Just Streamed "The Interview".............

[Logical]

North Korea has not crashed my router yet. And no terrorists have destroyed my local internet provider.

Streamed it on my Roku box through Google Play for $5.99. Whole family watched it.

We all laughed. It is not great, but worth $6 when there was 5 of us.

I give it 2.5 stars out of 5.

Many will hate it. Sort of crude.

I have an easy sense of humor. So I am entertained easily.

Glad Sony released it.

[SidDithers]

1. I've heard mostly positive reviews...

Going to watch it at some point over the holidays.

Thanks for the review.

Sid

[UTUSN]

2. It's gonna be one of those things-in-public-Discussion I'll need to see like Passion o'the Christ

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when *that* was a thing (my review? It was a torture flick). I have to know what to think in the mix of things. Well, I know about the free speech part, but want to know how good it is anyway to get the FRANCO jokes for the next year or two. Really, is he living a serendipidous career or what?!1

[Hawaii Hiker]

3. Crude humor works in some movies, I thought

"We're The Millers" & "Horrible Bosses" were funny....

[Logical]

7. I liked those also. Horrible Bosses 2 was not as good as 1 but still some great laughs. nt

[Hawaii Hiker]

11. I never watched "Friends", but i thought Jennifer Aniston

was great in both of those movies...(haven't seen Horrible Bosses 2 yet)...I generally don't watch alot of comedies (prefer action, drama, horror) but will go comedy route from time to time....

I do have "Sex Tape" in the Netflix que to see soon...I still never saw "40 yr old Virgin", "Forgetting Sarah Marshall"

[Logical]

12. I love her. She was good. nt

[tammywammy]

29. I liked Horrible Bosses 2

Have you watched This is the End? I thought that was pretty funny.

[Logical]

31. I really liked this is the end. nt

[zappaman]

40. Loved it much more than this. n/t

[bigwillq]

4. Glad you were entertained!

[Logical]

8. Thanks! :-) nt

[rollin74]

5. I'm probably going to watch it tonight

Was planning on seeing it before all the controversy

[NightWatcher]

6. Would you have watched it without their MASTERFUL PR stunt?

I mean DAMN, they even got Obama to hold a White House presser on the event. I applaud your marketing Mr Rogen and Sony.

Of course NK didn't attack your computer. They're using a ten year old secondhand Gateway PC with a dialup connection that doesn't even work when it's cloudy outside. They're North Friggin Korea for shits sake.

[Logical]

9. Yes, I liked the trailers. Also, I see most movies. So we would of seen it in theaters. nt

[daredtowork]

10. Glad to be able to exercise my freedom of choice not to bother, lol. nt

[Rhythm]

13. Pretty much all of Seth Rogan's movies are dick-joke crude...

But just like "Zack and Miri Make a Porno", or "The End of the World", i'll probably watch this in the next few days because i need something stupidly-funny to laugh at now and again...

And because little, dumb-haircutted, wanna-be megalomaniacs don't get to tell me what i can and cannot watch.

[Logical]

24. +1000 nt

[TNNurse]

14. I too will exercise my freedom to choose

And will ignore it. The cast and concept are not appealing to me. I thought it was silly and implausible and several other negative adjectives.

To those of you to whom this is appealing..... enjoy.

[Recursion]

15. No desire to see it. I doubt this whole news cycle

I particularly doubt they came up with a novel streaming delivery system this quickly.

[Logical]

19. The technology was already in place. And this is not a scam. Sony...

Has no reason to keep this movie at the theaters. Except they got scared too easy. The people playing the movie was going to bomb don't know the movie business.

[Recursion]

25. Not the technology, the licensing

YouTube hadn't rented out movies before.

Sorry, but you fell for a scam. The whole North Korea story is falling apart as we speak.

[Logical]

26. LOL, I think you are a little behind on technology......But love your imagination......

https://www.youtube.com/user/movies

Been going on for 4 years.

You make believe conspiracy just fell apart!

[NobodyHere]

27. Youtube does rent out movies

Or else how do you explain this?

[Bjorn Against]

28. YouTube has been renting out movies for a while

They don't advertise it a whole lot because it is not a big part of their business, but they do have a YouTube movies page in which you can watch full length movies for a fee. I believe they started this a year or two ago.

[Logical]

32. Don't ruin his conspiracy theory! nt

[maced666]

16. Can't wait to rent it myself.

I hate hackers.

[Logical]

20. So do I. We actually did it day one just to make a point. nt

[Mr.Bill]

17. A small part of me

wants to think this whole thing is a PR stunt dreamed up by Sony to make a mediocre comedy into a blockbuster. I would not put it past any studio in Hollywood to do this these days.

[Logical]

22. If it wasn't for the emails I might believe it too. Nt

[Mr.Bill]

30. Minor and temporary collateral damage

compared to the money they are going to make. People have already forgotten about most of that. Anyway, as they say in Hollywood, any publicity is good publicity. People have already moved on to the newest press releases. Think about it - most Hollywood stars survive scandal quite well and often come out the other side with more notoriety than they had before the scandal. Either that or it's completely forgotten soon. Remember when Matthew Broderick killed someone in a drunk driving accident? Most people don't.

[Logical]

33. Well, lets say 1 million homes stream it today, that is less than 6 million dollars. It would of....

made 5 times that in a full theater release the first week. Remember, a whole family can stream it for $6, not $6 each.

Dumb and Dumber Too has made 84 million, and it has terrible reviews and

Sony would of made a lot more money with the original schedule.

[Mr.Bill]

34. Well, even if they don't succeed,

I can still believe they would try. It may also be more of a long term strategy that involves other movies in the future. It might be their way of developing a net work to say fuck you to the major movie theater chains.

[zappaman]

38. SONY is losing a shitload of money on this.

People who think they aren't, don't know the business.

[Logical]

39. + 1000 and you do know the business! nt

[Bjorn Against]

41. Yes, I am surprised they went this route because it pretty much guarantees the movie will lose money

I thought they would probably delay it for a couple months and then have a huge theatrical release in 2015. It would have almost certainly filled up theaters if they had done so and they could have made boatloads of money. Instead they are releasing it to stream online for only $6 so an entire family can watch it for roughly half the price of a single movie ticket. From a financial standpoint it is a really bad decision, although I suspect Sony was more worried about the PR problem they were facing than they were about the financial success of this one movie.

[zappaman]

42. Exactly.

And they bungled this from the get go yes, it's all about PR now.

[AtomicKitten]

18. Edited: I saw it tonight. It was

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a movie. Meh.

[zappaman]

21. 2.5 is about right.

I found James Franco insufferable.

[Logical]

23. A little over-the-top I agree. Still some funny lines. Nt

[SheilaT]

35. I had seen previews for the movie

back before the whole uproar started. It didn't at all appeal to me, and I don't plan to see it myself, but of course it should be released.

[PatrynXX]

36. probably better than Porky's Christmas Story

[Logical]

37. Don't remember that one! :-) nt

[grahamhgreen]

43. Anyone know if the youtube stream is HD?

[Initech]

44. I enjoyed it. But then I have enjoyed a lot of Seth Rogen's stuff.

[aroach]

45. It's going to be in two different theatres in my town

It will open at one of them tomorrow and at the other one in January. I will probably go see it although our budget really doesn't allow for going to movies. We're more of a wait for it to show up in a Redbox family.