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"Team America" Gets Post-Hack Yanking At Alamo Drafthouse, Too 230

Posted by timothy from the meet-your-new-program-director dept.
Slate reports that even old movies are enough to trigger a pretty strong knee jerk: Team America, World Police, selected as a tongue-in-cheek replacement by Dallas's Alamo Drafthouse Theater for the Sony-yanked The Interview after that film drew too much heat following the recent Sony hack, has also been pulled. The theater's tweet, as reprinted by Slate: "due to circumstances beyond our control,” their Dec. 27 Team America screening has also been canceled." If only I had a copy, I'd like to host a viewing party here in Austin for The Interview, which I want to see now more than ever. (And it would be a fitting venue.)
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"Team America" Gets Post-Hack Yanking At Alamo Drafthouse, Too

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  • America! (Score:5, Funny)

    by Iniamyen ( 2440798 ) on Thursday December 18, 2014 @04:53PM (#48629121)
    Fuck yeah!

    • Re:America! (Score:5, Insightful)

      by halivar ( 535827 ) <bfelger@gmai l . com> on Thursday December 18, 2014 @05:00PM (#48629181)

      "North Korea? Oh, Fuck no!" - Sony, Paramount, et al.

      • Re: (Score:2, Funny)

        by Anonymous Coward

        "Team America" Gets Post-Hack Yanking At Alamo Drafthouse, Too

        I could go for a post-hack yanking. I'm cool with k-girls.

      • Re: America! (Score:3, Insightful)

        by O('_')O_Bush ( 1162487 )
        It is probably just a viral marketing campaign by Sony. They will release it in a month and 10x more people will go see it out of misguided patriotism and anti North Korean sentiment than would have otherwise

    • For Onry the Ronery (Score:5, Interesting)

      by smittyoneeach ( 243267 ) * on Thursday December 18, 2014 @05:12PM (#48629243) Homepage Journal
      There will be a simultaneous viewing/tweeting of Team America at 2100 (9PM) EST on Friday, for you Twitter mongers.

    • Re: (Score:3, Insightful)

      by Pedrito ( 94783 )
      In all seriousness, though, I think Sony ought to release the movie and I think everyone who believes in free speech ought to buy a ticket, whether they see it or not. Let's turn this movie into a blockbuster! That's the American thing to do! Well, at least back when Americans acted like Americans.

      • Re:America! (Score:5, Interesting)

        by cheater512 ( 783349 ) <nick@nickstallman.net> on Thursday December 18, 2014 @05:50PM (#48629539) Homepage

        I'd prefer for everyone to pirate it.

        You screw the North Koreans (and their supporters) and Sony in one go. Win Win.

        And ironically, it seems that will be the only way to watch the movie for the time being. Cause the terrorists have won.

      • Re:America! (Score:5, Insightful)

        by godel_56 ( 1287256 ) on Thursday December 18, 2014 @06:44PM (#48629891)

        In all seriousness, though, I think Sony ought to release the movie and I think everyone who believes in free speech ought to buy a ticket, whether they see it or not. Let's turn this movie into a blockbuster! That's the American thing to do! Well, at least back when Americans acted like Americans.

        You've got to be joking! Everyone buys a ticket and gives a huge profit to Sony and Fox?

        Fuck that, I don't think so.

      • Re:America! (Score:5, Informative)

        by Actually, I do RTFA ( 1058596 ) on Thursday December 18, 2014 @06:57PM (#48629943)

        I think everyone who believes in free speech ought to buy a ticket,

        The movie is neither courageous nor a triumph of free speech. It would be both if North Koreans had made it. But it's not.

        It didn't even look like a good movie

        And giving money to corporation for a shitty in return may be an American way, but it's not one I want to encourage.

      • Or watch it on Netflix. Unless they chicken out too, american style. (zing)

        well that was more sad than funny :(

      • I don't give a rat's ass about the fucking movie OR Sony. I'm not about to give those assholes a goddam dime and reward their bad business practices.

        Security will continue to be a bad joke until firms like Sony get busted in the monetary balls by way of lawsuits because their IT department wouldn't make a decent wart on a sysadmin's butt.

      • Yeah, I guess we should show we're not intimidated by North Korea. But really, corporations are.

        Although if a local theater showed The Interview as an act of defiance, I'd be torn about going to see it. The event could be fun, but on the other hand, I'd be watching yet another shitty Seth Rogen movie.

        Really, it'd be like going to see a comedian who's being threatened with arrest for obscenity, but instead of Lenny Bruce, it's Carrot Top.

    • Re:America! (Score:5, Interesting)

      by Megane ( 129182 ) on Thursday December 18, 2014 @05:49PM (#48629523)
      I have a feeling that Trey and Matt are going to do well in the coming week or two. I still haven't seen Team America, and I can't be the only one.
    • O'er the land of the cowed and the home of the chickenshit!

  • What are they going to do? (Score:5, Interesting)

    by khasim ( 1285 ) <brandioch.conner@gmail.com> on Thursday December 18, 2014 @04:58PM (#48629159)

    They're computer crackers. What are they going to do? Why all the fear?

    • My guess is that the hackers have information that is far more damaging than what they've released so far (if that's possible). As far as why DVDs of TA are in trouble? No idea.

    • Re:What are they going to do? (Score:5, Informative)

      by Translation Error ( 1176675 ) on Thursday December 18, 2014 @05:08PM (#48629227)

      They're computer crackers. What are they going to do? Why all the fear?

      There's always been fear about the 'evil hackers' and the terrible, magical things they can do. From Wikipedia:

      Mitnick served five years in prison--four and a half years pre-trial and eight months in solitary confinement--because, according to Mitnick, law enforcement officials convinced a judge that he had the ability to "start a nuclear war by whistling into a pay phone", meaning that law enforcement told the judge that he could somehow dial into the NORAD modem via a payphone from prison and communicate with the modem by whistling to launch nuclear missiles.

    • Seriously. It's like Alan Cumming in Goldeneye. Yea, you're invincible, but you're not fucking scary. Here's a bomb in a fucking click-pen. Fucking die.

    • Indeed. Of all the groups that make threats against the West, NK seems the one least likely to have the ability or desire to actually attack a Western target. I cannot imagine the fires of hell that would reign down on North Korea should it be demonstrated to be behind mass murders in the United States.

      It boggles my mind that anyone seriously believes North Korea is going to start mounting attacks on North American theaters should they screen this film.

      • It boggles my mind that anyone seriously believes North Korea is going to start mounting attacks on North American theaters should they screen this film.

        As I said in the other thread, I suspect what NK has done is threaten harm to the families of the Sony execs and the movie chain execs.

        That's likely all it would take: "Show this movie and I'll kill your children."

        The "attack the theaters" response is just a smokescreen against what has really been threatened.

  • Model Move (Score:4, Funny)

    by magusxxx ( 751600 ) <magusxxx_2000 AT yahoo DOT com> on Thursday December 18, 2014 @04:59PM (#48629165)
    If there was ever a time to re-release Zoolander, it's now!

  • If you want a copy... (Score:5, Funny)

    by wolfman_jake ( 974273 ) on Thursday December 18, 2014 @05:00PM (#48629177)
    It shouldn't be to difficult to get one, I hear Sony's security isn't the best.

  • Alternative #3 (Score:3)

    by Les Peters ( 3408365 ) on Thursday December 18, 2014 @05:00PM (#48629183)

    Perhaps a screening of the final episode of "M*A*S*H"?

  • I don't understand why it would draw any heat at all.

    • Re: (Score:2, Flamebait)

      by hondo77 ( 324058 )
      The same reason conservative members of Congress don't want to close Gitmo and transfer the prisoners to the mainland: 'murica wants to confront, fight, and destroy terrorism...somewhere else but not here.

  • Pitiful (Score:2)

    by Anonymous Coward

    I loathe the politically correct decision makers. They are ruining America and other places, too. People don't have a right not not be offended, the Supreme Court has opined, so let's just do what we want. If you're offended, be offended, but have enough human decency and common sense to understand that not everyone feels the same way you do. Live and let live. As long as no one is touch you physically, stealing your property, or preventing you from pursuing freedom and happiness, go your merry and let othe

  • Comment removed (Score:5, Funny)

    by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) on Thursday December 18, 2014 @05:04PM (#48629211)
    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  • Those responsible have been sacked (Score:5, Funny)

    by flink ( 18449 ) on Thursday December 18, 2014 @05:14PM (#48629257)

    We regret the inconvenience. The move that was to replace the move that has been yanked, has been yanked. Those responsible for sacking the ones responsible for yanking the movie to replace the yanked movie wish you to know that they have been sacked.

  • Is CollegeHumor Next. (Score:3)

    by Deathlizard ( 115856 ) on Thursday December 18, 2014 @05:17PM (#48629283) Homepage Journal

    I'm sure the DPRK isn't too happy about this Series. [youtube.com]

  • Home of the Brave (Score:3)

    by organgtool ( 966989 ) on Thursday December 18, 2014 @05:18PM (#48629287)
    I can only imagine what is going through the minds of WWII vets who put their lives on the line to defend this country just to watch it devolve into a bunch of cowardly sissies.

    • I can imagine what is going through the heads of many Korean War vets, that MacArthur should have been allowed to march right into Manchuria.

      • Re: (Score:3, Interesting)

        by cheesybagel ( 670288 )

        So you think he wouldn't have lost a land battle in China? Why do you think he came back crying like a baby to the US President that they needed to nuke Beijing and Moscow? The whole idea was ludicrous. The Soviet Union had tested their own nuclear weapons before the Korean War started.

        I usually prefer calling the Korean War WWIII to put it into proper perspective.

    • They are thinking that Sony makes a lot of fucking money and should have spent some of it making goddam sure only need-to-know people had root access and that the IT department was staffed by competent, enabled people, and they are thinking this is not a freedom of speech issue, rather it's a Darwinistic weeding of crappy-ass naive corporate assholes and stuff.

  • Please use better phrases... (Score:3)

    by Kaldaien ( 676190 ) on Thursday December 18, 2014 @05:18PM (#48629291)

    Between "post-hack yanking" and "Don't jerk and drive", I'm losing my mind reading news stores.

  • How about the 2012 Red Dawn showing? (Score:5, Funny)

    by mlts ( 1038732 ) on Thursday December 18, 2014 @05:19PM (#48629293)

    Sounds like the Alamo Drafthouse needs to show the 2012 remake of Red Dawn...

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by sconeu ( 64226 )

      This isn't Alamo Drafthouse's fault. Paramount chickened out.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by sjames ( 1099 )

      During intermission, they can lead the audience in the chicken dance.

    • I'm all for free speech, but forcing someone to watch that may be taking it a bit too far.

  • We're turning into wimps (Score:5, Informative)

    by MetricT ( 128876 ) on Thursday December 18, 2014 @05:27PM (#48629361)

    The United States has the planet's largest ocean between us and North Korea, the most powerful military the world has ever seen, and enough nuclear firepower to take the entire surface area of North Korea and give it escape velocity. And yet we wimp out on... showinging a 10-year old movie because it might make a tin-plate dictator mad? Seriously?

    • Re:We're turning into wimps (Score:5, Insightful)

      by MightyMartian ( 840721 ) on Thursday December 18, 2014 @05:34PM (#48629407) Journal

      North Korea really hasn't even proven it has a missile that reliably reach Japan. The country is a total basket case run by a violent, completely detached dynasty. It represents a significant regional threat, but if it were to ever do anything truly belligerent, China would yank support and the regime would collapse.

      That, to my mind, is the chief threat of North Korea, that when the Kims finally do lose grip, the regime's collapse will be violent for North Koreans and their neighbors.

  • Sign up for duty then if yer so gung ho. Now you know how they get soldiers... Wise up and ignore the propaganda, son.

  • You Can Watch the Interview! (Score:2, Interesting)

    by Anonymous Coward

    They should run a protest viewing of the Hugo Weaving film "The Interview" [imdb.com] instead.
    I'm pretty sure it is a better film than the Seth Rogen one anyway.
    Yes, I've seen it. It is top notch.

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  • Not the Drafthouse fault. (Score:5, Informative)

    by sconeu ( 64226 ) on Thursday December 18, 2014 @05:48PM (#48629505) Homepage Journal

    The Nerdist blames Paramount [nerdist.com].

  • Put a DVD copy of the movies in a satellite, launch it and beam the movies down to NK in every electronic format possible from AM radio to HD. Put the movies on loop and hit play.

  • Cowards (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Jeff Flanagan ( 2981883 ) on Thursday December 18, 2014 @05:52PM (#48629553)
    Maybe we shouldn't turn chicken every time some worthless sociopath threatens violence.

  • If only I had a copy, I'd like to host a viewing party here in Austin for The Interview, which I want to see now more than ever.

    https://archive.org/details/TE... [archive.org]

  • I got the closing theme song from Robot chicken running through my head.

    My bucket list includes seeing the movie that has America, land of the free and home of the brave, cowering like a paranoid yuppie housewife in the corner of her safe room in her gated neighborhood protected by her ADT security system because she heard there were some brown people around.

  • Re: (Score:2, Insightful)

    by account_deleted ( 4530225 )
    Comment removed based on user account deletion

    • Re:Neville Chamberlin was not available for commen (Score:4, Insightful)

      by myowntrueself ( 607117 ) on Thursday December 18, 2014 @07:28PM (#48630137)

      what a lot of people don't realise is that after he came back from placating hitler he increased military spending significantly. If not for him, when war broke out Britain would have been squashed.

      This is whats called 'international diplomacy' and was actually pretty masterful; he delayed the start of the war and ensured that Britain was prepared for it.

      • Re: (Score:3)

        by Rei ( 128717 )

        Germany was spending far more on their military during that time than Britain was. If Britain and France had stepped in earlier, Germany would have been totally unprepared and the war would have ended quickly. Not to mention all of the horrors of the Holocaust that would have been prevented.

        If Britain and France had managed to delay the war to "prepare" even more, say a few years, the Luftwaffe would have been dominated by jets, German ballistic missiles would have been longer range and more precise, and th

  • It Almost Makes Sense (Score:5, Insightful)

    by organgtool ( 966989 ) on Thursday December 18, 2014 @07:06PM (#48629989)
    I find it funny that a movie that is a social commentary on how America does whatever it wants with complete disregard for the consequences of its actions on anyone else in the world is being pulled because a few people in a country that we don't even like are upset. I guess it's appropriate since the themes of the movie apparently aren't as relevant today.

  • I present you... (Score:3)

    by arielCo ( 995647 ) on Thursday December 18, 2014 @08:49PM (#48630599)

    the new Paramount logo. [imgur.com]

  • Misplaced FUD (Score:3)

    by RogueWarrior65 ( 678876 ) on Thursday December 18, 2014 @08:59PM (#48630647)

    Here's my theory: Sony was worried that some crazy person is going to batcrap crazy in one of these theaters think that North Korea has sympathizers like ISIS does. The two are not synonymous. You don't see people running around saying that North Korea is regime of peace and North Korea hates us because we stole their oil. By the same token, nobody in Hollywood got all first amendment defensive about the guy who made Innocence of Muslims and wound up in jail (how convenient). Further, nobody in Hollywood decided to close theaters when Dinesh D'Souza came out with multiple movies that some might say would motivate Tea Partiers to do what the left keeps trying to b.s. everyone into believing that they do. Bottom line: Hollywood is a cesspool of hypocrisy.

  • Now wait for South Park to cover it (Score:3)

    by AC-x ( 735297 ) on Friday December 19, 2014 @10:00AM (#48633797)

    Matt and Trey are going to have a field day over all this.

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