Kinda dumb, no offense. We really aren't losing much from not letting one mediocre looking movie run at theaters and risk a couple of hundred people getting hurt. I mean is "we ran a Seth Rogen movie and called your bluff, haha" really something to gloat about to terrorists?? Is that really a "win" worth the risk? Think man!!!

@ everyone above who replied... You guys all missed my point ENTIRELY but eh whatever floats your boats. I'll join you guys. Omg turrurists, murrica!! And all that.

My point wasn't about the movie guys. It was about a threat and what it could bring. Whether bullsh*t from the source or not. Read Defectiv3_Detecitiv3's post a few posts down. For further elaboration.

@pompous
Dude wtf are you talking about? One mediocre looking movie gets taken down and suddenly we lost all control of our country? We've fallen from grace and into complete control of the rest of the world because of one movie no one would remember a year from now is now gone for good? Listen to yourselves!! Are you telling me if an elementary school was threatened we shouldn't give in to demands of giving some guy a candy bar because we LOOK weak to you & Deadpoolio over here? Makes sense, f**k all them little kids that's OUR candy bar! Maybe just maybe YOU need all the false sense of security you can get my friend. Because you're paranoid.

There has been a legitimate terrorist threat. If they go ahead nothing could happen but this way they make sure that nothing happens.

Well firstly, if they went forward with it and an attack happened, it would be an absolute disaster for everyone. It's easy to say now, but the threats were serious enough to take the precaution considering the rise in terrorist attacks recently.

Secondly, they actually weren't giving in, Sony said they weren't going to let the threats get to them. But most of the major theaters refused to play the movies so they didn't have much of a choice. It would be too much of a risk to play in small theatres on top of the possibility of an attack.

There are seemingly lots of those kooks around these days.

I work in the capital of Canada and was a block away from the dude who shot the soldier and stormed parliament with a shotgun back in October.

Exactly. The threats were nothing, that's why Sony didn't care. They got hacked, damage was done.

Then I think it triggered "What if some moron carries it out?" and that's when Sony decided losing a few million was smarter than having that on their record, on top of all the hacked crap.