LAST EDITED ON 12-18-14 AT 04:33 PM (EST)

Pick your favorite.

1. They're genuinely afraid of violence and it's their movie to pull.

2. It's not violence they're afraid of, it's post-violence lawsuits.

3. Publicity move. Pull it back now, then wave a rallying flag and make heartland America see it as an act of defiance.

4. (Insert your own option here.)

5. As always, blame the President.

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4.0 TSA doesn't do movie theaters. And movie goers have stinky feet and pants that fall down without belts. Some have pants that automatically fall down when in a darkened theater.

4.1 Homeland security hasn't vetted the millions or so of potential movie goers.

4.2 The millions of flak jackets that Sony ordered for opening day didn't arrive on time.

4.3 Obama advised people to go to the movies. Without him. As always, leading from behind, he'll catch it in his secure bunker.

(#2 can't be far from the mark).

I'm going with #3. This is brilliant publicity. I'm not a fan of either Seth Rogan or James Franco. I've been seeing trailers and reading publicity stories for this movie for months and had no interest in seeing it. Now I would see it just because I hate the idea of some nameless computer hackers deciding what I can and can't see through blackmail. Perhaps Team America would have been more successful if they had used this publicity move. Same plot - kill the leader of North Korea.

This movie would have come and gone quickly while being outsold at the box office by better fare like Oscar hopefuls Into The Woods and Selma. Now, if it is released it will hit #1 in sales.

Tribe!

How much do you want to bet the 'hackers' were hired by the movie producers themselves?

LAST EDITED ON 12-19-14 AT 12:22 PM (EST)

I would think twice before I made that bet. Unless they actually do release it in the next month or so (buzz will die down after a while), or if they just made a big time miscalculation.

Although it would be a very imaginative and successful advertising ploy if they do release it, if they don't they lose their investment (est. $40 Mill) plus all potential earnings. Worldwide, and in all forms.

Some put that potential loss as high as a billion bucks. But even if it's less (which I would hope is more realistic), that would be the most expensive advertising ploy in history, I would imagine.

I still have no intention of seeing the movie. If Seth Rogen's "career" is over as a bonus, I couldn't be happier.

(Actually, I have an idea: let's make a film wherein Seth Rogen gets assassinated for being a horribly putrid actor who makes horribly putrid films. Graphic assassination, head exploding, torture, gore...Yeah, I could totally get behind that film.)

LAST EDITED ON 12-22-14 AT 01:31 PM (EST)

Not a Rogan fan either. Not a Franco fan either. Together, they are twice the unfunny. IMO. I say strap them both to a fourth of July mortar, shoot them up and see what color patterns their burning brains make as they explode. With an appropriate symphonic climax, of course.

Most of their stuff is silly, stupid, and badly acted. I was amused by “Pinapple Express”, but even that was dragged down by Ragan's and Franco's inept comedic talents.

Both are at a level with Pauly, Sandler, Tyler Perry, etc., they are just not amusing to me. Even the idea of making a movie about offing an evil leader isn't particularly creative.

Rocky and Bullwinkle were more creative in their dealings with the Evil Leader.

I do have admiration for their being able to get under the skin enough of a world leader like they did. It helps that the world leader's sense of humor is even more juvenile that theirs is, and one has to ignore the fact that they unwittingly stumbled into that. But still, nice to see.

Considering they could have decided to go after the Despot of Grand Fenwick with a )wink wink(

Considering they could have decided to go after the Despot of Grand Fenwick with a )wink wink(

What do you have against Peter Sellers?

Political satire has gone downhill since he left us.

It was the decision of the various theaters not to show it that caused Sony to not release it. They just couldn't get anyone to show it.

So, now Obama has promised he will respond to the Cyber attack on Sony.

He's drawn a line in the sand.

Now when have we heard that before?

Well, it looks like Sony and various theater owners are teaming up to pull on their man-panties and show the movie.

http://money.cnn.com/2014/12/23/media/screening-the-interview/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

Giving Rogan and Franco much more exposure than they deserve and Sony much more money for this probable subpar movie than could otherwise be imagined.

Collateral damage to the artistic world is the encouragement this will give to R and F and others to continue making dreck.

It makes one sympathetic to N. Korea.

Sigh.

One comment I saw claimed the Texas shows are going to be the best-armed movie audiences in history.

On the one hand, there's a measure of protection in that status. For the other, gee, no way that could ever go wrong.

Like I was saying above... would you be surprised in the least bit if the hackers came directly from the movie folks/Sony?

Uh huh.

You may be right. And if they did it was a brilliant move that is either a “one of” or completely new chapter in the Movie Marketing Handbook.

It's the kind of story that would come right out of a movie script... maybe there'll be an actual movie made of all the behind-the-scenes stuff behind this chaos.

It's not that original. Some time before this happened, Kirk Cameron claimed his movie's website was hacked by Islamic supremacists. It's just that very few people cared because Kirk Cameron.

Saw ”The Interview” last week.

Have to grudgingly admit that it was, from the front row of a sold out theater with Dolby (or whatever) turned up full blast, pretty funny. Over the top unfunny moments and others that were agonizingly predictable, as is typical with Franco and Grogan, but there were some pretty creative stuff too.

“They hate us because they anus.”

Same here

thanks Agman!

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/12/21/kim-jong-unnnh-larry-flynt-is-now-making-xxx-parody-of-the-interview/

"If Kim Jong-un and his henchmen were upset before, wait till they see the movie we’re going to make.”