Bruce Schneier: "Someone killed 12 people and shot another 70 people at the opening night of Batman: The Dark Knight [Rises]. They kept that movie in the theaters."
But that Batman movie was a good movie. (OK, not the best of the franchise, but still OK). The plot of The Interview is "a celebrity journalist and his producer land an interview with Kim Jong-un and are instructed by the CIA to assassinate him." That sounds like a good action-adventure movie. But it was made as a comedy. Dumb. Then the plan was to release it on Christmas Day, usually a day for take-the-kids movies. Dumber.
Sony may be using this as an excuse to escape from a turkey of a movie. Of course, now we all have to see it. Probably on Netflix; it's not worth a trip to a theater.
This whole affair is in the realm of stupid, on all sides.
But that Batman movie was a good movie. (OK, not the best of the franchise, but still OK). The plot of The Interview is "a celebrity journalist and his producer land an interview with Kim Jong-un and are instructed by the CIA to assassinate him." That sounds like a good action-adventure movie. But it was made as a comedy. Dumb. Then the plan was to release it on Christmas Day, usually a day for take-the-kids movies. Dumber.
Sony may be using this as an excuse to escape from a turkey of a movie. Of course, now we all have to see it. Probably on Netflix; it's not worth a trip to a theater.
This whole affair is in the realm of stupid, on all sides.