The movie "The Interview" terror threats

[abu fitna]

The problem is that a small army of CCWers isn't going to be particularly useful against a couple of dudes who build a little bomb in the middle of the theater while the movie is playing, or who leave a backpack in the theater during the previous show, or...

I am sure we have enough folks with the right experiences we could conduct a better than passable IED search... assuming the theatre would not be upset by some folks crawling all over the joint...

But I do take your point, sir.

While I am not sure if this falls into stupid places / stupid people restriction (as Nork kill teams are by definition the stupidest of people), but on the other hand, I have the most strenuous of objections to allowing a worse than third world dictatorship define any aspect of our lives - no matter how otherwise unremarkable.

Really, this is one of those where one considers the very low probability of a real threat (Japanese and ROK cases from the 80's notwithstanding) versus the probability of some assholes posturing from a bloody Thai hotel or Chinese border hovel in order to justify another few months of better than usual rice rations and comfort women instead of execution by mortar squad or some other autocratic bullshit fantasy. And having faced far worse at far worse odds for probably much lesser reasons in the final analysis, I would weigh this one as something worth the stand - even if it is only a mere gesture. Or rather, because it is a mere gesture, easily done - and that is the point, as no powers of that hell on earth can compel free men and women to do anything other than what they damn well please when and how they damn well would choose for themselves to do it.

[ToddG]

Hey, I'm certainly free on Christmas if there is enough interest.

[Lomshek]

My first thought upon reading all this silliness was to see if the MD/NoVA PF crowd wanted to go see the movie as a group on XMAS day. Then I realized that if the one in a million happened and that theater got blowed'ed up, I'd look really, really dumb.

The discussions around here would be a lot slower but man the conspiracy theories born that day would ring loud for decades!

"Did you hear that every person in the theater was packing? I heard most of them had multiple guns and reloads!!! There were more guns than people. It was covert contractors who knew too much and the NSA was cleaning house."

[ToddG]

"Did you hear that every person in the theater was packing? I heard most of them had multiple guns and reloads!!! There were more guns than people. It was covert contractors patriotic citizens who knew too much and the NSA Brady Campaign was cleaning house."

FIFY

[TCinVA]

My first thought upon reading all this silliness was to see if the MD/NoVA PF crowd wanted to go see the movie as a group on XMAS day. Then I realized that if the one in a million happened and that theater got blowed'ed up, I'd look really, really dumb. Plus too many people seem busy on Christmas for whatever reason. I don't get it.

Alternately if a bunch of PFers got together and some "terrorist" attempted to shoot the place up the corpse of the bad guys would gain two or three pounds from the quantity of 9mm JHPs residing in their flesh.

I told a friend about the time we got together to see Kick Ass. He said "I wonder how many bullet holes you guys would have punched in that asshole who shot up Aurora."

[jc000]

Hey, I'm certainly free on Christmas if there is enough interest.

But... I wanted to see American Sniper…

[hufnagel]

The way I read the threat, it's a physical threat against theaters showing the movie. In fact, it sounds like the threatening party is angry because they see the movie as a "hack" attack in the artistic sense. I've seen a lot of bad movies, but none that made me want to blow up any theaters showing it.

you never saw 'Fled' then I take it. :facepalm:

[NETim]

Didn't they make a flick about how the Norks could easily takeover the White House 'cause no Federal agents understood the concept of cover except for one former Secret Service guy? The Norks would have pulled it off if that demoted guy hadn't been on the scene.

[Tamara]

Didn't they make a flick about how the Norks could easily takeover the White House 'cause no Federal agents understood the concept of cover except for one former Secret Service guy? The Norks would have pulled it off if that demoted guy hadn't been on the scene.

Don't the Norks watch movies? Once the troubled/rogue/maverick/loner cop shows up, it is on like Donkey Kong. Especially if someone has yelled "You're off the case!" at him in the previous scene; that's when the bodies really start getting stacked up.

[NickA]

Don't the Norks watch movies? Once the troubled/rogue/maverick/loner cop shows up, it is on like Donkey Kong. Especially if someone has yelled "You're off the case!" at him in the previous scene; that's when the bodies really start getting stacked up.

And if the guy who's two days from retirement and getting too old for this shit shows up... It's about to get real.