Re: The Movie Thread: New, Rented, Whatever....I don't care
Whatever, I don't have a problem with it. **** North Korea and their delicate sensitivities.
There is no way that this is worse than 99% of programming on TLC.
I was thinking in more general terms, not about North Korea in particular.
No one has to make a "comedy" about North Korea, they do
that very well on their own, without even trying....
I can't see how
any plot to assassinate
any foreign leader would be considered a good idea for a "comedy" by a major movie studio (indie picture, maybe...).
Murder is funny? maybe there are funny movies that
involve murder, but the murder itself being the source of humor .... (supposedly we are supposed to laugh at how the NK dictator dies....)? (
Arsenic and Old Lace comes to mind as a funny movie involving murder where the murders themselves were not funny).
Even worse, how many genuine American journalists have been jailed and roughed up under "suspicion" of being CIA agents? as if dictators needed a pretext to keep the truth of their regimes from getting out, now this movie plays right into that stereotype. again, w. t. f. were SONY executives thinking (as opposed to an indie picture...)
it is more the overall tastelessness of the concept in general, and not the target country in particular, to which I referred. The fact that NK is upset, who cares? (unless they follow through on their threat to bomb the theaters at which the movie premiers, there have already been some cancellations...)
