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Originally Posted by DBlain  I think it sucks that a small backwater country has the power to hack into a large corp. It is very unfortunate that this happened because it has shown how vulnerable our country or other countries are to these radical thinkers. To me the only thing Sony could do was to cancel the release, the liabilities are too high, even if just one theater was attacked it would be a nightmare. I probably would not have seen the movie, but based on the threats I also would not have gone to see ANY movie that was being shown in a theater that was also playing the Interview. The risk was just too great to take a chance. I also think Sony and even more so our government was derelict to even make the movie, the ending they said involved the leader or South Korea getting his head blown off. While I am no fan of South Korea I think the movie was in poor taste and if the situation was reversed and it was Obama getting blown up, most of us in the US, even non Obama supporters, would be outraged. The state department was fully aware of the ending and gave Sony the OK, which once again makes me wonder about the leadership of our country, but I guess that is a whole other topic. |
I agree that it is not in good taste and yes I don't suppose that we would take too well to another country jesting about murdering our president. As for sony it is definitely a damned if you do damned if you don't kind of decision. And as for my family, taking six kids to Annie next to a movie eliciting bomb threats (and that horrible dark knight scene replays in my head) yeah, it ain't gonna happen, we just aren't going to go in a situation like that. It's one thing not to live your life in fear and it is another thing to walk into a situation that you are aware of having higher risks and potentially deadly consequences- especially for the sake a rogan/Franco comedy. I mean Annie honey - we can wait for the matinee.