{"id":10559,"date":"2014-12-17T18:29:51","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T02:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godammit.com\/?p=10559"},"modified":"2014-12-17T18:29:51","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T02:29:51","slug":"happy-now-seth-rogan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/happy-now-seth-rogan\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Now, Seth Rogan?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that Sony<\/strong> has cancelled the release of The Interview<\/em>, I wonder if there’s anyone on the Sony lot going ‘I told you so!’<\/p>\n

When we look back on this debacle, I hope people will view the movie as an egregious exercise in bad taste and hubris on the part of the filmmakers and the studio that gave it a green light.<\/p>\n

Everyone on twitter wants to express dismay about caving in to terrorists and about free speech. Aaron Sorkin<\/strong> has called media outlets that published the leaks ‘guilty of moral treason’ and Judd Apatow<\/strong> says it’s a dark day for creative expression. Rob Lowe<\/strong> says, ‘Wow. Everyone caved. The hackers won. Wow.’<\/p>\n

Do you think this stupid movie is like the twin towers? Or the constitution? Does everyone have the right to make a $40 million movie that makes fun of assassinating a current world leader? What if another country made a comedy about assassinating Obama? I’m going to be on the fucking NSA watch list just for typing that!<\/p>\n

A dear friend once wrote a play called ‘Let’s Kill The President!’ knowing that it was going to be guerrilla theater, and that was part of the concept. But he didn’t expect it to play internationally or to get forty million bucks for his joke.<\/p>\n

I don’t like Seth Rogan<\/strong> or James Franco<\/strong> and now I like them less. Everyone who decries the freedom of speech they have been denied in the cancellation of this stupid movie should come out and publicly ridicule the prophet Mohammed.<\/p>\n

And you know why they wont? Because they don’t want to get killed or have a fucking fatwa put on them! They like their freedom but they recognize a threat where it exists. Why didn’t Sony have the brains to recognize that North Korea represents an ongoing legitimate threat? Why didn’t the State Department weigh in on this earlier?<\/p>\n

You can read the early reviews for The Interview<\/em> on Rotten Tomatoes<\/a>, but here’s a teaser:<\/p>\n

It essentially uses a major global issue to cheaply dress up what is two hours of hit-and-miss erection jokes.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Okay, so you’re thinking, “It’s not the point whether the movie’s a piece of shit, bla bla bla!” but that aspect is not irrelevant.<\/p>\n
I would defend an artist’s right to make art, even bad art. But anus jokes aren’t worth dying for or even protesting about. Fuck everybody involved and the horses they rode in on, capitalist pigs one and all.<\/p>\n
Thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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