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It doesn't need to be "FAILURE!". If it's not significantly greater than the projected theater take then the "Oh HO! Obviously this was all a scam to make EVERYONE watch it! They couldn't fool ME though!" schtick doesn't really hold up. I have no real stake in it though. Probably because I wasn't gloating about how I saw right through their money-making falsehoods I suppose now we can argue how Sony actually though this was an amazing way to make tons of money but just mistakenly but sincerely thought that faking a hack and threats, canceling the movie, then announcing a very limited opening, then leaving it for people to rent online was the best way to profit off the picture.

$50mil was a four week estimate. Box Office Mojo has it at $90 mil in November (before all this) based on the takes from "This is the End" and "Pineapple Express" -- $90m being in the middle. I assume that was for its entire run though.

Edited, Dec 29th 2014 5:02pm by Jophiel

I suppose if I was shown to be completely wrong, I'd slink away muttering about dresses and Jesus as well

Could be. I could spend all day listening to Smash accuse me of moving goalposts and all that nonsense. But "There's pretty much zero chance this movie doesn't make more money than it would without the NK cyberattack angle" is almost certainly wrong. A traditional release and showing would have almost certainly made more money.

Edit: I hate that I wrote "almost certainly" twice but I suppose that in the face of an unprovable alternate timeline, I gotta hedge my bets.

Edited, Dec 29th 2014 6:27pm by Jophiel

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True that

Be sure to continue "not monitoring" this thread though

The Interview is now available on Netflix.

I've got a cousin who is about... 17 now. He's one of those DotA2 players.

His facebook feed is like.. Poldaran-GG x100. (At least, Poldaran here). A strange mix of Anti-religion, Anti-feminism (at least, the Anita kind, he seems to post a lot of pro stuff from the middle east pro-women type things), Pro-homosexuality, Pro-Science, mocking the anti-vaxxers constantly.

What exactly from this thread made you think of Poldaran?

Hasn't this movie been lost in the sea of mediocrity yet?

It was aggressively mediocre.

The only time I caught myself smiling was during the intense near-coitus scene where whatsherface says something along the lines of "You're so hairy! You're so hairy like a bear!". The delivery was perfect, as was Seth's facial expression.

Everything else was your average Seth Rogen comedy. Lots of frat boy jokes about penises, boobs, and **** penetration. And I can't believe they couldn't find an actor who looked even slightly like Kim Young 'un.