quote:holy crap I hadn't seen that, I remember they bleeped that whole scene, not a single word was spoken. It was hilarious, infuriating, and classic South Park at the same time... the irony is by bleeping it, south park essentially made the point in the dialogue without saying anything.
Relevant South Park clip
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Who needs to hack into anything? All anyone needs to do is publically release a threat to kill people who attend some event they don't like and be somehow semi-credible, and that should do it.
quote:I guess you missed our negotiations with Cuba this week, too. I guess we started negotiating with terrorists about the same time we started apologizing for being mean to them.
I thought the US didn't negotiate with terrorists. Clearly Glenn Close lied to me in Air Force One.
Seriously, why aren't we putting these a*holes in their place? Are they BFF with China?
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Who needs to hack into anything? All anyone needs to do is publically release a threat to kill people who attend some event they don't like and be somehow semi-credible, and that should do it.
That "be somehow semi-credible" should answer why the need to hack anything. It gives credibility to the threat.
quote:You're not the only one.
Obama flat called Sony out for backing down against N.Korea's threats. Was kind of shocked to see that response from him.
quote:Highly doubtful. This film was projected to do $80-100M box office. The highest grossing VOD releases (Snowpiercer and Margin Call) did $10M. So this would have to do 10x any of its predecessors to even be even with initial expectations.
They are considering releasing the movie now to an online service like iTunes. If they play their cards right, they'll be making a whole lot more than they could have ever hoped for prior to the hack.