Am I alone in wondering whether or not this whole Interview Cyber Attack thing has just been a put up job to create a Pomo buzz and otherwise save a Turkey of a movie?
If you're going to do something like fake a hack, it would have to be amusing and something you'd very quickly confirm was a hoax. Instead these hackers have:
a) distributed a lot of personal information (which Sony is getting sued for); and
b) threatened acts of terrorism that has led to the cancellation of the movie and therefore loss of revenue.
That's serious stuff, and no big company is going to do all that to get publicity. It's more the sort of thing some really small-time outfit or a loner would do, like a nobody author in around 2000 when he landed a microlight in Buckingham Palace and was nearly shot by a police helicopter.
I am vaguely interested in seeing The Interview, but only if it was free to watch/requested an optional charitable donation; I wouldn't pay to see it.
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As for The Hobbit, I boycotted the films as soon as I heard 3 were being made.
WTF? THREE?
And all the nonsense about having Legolas in, when he doesn't appear until Lord of the Rings....
Hopefully someone will cut the films together in the near future and delete all the crap bits, so it's just 2 hours of The Hobbit rather than 6-7 hours of Peter Jackson going through the motions.
