I’ll keep this short…
First let me say though that the controversial Seth Rogan, James Franco movie “The Interview” should definitely be high on your list of holiday must-see movies. And go see it at a movie theater, the massive screen and killer audio at the Cinetopia Overland Park 18 are definitely worth the price of admission.
Look, I’m no movie critic – although all to many of these so-called critics are little more than film groupies who know how to write and relish seeing free movies before anybody else in the general public. Trust me, locally speaking, I pretty much know them all.
That isn’t to say every once and a while someone like the Star’s Jon Niccum or Jack Poessiger don’t distinguish themselves as truly exceptional. Unfortunately too many of the rest simply love the sound of their own owns and needless pontificating.
And face it, who wouldn’t like making a living by seeing several movies a week for free, before anyone else and writing about one or two? It’s not like the Star’s Robert Butler would have been a bank exec or trial lawyer had his newspaper gig not presented itself.
On top of which, movie reviews are inherently problematic.
It’s become fashionable for “critics” to employ what they call spoiler alerts.
You know, taking a time out in the middle of a review to forewarn readers that if they continue reading they’ll find out something that the filmmakers probably didn’t want them to find out until they saw the movie.
Spoiiler alert:
The money shot from “The Crying Game”
For example, that the hottie in The Crying Game was a dude.
Spoiler alerts are usually somewhat obvious, but there are far more ways to spoil a really good movie than what are usually included in the so-called alerts.
For example, Jack wrote review of two movies I really want to see, The Imitation Game and Big Eyes.His reviews were excellent and took me from mildly caring about the former and disinterested in the latter, to dying to see both.
Unfortunately, I learned of the unhappy ending of the true story first movie with Benedict Cumberbatch. I also learned of the key turning point in the second movie with Amy Adams and Christoph Waltz.
Hey, I’m a big boy, I’ll be okay and I still really want to see them both. However it would have been nice to have been surprised by the key parts of each movie that were described in the reviews. Neither of which by the way, that would be considered a “spoiler.”
So I’m only going to tell you guys that The Interview has far more going for it than what we’ve mostly learned in the media about it being a comedy plot to assassinate North Korea leader Kim Jong Un.
The movie’s plot points are far more plausible than one might have assumed; there’s a bit of sex, some action movie style violence and suspense, incredible scenery and backdrops, interesting information about North Korea, a plot twist or two and a barrel of laughs.
My nearly sold out theater audience appeared to thoroughly enjoy it. Hey and that nobody at Cinetopia got blown up or riddled with bullets was also a plus – shame on AMC Theatres for bailing showing it.
Seriously, check it out.
TAKE IT FROM HARLEY….ITS GARBAGE…AND TOTHINK WE SPENT
ALL THAT TIME AND EFFORT….CHANGED NATIONAL SECURITY
PROVISIONS SO THIS POS COULD PLAY ON SCREEENS IS A
DISGUSTING REVIEW OF THIS NATION.
SORRY….GO SPEND YOUR $10 ON THIS PURE CRAP MOVIE…AND WATCH
A SMALL MISSLE GO UP ROGENS ASS.
BECAUSE THATS WHERE YOU’LL GET IT TOO WASTING MONEY ON
THIS WROTHLESS MOVIE.
I’M NOT A REVIEWER…BUT DONATE YOUR MONEY TO THE SALVATION
ARMY AND SAVE TWO HOURS OF YOUR LIFE DOING SOMETHING
RELEVANT TO THE WORLD.
HEARNE….YOUR REVIEW GOES AGAINST MOST EVERY MAJOR REVIEWER
IN THE NATION.
BUT HAVEING READ YOUR HOCKY STORIES ABOUT JEWWL THIEFS…
AND BASHING OTHERS…IT FITS YOUR MODUS OPERANDI.
MERRY XMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR…
THE INTERVIEW IS THE WORST AND YOU’LL SEE HOW BAD IT REALLY
DOES.
FOCUS GROUPS POINTED IT OUT PRIOR TO THE FIRST SHOWINGS…
AND HARLEY SAYS ITS SUCKS.
BUT THATS MY OPINION. GO BURN YOUR DOLLARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
hEY HERNIA…
I KNOW YOU LOVED THIS MOVIE AND THINK IT WILL MAKE BILLIONS.
WHY DON’T YOU AND SOUTHY GET SOME CAS H TOGETHER AND
FINANCE KING OF STING FROM GLAZE.
BECAUSE IF THIS POS MOVIE THE INTERVIEW CAN MAKE MOVIE
….KING OF STING WILL MAKE YOU TWO RICH GUYS BILLIONAIRES.
this shows how much crap the American public will buy…mcdonalds/furry babies/
kfc and now THE INTERVIEW…..never try to figure out the tastes of the American
public and Lawrence residents like hearne and his family.
do it hearne….you’ll make billions with king of sting. because if you thought
the interview was so good….you can make king of sting with a g5 smartphone
and use someone basement editing system and king of sting will gross BILLIONS!
no fun of glaze….but this movie the interview is going down as a complete
flop. thank god the heads of sony have the north Koreans to use as an excuse when
this crappy flop goes down the tube.
Have you read the reviews already? its being called sophomoric…inane…
stupid…..I could go on…but dude….I’d be spending all that money you had
on watching WIZZARD OF OZ with the kids after seeing this garbage film.
HEAREN….would you take a round the world trip arranged thru Jackie?
or is he right there “every once in a while”….?
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by the way…learned that german from watching Hogans Heros reruns!!!!!!!!!!!!
hahahahahahahaha!
Happy new year
My son and I went to see it yesterday at Cinetopia and we both thought it was hilarious.
It won’t win any awards but it’s well worth going to. Good take Hearne!
Thanks…
Yeah, I kinda buried the lead (the review) here, but I think we agree. Too bad AMC – not sony – lost their nerve.
>Head out to the Autopia Cinema 18 at Tomorrowland, Overland Park, USA
>As I pull up in my MKZ cooly muttering to myself I see two opposing groups of protesters.
>One group is wearing exclusively olive drab with the tallest @ 4’11”, with black rotten teeth, holding signs denouncing S. Korea, American Imperialism, and Fan Death
>Other group is wearing guy fawkes masks with the skinniest @360 lbs, with yellowed stained teeth, holding signs denouncing N. Korea, the lie of one size fits all and promoting Net Neutrality. They sport matching polyester flame button ups.
>I buy two tickets: $31.50
>If I would have claimed I was retired USMC they would have given me 85% discount and thanked me for my service with a hot towel.
>I buy two drinks, two popcorns, two sno-caps: $111.75
>When I get back to my seat I realize they have not given me sno-caps: godly chocolate chips with nonpareils on them but rather Goobers, plebian chocolate covered peanuts.
>I sigh and recline my Eat and Watch(TM) chair
>Because black youths are unable to enjoy a movie in silence they have instituted table service as a backdoor way of segregating the movie theater
>I get a half rack of Dr. Pepper ribs, flower pot bread and two frescas: $123.25
>My date and I make friendly banter about how Nightstalker looks like a good date movie.
>The Eat and Watch(TM) voice-to-purchase detects ticket related conversation, prints out 2 adult tickets to Nightcrawler
>Receipt pops out of armrest
>RFID in seat cushion has already charged my AMEX 31.50 for 2 non-military adult tickets
>The movie begins
>The first 30 minutes of the movie are literally Seth Rogan and Franco taking tubes, waiving tiny DPRK and S.Korean flags, and crashing hot wheels against each other while giggling.
>Seth turns to the camera, slacks his jaw and delivers his signature line
>DUDE….WEED…..LMAO
>he bursts out with his signature laugh
> hup hup hup hup hup hup hup hup huhuhuhuh
> the theatre goes crazy like someone just told a pussy joke on Def Comedy Jam in 1996
>People are rolling around the aisles, tearing their seats apart and throwing 44oz mountain dews everywhere.
> crowd begins chanting “free speech, free speech” for 15 minutes
>cant really tell what happened in the movie but there were a lot of bro-hugs and awkward not quite homoerotic moments
> eventually the 16 year old usher quiets the chanting masses down with promises of line jump passes for Star Wars 12.
>The last 60 minutes are just old newsreels of Korean war footage interspersed with shots of a laughing Kim in front of a flaming US flag.
>Our scraggly heroes shoot down DPRK helicopter, killing Kim
>The credits roll
>Everyone in dusters and masks are visibly disappointed when there is no goof reel.
>Escort ladyfriend out of theater, Go out to car, start Lincoln MKZ, mutter to myself on the entire ride home about grit
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Obviously this is a clever attempt at being creative…
The operative word being “attempt”
thought there was not enough butt jokes ^^^^^
Does Dennis Rodman make a cameo appearance in the movie? I mean that’s the only reason I’d want to watch it, to see him go one-on-one with the North Korean dictator on his private basketball court while millions of North Koreans are starving and just as many Americans couldn’t find North Korea on a map if their life depended on it because they’re too interested in what Bruce Jenner and the Kardashians, etc., etc. are up to these days.
Hey, I love the sound of my own owns.
Whadupwidat?
CINETOPIA AND FIATS 4EVAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!