We cats are glad that people are going to see "The Interview" today, and that North Korea doesn't have anything to say about that. And we also think it's probably not a very good movie.
But no matter. Nothing worse has happened than folks spending money on a subpar film. Which doesn't surprise us — yet in all the coverage of the "Interview" controversy, we cats kept listening for one word that we never heard: Aurora.
We finally had to zip over to The Denver Post to find that movie theaters were skittish about "The Interview" partly because Cinemark in Colorado was hit with nearly two dozen lawsuits after the "Dark Knight" massacre in 2012.
Yes, we cats think that Americans should be able to see even lousy films without North Korean dictators weighing in. But it would have been a lot more honest of our national media if they had reminded us all that Americans have died en masse in movie theaters before. As they have in McDonalds restaurants, Sikh temples, shopping malls, high schools and, sadly, elementary schools. We cats HISS.
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My sons watched the movie through an online service; it wasn't great, but it was very funny in the comedy style they like.
What I have to wonder is what a major studio will learn about immediate online release of a movie, in terms of profit. The film, which played in independent theatres on Christmas Day, made between three and four million on that one day (tho' stupid reporters are saying 'over the holiday weekend' -- obvious error since the weekend is not even HERE yet), and no count yet of online fees paid.
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