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Aerys said:
Only a childish person would blame sony, they lose everything in this story and didnt have the choice, all these millions in a movie for nothing, they didnt need that

They make lots of movie and TV flops every year. 



    

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MoHasanie said:
Aerys said:
Only a childish person would blame sony, they lose everything in this story and didnt have the choice, all these millions in a movie for nothing, they didnt need that

They make lots of movie and TV flops every year. 

 

That has nothing to do with my point. And they also make a lot of movie success every year, also a little flop cost much less than not releasing the movie in theater at all.



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MoHasanie said:
He's right. Sony is being stupid and is ruining its own reputation.


Obama is just showing how intelligent he is. He should educate him self before he speaks. He is making americans look stupid.

 

http://www.cnbc.com/id/102285755

 

"Let us be clear—the only decision that we have made with respect to release of the film was not to release it on Christmas Day in theaters, after the theater owners declined to show it. Without theaters, we could not release it in the theaters on Christmas Day. We had no choice," Sony said in a Friday afternoon statement."

 

For being president of the US you think he would have some good research done. But oh well, lets blame someone else.



Aerys said:
MoHasanie said:
Aerys said:
Only a childish person would blame sony, they lose everything in this story and didnt have the choice, all these millions in a movie for nothing, they didnt need that

They make lots of movie and TV flops every year. 

 

That has nothing to do with my point.

Well my point was that even though they are doing so terribly financially, they still continue to spend millions making movies and tv shows that lose a lot of money. 



    

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MoHasanie said:
Well my point was that even though they are doing so terribly financially, they still continue to spend millions making movies and tv shows that lose a lot of money.


Yeah they spend millions making movies, but not all of them are commercial flops. Sony Pictures is quite profitable if I recall it corrently. And what TVs have to do with anything in this thread?



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fluky-nintendy said:
MoHasanie said:
Well my point was that even though they are doing so terribly financially, they still continue to spend millions making movies and tv shows that lose a lot of money.


Yeah they spend millions making movies, but not all of them are commercial flops. Sony Pictures is quite profitable if I recall it corrently. And what TVs have to do with anything in this thread?

Of course not all, but they shouldn't be spending such large amounts of money on movies which are too expensive. Its too risky. 

And Sony pictures makes more than movies. They make TV shows, and are involved in the TV syndication business. TV syndication makes A LOT of money. 



    

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thismeintiel said:

THIS x100.  We even put that guy behind bars because he dared to question Islam with a parody video.  There's also the fact that Obama has done very little when countries, like Russia, flex their military muscle and invade or fire missiles at another country.  He always shoots his mouth off when it isn't his neck on the line. 

BTW, did we ever release that video maker?  Or is he still in jail?  You know, since he's so much more dangerous to us than terrorists.

Well, he had a lengthy criminal history and violated the terms of his probation by using the internet without clearance from his probation officer, so he gets no sympathy from me and I don't think it's accurate to say he was being censored. But I think he was released about a year later.

While I agree he did wrong in violating his probation, let's be honest here, he was made a spectacle and scapegoat by the Obama administration.  While I'm not sure if he would have gotten 1 full year plus four extra years probation under normal circumstances (I've heard lawyers debating that he wouldn't), but I 100% know they wouldn't have made his arrest the big media event, with about a dozen or so cops, that they did.



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thismeintiel said:

While I agree he did wrong in violating his probation, let's be honest here, he was made a spectacle and scapegoat by the Obama administration.  While I'm not sure if he would have gotten 1 full year plus four extra years probation under normal circumstances (I've heard lawyers debating that he wouldn't), but I 100% know they wouldn't have made his arrest the big media event, with about a dozen or so cops, that they did.

Sure. There would be no possibility of a media circus if no one cared about it, though, and I'm not convinced it was a result of the administration coming down on him for the politically incorrect nature of his video rather than prosecutors going hard after him for such a flagrant violation of his probation terms. And it didn't help his case that, true to form, he kept lying to investigators about the nature of his involvement.

But I don't doubt that Obama's (and Clinton's) condemnation of the video followed by Nakoula's prosecution and imprisonment gives some extremists the impression that violence can get the U.S. government to censor whatever offends them, and so only encourages them to do it again. That couldn't have happened if the government had refrained from commenting on the content of the video at all and instead simply reiterated a commitment to protecting free speech while condemning butthurt-inspired violence.



thranx said:
MoHasanie said:
He's right. Sony is being stupid and is ruining its own reputation.


Obama is just showing how intelligent he is. He should educate him self before he speaks. He is making americans look stupid.

 

http://www.cnbc.com/id/102285755

 

"Let us be clear—the only decision that we have made with respect to release of the film was not to release it on Christmas Day in theaters, after the theater owners declined to show it. Without theaters, we could not release it in the theaters on Christmas Day. We had no choice," Sony said in a Friday afternoon statement."

 

For being president of the US you think he would have some good research done. But oh well, lets blame someone else.


He is quite obnoxious for someone who graded in the schools he graded... but I preffer to think he is a faker and spotlight lover left wing.



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