt about how this movie would be received. It'd be very difficult to take a hacker who doesn't want people to see The Avengers seriously.

[Kvikk Lunsj]

The biggest threat is just some random crazy person now deciding to go on a  shooting rampage. 

[Mulder]

I think they're doing the safe route. What if something terrible DID happen? What then?

[23IsEverywhere]

The hackers got the US government involved with these threats in a very public manner. By making such a vocal and exact threat they became a huge target. They will be caught by the end of the year likely by the 25th.

As for the hacking of Sony... they have awful security. They were already hacked and had the word document containing users credit card information compromised. What i am saying is almost any hacker could hack Sony.

[filmlover]

I think they're doing the safe route. What if something terrible DID happen? What then?

Crazy people with empty threats ruin everything. I'd cough up the nervousness of theaters to the fact we live in a post-Aurora society. They would've been perfectly fine showing the film otherwise.

[TLK]

I think we have finally reached the point where either the terrorists win or Seth Rogen wins. Choose your side wisely because there will be ugly repercussions either way.

[Mulder]

Crazy people with empty threats ruin everything. I'd cough up the nervousness of theaters to the fact we live in a post-Aurora society. They would've been perfectly fine showing the film otherwise.

Yeah but what if it's not empty? 

[TLK]

I think a number of International events have merged together to create this situation. Sydney hostage incident, terrorists shooting over 100 school kids in Pakistan and now threats against theaters have people spooked. There is no connection obviously but no one wants to see violence at a theater on the Christmas day. Deadline quoted an anonymous movie executive as saying that Sony should pull the movie so it doesn't look like they are getting a lot of support from inside the industry either. This is just a fucked up situation for a studio to be in. They can't win this.

[AniNate]

I think they're doing the safe route. What if something terrible DID happen? What then?

 

Then we would hunt down the ones responsible for it. We pride ourselves on not giving into fear.

Edited December 17, 2014 by tribefan695

[filmlover]

Yeah but what if it's not empty? 

We'll let them track down the hackers and hopefully they (and their tragic writing) will be put away when they're found. In the meantime, we will not live in fear.

[Mulder]

Then we would hunt down the ones responsible for it. We pride ourselves on not giving into fear.

 

 

We'll let them track down the hackers and hopefully they (and their tragic writing) will be put away when they're found. In the meantime, we will not live in fear.

By that point though, lives would be lost. I'd rather a movie get pulled then have the potential of people dying.

[AniNate]

By that point though, lives would be lost. I'd rather a movie get pulled then have the potential of people dying.

 

So, since 17 people were murdered in a random shooting at a movie theater, we shouldn't have movie theaters?

 

People die every day through many different circumstances. One movie isn't going to change that. And if we stood strong in the wake of this threat, we'd have pretty much the rest of the world on our side should something horrible happen.

Edited December 17, 2014 by tribefan695

[filmlover]

By that point though, lives would be lost. I'd rather a movie get pulled then have the potential of people dying.

No place is actually safe. Not the movie theater, not the mall, not even the grocery store, etc. Does that mean you stop doing the things you love? Absolutely not.

 

Plus, the hackers probably don't have much to harm us with beyond their poor word choices and sentence structuring (even though I'm 100% positive from reading the message they were faking their poor grasp on the English language. We see you, Sony hackers!).

[Mulder]

So, since 17 people were murdered in a random shooting at a movie theater, we shouldn't have movie theaters?

 

People die every day through many different circumstances. One movie isn't going to change that. And if we stood strong in the wake of this threat, we'd have pretty much the rest of the world on our side should something horrible happen.

 

 

No place is actually safe. Not the movie theater, not the mall, not even the grocery store, etc. Does that mean you stop doing the things you love? Absolutely not.

 

Plus, the hackers probably don't have much to harm us with beyond their poor word choices and sentence structuring (even though I'm 100% positive from reading the message they were faking their poor grasp on the English language. We see you, Sony hackers!).

If there's a threat made then it's better to be cautious then to chance it. But that's just me.

[filmlover]

Guys, what if the hacker is really David Manning, the fake movie critic Sony created to give their badly-reviewed titles positive notices in the ads for them back in 2001 and they got caught for it?

[AniNate]

If there's a threat made then it's better to be cautious then to chance it. But that's just me.

 

You know how many death threats Hank Aaron got when he was about to break Ruth's record? 

[Blankments]

AMC still has tickets on sale I notice. Very tempted to buy some