Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Entertainment/2014 December 28

= December 28 =

The Interview (2014 film)
Is this film available online? Could anyone provide a link? --IEditEncyclopedia (talk) 14:18, 28 December 2014 (UTC)


 * It's apparently available on YouTube for US$5.99. Dismas |(talk) 14:33, 28 December 2014 (UTC)


 * You might want to wait until the reviews are in before spending money on it. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 19:07, 28 December 2014 (UTC)


 * We already have: "...decidedly mediocre and bulky" Vox.com, "... very amusing, very imbecilic film" The Guardian, "a goofy, strenuously naughty, hit-and-miss farce, propelled not by any particular political ideas but by the usual spectacle of male sexual, emotional and existential confusion." New York Times and "The Interview displays all the mindless excesses that repressive regimes condemn in Hollywood movies.” Time. So not all good. Alansplodge (talk) 23:20, 29 December 2014 (UTC)


 * There are more reviews at PrimeWire, right under the bunch of external links. Ignore those. InedibleHulk (talk) 23:48, 29 December 2014 (UTC)


 * There's a growing school of thought among experts that North Korea may not be the authors of the Sony hack. If that turns out to be true, it might be funnier than anything in the movie. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 02:27, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I just finished it. Good stuff, would've gone as high as US$7.99. I may be crazy, but it seems the only unfunny character was Kim, which may have been intentional, to lend credibility to the notion that he wanted to burn it. Meta, man. But even before then, it seemed like a stunt to me. Online viewers are easier to track for demographics, and no real American likes being told they can't watch something. Honeydicking is the word of the day. "Give the people what they want! It's the first rule of journalism!" Or circuses and demolition derbies. InedibleHulk (talk) 02:37, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Wait, no. Honeydicking was the word of Christmas Day. InedibleHulk (talk) 02:43, 30 December 2014 (UTC)