The Movie Thread: New, Rented, Whatever....I don't care

[ExileOnDaytonStreet]

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And now Paramount is preventing indie theatres from showing Team America in protest.

I suppose there's always Olympus Has Fallen and the Red Dawn remake?

[Kepler]

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Regarding The Interview: now that it is made and has received all this coverage, I do hope that they release it direct to DVD or put it online. I can imagine a pay-per-view event, that would keep theaters safe and allow them to recoup their money.

A pay-per-view event with simultaneous twitter feed posted alongside or underneath would be pretty funny. Make it worldwide and have several twitter feeds running underneath in various languages.


PS I thought I had read somewhere, I can't recall where now, that Kim Bowl Haircut actually does die in the film. Maybe I'm wrong or maybe that was bad info.

Just because it sounds tasteless doesn't mean they shouldn't show it, especially now.

It would be fascinating to have an unedited Twitter feed open to the world with just random selection of tweets. Americans would have a heart attack when they started to clue in on how the rest of the world views us.

Spoiler: think Caligula.

[FreshFish]

Re: The Movie Thread: New, Rented, Whatever....I don't care

Regarding The Interview: now that it is made and has received all this coverage, I do hope that they release it direct to DVD or put it online. I can imagine a pay-per-view event, that would keep theaters safe and allow them to recoup their money.

A pay-per-view event with simultaneous twitter feed posted alongside or underneath would be pretty funny. Make it worldwide and have several twitter feeds running underneath in various languages.


PS I thought I had read somewhere, I can't recall where now, that Kim Bowl Haircut actually does die in the film. Maybe I'm wrong or maybe that was bad info.

Just because it sounds tasteless doesn't mean they shouldn't show it, especially now.

[FreshFish]

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Meanwhile, The Battle of the Five Armies opens this week.

538 did a piece on it, there are more minutes in the movie than pages in the book that cover the events of the movie:

The Final ‘Hobbit’ Film Is An Unprecedentedly Gratuitous Stretch Of Source Material [their headline]

The trilogy of [hobbit] films — 474 minutes of orcs and elves — is based on a single novel by J.R.R. Tolkien that, according to my paperback copy, numbers 293 pages.

There was 1 minute, 41 seconds of film per source page in the first film; 1 minute, 20 seconds per page in the second; and an unprecedented two minutes per page in the last film, which clocks in at 144 minutes and is based on only 72 pages of source material.

They surveyed 54 recent movies made from novels, none of the other 51 were over 1 minute per page. # 4 on their list had 48 seconds of film per page of source material.

[Kepler]

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Awec BAW-win!


MATT DAMON! MATT DAMON!

The Film Actors Guild may well be the last use of that gag, ever.

I will never be able to see Matt Damon again without thinking "MAAAAAAAAATDAAAAAAAAAAAAMON."

[Kepler]

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Yeah, watching The Living Daylights is a lot different now, seeing Bond getting help from Osama bin Laden and pals...

Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia

[mookie1995]

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Not happy

This may have been the only movie Mookie wanted to go see

[MinnesotaNorthStar]

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And I wonder just what other dirt those hackers have on those Sony executives. Like was there a road trip to Tijuana where they all filmed a donkey prono? You would think by now they would know enough to not put that on the companies servers.

Personal info on Sony employees, including addresses, SSNs, and medical records...

[bigmrg74]

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Sony's reaction is entirely predictable, it seems to me. What I'm hoping for with all my might is a Christmas miracle directed at the toads in Pyongyang. I mean, really fcuk them up. Perhaps a demonstration of SLBM accuracy. Whatever. Just let them know a fourth rate binju ditch of a country can't get away with that sh*t. And this is one time Uncle Sam won't be grabbing his ankles and saying: "Thank you sir, may I have another?"

Clearly the Top Executives at Sony should grow a pair and drop the movie all stealth like at small independent theaters. Give NK a big FU for all of their threats.

And I wonder just what other dirt those hackers have on those Sony executives. Like was there a road trip to Tijuana where they all filmed a donkey prono? You would think by now they would know enough to not put that on the companies servers.

[ExileOnDaytonStreet]

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It's not like North Korea hasn't been the villain in a lot of movies lately.

Sure, making a movie about assassinating their actual leader is in poor taste. But they've earned it. It's funny for everyone else. Like when South Park made Saddam Hussein into Satan's terrible gay boyfriend.

[The Rube]

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Yeah, but she's not the head of the British government

I know, but close enough to the point of all this bullsh*.

Figurative head of country, real life person.

The US and Sony should tell NK to pucker up and kiss our arse.

[Patman]

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How could a movie like The Interview ever be approved for financing in the first place?

Top Ten in the "what were they thinking??" all time list.

A "comedy" about the assassination of a foreign leader?

Hot Shots Part Deux
Team America: World Police

Is it ok if its a drama? The BBC did one about GWB

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All the talk of old comedy movies makes me want to dig out my DVD copy of Spies Like Us.

You know, the one where the Americans are helped by the "Afghani Freedom Fighters. They're on our side!"

Yeah, watching The Living Daylights is a lot different now, seeing Bond getting help from Osama bin Laden and pals...

[aparch]

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All the talk of old comedy movies makes me want to dig out my DVD copy of Spies Like Us.

You know, the one where the Americans are helped by the "Afghani Freedom Fighters. They're on our side!"

[aparch]

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How could a movie like The Interview ever be approved for financing in the first place?

Top Ten in the "what were they thinking??" all time list.

A "comedy" about the assassination of a foreign leader?

What are your thoughts on Hot Shots! Part Deux?