Fall Out: New Regency Cancels Thriller Set in North Korea; Paramount Bans "Team America: World Police" From Theatrical Screening

And now, the corporate cowards are in full flight.

The chilling effect of the Sony Pictures hack and terrorist threats against The Interview are reverberating. New Regency has scrapped another project that was to be set in North Korea. The untitled thriller, set up in October, was being developed by director Gore Verbinski as a star vehicle for Foxcatcher star Steve Carell. The paranoid thriller written by Steve Conrad was going to start production in March. Insiders tell me that under the current circumstances, it just makes no sense to move forward. The location won’t be transplanted. Fox declined to distribute it, per a spokesman.

I guess I understand that move -- it's show business, and if wacky midget dictators are going to tank your project, you can't make money on it, and have to walk away.

I have less understanding about Paramount's gutless appeasement, though.

The Alamo Drafthouse had planned to show Team America: World Police instead of the pulled The Interview because Texans are awesome.

But Paramount, which I guess owns the rights to Team America, is now telling Alamo Drafthouse they have no right to do that.

From the Daily Beast:

The famous Alamo Drafthouse in Texas, Capitol Theater in Cleveland, and Plaza Atlanta in Atlanta said they would screen the movie instead of The Interview but Paramount has ordered them to stop.

Please note: Our Late Shift screening of Team America: World Police has been canceled by Paramount Pictures. pic.twitter.com/TlPVzIeICW
— Capitol Theatre (@CapitolW65th) December 18, 2014

That is just outrageous cowardice.

Meanwhile, you can at least enjoy the scene that caused Fidget the Midget to go Full Spazz here -- Kim Jong-un's "death scene."

Oh and you won't be surprised to learn that Slate is fucking stupid and engaging in apologism for fascism.

Really, though, underneath all this not entirely unwarranted hand-wringing about bedrock American values, there’s a strong sense of someone sitting on the back of a large corporation and twisting its arm until the large corporation cries uncle. This, too, is frightening, sort of, but it should tell us that large corporations like Sony need to get their cybershit together, not that the Constitution’s in tatters and the terrorists have really, finally won. The fact that Sony chose not to release the film at all--not to VOD, DVD, VHS, or traveling hand-puppet reenactments—suggests that the calculus was less "How do we protect moviegoers while also standing up for free expression and artistic integrity" and more "Please, oh mighty lord in heaven, just make this go away." Simply put, at a certain point--given the accumulated damage in industry relationships, in corporate practices revealed, in class-action lawsuits from its own employees, in potential liability nightmares--The Interview was no longer the hill that Sony wanted to die on.

You stupid shits, that's what coercion always is -- escalating the pain (for a perfectly lawful action) until the person taking it decides they've had enough.

Slate, which is not worth the paper that people don't bother to print it on, seems to think there's some distinction between a real case of anti-free-speech censorship and this apparently shabby sort of corporate capitulation.

I mean, the party being attacked for daring to engage in free speech eventually said "I submit." Obviously then this isn't a real matter of free speech.

Real free speech battles always involve leftists talking about their peenies and gynies. Everyone knows that.

Update: Actually, If You Work For Slate, You Kind of Suck. I really hate Slate writers' default posture of being Above It All.

Note to Slate's writers: You are not "above it all." Proof of that? You work for Slate.

You are rather beneath it all, or at least beneath most of it.

There is an element of criticism which is inherently obnoxiously superior. One cannot criticize a thing without, implicitly, assuming a posture of being above that thing (or above the person who created that thing).

This is an obnoxious and unwarranted posture (how many movie critics could make a movie, or even write a short story?), but it is unavoidable, if one is to criticize at all.

But for God's sakes that doesn't mean you have to exult in it. You don't have to parade around in that unwarranted superiority.

The fact is, all of us bitchy little online critics, pedants, carpers, and snipers, all of us ankle-biters, jock-sniffers, apple-polishers, and boot-lickers -- and I include myself in this -- are rather low in the socio-economic pecking order. Pretty damn low.

And if you work at Slate -- even lower.

If we could do something else, we wouldn't be fucking pissant internet critics.

Slate's Stupid Business Model is to never admit the obvious. If it seems obvious that North Korea has committed a serious attack on Sony's Free Speech, Slate must come in and offer a #SlateTake, even if the opposite of the obvious is stupid and loathsome.

Now 10% of the time, this sort of doctrinaire counter-intuitive #SlateTake might be worth considering.

But 90% of the time it's just wrong. Because the obvious take is the correct take 90% of the time. Putin taking over Ukraine is bad for the Ukraine. That's obvious.

And a #SlateTake claiming Actually, Maybe Being Occupied by Russia Is Just What Ukraine Needs! is just stupid, prickish and prattish.

And then to package these outrageously-wrong brainfarts up with attitude -- as if being outrageously wrong is more charming when you're vomiting up unwarranted arrogance alongside it.

It's not enough to say something stupid -- no, they have to imply that other people are dumb for not thinking of the stupid #SlateTake themselves.

Only very clever people could be this determinedly stupid, their corporate credo seems to be. (And yes, Slate is a corporation: So if a hacker extorted Slate, would that not be a real first amendment issue, I wonder?)

One should not exert oneself this hard to be clever. Let the cleverness come naturally; don't force it all the time, laddies.

I'm reminded of the aphorism: The failure state of "clever" is "asshole."

This constant attitude from the silly little shits at Slate, who haven't done anything except blogposts, is repulsive.

Stop acting like you've fucking Done Something until you've actually Done Something, boys.

Posted by: Ace at 03:35 PM

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1 Don't we have a "government" that should be addressing these kinds of threats?

Posted by: ejo at December 18, 2014 03:37 PM (rsGj7)

2 Wait .. there's more?!?

Posted by: toby928(C) at December 18, 2014 03:37 PM (rwI+c)

3 Their theater in Loudoun County, Virginia was going to screen it too, but now that's been cancelled.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at December 18, 2014 03:38 PM (l3vZN)

4 That's it, I'm not giving Hollywood any more money. Wait ... I don't give them money now.

Never mind.

Posted by: toby928(C) at December 18, 2014 03:38 PM (rwI+c)

5 Just another reminder that big business is not a natural ally in the defense of liberty.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 18, 2014 03:39 PM (wr4LJ)

6 Paramount Pictures official twitter account is @ParamountPics for all your insult hurling needs.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at December 18, 2014 03:39 PM (ZPrif)

7 I.. I don't recognize this country anymore :'(

Posted by: Confused Cuban-American at December 18, 2014 03:39 PM (pS7Ne)

8 I hear Kim Jong Un is not a fan of Star Wars 1-3, pass it on.

Posted by: Dr Spank at December 18, 2014 03:40 PM (P1WNR)

9 Eat me last

Posted by: Drill_Thrawl at December 18, 2014 03:40 PM (Z7toi)

10 I don't know how to react to this. I've never experienced anything like this during my 49 years. America is afraid to show films???

Posted by: joefl65 at December 18, 2014 03:40 PM (UFV5W)

11 I do wish Matt and Trey would speak out and let them show the movie.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at December 18, 2014 03:40 PM (MKtIU)

12 In before the first 'mewling quim' ref.

Posted by: garrett at December 18, 2014 03:40 PM (Mr730)

13
It would be nice to have a President who would come out and condemn this crap right about now.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at December 18, 2014 03:40 PM (OiH3z)

14 Yellow stripes right down their backs and yellow puddle about their feet. Remember this incident when they once again start lecturing all on how virtuous they are because that is one thing they are good at - lecturing others and striking poses while they do.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet for all of Your Holiday Needs! at December 18, 2014 03:41 PM (hLRSq)

15 Terrorism works.

Posted by: EC at December 18, 2014 03:41 PM (doBIb)

16
I'm wondering if the Alamo Drafthouse will have some variation on a "F*%k North Korea Party" where someone "accidentally" loads Team America into the film projector and then "accidentally" turns the house lights down, and then trips and falls into the on switch for the projector.

Oops. So sorry. My bad. Mea culpa. Geez, I'm such a klutz.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 18, 2014 03:41 PM (TIIx5)

17 If you go back to WWII, Hollywood was a powerful weapon on the home front. Now?

The old movie titans were intensely patriotic, today's are just selfish.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at December 18, 2014 03:41 PM (l3vZN)

18 So this is what it would be like in a world where SJW's have won. Imagine if feminists had nukes.

Posted by: blaster at December 18, 2014 03:41 PM (Rx8ML)

19 This screams "Take the Mystery Science Theatre approach". Old movies with silhouettes of people criticizing/mocking/jeering/cheering/etc

There's an exemption for parody - so -PARODY it. "Sorry Paramount, we're airing our PARODY of Team America World Police -anyway-".

... And this just means we don't owe you cowards royalties either.

Posted by: Alan at December 18, 2014 03:41 PM (uq4RW)

20 You guys just love to rally around Obama don't you!?!? Lulz! Pavlov.

Posted by: Some Asshole at December 18, 2014 03:42 PM (SQkRc)

21 How about screening the Bridges of Toko Ri or something, Alamo? I'll buy tickets for the whole family.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at December 18, 2014 03:42 PM (l3vZN)

22 Pussies.

Posted by: Salman Rushdie at December 18, 2014 03:42 PM (JVEmw)

23 I thought for a minute there that they were riding this to get the publicity, but it really does seem like they're just caving. Hollywood is run by cave-men it would seem.

Posted by: Flyguy at December 18, 2014 03:43 PM (PyFzz)

24 Truth to power!

Or something.

Posted by: blaster at December 18, 2014 03:43 PM (Rx8ML)

25 Slate being stupid and kissing the lowest regions of a tyrant?

How unsurprising. Courage is not something I ever associated with them.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet for all of Your Holiday Needs! at December 18, 2014 03:43 PM (hLRSq)

26 Incidentally, we don't care much for Apocalypto.

Posted by: The Aztecs at December 18, 2014 03:43 PM (8ZskC)

27 Bugs Bunny couldn't happen, today.

Posted by: garrett at December 18, 2014 03:43 PM (Mr730)

28 Freedom isn't free.

It costs a buck o' five.

Posted by: brak at December 18, 2014 03:43 PM (Tj+s6)

29 You guys just love to rally around Obama don't you!?!? Lulz! Pavlov.

Ya, *that* made sense...

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at December 18, 2014 03:43 PM (PMGbu)

30 Would it be legal to not charge admission, show the movie (from a home quality DVD if necessary), and just charge for concessions?

Posted by: delayna at December 18, 2014 03:43 PM (KnC4k)

31 Barack Obama is a SCOAMT.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at December 18, 2014 03:44 PM (kff5f)

32 It costs a buck o' five.

Does that include tax and recycling fee?

Posted by: toby928(C) at December 18, 2014 03:44 PM (rwI+c)

33 Frankly, When Mars Attacks was offensive.

Posted by: Marvin the Martian at December 18, 2014 03:44 PM (Mr730)

34 Texans are awesome.

Thread Winner!

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at December 18, 2014 03:44 PM (kff5f)

35 They should turn the Tony-award winning musical The Book of Mormon into a movie! That'd be brave and courageous! Truth to Power!

Posted by: ProgMedia at December 18, 2014 03:44 PM (ZPrif)

36 Obama won't condemn it. He's a weenie who gets a thrill up his leg about dictators, He'd so like to be one-full on. When you add that to the fact that he'd applaud anything that makes America squirm and he's communist himself it doesn't help.

Posted by: Whole Foods shopper Vvegan bumper stickerist at December 18, 2014 03:45 PM (Dj3AB)

37 Will "From Russia With Love" be banned from TV?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at December 18, 2014 03:45 PM (W5DcG)

38 The Oscars are coming up. That's usually an event where award recipients have NO problems going political during their acceptance speeches. Think any one of them will mention this? No chance in hell. Not if they want to work again.

Posted by: joefl65 at December 18, 2014 03:45 PM (UFV5W)

39

this film, good or bad, is political speech

how do they not recognize it

like drawinga picture of mohammed

Posted by: ThunderB at December 18, 2014 03:45 PM (zOTsN)

40 Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at December 18, 2014 03:43 PM (PMGbu)

Check the end of the last thread.

Posted by: Some Asshole at December 18, 2014 03:45 PM (SQkRc)

41 Maybe I should send them a copy of my daughter's 'Story of Texas' textbook.

With the section on the Battle of Gonzales highlighted...

Posted by: Yep, I'm a nerd at December 18, 2014 03:45 PM (zfFAh)

42 Do you guys really think that midgets work in Lollipop Guilds?

Posted by: The League of Midgets Employed In Fields Other Than Lollipop Manufacturing at December 18, 2014 03:45 PM (8ZskC)

43 Snapshot that bit where Li'l Kim's catching fire and print up a bunch of shirts.

That'd be a start.

Posted by: JEM at December 18, 2014 03:46 PM (o+SC1)

44 Amateur Webzine Slate.

Posted by: AoSHQ Stylebook at December 18, 2014 03:46 PM (rwI+c)

45 Crap. When I saw the length of the post I though it might be a movie review of The Interview.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 18, 2014 03:47 PM (8ZskC)

46 It'd be interesting to wait and watch for the inevitable corporate welfare attempt. JEF loves buying off people with other peoples' money, an as Glenn Reynolds has repeadtedly noted, Hollywood is a whore for corporate welfare.

Anyone think that princess Running Joke or bernie the bolshie will make a fuss?

Posted by: Blue Hen at December 18, 2014 03:47 PM (Spluw)

47 Yes, Paramount's move is cowardice. Pre-caving is the height of cowardice.

At least Sony had an actual threat. Paramount is just afraid they *might* be threatened.

But, still, I come back to the fact the SCOAMT won't do a thing about this- and he should. Tinpot dictators should cower in fear at the name "United States of America." They certainly should not think they have the ability directly to threaten United States citizens.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at December 18, 2014 03:47 PM (kff5f)

48 Whoops; Whole Foods sock off.

Besides he's about ready to go on vacation. IF a terrorist attack by NK happened to theaters on his vacay-cay he'd reluctantly come back because Mommy Val-Jar told him he had to.

So now all kinds of American corporations will be threatened because Obama's a weenie.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 18, 2014 03:48 PM (Dj3AB)

49 13: its a "crisis" they will allow to go to "waste". Our god-king has other matters to attend to. That constitution thingy won't shred itself.

Posted by: puddleglum not at work at December 18, 2014 03:48 PM (lTKXf)

50 Apropos of nothing, I watched Guardians of the Galaxy last night and it was entertaining to the end.

Posted by: toby928(C) at December 18, 2014 03:48 PM (rwI+c)

51 Team America: Fuck ~~Yeah~~ You!!!

Posted by: EC at December 18, 2014 03:48 PM (doBIb)

52 I'll repeat what I said on twitter: It's a massive copyright violation but if I were the theaters I would slap on the dvd and show that.

Also, cancelling The Interview will do jack shit to stop the lawsuits by the employees against Sony. As I understand it (and I could be wrong), California has some statutory protections on workers' health information with some strong penalties for violation and Sony was told before the hack that its systems were vulnerable.

Gah. I hate the Cult of Nice. Now, polite is something entirely different, I mean, the various meanings of bless your heart exist for a reason. But the Cult of Nice where it's your fault if some jackhole gets s/h/it's wee little feeling hurt drives me batty.

Hell, the whole asinine "Yes Means Yes" movement is all about protecting middle and upper class women from having to violate the Cult of Nice and, you know, actually be a grown up and tell someone no and hurt his feelings. We can't have that! Someone may think we were mean!

Bah. Humbug.

*shoos everyone off my lawn*

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Now with extra taunting. at December 18, 2014 03:48 PM (mf5HN)

53 Amazon Prime has Team America

Posted by: rickb223 at December 18, 2014 03:48 PM (BPT9g)

54 Sooo, according to Slate, Sony deserved to have their shit stolen because they had a faulty lock?

Posted by: no good deed at December 18, 2014 03:48 PM (w3a0Z)

55 So, if the Moldavians threaten to blow up Slate if they print another article of mind0numbing vapidity, that would be totes not censorship?

Posted by: --- at December 18, 2014 03:48 PM (MMC8r)

56 Paramount Pictures...are pussies. And Kim Jong Un...is an asshole.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 18, 2014 03:48 PM (2Ojst)

57 30
Would it be legal to not charge admission, show the movie (from a home
quality DVD if necessary), and just charge for concessions?

Posted by: delayna at December 18, 2014 03:43 PM (KnC4k)
I think if have x number of people that watch the movie you have to pay a Fee, My College would show movies and have pizza but somehow it got out that the College was not paying the licensing Fee and they were told to shut it down and pay the fee. So the College then had to have the movie in a room where they could control admission and they no longer offer free Pizza because that went to pay the Fee and this was in 92.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at December 18, 2014 03:48 PM (MKtIU)

58 there will be a lecture on how this sort of thing is bullying and meanspirited, and yes, bigoted. because race

Posted by: ThunderB at December 18, 2014 03:49 PM (zOTsN)

59 If this hacking were done by a "right wing Republican" and said "right wing Republican" made threats over a movie that showed, for example, Bush being assassinated, the Federal Government would have crushed that "right wing republican" like and ant.

Posted by: The Political Hack (wait a sec...) at December 18, 2014 03:49 PM (lN8KC)

60 If I were running a theater chain, I'd run a double feature of both and offer free admission to CHL holders...

Posted by: Yep, I'm a nerd at December 18, 2014 03:49 PM (zfFAh)

61 Is Team America on Netflix?

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at December 18, 2014 03:49 PM (kff5f)

62 New film pitch: The Composite Girlfriends of Barack I

Posted by: Julia at December 18, 2014 03:49 PM (Spluw)

63 The Kimferno video would be a whole lot cooler if it didn't have five minutes of Vox junk in the trunk.

Posted by: JEM at December 18, 2014 03:49 PM (o+SC1)

64 All that really pisses me off about this is thatParamount is blocking the Team America Fuck Yeah showing. Fuckers.
As previously mentioned...someone needs to accidentally turn the projector on

Posted by: JFC at December 18, 2014 03:50 PM (+xjLy)

65 Hollywood will stick to its more traditional enemies from now on; male, white, straight, christian, conservative. They'll even pat themselves on the back for it.

Posted by: puddleglum not at work at December 18, 2014 03:50 PM (lTKXf)

66 It would appear that the problem with us not getting what we want is that we haven't threatened enough violence.

Which is strange, because we've been told for years that WE are the violent retrogrades of murder, mayhem and death.

Yet, they piss on us with impunity.

Posted by: --- at December 18, 2014 03:50 PM (MMC8r)

67 Current Time Magazine Cover: "We Are All Gutless Pussies Now"

Articles include:

"Learning to Love Dic(k)tators"

"Better to Live on Your Knees Than to Die on Your Feet"

"Please . . . Kill Me Last . . . I Beg You"

Special Guest Column by Francois Francois: "Surrender . . . Is ALWAYS An Option"

Posted by: Sharkman at December 18, 2014 03:50 PM (F4L6j)

68 shame on them for being racist to our Asian brothers in Korea

Posted by: ThunderB at December 18, 2014 03:50 PM (zOTsN)

69 I must admit I am enjoying the public humiliation of the Hollywood shitweasels.

Posted by: maddogg at December 18, 2014 03:50 PM (xWW96)

70 If you go back to WWII, Hollywood was a powerful weapon on the home front. Now?
----------------

Oh, still very influential, but in a degenerate fashion.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 18, 2014 03:50 PM (/GgDU)

71 Also, the screening of The Bridges at Toko-Ri is forbidden.

Posted by: Paramount Pictures at December 18, 2014 03:50 PM (8ZskC)

72 With the section on the Battle of Gonzales highlighted...

Come and take it, bitches.

Posted by: no good deed at December 18, 2014 03:50 PM (w3a0Z)

73 Old and Busted: Speak Truth to Power!!!

New Hotness: Speak truth to American, Hetero-normative, Southern, White, Christian, Evil Business/Military Power!!!

Posted by: Hollywood at December 18, 2014 03:50 PM (ABcz/)

74 Paramount Pictures...are pussies. And Kim Jong Un...is an asshole.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 18, 2014 03:48 PM

And Barky is definitely a dick.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 18, 2014 03:51 PM (knoK7)

75 Maybe the next movie Hollywood makes should be a screen full of white noise for 90 minutes. Of course that is probably offensive to someone as well.

Posted by: dogfish at December 18, 2014 03:51 PM (NuPNl)

76 Leftists love them heckler's veto

Posted by: wooga at December 18, 2014 03:51 PM (OuLBr)

77 Quisling Tips: 10 Best Ways To Make Sure They Kill You Last

Posted by: --- at December 18, 2014 03:52 PM (MMC8r)

78 TORA TORA TORA is now banned.

Posted by: --- at December 18, 2014 03:52 PM (MMC8r)

79 aliens. from space. the only bad guys allowed. or white Christian men

Posted by: ThunderB at December 18, 2014 03:52 PM (zOTsN)

80 Paramont and Sony are POOSAYS... racist, condescending, limo liberal POOSAYS!!

Posted by: Infidel Mataween at December 18, 2014 03:52 PM (Jls4P)

81 white noise

White noise?! RAAAYYYYCIST!!!!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 18, 2014 03:52 PM (knoK7)

82
First, Sons of Anarchy finishes its last season, and now this...all I can say, Praise God I am not a Bears fan or it would be the trifecta of potential energy remaining potential.
Second, our government getting involved? Why? Bush did it and Obama Libre and the IRS is self-furloughing itself and all that...

Posted by: That new person running HHS at December 18, 2014 03:52 PM (MelgH)

83 aliens. from space. the only bad guys allowed. or white Christian men

*cough*

Posted by: NeoNazis at December 18, 2014 03:53 PM (rwI+c)

84 We also apologize for Red Dawn.

Posted by: Hollywood at December 18, 2014 03:53 PM (ABcz/)

85 61 Is Team America on Netflix?
Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at December 18, 2014 03:49 PM (kff5f)

It was as of a few weeks ago.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 18, 2014 03:53 PM (2Ojst)

86 Everything is on BT, just saying.

Posted by: toby928(C) at December 18, 2014 03:53 PM (rwI+c)

87 aliens. from space. the only bad guys allowed. or white Christian men *cough*
Posted by: NeoNazis

And moi.

Posted by: Sarah Palin and her entire family. Especially the kids at December 18, 2014 03:54 PM (Spluw)

88 15
Terrorism works.

Posted by: EC at December 18, 2014 03:41 PM (doBIb)

Even vague threats of terrorism work.

Posted by: Heralder at December 18, 2014 03:54 PM (/Mxso)

89 I would imagine not releasing it on vod, dvd, or netflix, is a move to protect any insurance claims they might have on the movies production. Like a college football player who gets permanently injured and can't claim his insurance money unless he never plays again period.

Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at December 18, 2014 03:54 PM (JjJUC)

90 Per slate:
... not entirely unwarranted hand-wringing about bedrock American values, there ...
... This, too, is frightening, sort of, ...

Could that author have hedged his words any more? I don't know guys, that sounds dangerously close to almost maybe having a weak-kneed, wispy-throated half-hearted opinion in support of free speech, kinda sorta.

"It's not about free speech and the chilling effect of terrorism, it's REALLY about Sony not following security practices!" Total non-sequitur.

Posted by: fb at December 18, 2014 03:54 PM (JVEmw)

91 We also apologize for Red Dawn.

I read about them in Time Magazine.

Posted by: Hans Gruber at December 18, 2014 03:54 PM (rwI+c)

92 American culture has celebrated being pussies for a while now.

Late 1990s bit from Chris Rock, at the peak of his stand-up comic popularity:

Chris Rock: [On gays in the military] If they wanna fight, let 'em fight. Cause I ain't fightin'! I don't give a fuck if there's a Russian tank rollin' down Flatbush Avenue. I ain't shootin' nobody. So call me a faggot! When the war's over, I'll be the faggot with two legs, thank you!

Posted by: Costanza Defense at December 18, 2014 03:54 PM (ZPrif)

93 Is Team America on Netflix?
Posted by: AllenG

Yes it is.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 18, 2014 03:54 PM (BPT9g)

94 Stop acting like you've fucking Done Something until you've actually Done Something, boys.

In a way, isn't this the really the story of Obama?

Except that to be fair, he has destroyed a unique nation among nations using his pen, phone, and some 3"x5" cards!

Posted by: Hrothgar at December 18, 2014 03:54 PM (fL/7/)

95 I think the movie would be in bad taste, portraying a world leader in a negative way.

Posted by: Madeline Albright at December 18, 2014 03:55 PM (l3vZN)

96
And Barky is definitely a dick.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 18, 2014 03:51 PM (knoK7)

Dicks fuck pussies. That disqualifies Barky.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 18, 2014 03:55 PM (2Ojst)

97 It was as of a few weeks ago.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 18, 2014 03:53 PM (2Ojst)

Hmmm... I may know (part of) what I'm doing for my birthday tomorrow night...

My real birthday celebration will be Saturday, when my wife takes me to a gun show.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at December 18, 2014 03:55 PM (kff5f)

98 And thus we see, that violence, and terrorism, are effective.

And now the West bows to just the THREAT of them.

If a Society is not willing to fight for its core values, can it exist?

Hell... does it DESERVE to Exist?

Posted by: The Big Bad Wolf at December 18, 2014 03:55 PM (f0pWu)

99 Team America is still available on Amazon Instant Video, but not Prime.

For now...

Posted by: EC at December 18, 2014 03:55 PM (doBIb)

100
Jeepers kids, I know what we can do. We can put on our own production of The Interview! That'll show that Kim fella he can't boss around Americans!

Old Man McGreavy says we can use his barn, Mary's Mom can sew the costumes, and we can all be the actors. Even Buttons can be in it, eh boy?

*arf* *arf* *arf*

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at December 18, 2014 03:56 PM (kdS6q)

101 My real birthday celebration will be Saturday, when my wife takes me to a gun show.
Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at December 18, 2014 03:55 PM (kff5f)

Nice. The real question is...will you get to buy anything?

Posted by: Insomniac at December 18, 2014 03:56 PM (2Ojst)

102 Is Team America on Netflix?
Posted by: AllenG

Yes it is.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 18, 2014 03:54 PM (BPT9g)

For now...

Posted by: Spottswoode at December 18, 2014 03:56 PM (lN8KC)

103
can't we just torpedo a north korean destroyer and call it even

Posted by: kj at December 18, 2014 03:56 PM (lKyWE)

104 It is being reported now that Paramount is now cancelling the weekend citing statistics that bad things happen during the weekend.

Posted by: Trunk Monkey, as Voiced by Brian Dennehy at December 18, 2014 03:56 PM (32Ze2)

105 Also I have a projector at home.

Hmmm... I may need to invite some of the Morons over...

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at December 18, 2014 03:56 PM (kff5f)

106
IRS says the latest budget is so draconian because of "cuts" its going to SHUTDOWN

OMG Pubs cause a shut down!!!!!

at Drudge

Posted by: ThunderB at December 18, 2014 03:56 PM (zOTsN)

107 Dicks fuck pussies. That disqualifies Barky.
Posted by: Insomniac at December 18, 2014 03:55 PM

It wasn't a perfect comparison. I just wanted to call him a dick. Is that so wrong?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 18, 2014 03:57 PM (knoK7)

108 75 Maybe the next movie Hollywood makes should be a screen full of white noise for 90 minutes. Of course that is probably offensive to someone as well.
Posted by: dogfish at December 18, 2014 03:51 PM (NuPNl)

**************
An excellent idea. Except instead of white noise, a photo of Ted Cruz. Make it mandatory to watch - but not, you know, oppressively mandatory. Maybe just two minutes a day.

Posted by: Bob's House of Flannel Shirts and Wallet Chains at December 18, 2014 03:57 PM (vgIRn)

109 Any bets on how Parker and Stone will respond to Sony pulling both "The Interview" and their own movie "Team America" from screenings?

Posted by: Spottswoode at December 18, 2014 03:57 PM (lN8KC)

110 Nice. The real question is...will you get to buy anything?

Posted by: Insomniac at December 18, 2014 03:56 PM (2Ojst)

I give it about a 60% chance.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at December 18, 2014 03:57 PM (kff5f)

111 IRS says the latest budget is so draconian because of "cuts" its going to SHUTDOWN

OMG Pubs cause a shut down!!!!!

at Drudge
Posted by: ThunderB at December 18, 2014 03:56 PM (zOTsN)

STOP TAUNTING HAPPY FUN ALEX

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Now with extra taunting. at December 18, 2014 03:57 PM (mf5HN)

112 Hollywood executives: tough as nails when sending out a text message, limp as cooked spaghetti otherwise.

Oh, and the White House promises a proportionate response - I think that means the president will pause in his golf game and frown in the general direction of North Korea.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet for all of Your Holiday Needs! at December 18, 2014 03:57 PM (hLRSq)

113 86 Everything is on BT, just saying.

Inconvenient that TPB is down.

Posted by: --- at December 18, 2014 03:57 PM (MMC8r)

114
Prime Minister/King/Dictator/General Un is just pissed off because nobody ever asked him to reach for something on a top shelf.
Paramount caves because of the threat of a threat.
I just hope Seth Rogan already got paid, it has to take a lot of food for him to maintain that weight.

Posted by: That new person running HHS at December 18, 2014 03:57 PM (MelgH)

115 Would it not be awesome if we had a world leader with as much pull as the Nork's leader?

Posted by: dogfish at December 18, 2014 03:58 PM (NuPNl)

116
The Alamo Drafthouse aren't Texans as much as they're Austinites. So they're awesome level is only so-so.

Still, they've shown more guts over this that anyone in "Horrywood", to quote our NorKtormentors.

Posted by: Rusty Nail at December 18, 2014 03:58 PM (QZ2XJ)

117 IRS says the latest budget is so draconian because of "cuts" its going to SHUTDOWN

Woot!

Posted by: toby928(C) at December 18, 2014 03:58 PM (rwI+c)

118 South Park guys took their Muhammad slap-down well, haven't done shit about Islam since.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at December 18, 2014 03:58 PM (ZPrif)

119
sorry

OT too soon. got excited. I really think of govt shutdowns as paid vacations

Posted by: ThunderB at December 18, 2014 03:59 PM (zOTsN)

120 109 Any bets on how Parker and Stone will respond to Sony pulling both "The Interview" and their own movie "Team America" from screenings?
Posted by: Spottswoode at December 18, 2014 03:57 PM (lN8KC)

Methinks another couple of episodes are already being drawn.

Posted by: EC at December 18, 2014 03:59 PM (doBIb)

121 IRS says the latest budget is so draconian because of "cuts" its going to SHUTDOWN

Good fucking riddance.
P.S. I am looking forward to pres boyfriend whining about saving the IRS. he should go straight to the people and make his case.

Posted by: Blue Hen at December 18, 2014 03:59 PM (Spluw)

122 We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.

I doesnt exactly work but it's precisely what you are describing. We mock heroism and wonder why bad people go unconfronted. We are beyond "the best lack all conviction." The best are openly scorned.

Posted by: tennvols87 at December 18, 2014 03:59 PM (4Ql3B)

123 What happened to all those "speak truth to power" Hollywooders?

Posted by: The Poster Formerly Known as Mr. Barky at December 18, 2014 03:59 PM (lJLML)

124 105Also I have a projector at home.

Hmmm... I may need to invite some of the Morons over...Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at December 18, 2014 03:56 PM (kff5f)Everybody at Slate is already busy.

Posted by: That new person running HHS at December 18, 2014 03:59 PM (MelgH)

125 Sooooo, how's that whole "global economy" thingy working out?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, Curmudgeon Extraordinaire at December 18, 2014 03:59 PM (0HooB)

126 Team America?

Best sex scene, ever.

Posted by: Giupetto at December 18, 2014 04:00 PM (MipQ6)

127 What happened to all those "speak truth to power" Hollywooders?

No one said Power would ever speak back!

Posted by: Hollywooders at December 18, 2014 04:00 PM (kff5f)

128 Les Grossman wouldn't have taken this shit off the Norks.

Posted by: tennvols87 at December 18, 2014 04:00 PM (4Ql3B)

129 we should remove sanctions and restore full diplomatic ties including favored nation status

Posted by: ThunderB at December 18, 2014 04:00 PM (zOTsN)

130 I guess culture is going to get a lot tamer.

Posted by: MTF at December 18, 2014 04:00 PM (LISuA)

131 >>Real free speech battles always involve leftists talking about their peenies and[\s]gynies. Everyone knows that.

FIFAce

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at December 18, 2014 04:00 PM (YUa5i)

132 Okay... test run and code check-in complete.

Back to actually working at work.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at December 18, 2014 04:00 PM (kff5f)

133 I had a script all ready to go. 'Bring Me The Hair Of Kim Jong-Un'.

Suppose I'm not likely to get funded now...

Posted by: JEM at December 18, 2014 04:00 PM (o+SC1)

134 Oops

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at December 18, 2014 04:01 PM (YUa5i)

135 Parker and Stone do their best when things get pulled, and fight it as hard as they can, but I haven't seen them actually ultimatum a studio over it.

They fought tooth and nail to keep their Scientology episode, because they knew if they capitulated once, anyone could do it to them again. Comedy Central eventually censored the Mohammed episode, and what they said would happen, did.

Posted by: Chupacabras at December 18, 2014 04:01 PM (F26eZ)

136 When "Death of a President", the Hollywood film about assassinating George W. Bush, came out, did GWB threaten to kill people who went to see the movie? Did anyone's free speech rights get taken away?

I don't recall Slate telling its readers that they shouldn't be making or viewing a film about assassinating anybody back in 2006.

Posted by: Boots at December 18, 2014 04:01 PM (l9mF2)

137 So now whenever Hollywood makes some "brave" movie about a lesbian nun or a couple of cowboys fucking each other in Wyoming we will know exactly how brave they really are.

Posted by: Dang at December 18, 2014 04:01 PM (MNq6o)

138 Me no likey The Amazing Spiderman II, appease now.

Posted by: Kim Jong Un at December 18, 2014 04:01 PM (P1WNR)

139 We still owe the North Koreans for the USS Pueblo..... not that it matters now that we are not in the business of actually protecting our national interests or waging war to win.

Posted by: Trunk Monkey, as Voiced by Brian Dennehy at December 18, 2014 04:02 PM (32Ze2)

140 And the NORKs are commies not jihadists. Can't wait for the threats from that crowd in a casual display of one-upmanship. "It will be like three 9-11s!!!"

Posted by: The Poster Formerly Known as Mr. Barky at December 18, 2014 04:02 PM (lJLML)

141 I guess my remake of Little Big Man is dead, too.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at December 18, 2014 04:02 PM (l3vZN)

142 @137 - Until I decide to go give one of 'em a good strappin'

Posted by: Captain Saddlesore ridin' the Wyoming range at December 18, 2014 04:03 PM (o+SC1)

143 BREAKING Sony Suspends All Studio Tours Over Fears From The Interview

Weasel Zippers

Just hide under your bed and shake and get it over with.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 18, 2014 04:03 PM (Zmw74)

144 Try again.

>>Real free speech battles always involve leftists talking about their ~~peenies and~~ gynies. Everyone knows that.

FIFAce

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at December 18, 2014 04:03 PM (YUa5i)

145 What da fark was up wit da end of Sorns of Anrarchy serries finarey? Dat was worse dan Hans Brix squekhole!

Posted by: Kim Jung Un at December 18, 2014 04:03 PM (SQkRc)

146
Stealth Italicans allied with the Norks!

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 18, 2014 04:03 PM (TIIx5)

147
IRS is going to delay refunds

see

they got orders from the WH to shutdown and not cut refund checks

Posted by: ThunderB at December 18, 2014 04:03 PM (zOTsN)

148 Les Grossman wouldn't have taken this shit off the Norks.

Posted by: tennvols87 at December 18, 2014 04:00 PM (4Ql3B)

Hell, Les Nessman wouldn't have taken it.

Posted by: Emmett Milbarge at December 18, 2014 04:04 PM (nFdGS)

149 "Cats" will never reopen on Broadway! It defames Grizabella!

Posted by: Feline Anti-Defamation League at December 18, 2014 04:04 PM (LISuA)

150
And just like that.... *poof* they're gone.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 18, 2014 04:04 PM (TIIx5)

151 "Terrorism works"

As a result of this fucking embarrassment, we as a nation are in for a lot more it.

God help us because our "betters" certainly won't.

Posted by: Jaws at December 18, 2014 04:05 PM (WKNX4)

152 see if you don't cut refund checks that's how you create class warfare and chaos

Posted by: ThunderB at December 18, 2014 04:05 PM (zOTsN)

153 @150 - Careful who you callin' 'poof', there, pardner.

Posted by: Captain Saddlesore ridin' the Wyoming range at December 18, 2014 04:05 PM (o+SC1)

154 Free Beacon
The Worst of MSNBC in 2014 | SUPERcuts! #142: http://youtu.be/WKT_iwg9xbY via @YouTube

Posted by: Costanza Defense at December 18, 2014 04:05 PM (ZPrif)

155
It wasn't a perfect comparison. I just wanted to call him a dick. Is that so wrong?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 18, 2014 03:57 PM (knoK7)

Not at all...your instincts were spot on, just the timing was off.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 18, 2014 04:05 PM (2Ojst)

156 Maybe the next movie Hollywood makes should be a screen full of white noise for 90 minutes. Of course that is probably offensive to someone as well.
Posted by: dogfish
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Check your privilege.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 18, 2014 04:05 PM (/GgDU)

157 BREAKING Sony Suspends All Studio Tours Over Fears From The Interview
On your left, you can see an exciting film htat we are trashing. On your right, our lawyers are busily at work. Above you with the buckets of spackle is our IT department, vainly trying to plug some of the holes. That column of screaming women are the virgin sacrifices that were demanded of us. ISIS made us a great deal on those......

Posted by: Sony; our software is in your shit at December 18, 2014 04:06 PM (Spluw)

158 Is Sony Japanese or Multinational? Notice, I never asked if they were American. Tough toenails - maybe Japan or the UN can do something about your butthurt corporation. Yeah, and Ace thinks its about US honor or something.

Posted by: Super Creepy Rob Lowe at December 18, 2014 04:06 PM (oDCMR)

159 Hollywood should just get it over with and make Ass. The Movie.

Posted by: Chupacabras at December 18, 2014 04:06 PM (F26eZ)

160
i'd change the name of the studio back to columbia

Posted by: kj at December 18, 2014 04:06 PM (lKyWE)

161 I don't know how to react to this. I've never experienced anything like
this during my 49 years. America is afraid to show films???

Obama's already shown a willingness to send out his goons in the dead of night to disappear a filmmaker that's inconvenient, I guess the norks/china/ whoever wanted in on that action

Posted by: Methos at December 18, 2014 04:06 PM (A6vWB)

162 How soon before team America gets pulled from Netflix streaming?

Posted by: Buzzion at December 18, 2014 04:07 PM (z/Ubi)

163 Yeah, and Ace thinks its about US honor or something.

The threatened attacks would be here, not Japan, so, yeah.

Posted by: toby928(C) at December 18, 2014 04:07 PM (rwI+c)

164 152 see if you don't cut refund checks that's how you create class warfare and chaos
Posted by: ThunderB at December 18, 2014 04:05 PM (zOTsN)

Stupid move.

A lot, A LOT, of LIV's depend on their refund. They think it's manna from heaven.

Posted by: EC at December 18, 2014 04:07 PM (doBIb)

165 And just like that.... *poof* they're gone.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 18, 2014 04:04 PM

WHO WAS KEYSER SOZE?!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 18, 2014 04:07 PM (knoK7)

166 While all of this nonsense is going on what is being missed is an angry and bellicose Vlad Putin blaming "the west" for all of Mother Russia's ills. Expect Vlad to begin mixing it up in Eastern Europe..... He is pissed and his people are about 85% behind him.

Posted by: Trunk Monkey, as Voiced by Brian Dennehy at December 18, 2014 04:07 PM (32Ze2)

167 156 Maybe the next movie Hollywood makes should be a screen full of white noise for 90 minutes. Of course that is probably offensive to someone as well.
Posted by: dogfish
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Check your privilege.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 18, 2014 04:05 PM (/GgDU

I'm middle age, white, male, Christian, NRA and land owner. You can pick on me for a percentage of the take.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 18, 2014 04:07 PM (F2IAQ)

168
North Korea has had an epiphany:
"Look what we accomplished with a little hacking and some threatening emails. Just IMAGINE what we could do with a little stronger persuasion."

We are so totally fucked on a cosmic scale now.

Posted by: Rusty Nail at December 18, 2014 04:08 PM (QZ2XJ)

169 A generation of campus liberals beginning in the sixties was raised thinking that "power" was the adults in administration who basically agreed with them, but had to take into the practical considerations of running a university. So power never did speak back.

Even the CIA was basically a bunch of Ivy League Protestants who were liberal in social attitudes, but simply didn't want to surrender. The myth that the student left took on a vast right wing power structure and one is probably the most pernicious lie in politics today. It has convinced the left that all you have to do is yell and wait a few years and "power" caves. That's why the 1968 convention went down they way it did. Those Chicago cops were the first organized force student leftism encountered that wasn't sympathetic to their demands. Outside of the military and a few Senators what we think of as conservatism didn't exist from 1930 to 1976 let's say.

Posted by: tennvols87 at December 18, 2014 04:08 PM (4Ql3B)

170 @79 aliens. from space. the only bad guys allowed

Not if Neal Degrasse Tyson has anything to say about it.

Posted by: Dante at December 18, 2014 04:08 PM (tzeQz)

171 121 IRS says the latest budget is so draconian because of "cuts" its going to SHUTDOWN

Good fucking riddance.
P.S. I am looking forward to pres boyfriend whining about saving the IRS. he should go straight to the people and make his case.
Posted by: Blue Hen at December 18, 2014 03:59 PM (Spluw)

*****************

Announced by Koskinen, the guy who empirically, provably lied to Congress, and yet is somehow not only free, but still in his job.

Posted by: Bob's House of Flannel Shirts and Wallet Chains at December 18, 2014 04:08 PM (vgIRn)

172 they got orders from the WH to shutdown and not cut refund checks
Posted by: ThunderB
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Obama's base not effected.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 18, 2014 04:08 PM (/GgDU)

173 He is pissed and his people are about 85% behind him.

85% of them have been at Ikea, cleaning the place out.

Posted by: toby928(C) at December 18, 2014 04:08 PM (rwI+c)

174 Terrorism works on corporations. The fanatics will control us all, and there shall be no freedom.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at December 18, 2014 04:08 PM (GfPSp)

175 Les Grossman wouldn't have taken this shit off the Norks.
--

Wait, Grossman was based on Scott Rudin -- the Sony producer who's emails have been leaked insulting Obama.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at December 18, 2014 04:08 PM (ZPrif)

176 the LIVs will be told to blame the budget the Congress just passed, to blame republicans, even before they are seated

Posted by: ThunderB at December 18, 2014 04:08 PM (zOTsN)

177 @156 - Our Civil Rights Division has guidelines regarding the frequencies to be used in generating noise.

Posted by: Attorney General Eric Holder (still there) at December 18, 2014 04:08 PM (o+SC1)

178 163 Yeah, and Ace thinks its about US honor or something.

The threatened attacks would be here, not Japan, so, yeah.
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Happened before and when NYers found their taxi drivers uncomfortable they surrendered. Remember?

Posted by: Super Creepy Rob Lowe at December 18, 2014 04:08 PM (oDCMR)

179 The Alamo Drafthouse aren't Texans as much as they're Austinites. So they're awesome level is only so-so.

Posted by: Rusty Nail

They still run some "Keep Quiet During the Movie" trailer with Ann Richards in it. Barf.

Posted by: Dang at December 18, 2014 04:08 PM (MNq6o)

180 You guys just love to rally around Obama don't you!?!? Lulz! Pavlov.

Posted by: Some Asshole at December 18, 2014 03:42 PM (SQkRc)

obama's a pussy if he doesn't respond with a sustained nuclear bombardment of the norks (and let's face it any conflict will get there, so we might as well skip the intermediary steps)
Better?

Posted by: Methos at December 18, 2014 04:09 PM (A6vWB)

181 I guess culture is going to get a lot tamer.

That would be interesting: our enemies want to tone down what they themselves turned up to 11?

Break down culture standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and T.V.

Goals of Communism as read into the Congressional Register 1963.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, Curmudgeon Extraordinaire at December 18, 2014 04:09 PM (0HooB)

182 Good let the IRS collapse. Then we can start all over again.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 18, 2014 04:10 PM (Zmw74)

183 @159 - I suspect that one's probably widely available at most adult DVD sites.

Posted by: JEM at December 18, 2014 04:10 PM (o+SC1)

184 Obama's base not effected.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 18, 2014 04:08 PM (/GgDU)
***********
Not true. EITC. Money from heaven for people who don't make enough money on their own.

Posted by: Trunk Monkey, as Voiced by Brian Dennehy at December 18, 2014 04:11 PM (32Ze2)

185 Haha is that true about Les Grossman being based on Rudin?

Posted by: tennvols87 at December 18, 2014 04:11 PM (4Ql3B)

186 So what the MSM is trying to say: America, under Obama, is so safe from foreign terror attacks that we would not be able to stop bankrupt, isolated, backwards North Korea from sending agents here to kill our citizens?

Posted by: Nevyan at December 18, 2014 04:11 PM (zxWyw)

187 America, fuck no!!

Posted by: exdem13 at December 18, 2014 04:11 PM (/mTq0)

188 You guys just love to rally around Obama don't you!?!?

What has Obama done in the interests of free speech to warrant us rallying around him?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 18, 2014 04:11 PM (Dj3AB)

189
172 they got orders from the WH to shutdown and not cut refund checks
Posted by: ThunderB
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Obama's base not effected.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 18, 2014 04:08 PM

Sure they are, those earned income refund checks are part and parcel of the refund system.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 18, 2014 04:11 PM (F2IAQ)

190 The threatened attacks would be here, not Japan, so, yeah.
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Who cares? Obama's president now so whatevs Orwellians!

Posted by: Some Asshole at December 18, 2014 04:11 PM (SQkRc)

191 185 Haha is that true about Les Grossman being based on Rudin?
Posted by: tennvols87 at December 18, 2014 04:11 PM (4Ql3B)

Google his pic and compare to Tom Cruise in Tropic Thunder.

Uncanny.

Posted by: EC at December 18, 2014 04:12 PM (doBIb)

192
working people get refunds

or wont. The IRS wont collapse

this is shut down theater. The are attacking the pub blue collar base, bringing them to heel

Posted by: ThunderB at December 18, 2014 04:12 PM (zOTsN)

193 Good grief. This battle was lost long long ago.
Remember the preacher who was going to burn korans? The president pleading with him then strong arming him not to do it?
As I sit this holiday season watching all the in search of the real Jesus, and at Easter the snicker fests about the resurrection and debunk the bible brave mockumentaries and search in vain for the courageous libtarded medias hard hitting shows asking the big questions like "did Mohammed the robber king really ride a flying horse to the rock" or whats so bad about marrying 9 year old girls, or how convienient that that angel told moh that god wanted him to take his friends wife so you know......" As we open the floodgates to muzzie "refugees" from Syria ie cowards who won't fight for their own rights but will come here and use our own cowardice and moral uncertitude to bust our humps about burkas in the workplace...yeah the capitulation train left the station so long ago that there's nothing left sitting in the station of America but some skeletons labeled the constitution with the winds of hopey change and compassionate conservatism blowin thru.

Posted by: Old Guy at December 18, 2014 04:12 PM (IlQaj)

194 The price of freedom really is a buck-o-five.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 18, 2014 04:12 PM (2Ojst)

195 The IRS doesn't wanna cut any checks? Fine. Wind up Princess Running joke and bernie. hammer them on why "the working class" aren't getting their checks, when Uncle Fidel is getting his ass kissed.

Hold hearings and ensure that they get time to speak. Drag out the lerner e-mails and demonstrae wht they do have money for. Keep running the shitty Star Trek Video they made with taxpayer money. They don't want to dissect the IRS; they want more money shovelled out. if the Stupid party can't wn a popularity contest over the IRS, give up now.

Posted by: Blue Hen at December 18, 2014 04:12 PM (Spluw)

196 @188 - Rally around him? Only if in doing so we're able to pick him up, stick him in a C-130, and ship him to Gitmo for the rest of his natural life.

Posted by: JEM at December 18, 2014 04:12 PM (o+SC1)

197 I always thought Les Grossman was based on Harvey Weinstein.

Posted by: Emmett Milbarge at December 18, 2014 04:13 PM (nFdGS)

198 Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Now with extra taunting. at December 18, 2014 03:57 PM (mf5HN)

So I've watched the first two nights of Ascension. I will be watching the finale after work tonight. But while I am immensely enjoying the scantily clad women scenes, I've got to say that I was underwhelmed by the plot twist at the end of the first episode.

Posted by: Buzzion at December 18, 2014 04:13 PM (z/Ubi)

199 Those Chicago cops were the first organized force student leftism encountered that wasn't sympathetic to their demands.
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I recall sitting in the Day Room of the unit that I was attached to at the time, and watching things unfold on TV. Billy clubs, hippies being thrown through plate glass windows, and the crew in the Day Room shouting "Hell yeah! Beat those mothef*ckers"!

Good times, good times.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 18, 2014 04:13 PM (/GgDU)

200 188 You guys just love to rally around Obama don't you!?!?

What has Obama done in the interests of free speech to warrant us rallying around him?
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Another way to say it, when has Obama demonstrated any competence at threatening anyone except Republicans? Hey, let the NORKs have a propaganda win. Its only Obama that they've defeated.

Posted by: Super Creepy Rob Lowe at December 18, 2014 04:13 PM (oDCMR)

201 this is shut down theater. The are attacking the pub blue collar base, bringing them to heel

Posted by: ThunderB at December 18, 2014 04:12 PM (zOTsN)

So if the government won't give me the money it owes, because they are shut down, I can just not file my taxes at all, right?

Posted by: Heralder at December 18, 2014 04:13 PM (/Mxso)

202 Martyn BadWilf @BadWilf Dec 10
When you read those Sony emails, bare in mind that Scott Rudin is who Tom Cruise based Les Grossman on http://youtu.be/Odd8Zdhuj9o

Posted by: Costanza Defense at December 18, 2014 04:14 PM (ZPrif)

203 So if the government won't give me the money it owes, because they are shut down, I can just not file my taxes at all, right?

Automatic withholding.

Posted by: EC at December 18, 2014 04:14 PM (doBIb)

204 I read that Alamo Drafthouse was going to show Team America as a sing-along.

They serve booze too. That would have made for a kick ass awesome time.

Posted by: stace at December 18, 2014 04:14 PM (ImzkZ)

205 Let's all go full retard!

Posted by: Nigel West Dickens at December 18, 2014 04:14 PM (SQkRc)

206 People own copies of these fear-inducing movies.

Organize public showings.

Posted by: eman at December 18, 2014 04:15 PM (IFp78)

207 Old Guy at December 18, 2014 04:12 PM
------------

It isn't much consolation..., but you are not alone.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 18, 2014 04:15 PM (/GgDU)

208 205 Let's all go full retard!
Posted by: Nigel West Dickens at December 18, 2014 04:14 PM (SQkRc)

why that sounds just plain faggy

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 18, 2014 04:15 PM (F2IAQ)

209 if the Stupid party can't wn a popularity contest over the IRS, give up now.

Posted by: Blue Hen at December 18, 2014 04:12 PM (Spluw)

You have a superfluous "if" in that sentence!

Posted by: Hrothgar at December 18, 2014 04:16 PM (fL/7/)

210 Hollywood can go to hell.

Posted by: Meremortal at December 18, 2014 04:16 PM (1Y+hH)

211 I'm wondering if the Alamo Drafthouse will have some variation on a
"F*%k North Korea Party" where someone "accidentally" loads Team America
into the film projector and then "accidentally" turns the house lights
down, and then trips and falls into the on switch for the projector.

Oops. So sorry. My bad. Mea culpa. Geez, I'm such a klutz.

All movies are distributed and shown in a digital format, so it shouldn't be that difficult to "accidentally" acquire it. Each movie arrives on a hard drive and is "loaded" into the digital projector. Some hacker needs to get to work.

What we really need is a president who would warn them that if ONE American is injured or killed, we would bomb them so far back, it'll take them 2000 years to pull their fucking heads back out of their asses.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 18, 2014 04:16 PM (TPimP)

212 Tom Cruise was surprisingly awesome (surprising at least to me) in Tropic Thunder.

Posted by: MTF at December 18, 2014 04:16 PM (LISuA)

213 Yes... show Team America World Police on the theater wall of the place that refused to show it. It will draw MASSIVE crowds.

Posted by: Trunk Monkey, as Voiced by Brian Dennehy at December 18, 2014 04:16 PM (32Ze2)

214 The lesson the media is teaching is "if you conservatives want to win the culture war just threaten to kill people...."

I am disgusted with them because they are ensuring at some point we're going to lose any shot at egalitarian civil society.

Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at December 18, 2014 04:16 PM (/4AZU)

215 >>>If we could do something else, we wouldn't be fucking pissant internet critics.
That'd be too bad if that's how Ace really sees himself, I think. He does this stuff he does so well; he's really good at this. I know, I'm preaching to the choir, here.

Posted by: m at December 18, 2014 04:17 PM (G891H)

216 Scott Rudin, aka Les Grossman:

The man known as Hollywood's biggest asshole http://pge.sx/1DvcrKk via @pagesix

He has pushed assistants out of moving cars. He has thrown so many phones at assistants that, lore has it, a box of fresh ones is always on hand. He has fired people for bringing him the wrong muffin, mispronouncing names and, in at least one case, having to attend a funeral. One dismissed lackey wasn't even allowed to put on his coat before leaving the building.

The average Rudin assistant lasts four weeks.

...

He is known for issuing the following declarations:
“Don’t ever f–king think — I hired you from the neck down.”
“This is a new level of stupid.”
“Why doesn’t everyone just do what I say?”
“My silence is high praise.”
“Do you think you’ll even vaguely perform your duties as my employee?”
“You have three things to do: answer the phone, listen to me and die.”

Posted by: Costanza Defense at December 18, 2014 04:17 PM (ZPrif)

217 Have North Korea Sucks parties.

Mock their Fearless Leader out in the open.

Posted by: eman at December 18, 2014 04:17 PM (IFp78)

218 Hollywood can go to hell.

Posted by: Meremortal
--------------

Too late. They've already boarded the train.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 18, 2014 04:17 PM (/GgDU)

219 Other times the Norks threatened the US...

03/13 - Ordered rockets prepped for US strikes
06/09 - Threatened to "wipe US off the map"

Just a cursory search. Also, Norks issued their first statement about this movie back in June.

Other than the magnitude of some responses, I just don't get the timing.

Posted by: ScoggDog at December 18, 2014 04:17 PM (ViF0c)

220 You were almost on to something i'm really fed up with, Ace. It's the "above it all" people. The snobby, chckensh*t position of engaging in a discussion without taking a definite side and pretending to be "above the fray".

Posted by: WTP at December 18, 2014 04:17 PM (+hPIb)

221 Note to Slate's writers: You are not "above it all." Proof of that? You work for Slate.

I just nearly choked to death on a cookie.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Now with extra taunting. at December 18, 2014 04:17 PM (mf5HN)

222 166 While all of this nonsense is going on what is being missed is an angry and bellicose Vlad Putin blaming "the west" for all of Mother Russia's ills. Expect Vlad to begin mixing it up in Eastern Europe..... He is pissed and his people are about 85% behind him.
Posted by: Trunk Monkey, as Voiced by Brian Dennehy at December 18, 2014 04:07 PM (32Ze2)

Yeah, this is the real emerging threat right now. And Vlad knows what kind of "man" Obama is, so watch out. A caged, power-mad, KGB agent with his back to the wall could be very dangerous. And we dang sure don't have a Reagan around now to step on him like a bug.

Posted by: Havedash at December 18, 2014 04:17 PM (gvqyH)

223 BREAKING Sony Suspends All Studio Tours Over Fears From The Interview
Weasel Zippers

Just hide under your bed and shake and get it over with.

SHELTER IN PLACE!!! 11EVENTY!

Posted by: rickb223 at December 18, 2014 04:18 PM (BPT9g)

224 I have CD of Team America. Will enjoy it soon.

Posted by: Ronster at December 18, 2014 04:18 PM (9vrWU)

225 So if the government won't give me the money it owes, because they are shut down, I can just not file my taxes at all, right? Automatic withholding.
Posted by: EC

Suspend it. For the duration of the emergency. Deem it passed.

Posted by: Blue Hen at December 18, 2014 04:19 PM (Spluw)

226 210 Posted by: Meremortal at December 18, 2014 04:16 PM (1Y+hH)

They've been spitting and shitting on Americans they don't like for how many years?

I'd say the motherfuckers are in hell, they have just vouchsafed that their beloved PC didn't protect them from shit.

Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at December 18, 2014 04:19 PM (/4AZU)

227 Its funny that Ace thinks we have free speech in this country.

Posted by: Super Creepy Rob Lowe at December 18, 2014 04:19 PM (oDCMR)

228 What Old Guy said, every word of it.

There sure are a lot of "real jesus" docs on TV all the damn time. When Tom Holland was doing his "Islam: The Untold Story" guess what? The public screening was cancelled.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 18, 2014 04:19 PM (z/HLo)

229 Yeah, this is the real emerging threat right now.
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Pretty Mitt said something about that.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 18, 2014 04:19 PM (/GgDU)

230 Freedom of speech? Try being a white guy in America. You can't say shit...about shit....

Posted by: Mr.KnowItAll at December 18, 2014 04:19 PM (uJK1E)

231 Other than the magnitude of some responses, I just don't get the timing.
>>>>>>>

It's obviously a red herring to draw attention away from something.

Posted by: Lexa Sejon at December 18, 2014 04:20 PM (v5huP)

232 North Korea is really just China's lap dog. China is behind this just to see what can be accomplished. I do not think the NORKs have the capacity for such mischief, but the Chinese do..... and they are laughing their asses off right now. They made us head to the fainting couch without, actually, doing anything.

Posted by: Trunk Monkey, as Voiced by Brian Dennehy at December 18, 2014 04:20 PM (32Ze2)

233 It is becoming increasingly clear that a Constitutional Republic can only function if a significant majority of the citizenry are educated and moral. To believe otherwise is folly of the worst kind!

Posted by: Hrothgar at December 18, 2014 04:20 PM (fL/7/)

234 There sure are a lot of "real jesus" docs on TV all the damn time. When Tom Holland was doing his "Islam: The Untold Story" guess what? The public screening was cancelled.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 18, 2014 04:19 PM (z/HLo)

That's 'cause Christians don't cut people's heads off then they get offended. ~~Wookiees~~ Muslims are known to do that.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 18, 2014 04:20 PM (2Ojst)

235 So now we are having NORK gang rapes of thespians? Its Selma all over again.

Posted by: Super Creepy Rob Lowe at December 18, 2014 04:20 PM (oDCMR)

236 188
You guys just love to rally around Obama don't you!?!?

What has Obama done in the interests of free speech to warrant us rallying around him?
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We're not rallying around the Commie-hugger, we just want the USA as a whole to have some balls these days. Word on the street is we are the Coward of the County. We are more yellow than a canary shilling for Chiquita. This was a freakin' MOVIE fer chrissakes, a few emails got hacked, and the millionaires of Beverly Hills ran for the Hollywood Hills.

Posted by: exdem13 at December 18, 2014 04:21 PM (/mTq0)

237 Wow, they must have some pretty filthy stuff on these Hollywood execs... Cowards!

Posted by: spypeach tea party, white devil, racist queen of all that is evil with the world at December 18, 2014 04:22 PM (/vbEv)

238 Elliott Schwartz @elliosch 3m
stand by for hot @freebeacon vine

Free Beacon @FreeBeacon
#TeamAmerica, then and now. https://vine.co/v/OgQAZKjIKWu

Posted by: Costanza Defense at December 18, 2014 04:22 PM (ZPrif)

239 You want America to have BALLS for Hollywood? Take a guess how many two-passport holding pricks live in Hollywood. Let their Multi-National Corporate Army protect them.

Posted by: Super Creepy Rob Lowe at December 18, 2014 04:23 PM (oDCMR)

240 Wow, they must have some pretty filthy stuff on these Hollywood execs... Cowards!
Posted by: spypeach tea party, white devil, racist queen of all that is evil with the world at December 18, 2014 04:22 PM (/vbEv)

I'll repeat (what someone else on twitter said): My bet is that what Sony is afraid of is that the real profit and loss statements for their old films will leak.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Now with extra taunting. at December 18, 2014 04:23 PM (mf5HN)

241 191
185 Haha is that true about Les Grossman being based on Rudin?

Posted by: tennvols87 at December 18, 2014 04:11 PM (4Ql3B)

Google his pic and compare to Tom Cruise in Tropic Thunder.

Uncanny.

================
It is no coincidence, considering that film. Rudin probably thought it was effin' hilarious.

Posted by: exdem13 at December 18, 2014 04:24 PM (/mTq0)

242 240 Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Now with extra taunting. at December 18, 2014 04:23 PM (mf5HN)

Yup, add in some of the interoffice bitching and moaning over how much perverted felonious antics the help needs papered over locally as garnish and you're golden.

Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at December 18, 2014 04:24 PM (/4AZU)

243 from the frontline of the war on crime. I lost a trial on Halloween. I attribute the loss to the fact that the jury didn't think it was important (a protection order violation of consuming alcohol) and everybody wanted to go home and do Halloween. (I know I did.) Anyway, the defendant lied through her teeth and her sometimes boyfriend lied through his teeth for her.

Now the aforementioned sometimes boyfriend has beaten the crap out of her and raped her. there's nothing faux about this. It was an hours long assault involving several broken ribs and multiple stun gun shots while she was handcuffed to the bed. I knew they were both dirtbags but nobody deserves what happened to her. I hope he gets a nice lifetime sentence out of this but his daddy is rich and has gott4n hij out of trouble before.

The moral of the story: Honesty goes a long way in straightening out your life.

Posted by: The Great White Snark at December 18, 2014 04:24 PM (XUKZU)

244 I'll repeat (what someone else on twitter said): My bet is that what Sony is afraid of is that the real profit and loss statements for their old films will leak.
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Now with extra taunting. at December 18, 2014 04:23 PM (mf5HN)

But Paramount?

Posted by: Bob's House of Flannel Shirts and Wallet Chains at December 18, 2014 04:24 PM (vgIRn)

245 My new theory---->Obama's CIA/NSA did the hacking.

Posted by: Thin veneer of civility at December 18, 2014 04:24 PM (XzRw1)

246 It is no coincidence, considering that film. Rudin probably thought it was effin' hilarious.

He thought Tom was too sedate.

Posted by: EC at December 18, 2014 04:25 PM (doBIb)

247 Posted by: Costanza Defense at December 18, 2014 04:17 PM (ZPrif)

He sounds just like every wuss I've ever met. Real tough right up to the point of challenge, and then he pisses himself.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet for all of Your Holiday Needs! at December 18, 2014 04:25 PM (hLRSq)

248 Multiple instances of the word 'Commie' have triggered my monthly posting of this excerpt from Micky Spillane's novel - "One Lonely Night":

"I killed more people tonight than I have fingers on my hand. I shot them in cold blood and enjoyed every minute of it. I pumped slugs into the nastiest bunch of bastards you ever saw, and here I am calmer than I've ever been, and happy too. They were Communists, Lee. They were red sons of bitches who should have died long ago..."

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 18, 2014 04:25 PM (/GgDU)

249 I'll repeat (what someone else on twitter said): My bet is that what Sony is afraid of is that the real profit and loss statements for their old films will leak.
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Now with extra taunting. at December 18, 2014 04:23 PM (mf5HN)
But the blackmailer has absolutely no incentive to honor the 'bargain'. At the very least, until the information stops being valuable, why stop running the play? When Sony no longer has anything that NK wants, they're screwed.

Posted by: Blue Hen at December 18, 2014 04:26 PM (Spluw)

250 244 Posted by: Bob's House of Flannel Shirts and Wallet Chains at December 18, 2014 04:24 PM (vgIRn)

Paramount doesn't want to grab the "designated target" ball off of Sony...it is cowardly but "sensible"....

I am so sick and tired of "sensible"

Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at December 18, 2014 04:26 PM (/4AZU)

251 The failure state of my occupation in meatspace is dead. But I'll take "asshole" too.

Posted by: Fritz at December 18, 2014 04:26 PM (dVmLD)

252 Snark... how awful.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 18, 2014 04:26 PM (z/HLo)

253 245 Posted by: Thin veneer of civility at December 18, 2014 04:24 PM (XzRw1)

I don't think so, if they did Obama would be leaking the data to IRS and looking like a hero.

Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at December 18, 2014 04:27 PM (/4AZU)

254 You want America to have BALLS for Hollywood?

It's not have balls for Hollywood. It's have balls for America.

They were threatening to blow up theaters all over the country, not just Hollywood.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 18, 2014 04:27 PM (BPT9g)

255 Late 1990s bit from Chris Rock, at the peak of his stand-up comic popularity:

Chris Rock: [On gays in the military] If they wanna fight, let 'em
fight. Cause I ain't fightin'! I don't give a fuck if there's a Russian
tank rollin' down Flatbush Avenue. I ain't shootin' nobody. So call me a
faggot! When the war's over, I'll be the faggot with two legs, thank
you!

Posted by: Costanza Defense at December 18, 2014 03:54 PM (ZPrif)

Yeah, Chris. That's why you'd be perfectly happy being a slave. What? Truth hurts, doesn't it. Asshole.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 18, 2014 04:27 PM (TPimP)

256 But Paramount?
Posted by: Bob's House of Flannel Shirts and Wallet Chains at December 18, 2014 04:24 PM (vgIRn)

As someone else on twitter said that's some next level cowardly bullshit.

Also, I'm just going to sit here and behold the glory of that hash.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Now with extra taunting. at December 18, 2014 04:27 PM (mf5HN)

257 It's not have balls for Hollywood. It's have balls for America.
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But Obama is president now so who cares the country sucks or something. //

Posted by: Nigel West Dickens at December 18, 2014 04:28 PM (SQkRc)

258 Lemme get this straight: Rudin is an absolute prick to the help and in private emails. But face to face, or when challenged by someone he can't throw a phone at he collapses like a house of cards? And people actually put up with his crap?

Yeah, can't wait for the next Hollywood PSA lecture on not beating your wife or something.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 18, 2014 04:28 PM (ABcz/)

259 We're also seeing this as an attack on the United States, but Sony is an international company, and I suppose any terrorist attacks could have come anywhere in the world.

Posted by: --- at December 18, 2014 04:28 PM (MMC8r)

260 ...while I watch a Paramount production, Team America, via Netflix, on my Sony PS3.

F*ck, yeah.

Posted by: Golfman in NC at December 18, 2014 04:28 PM (qS0ts)

261 237 Wow, they must have some pretty filthy stuff on these Hollywood execs... Cowards!
Posted by: spypeach tea party, white devil, racist queen of all that is evil with the world at December 18, 2014 04:22 PM (/vbEv)

Hola there SP, just think of what is pretty much public knowledge about the depravity of Whoreywood, and extrapolate to what they worked hard to suppress. They might have reason to be a bit nervous due to the statute of limitations thing!

Posted by: Hrothgar at December 18, 2014 04:29 PM (fL/7/)

262 254 You want America to have BALLS for Hollywood?

It's not have balls for Hollywood. It's have balls for America.

They were threatening to blow up theaters all over the country, not just Hollywood.
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And you believed them? So who is the nutball here?

Posted by: Super Creepy Rob Lowe at December 18, 2014 04:29 PM (oDCMR)

263 I'll repeat (what someone else on twitter said): My bet is that what Sony is afraid of is that the real profit and loss statements for their old films will leak.
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD.

But Paramount?

Knee-jerk reaction to the original, public threat?

Posted by: rickb223 at December 18, 2014 04:30 PM (BPT9g)

264 It's not have balls for Hollywood. It's have balls for America. They were threatening to blow up theaters all over the country, not just Hollywood.

balls for america means democrats pushing for stronger gun control regulations,no thanks

Posted by: kj at December 18, 2014 04:30 PM (lKyWE)

265 The FCC on Thursday dismissed a petition filed by a professor claiming the Washington Redskins name is indecent, according to agency sources.

... Renegade Native American hackers on the war path ?

Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at December 18, 2014 04:30 PM (b/7jm)

266 That's my point Exdem ...

The Norks made asses of a President I hate, an industry I loathe, and a company that by all accounts is shitty.

No ... I don't want Barry to make a statement - I like him best when silent. I don't care how much money SONY loses. And I've never wanted to see a movie so bad I'd fight over it ... except maybe the remake of Devil in Miss Jones.

Now ... if this is just a reason to dogpile Barry, then I'm all in. But I'm really sure, for some, it ain't. Their American Pride's been hurt.

Folks, what are you going to do when the ChiComs seize a GM plant ? Me - not a damn thing. A blow to Corporate America is not a blow to me ... although the last two Presidents were convinced otherwise.

Posted by: ScoggDog at December 18, 2014 04:30 PM (ViF0c)

267 Dude I know we joke about the AoS lifestyle and all but you really shouldn't be that drunk this early.

Posted by: Nigel West Dickens at December 18, 2014 04:30 PM (SQkRc)

268 Afternoon, all. I guess we're still boned.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 18, 2014 04:30 PM (FsuaD)

269 Here's a weird idea- assuming North Korea did NOT do the hacking, and they seem incapable of advanced anything, and supposedly the first emails did not mention the movie or NK, could this be a smokescreen for an insider job that Sony wants us to think was NK? If it is NK, they can say "Don't blame us, we ren't in charge of Nat Sec." Or they just hate Texas.

Posted by: Baldy at December 18, 2014 04:31 PM (+35FH)

270 Sad thing is CPT Charles called it back in 2012 when the Empty Chair was re-elected. He said America's enemies were going to press us from every direction because they knew a Commie coward who could only talk tough to Republicans was in the Oval Office. I hate it when he's right about this sort of thing.

We might as well get used to these stories for the next three or four years, until the NEXT president puts someone down hard. Obummer won't fulfill his oath and defend the nation he hates and wishes to bring down in his heart. He's gutted the military and appointed his creatures to posts where they make sure that national security against illegal immigrants, terrorists, and viruses will not be a priority response. We are going to be pushed around and nothing will be done, up to the point where a city burns. (I wouldn't trust any of Obummer's people to make the right call on that response either.)

Posted by: exdem13 at December 18, 2014 04:32 PM (/mTq0)

271 something similar has happened before. In 1977, a movie named The Message (starring Anthony Quinn) about Muhammad resulted in a protest. As a protest against the release of this film, Afro-American Hinafi Muslims, under their leader, Hamaas Abdul Khaalis (born Ernest McGhee, 1921 - 2003), seized several adjoining buildings in Washington DC, from March 9 - 11, 1977. They took 149 hostages and killed a police officer and a broadcast journalist in a 39-hour-long standoff.

And the movie company had already gotten all the big Islamic scholars and leaders to sign off on the film, nevertheless, the kill crazy lunatics acted like kill crazy lunatics.

Posted by: The Great White Snark at December 18, 2014 04:32 PM (XUKZU)

272 They were threatening to blow up theaters all over the country, not just Hollywood. ---------------------------- And you believed them? So who is the nutball here?
Posted by: Super Creepy Rob Lowe

Sadly, all that'ts need then is one violent idiot and a shitbag lawyer and chaos would reign. Any nutcase that couldn't even spell 'DMZ' could fart in a theater and there may be grounds.
The NKs themselves wouldn't have to do anythng other than run their mouths. kinda like obama and rev Al sparking riots.

Posted by: Blue Hen at December 18, 2014 04:32 PM (Spluw)

273 266 That's my point Exdem ...

The Norks made asses of a President I hate, an industry I loathe, and a company that by all accounts is shitty.

No ... I don't want Barry to make a statement - I like him best when silent. I don't care how much money SONY loses. And I've never wanted to see a movie so bad I'd fight over it ... except maybe the remake of Devil in Miss Jones.

Now ... if this is just a reason to dogpile Barry, then I'm all in. But I'm really sure, for some, it ain't. Their American Pride's been hurt.

Folks, what are you going to do when the ChiComs seize a GM plant ? Me - not a damn thing. A blow to Corporate America is not a blow to me ... although the last two Presidents were convinced otherwise.
------------------------------

This and dogpile Obama, but mostly dogpile Obama. Who gives a shit about a multinational corporation that shits on Americans and stuffs money in Obama's pockets.

Posted by: Super Creepy Rob Lowe at December 18, 2014 04:32 PM (oDCMR)

274 North Korea is really just China's lap dog. China is behind this just
to see what can be accomplished. I do not think the NORKs have the
capacity for such mischief, but the Chinese do..... and they are
laughing their asses off right now. They made us head to the fainting
couch without, actually, doing anything.

I could support some sizable chinese trade sanctions right about now. On general principle.

Posted by: Methos at December 18, 2014 04:32 PM (A6vWB)

275 Need I say that one of my least favorite writers for Reason once wrote that Slate was a centrist publication?

Posted by: SpongeBobSaget at December 18, 2014 04:34 PM (zauWW)

276 As a result of this fucking embarrassment, we as a nation are in for a lot more it.

As President Boy, I'd propose that we do what we have historically done, which is to buck the rest of the world. We are the world's last great rebels. We've saved the world from one evil or another for one hundred years and we've received nothing resembling respect for the American Story as written into the world's history. Modern Europe owes it's very existence to us and the freedom that ironically allowed socialism to grow.

My proposal: since we still have a big economy, let's turn our money inward with the goal of having the highest standard of living in the world for us. If our enemies want an economic war, let's give them one. Our economy against yours. Mano a mano.

Let's start making our own products again. Let's become as self-sufficient as possible and become our own Most Favored Nation. Grow our own food as much as we can and reclaim our land. I'd nationalize any land inside the US owned by anyone else.

The world will destroy us only if we let them.

This is an issue of national security if I've ever seen one.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, Curmudgeon Extraordinaire at December 18, 2014 04:34 PM (0HooB)

277 Next, they will stop showing the new "Red Dawn" ... The one that they originally had the Chinese as the heavy-s, then replaced them by calling them North Koreans ... Mostly because there are no movie revenues with the NoKos to lose.

Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at December 18, 2014 04:34 PM (b/7jm)

278 So how many illegal but loyal NORKs has Obama allowed into the country to terrorize out cinemas? Lets find out.

Posted by: Super Creepy Rob Lowe at December 18, 2014 04:34 PM (oDCMR)

279 "10
I don't know how to react to this. I've never experienced anything like
this during my 49 years. America is afraid to show films???

Posted by: joefl65 at December 18, 2014 03:40 PM (UFV5W)"

Start checking into BitTorrent and how to illegally download movies without payments to the studios. Those cowards pretty obviously don't deserve the money they need to survive. Support politicians who promise to repeal the DMCA. Support politicians who promise to make copyright protection last exactly as long as patent protection i.e. 20 years.

Posted by: Obnoxious A-Hole at December 18, 2014 04:36 PM (PD6iL)

280 All this is called APPEASEMENT, and for those who choose to forget History, it never worked before, but go on rationalizing how Sony, Paramount, and all the others are just being careful.

Fuckin cowards and idiots.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 18, 2014 04:36 PM (Zmw74)

281 Pssst, Kim Un. I totes heard that the Ben Bat Aflack calls you a midget homo who smokes turds in his new movie coming out. You should see what you can do about that one before the good name of Un is totally trashed.

Posted by: Havedash at December 18, 2014 04:37 PM (gvqyH)

282 Need I say that one of my least favorite writers for Reason once wrote that Slate was a centrist publication?
Posted by: SpongeBobSaget at December 18, 2014 04:34 PM

In his defense, it was Reason...he was probably stoned at the time.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 18, 2014 04:37 PM (knoK7)

283 I think we are missing the point

its economic terrorism

Sonys stock was tanking, until they announced they were shelving the film

its about the money and making a company or an industry radioactive with terroristic threats

don't be surprised if movie attendance is way down for Christmas releases. The next group will do it to professional sports, etc

Posted by: ThunderB at December 18, 2014 04:37 PM (zOTsN)

284 280 All this is called APPEASEMENT, and for those who choose to forget History, it never worked before, but go on rationalizing how Sony, Paramount, and all the others are just being careful.

Fuckin cowards and idiots.
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Its Hollywood, what fuck did you expect - action heroes?

Posted by: Super Creepy Rob Lowe at December 18, 2014 04:37 PM (oDCMR)

285 Posted by: The Great White Snark at December 18, 2014 04:32 PM (XUKZU)
************
The Hinafi's almost killed Marion Barry on that day.

Posted by: Trunk Monkey, as Voiced by Brian Dennehy at December 18, 2014 04:37 PM (32Ze2)

286 "Actually, Slate going out of business could be a good thing"

True Slate-style headline

Posted by: AmishDude at December 18, 2014 04:38 PM (L2xDv)

287 IRS says the latest budget is so draconian because of "cuts" its going to SHUTDOWN

I fail to see how the IRS shutting down is a problem.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 18, 2014 04:38 PM (B/VB5)

288 A nation completely scuttled in 6 years.

Posted by: teh Wind at December 18, 2014 04:38 PM (B3WUC)

289 Here's a weird idea- assuming North Korea did NOT do the hacking, and
they seem incapable of advanced anything, and supposedly the first
emails did not mention the movie or NK, could this be a smokescreen for
an insider job that Sony wants us to think was NK? If it is NK, they can
say "Don't blame us, we ren't in charge of Nat Sec." Or they just hate
Texas.

I have a friend who's convinced this is some other matter between the hackers and some beef they have with Sony and NK may not have anything to do with it, and most of this is theater to get us used to capitulation.

I still think we should bomb something just to make sure that everyone gets the precedent cyberwar is war and will be treated in kind. Even if we make a mistake about who did it.

Posted by: Methos at December 18, 2014 04:38 PM (A6vWB)

290 Show Mohammed?

No, we can't let you do that.

Mock Kim Jung-Il?

Not any more.

Make fun of Mormons?

Here's a Tony!

Posted by: AmishDude at December 18, 2014 04:39 PM (L2xDv)

291
Need I say that one of my least favorite writers for Reason once wrote that Slate was a centrist publication?Posted by: SpongeBobSaget at December 18, 2014 04:34 PM (zauWW)It's Reason. They're a bunch of idiot Libertarians (BIRM).

Posted by: Colorado Alex at December 18, 2014 04:39 PM (OiH3z)

292 It's not have balls for Hollywood. It's have balls for America.
They were threatening to blow up theaters all over the country, not just Hollywood. Posted by: rickb223 at December 18, 2014 04:27 PM (BPT9g)And, had that come to pass, North Korea would finally get to enjoy the glories of "regime change". Yes, even The JEF would bomb the NorKs, if only to shore up his "legacy". Plus, he would be responding to attacks on his party's second biggest cash cow (after Unions, natch).

Posted by: Rusty Nail at December 18, 2014 04:39 PM (QZ2XJ)

293 re the IRS

they are keeping people on for Obamacare penalty assessments, but not for refund processing

Posted by: ThunderB at December 18, 2014 04:40 PM (zOTsN)

294 Start checking into BitTorrent and how to illegally download movies without payments to the studios. Those cowards pretty obviously don't deserve the money they need to survive. Support politicians who promise to repeal the DMCA. Support politicians who promise to make copyright protection last exactly as long as patent protection i.e. 20 years.
Posted by: Obnoxious A-Hole at December 18, 2014 04:36 PM (PD6iL)

Just watch, you can be tracked. Another alternative is to use software from Slysoft (AnyDVD/CloneDVD) and make backups and format conversions of DVDs & Blu Rays you already own. You can use Handbrake to convert your movie to Android or Ipad format as well.

Posted by: Iblis at December 18, 2014 04:40 PM (9221z)

295 The Hinafi's almost killed Marion Barry on that day.

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I've always said, there is some good in all religion but almost doesn't cut it.

Posted by: The Great White Snark at December 18, 2014 04:40 PM (XUKZU)

296 288
A nation completely scuttled in 6 years.

Posted by: teh Wind at December 18, 2014 04:38 PM (B3WUC)

Wonder what fresh hell awaits us in 2015? Go long on canned food and popcorn. And alcohol.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 18, 2014 04:41 PM (FsuaD)

297 So. How many films were pulled from theaters due to "McCarthyites"? If it's less than two we have passed Peak Pinko.

Posted by: John Wayne's itchy trigger finger at December 18, 2014 04:41 PM (zdVIQ)

298 So, we meet at last.

Posted by: The Hill to Die On at December 18, 2014 04:41 PM (dcY7v)

299 Next year's Oscar winning hit will be White Privilege.

Posted by: The Great White Snark at December 18, 2014 04:41 PM (XUKZU)

300 240
Wow, they must have some pretty filthy stuff on these Hollywood execs... Cowards!

Posted by: spypeach tea party, white devil, racist queen of all that
is evil with the world at December 18, 2014 04:22 PM (/vbEv)

I'll repeat (what someone else on twitter said): My bet is that
what Sony is afraid of is that the real profit and loss statements for
their old films will leak.
===============================

In that case Sony cut their own throats, 'cause not one dollar will be recouped on The Interview. NO need for financial shell games next quarter, that was a $45,000,000 movie with another $15,000,000 or so in promo costs that did not make one plastic penny back on the costs. Add in the fact that 2014 was only selectively successful at the movies, and the studio took a hit that will haunt them for a while. What did they really have to lose by giving Dear Leader the bird and running the film over Christmas? "The Interview" might actually have made a decent profit from the "fuck you Norks" sales. We'll never know, because Sony and then Paramount folded faster than the Belgian Army in 1940.

And as they said in Athelred Unraed's day, once you pay Danegeld you never get rid of the Dane. Hollywood will pay, and pay, and pay....

Posted by: exdem13 at December 18, 2014 04:42 PM (/mTq0)

301 Just watch, you can be tracked.

Insty's been pushing for the GOP to defund that tracking for a while. Since Hollywood's money all goes to the DNC it seems like a simple plan, but this *is* the Stupid Party.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 18, 2014 04:42 PM (B/VB5)

302 PSA... It's almost 5:00, time for Happy Hour

Posted by: spypeach at December 18, 2014 04:42 PM (/vbEv)

303 Maybe they could re-release 12 Years a Slave to cheer everyone up for Christmas?

Posted by: Super Creepy Rob Lowe at December 18, 2014 04:42 PM (oDCMR)

304 "254
You want America to have BALLS for Hollywood?

It's not have balls for Hollywood. It's have balls for America.

They were threatening to blow up theaters all over the country, not just Hollywood.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 18, 2014 04:27 PM (BPT9g)"

The appropriate response to that act of terrorism would be for the US Air Force and Navy to sink the entire North Korean navy after destroying their entire air defense system. If the North Koreans choose to respond by shelling Seoul, destroy every one of their mobile artillery pieces as it emerges from its cave. They might get a few rounds off but they will loose much of their deterrent threat.

Posted by: Obnoxious A-Hole at December 18, 2014 04:43 PM (PD6iL)

305 299
Next year's Oscar winning hit will be White Privilege.

It will be a tie between that and the JEF and Mooch love story movie coming out.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 18, 2014 04:43 PM (FsuaD)

306 re the IRS they are keeping people on for Obamacare penalty assessments, but not for refund processing
Posted by: ThunderB

yeah, that would go over big. Refunds checks aren't going out, but punishments continue full speed. Screw JEF, the pederast and the rest. Hammer the two lovely leftists and make them answer. Pit them against King Putt.

Princess Running Joke is stupid enough to believe that she's smart, and that it would be a good time to score political points. if things do shift, watch for chuckie schumer to jump in. Between this and the impending Halbig decision, t could scuttle this POS.

Posted by: Blue Hen at December 18, 2014 04:43 PM (Spluw)

307 Is there an emoticon for Kim Jong Un?

I think Il would've been sorta
=B^(

Anyway, need something shorthand for making fun of the prick

Posted by: Bigby's Clapping Hands at December 18, 2014 04:43 PM (3ZtZW)

308 302
PSA... It's almost 5:00, time for Happy Hour

Posted by: spypeach at December 18, 2014 04:42 PM (/vbEv)

Thanks!

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 18, 2014 04:44 PM (FsuaD)

309 Wonder what fresh hell awaits us in 2015? Go long on canned food and popcorn. And alcohol.

Posted by: Jane D'oh

And precious metals like steel, aluminum, copper, brass, and lead.

Posted by: T. Jeff. at December 18, 2014 04:44 PM (/Ho8c)

310 I saw The Message. It was awful. ProIslamic propaganda from start to finish. My eyes rolled like the little cherries on a slot machine. I recommend it for the MST3K treatment, assuming you are very, very high.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 18, 2014 04:44 PM (z/HLo)

311 Thank goodness nobody made a parody video of Hillary's campaign song. That bitch is more vindictive than some fat little Korean tyrant with a cane.

Posted by: Fritz at December 18, 2014 04:44 PM (dVmLD)

312 Nice, Bigby.

Posted by: T. Jeff. at December 18, 2014 04:44 PM (/Ho8c)

313 PSA... It's almost 5:00, time for Happy Hour
Posted by: spypeach at December 18, 2014 04:42 PM (/vbEv)
*********
I think it's now called Formerly Happy Hour, as there really is no true happiness in Obamamerica.

Posted by: Trunk Monkey, as Voiced by Brian Dennehy at December 18, 2014 04:44 PM (32Ze2)

314 *conduct airstrikes* I mean, just so's everyone's clear.

Posted by: Methos at December 18, 2014 04:44 PM (A6vWB)

315 306 re the IRS they are keeping people on for Obamacare penalty assessments, but not for refund processing
Posted by: ThunderB

Be sure to up your exemptions to lower your withholding. Two can play this game.

Posted by: Super Creepy Rob Lowe at December 18, 2014 04:45 PM (oDCMR)

316 nukes make that solution problematic

Posted by: ThunderB at December 18, 2014 04:45 PM (zOTsN)

317 307
Is there an emoticon for Kim Jong Un?

Let's try a couple:

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 18, 2014 04:45 PM (FsuaD)

318 Wonder what fresh hell awaits us in 2015? Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 18, 2014 04:41 PM

Fresh hell? You think you'll get fresh hell? That's adorable.

Posted by: 2015 at December 18, 2014 04:45 PM (knoK7)

319 Damn, trying to post with IE over Citrix is making my formatting... unpredictable.

Posted by: Rusty Nail at December 18, 2014 04:45 PM (QZ2XJ)

320 Its Hollywood, what fuck did you expect - action heroes?
Posted by: Super Creepy Rob Lowe at December 18, 2014 04:37 PM (oDCMR)

"You can act like a Man"!

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 18, 2014 04:45 PM (Zmw74)

321 299
Next year's Oscar winning hit will be White Privilege.
===================

The 2014 Oscars will be about Selma, believe it! Big Hero Six will win best animated film, Interstellar and Battle of Five Armies will reap technical Oscars but be shunned in all the other categories, and nothing with a Marvel pedigree will get noticed, even as Disney laughs all the way to the bank.

Posted by: exdem13 at December 18, 2014 04:46 PM (/mTq0)

322 >>>Nice, Bigby.

Just don't blame me when the HQ goes all BOOM

Posted by: Bigby's Clapping Hands at December 18, 2014 04:46 PM (3ZtZW)

323 Speaking of Hollywood, a plan just came together perfectly. When I had my old Army buddies up to the Cape this summer, I also invited a good friend from MA, an aspiring screenwriter/ex-bar owner, to help me out with getting people around, etc. His payoff was a week at the Cape and the hope that he'd hear an Army story worth writing about. He found one. A story one of my medic buddies told him. So they're gonna make a movie. I don't know who "Michael Pare" is, but he just signed on.

Posted by: Lincolntf at December 18, 2014 04:47 PM (2cS/G)

324 The appropriate response to that act of terrorism would be for the US Air Force and Navy to sink the entire North Korean navy after destroying their entire air defense system.

You and I know that, but do you really think the moistened bunts making that call would? (not the military, the authorizers)

Posted by: rickb223 at December 18, 2014 04:47 PM (BPT9g)

325 I wonder what it would be like to have a real man as president right now.

And f*ck Hollywood sideways with a pineapple.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 18, 2014 04:48 PM (FsuaD)

326 They might get a ~~few~~ COUPLE of HUNDRED THOUSAND rounds off but they will loose much of their deterrent threat.

Posted by: DaveA at December 18, 2014 04:48 PM (DL2i+)

327 Just don't blame me when the HQ goes all BOOM

*burp*

Posted by: Pixy's Hamsters at December 18, 2014 04:48 PM (0HooB)

328 Ace: "It's not enough to say something stupid -- no, they have to imply that other people are dumb for not thinking of the stupid #SlateTake themselves."

Ahhh. The Grubering Effect.

You think you're smart. We know you're not; well, not as smart as you think you are. And you're being an a-hole about it.

Yep, that's the Glitterati, alright... Grubering all over themselves while we laugh and laugh and laugh. At them, not with them. At them.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at December 18, 2014 04:48 PM (1CroS)

329 I wonder what will happen when Obama reads about this in the newspaper.

Posted by: Dang at December 18, 2014 04:49 PM (MNq6o)

330 I see no reason to let Hollywood think Americans would throw down for them. The game theory on this doesn't work out well for the Americans.

Posted by: Super Creepy Rob Lowe at December 18, 2014 04:49 PM (oDCMR)

331 I wonder what will happen when Obama reads about this in the newspaper.
Posted by: Dang

I kinda doubt that he'll be seeing it at the movies.

Posted by: Blue Hen at December 18, 2014 04:49 PM (Spluw)

332 OK gotta drive, yo

Posted by: Bigby's Clapping Hands at December 18, 2014 04:49 PM (3ZtZW)

333 See, so much HE you'll miss a closing tag.

Posted by: DaveA at December 18, 2014 04:50 PM (DL2i+)

334 ...that was a $45,000,000 movie with another $15,000,000 or so in promo costs that did not make one plastic penny back on the costs.

There still may be an ancillary revenue stream when Amy Pascal hits the road on her comedy tour, "Humorous Observations About Black People."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 18, 2014 04:50 PM (8ZskC)

335 I'm thinking the Red Line is somewhere east of Hollywood.

Posted by: Super Creepy Rob Lowe at December 18, 2014 04:50 PM (oDCMR)

336 Wonder what fresh hell awaits us in 2015?

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I just hope no one asks the Gentle Giant to get a bottle of laundry detergent off the top shelf for her.

Posted by: The Great White Snark at December 18, 2014 04:51 PM (XUKZU)

337 Stop acting like you've fucking Done Something until you've actually Done Something, boys.

The Olde English for "something" is "lon-"
Thus to say "Done Something boys" you would say:

LONDON BOYS

Posted by: wooga, Rolling Stone's resident etymologist at December 18, 2014 04:53 PM (OuLBr)

338 If we're going to have an economic war, my big concern is our debt. Which would explain TFG's actions in that regard.

#WASTF

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, Curmudgeon Extraordinaire at December 18, 2014 04:53 PM (0HooB)

339 so when theater receipts are down, and theaters and production companies go belly up, and people in ancillary industries like food and drink distributors, truck drivers, etc lose their jobs

I'll remember to feel good that Hollywood had to eat the Norks shit

Posted by: ThunderB at December 18, 2014 04:53 PM (zOTsN)

340 =B^(

How you like that Hans Brix?!?!?!

Posted by: KJI at December 18, 2014 04:53 PM (/Ho8c)

341 Yeah so can we get Joanne Chesimard back now from Cuba and the 80 other fugitives living there?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 18, 2014 04:53 PM (Zmw74)

342 ...that was a $45,000,000 movie with another $15,000,000 or so in promo costs that did not make one plastic penny back on the costs.

Someone said earlier that maybe the only way insurance pays, is if it is a total loss.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 18, 2014 04:53 PM (BPT9g)

343
290 Show Mohammed?

No, we can't let you do that.

Mock Kim Jung-Il?

Not any more.

Make fun of Mormons?

Here's a Tony!
Posted by: AmishDude at December 18, 2014 04:39 PM (L2xDv)

Well to be fair. Matt and trey did mock Kim Jung il. And would probably do it again. They do take on Muslims and would have no problem showing Muhammad. It's the gutless pussies that run Comedy Central that put a stop to it.

Posted by: Buzzion at December 18, 2014 04:54 PM (z/Ubi)

344 Maybe they could re-release 12 Years a Slave to cheer everyone up for Christmas?
Posted by: Super Creepy Rob Lowe at December 18, 2014 04:42 PM (oDCMR)

They're busy making 8 years a president.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at December 18, 2014 04:54 PM (W5DcG)

345 nood up.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 18, 2014 04:54 PM (BPT9g)

346 324
The appropriate response to that act of terrorism would be for the US
Air Force and Navy to sink the entire North Korean navy after destroying
their entire air defense system.

No need. The Norks had an internet connection to the outside world: they had to in order to do what they've done.

We're better than them at this stuff, much better.

Bring down their government IT and keep it down. Step on its dick like it owed you money.

Then take credit, loudly and often.

Posted by: pep at December 18, 2014 04:54 PM (4nR9/)

347 I'll remember to feel good that Hollywood had to eat the Norks shit
Posted by: ThunderB at December 18, 2014 04:53 PM (zOTsN)

Hollywood will soon go the way the dodo bird and print media

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 18, 2014 04:54 PM (Zmw74)

348 Someone said earlier that maybe the only way insurance pays, is if it is a total loss.

So true.

Posted by: Max Bialystock at December 18, 2014 04:55 PM (8ZskC)

349 Slate sucks yet still I read it (occasionally). Why is that? Is it rubbernecking a car wreck? Is it seeking a place under the bridge from which to troll? Is it jock-sniffing?

Nay. It is to feel superior to liberals in a visceral way. It is joy. It is schadenfreude waiting to happen.

Posted by: MaxMBJ at December 18, 2014 04:55 PM (5/iFs)

350
"I saw The Message. It was awful. ProIslamic propaganda from start to finish."

Moustapha Akkad was very moderate and western. That film was made when most of the Islamic world was fairly modern, before the Iranian Revolution and the Saudi Salafists dragged it back to the stone age.

Also, Akkad was killed by Al Qaeda when they bombed the Hilton(?) in Amman, Jordan. His surviving family are good people.

Posted by: Rusty Nail at December 18, 2014 04:55 PM (QZ2XJ)

351 #bringbackourballs

Posted by: anon a mouse at December 18, 2014 04:55 PM (/jpU8)

352 Ha Ha Ha

You smerr my barrs, Sony.

You too, Palamount.

Smerr barrs!!!! Yes...yes...you rike smerr Kim Jong-un's vingally barrs!!!

Yes!!!

Plesident Obama, you smerr barrs!!!!

Ha HA HA!!!

Evelbody in Amelica smerr my barrs!!!

Posted by: Kim Jong-un at December 18, 2014 04:55 PM (0cMkb)

353 http://tinyurl.com/ofwnt83

Law enforcement authorities now hope to bring Black Liberation Army cop killer to justice from Cuba.

That's just a really pathetic example of hope right there. Almost kind of sad they would even remotely think that.

Posted by: Dang at December 18, 2014 04:56 PM (MNq6o)

354 Is SONY Japan worried about getting nuked over its movie?

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at December 18, 2014 04:58 PM (1CroS)

355 You should never give in to terrorist threats!*

*threats made by Shmrett Shmimberlin don't count, totally different you guys

Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at December 18, 2014 04:58 PM (+lsX1)

356 334
...that was a $45,000,000 movie with another $15,000,000 or so in
promo costs that did not make one plastic penny back on the costs.

There still may be an ancillary revenue stream when Amy Pascal hits
the road on her comedy tour, "Humorous Observations About Black People."
=======================================

Don't remind me, that rich Leftist bitch is going to keep her job after saying a few pater sharptons and writing some checks. Sony won't can her for stepping on her tongue off the record. But Mel Gibson still has trouble getting work of any kind. Maybe she will be one of the people who sadly have to be let go if Sony has another bad year in 2015.

Posted by: exdem13 at December 18, 2014 04:59 PM (/mTq0)

357
So they're gonna make a movie. I don't know who "Michael Pare" is, but he just signed on.

Posted by: Lincolntf at December 18, 2014 04:47 PM (2cS/G)

Eddie and the Cruisers, Streets of Fire. Nowadays doing pretty much all direct-to-DVD dreck.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 18, 2014 05:00 PM (TIIx5)

358 Hahahaha! Now, Al Sharpton is involved. Wouldn't you know it! He probably sees this as a chance to get Sony to pay his tax bill or something, but he has a meeting set up with Amy Pascal, the soon-to-be-ex CEO of Sony Pictures.

http://nydn.us/1wIKius

Posted by: MTF at December 18, 2014 05:01 PM (LISuA)

359 342
...that was a $45,000,000 movie with another $15,000,000 or so in promo
costs that did not make one plastic penny back on the costs.

Someone said earlier that maybe the only way insurance pays, is if it is a total loss.
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Maybe they are trying to do Mel Brooks one better with "The Producers", but if so it is a mighty gamble.

Posted by: exdem13 at December 18, 2014 05:02 PM (/mTq0)

360 By the way, who thinks there will ever be another Islamic terrorist movie ever made? Vince Flynn is dead, so he doesn't care, but I really doubt The American Assassin ever gets made either.

Posted by: MTF at December 18, 2014 05:02 PM (LISuA)

361 America has everything to fear from having Barack Obama in the White House, even tin-pot dictators whose people were reduced to eating the bark off trees last winter.

Posted by: Senator John McCain at December 18, 2014 05:06 PM (LISuA)

362 360 By the way, who thinks there will ever be another Islamic terrorist movie ever made? Vince Flynn is dead, so he doesn't care, but I really doubt The American Assassin ever gets made either.
Posted by: MTF at December 18, 2014 05:02 PM (LISuA)

After this Sony mess, the only terrorists we'll see in films will be Christians, Tea Partiers, or Christian Tea Partiers. Or a rogue CIA agent. But that's about it.

Posted by: joefl65 at December 18, 2014 05:06 PM (UFV5W)

363 360
By the way, who thinks there will ever be another Islamic terrorist
movie ever made? Vince Flynn is dead, so he doesn't care, but I really
doubt The American Assassin ever gets made either.
============================

Not in this decade, anyway. We had our chance, but Hollywood had BDS and shunned it for anti-USA crap. With the Empty Chair in session, Hollywood knows no one will cover them, hands down. So making movies that rightfully villify people who have definitely shown a willingness to kill people who they don't like is out of the question. Between the SJW whiners, the blame America first crowd, the craven studio heads, and the Commies in high places, I wonder if we will be allowed to have action movies at all by 2020.

Posted by: exdem13 at December 18, 2014 05:07 PM (/mTq0)

364 "Blazing Saddles" is still available for at least another day or two! Get it while you still can!

Posted by: Mel Brooks at December 18, 2014 05:08 PM (LISuA)

365 I own Team America. I think I'll go home and watch it tonight with a brave drink in my hand.

Posted by: kathysaysso at December 18, 2014 05:08 PM (fMQoG)

366 Direct-to-DVD seems to be the league he's playing in, but, hey, it's a start. And presumably a paycheck.

Posted by: Lincolntf at December 18, 2014 05:11 PM (2cS/G)

367 I'm still not sold on the whole "it was the eeeevil Norks!" narrative, for several reasons.

YMMV

Posted by: mojo at December 18, 2014 05:25 PM (ejcGn)

368 Glad we can take Hollywood out of the whole "champions of free speech and the first amendment" arena. Never seemed like they belonged there. Pussies gonna puss.

Posted by: Dang at December 18, 2014 05:30 PM (MNq6o)

369 Re: Ascension

I've got to say that I was underwhelmed by the plot twist at the end of the first episode.

Prepare to be even less "whelmed" at the final plot twist/ending of part 3.

The whole damned thing played like an extended miniseries that couldn't more obviously be shooting at series status.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at December 18, 2014 05:50 PM (PMGbu)

370 "Putin taking over Ukraine is bad for the Ukraine." NEVER "the Ukraine". It is not "the" Germnay, or "the" France. Ukraine is a country, not a geographic feature, like THE forest, or THE Sahara desert.

I know you didn't mean it, but there it is.

Posted by: Dr. McCoy at December 18, 2014 06:04 PM (/EkKm)

371
(Slate is) rather beneath it all, or at least beneath most of it.

Oh, gosh, so Slate's writers are hanging out in the catch basin of porta-potties?

*ewwww*

Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie at December 18, 2014 06:18 PM (VvOZ5)

372 Escort girls www.regmodels.ru

Posted by: Linda at December 18, 2014 06:26 PM (Dj10Y)

373 It's like Paramount Pictures just couldn't let Texas be awesome. Or braver than they. Too stupid for words.

Happy that Cleveland and Atlanta planned this stunt, too. Too bad it didn't happen.

Posted by: Aslan's Girl at December 18, 2014 06:33 PM (rldyO)

374 Maybe the next movie Hollywood makes should be a screen full of white noise for 90 minutes
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Racist.

Posted by: The Mega Independent at December 18, 2014 10:07 PM (QCo5R)

375 Wow. Ace ground Slate into pudding.

Posted by: Mongerel at December 18, 2014 10:16 PM (YqWfw)

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