Pinging the lists..(as a FYI).
...it was horrible...
Which gives credence to the rumor that the Sony dustoff was nothing but a publicity stunt to bolster revenue.
Follow The Money.
Lately, I jumped straight to what the regular audience folks have to say because they are the only ones who make sense.
That said, I watched the first half of The Interview last night and found it amusing and at times really funny.
Worth the money just to give the middle finger salute to North Korea.
Agreed. The movie sucks. It is so amateurish that it doesn't even qualify as a low budget film, more likely a no budget production and thus a reason for the self created fiasco by SONY!!!
Color me “unsurprised” since the entire premise, even intended as a comedy, was beyond ridiculous. Throw in Seth Rogen and you’re ready for EPIC FAIL. The NORKs’ power play is the only thing getting this dog beyond the direct-to-video market.
The movie about the making of the movie and it’s aftermath will be much funnier... It will star Brad Pitt as Seth Grogan an Joe Flacco as James Franco... Barack Obama will play the Korean dictator. Seriously... It will be much, much funnier, and the funniest parts will be inserting the actual rhetoric spewed from North Korea after they are exposed as the actual perpetrators.
It is now obvious the "hacking" was a cleverly designed plan to con people into wasting time and money watching a totally worthless movie. The United States is self-destructing over outright greed and collapse of moral values and then wants to point the finger at someone else? If you can't make a good movie, then lie, deceive, distort and downright do anything short of gunpoint to make the people watch your trashy production.
Of far greater entertainment would have been a move about Obama and all of his missteps starring him, his wife, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Boehner, Reid, Pelosi, Christie, Schumer, Tip O'Neil/Ted Kennedy (have them come back from the dead), Al Gore and any others who came out fanning the flames with their big mouths. Use as extras all of the welfare freaks who have been rioting...I mean, they could get paid to riot this time. The reaction to such a film would have been overwhelming world wide. Just a suggestion.... And, of course, you couldn't have Obama die in the film as the SS would investigate EVERYONE involved in making the film and any who might comment on it. Perfect storm timing for a Monty Python type production exposing this government (both sides).
“Plan 9 From Outer Space” is far superior.
Saw it, for free, in order to know what I was talking about.
It is puerile, full of innuendo and bathroom humor.
It also gives the goods on the artificiality of the NK regime, and the true conditions in that country, in a way that may get through to that segment of the population that would turn away from a serious documentary as dismissively as many of us would turn away from this film.
This is one of those cases where the “regular” people might be rating it positively for no other reason than political motivations. There are a lot of people out there convinced that North Korea tried to stop this film by hacking Sony. These people are predisposed to liking the film for no other reason than they think by liking it (or watching it) they’re sticking it to North Korea. With that in mind, I wouldn’t take the 73% positive rating from “regular” people very seriously.
It has to be better than ‘unbroken’
Whoah!!!!
It’s the same thing as getting Banned in Boston trick. When you want to ensure to get anything attention just ban it and the public will rush to get it.
The saddest part is how many conservatives bought into the fantasy of NK suicide bombers lurking in the shadows while ignoring the fact that the obvious winners are our own government.
Now we have Al Sharpton “consulting” on movies and idiots like McCain talking about cyber security legislation including the possibility of a whole new federal agency.
Be sure to thank the useful idiots who “bravely” sat their fat asses in a movie theater when we start dumping more money into government and Hollywood.
Reminds me of another horrible “film” that was used to cover Benghazi...looks like the same tail wag. Similar scenario. As one said here on FR, Sony is a big Obama doner. So Sony gets hacked. Itnisnsaid If they get hacked from “inside” their hacking insurance is invalid, if they are attacked by N Korea, the insurance kicks in and covers the millions in losses. Would OBAMA point a faux finger at N Korea to cover a doner and Hollywood in general? He covered Benghazi pointing at a faux finger at a bad film. There is precedent and reason in the thought. Looks like the same little Democrat minion might still be working down the hall from the Oval Office.
Our family watched it last night at our kids insistence (all In their 20s). It is the most disgusting, vile, filthy trash I’ve ever seen — and that was up to the halfway point when I left the room. Nobody liked it. Even our kids thought it was drek.
If you watch it, be prepared for a steady stream of the worst imaginable homo “jokes” ever put on the screen. This garbage is nearly homo porn. If any of the reviews I had read had mentioned this, I wouldn’t have even considered looking at it to see what all the hubbub was about.
WARNING. If you have any decent sensibilities at all, DO NOT WATCH.
Seth Rogen and James Franco have done several movies together - they all have a few laughs in the first half hour and then rapidly go bad. Neither of these guys should be doing anything but acting in other people’s movies, where they generally are pretty good. The North Koreans must be out of their minds - they made a marginal film into a must-see.
So, Kim Jung Un gets the rast raff.
No matter how bad this movie is it’ll find its way on to DVDS and sent on balloons to North Korea!
Then the Un is going to really be p.o.ed.
The greater the perks the higher the movie critics give.