Sony Pictures Folds Up Like a Lawn chair?

[edgeburner]

First off....I am NO fan of the Hollywood "holier that thou, liberal elitist network who never walk their lofty talk" types, but, to cave in to what amounts to terrorism? I thought that freedom of speech (although selective) was a cornerstone, a bastion of the Hollywood elitist credo?

The racist emails and other nasty aside, do you think they were right to pull this highly advertised film? Or should they have suck to their guns and released the film?

What are the consequences of caving? Will other 'organizations' be able to manipulate companies in such fashion more readily in the future?

How far reaching could the consequences be?

[HeyYou]

Sony chickened out basically. :) But, it IS a Japanese company......

[edgeburner]

And Japan is within the RNK's nuke striking capability....Still, The hollyworm clebutards choke on their own self-righteousness again.

[HeyYou]

DPRK doesn't have nukes worth a damn, nor do they have a delivery system.

 

What I find interesting is: The government here suggested Sony made the wrong choice there..... I wonder if that is what they are saying publicly, but, behind the scenes, were pushing Sony NOT to release.

[Vagrant0]

Sony folded because they did not want to take the risk, even when it likely was not NK who did the hacking and sent the threats.

http://marcrogers.org/2014/12/18/why-the-sony-hack-is-unlikely-to-be-the-work-of-north-korea/

 

With a multinational business, it is not about what is actual, but instead what is perceived. When theaters started to react and start refusing to show the movie, Sony was pressed to make a decision on how to handle it in a way which posed the least amount of risk... It has less to do with threat of missiles raining down, and more to do with employees being targeted or some nutjob deciding to bomb a theater to prove some illusionary point.

 

Given the movie's plot naming the country and official being targeted, It's surprising that the script even got greenlit. But, on the other hand, it almost makes you nostalgic for the Cold War.

[edgeburner]

They have nukes that can hit Japan....why do you think the fired those test dummy missiles over Japan a few years back? They don't have ICBM capability, but they don't need such technology to lay a nuke in Japans lap.

 

What I find interesting is: The government here suggested Sony made the wrong choice there..... I wonder if that is what they are saying publicly, but, behind the scenes, were pushing Sony NOT to release.

I wouldn't be surprised....the Obama administration and Hollywood.....two peas sharing a liberal pod.

[edgeburner]

It has less to do with threat of missiles raining down, and more to do with employees being targeted or some nutjob deciding to bomb a theater to prove some illusionary point.

 

 

So the so-called bastions of free speech just fold their tents and kiss boot? Let the terrorist(?) dictate? Besides, it's personal emails the worms are worried about. Not missiles.

 

Utterly pathetic.

 

Never would have happened that way in MASH. :smile:

 

Given the movie's plot naming the country and official being targeted, It's surprising that the script even got greenlit. But, on the other hand, it almost makes you nostalgic for the Cold War.

 

That's Hollywood!

Edited December 19, 2014 by edgeburner

[HeyYou]

They have nukes that can hit Japan....why do you think the fired those test dummy missiles over Japan a few years back? They don't have ICBM capability, but they don't need such technology to lay a nuke in Japans lap.

 

 

 

What I find interesting is: The government here suggested Sony made the wrong choice there..... I wonder if that is what they are saying publicly, but, behind the scenes, were pushing Sony NOT to release.

I wouldn't be surprised....the Obama administration and Hollywood.....two peas sharing a liberal pod.

No they don't. At least, not anything they can put on a missile, and expect to hit anything with it. They have done three tests. Two which were outright failures, and a third that might just as well have been.

 

I don't think even lil' Kim is stupid enough to toss a missile at one of the US allies though. Nuke or not. That WOULD be an act of war, and not something we would simply brush under the rug. Even China would have a hard time saying 'no' to a military strike in response to something of that nature. Now, if by some wild quirk of fate, lil Kim DID drop one on Japan, the US response would be devastating to N Korea, regardless of what China had to say. We have a treaty with Japan.... If we did NOT honor it, NATO would immediately be seen as a farce, and Putin would be laughing LOUDLY on any available stage.

[Vagrant0]

 

It has less to do with threat of missiles raining down, and more to do with employees being targeted or some nutjob deciding to bomb a theater to prove some illusionary point.

 

 

So the so-called bastions of free speech just fold their tents and kiss boot? Let the terrorist(?) dictate? Besides, it's personal emails the worms are worried about. Not missiles.

 

Utterly pathetic.

 

And yet people have been tiptoeing around Islamic extremist characters in film, tv, and books since 9/11 trying to find other alternatives, when years before it was a staple villain calling card of the 90's... those bastions of free speech have been destroyed for quite some time already. We've run out of groups on Earth that we can use as villains without those groups (or people claiming to be parts of those groups) getting offended and threatening violence. Atleast during the Cold War, the Soviets were perfectly fine at being seen as antagonists.

[JimboUK]

Theatres made it clear they weren't going to show it so what on earth would Sony release it for and where? even VOD services won't touch it.