So Sony and all the theater chains fold like a cheap camera to the threats of North Korea. Unfuckingbelievable.
Well, I doubt North Korean cyber-terrorists have much meatspace operational capacity in the U.S. The customers would have been pretty fucking safe. However, in the unlikely event of something actually happening Sony would have been up shit's creek even worse than they already are. Sony and the major theater chains acted in an unusually highly risk averse manner, but it's understandable why they did so in this case. Besides, there's still plenty of money to be made on "The Interview." Direct video sales of "the movie the terrorists didn't want you to see" will do quite well, and people will pay through the nose to get into a limited theater release sometime in 2015. I suspect that the movie will end up doing reasonably well for a $44M budget film, or at least a hell of a lot better than Ishtar.
The CIA is probably already prepping an operation where they put a flash drive full of Stuxnet into a wheel of swiss cheese to give to King Jong-Un.
What a bunch of pussies. And on top of it, a theater chain that was going to show Team America instead was told not to as well.
Ideal response... 1) Team America day: EVERYONE watch Team America on the same day, make sure there is enough coverage that NK knows we are as a country are flipping them off. 2) Sony take the hit and dump The Interview on the internet. The good will that would generate for Sony would almost certainly make up for the profit loss on one movie.
