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“The Interview” now available on Google Play and YouTube Movies [W:66]

1750Texan said:
The movie looks like a real dog. KJU was doing the US a favor.
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Im gonna be up north in a few days, and plan to watch it, as of now all I have seen is the KJU death scene (like the auto grenade) and the hype online and in media-its well worth few bucks, some christmas cheer, and some booze. But who knows?
 
“The Interview” now available on Google Play and YouTube Movies
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sounds fun, but i think i'll watch my zombie stories instead.
 
I think there is a good chance that the hype about the movie may propel it to become more profitable than whatever Sony lost in the cyber attack. The cyber attackers will end up with a non winner.
 
I pirated it since isn't available in Canada because Sony sucks, and watched it last night.
 
fmw said:
I think there is a good chance that the hype about the movie may propel it to become more profitable than whatever Sony lost in the cyber attack. The cyber attackers will end up with a non winner.
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Well they locked access to the U.S. only and it is very popular on torrent sites right now so right out of the get go they are probably losing money because they only released it in the U.S..
 
Hatuey said:
Hey, some of us have spent most of our lives outside of a classroom. You should try it sometime, it's great for the knees.

Merry Christmas!
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Standing outside for punishment for having done what inside the classroom?
 
US Conservative said:
Im gonna be up north in a few days, and plan to watch it, as of now all I have seen is the KJU death scene (like the auto grenade) and the hype online and in media-its well worth few bucks, some christmas cheer, and some booze. But who knows?
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yeah, my son rented it yesterday, we may watch it today....:shrug: Merry Christmas everyone.
 
Carjosse said:
Well they locked access to the U.S. only and it is very popular on torrent sites right now so right out of the get go they are probably losing money because they only released it in the U.S..
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They are probably trying to protect the sites that stream it from foreign hacking. It was foreign hacking, after all, that started the whole issue.
 

People in europe cant use KAT?
 

That is exactly why we cannot rely on the automatic hero thing. If one of them is destroyed in public, the next will be hard to find and coercion will be free to roam wild.

What would be interesting is how Obama's pressure or let us call it moral suasion would be interpreted. Would the government stand by Sony or not?

Also, I would say that we all expected somethng along these lines. We have seen the hacker's leaks of telephone calls and threats by dictators before. We have talker about al sorts of attacks via the internet on companies and governments for years. If we were taken by surprise, were unprepared, some people should lose their jobs and some should go to jail.
 
It's up on all the torrent sites for free...lol
 
Helix said:
sounds fun, but i think i'll watch my zombie stories instead.
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Now I have an image in my head of daily zombie soap operas being watched by elderly women.
 
fmw said:
They are probably trying to protect the sites that stream it from foreign hacking. It was foreign hacking, after all, that started the whole issue.
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Err the Sony servers where the hacking was done against were located in the US. So that has absolutely nothing what so ever to do with it.
 
The Man said:
I wish all movies were released online simultaneously with the theatrical release. I HATE going to movie theaters, and would gladly pay the same price to watch new releases at home.
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It was actually cheaper to watch it at home. I paid $7, but at least five people watched it.

Honestly though, the movie wasn't worth that much.
 
imagep said:
It was actually cheaper to watch it at home. I paid $7, but at least five people watched it.

Honestly though, the movie wasn't worth that much.
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Yeah that movie isn't something I wanted to see, I'm not a Seth Rogen fan.

Seriously though, I hope this can be the start of releasing new films for PPV. I hate theaters because the general public is obnoxious and inconsiderate, and my TV at home has a better picture than movie theater screens. I'd gladly pay the same price to watch it at home, hell, figure in the loss from concessions, I'd pay double to watch it at home.
 
Deuce said:
Now I have an image in my head of daily zombie soap operas being watched by elderly women.
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i have to watch my stories.
 
You know....I'm actually probably not going to watch it, because I wasn't going to watch it in the first place. It's just not my kind of movie.
 
Jerry said:
The Walking Dead ftw
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the GF bought me the Walking Dead game for Christmas. the rules are the most complicated i've ever seen in any board game. fun, though. i got to be Rick. i drank moonshine, and kept yelling "Carl!" really loud in my Rick voice.
 
I'm going to watch the movie but not because of the Sony hack hype. I'm just watching it because I generally like the kind of stuff Seth Rogan is in. I'm sure The Interview will be a fine movie and I'll have some laughs, but the hype is building it up to be some scathing counter-cultural phenomenon that of course it can never live up to.
 

It wont. New films released on PPV is simply not going to happen because the industry is living in the dark ages and refuses to adapt.

They actually tried it with Veronica Mars movie release this year. It was released for sale online in iTunes and Google Play in the US and Canada at first and the rest of the world on their own service. The people who had supported the movie in Kickstarter all got a free copy and this was done by a code they could use on the movie company´s own service. This service was utterly horrible and broken. It required multiple sign-ups to different independent services and if you actually managed to sign up (the websites were broken) then they did not talk to each other so you could not get access to the movie. In the end the backers got access via iTunes or Google Play and because of this sales were open up to the whole world, but it showed a massive flaw in the way the movie industry thinks. They want all the profits, but dont want to set up a distribution system and certainly dont want to support systems like iTunes and Google Play since they are seen as the enemy of DVD sales. That is why when you buy a DVD you often get a free digital copy on the movie studios digital platform and not on iTunes and Google Play.

No what the movie industry has to learn.. and the hard way it seems, is that people would rather watch movies like The Interview in the comfort of their own home, and go to the cinema for only the movies that deserve a big screen.
 
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