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Stevie photographed by Aaron Rapaport in 1987. Tango in the Night photoshoot.

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"The Interview" Movie Review

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“They hate us ‘cause they ain’t us!”

I know this is late, but I have a good excuse! I forgot… that’s kind of it, I just forgot. But this is still Murica Month, & what better film than the most controversial film of last year, The Interview! Fitting since I started this month with a group of people starting a war, & I’m ending this month with a group of people starting a war. Except for Friday when I have to do a short film, but for full movies, this is the last one.

James Franco plays Dave Skylark, the host of a TMZ type of interviewing show & Seth Rogan plays Aaron Rapaport, the director of that show. When it comes out that their show, Skylark Tonight, is one of Kim Jong Un’s favorite shows, Seth sets up an interview with the supreme leader of North Korea. But before they leave for their mission, the government talks them into killing the leader. So it’s up to these 2 to take out Kim Jong Un.

First of all, I have to talk about the controversy. Before the movie was released, North Korea talked about how this movie is a call of war. They even went as far as to ban this movie in their country, hack into & leak out emails from Sony, & threatened to explode any movie theater that showed it. Luckily, nobody was killed & no movie theaters exploded. But that didn’t stop most theaters from keeping this movie out of there & it was almost exclusively released online. That is complete shit & it sucks that Hollywood can’t make a film about another country like North Korea without death threats. To be fair, it’s about killing their still living leader & it’s a bit weird that this didn’t happen to Team America: World Police, but still.

Many have said this & I’m going to also say it, if North Korea didn’t butt their heads in, nobody would’ve cared about this movie. With that said, I still like this movie.

The acting is almost superb, you can’t even tell that most of them are acting. I say most because Seth Rogan & James Franco are obviously acting. It’s not their fault, they are acting very well, but every time their onscreen all I can think is, “Oh, that’s Seth Rogan & James Franco,” instead of, “Oh, that’s Aaron Rapaport & Dave Skylark!” It kind of works with Franco, since he’s supposed to be famous & well known in the movie, but it just doesn’t with Rogan.

But back to what’s good, whomever they got to play Kim Jong Un is absolutely perfect for that role. I buy the fact that’s he’s a master manipulator & a bat shit crazy leader of a bat shit crazy country. He’s easily the best actor in the whole film.

Re-watching The Interview, I definitely have much more respect for it. There’s some really smart scenes, lines, & foreshadowing throughout the entire thing.

That summary I did earlier in this review only scratches the surface of this movie. There’s always more & more plot being added. In most films, it would feel terrible, but this actually does it pretty well. Everything that happens feels natural… okay, almost everything.

The finale feels like something out of a movie. To be fair, it’s supposed to feel fictional, but it doesn’t really fit with the rest of the movie. Everything else feels like something that would actually happen, but after Skylark does his interview, it feels completely fake.

A little nitpick I have that bothers the hell out of me are the captions. Since much of this movie is set in North Korea, a lot of the dialogue is in Korean. I have no problem with that, I actually like it, but why are the captions for them in yellow? Anyone who watches my videos knows that my captions are in blue with a white outline, that way it stands out from everything around it. They chose yellow, which blends in more than almost any other color, so it’s really hard to read it sometimes. They might as well have made them see-through!

The only part of this I would say falls really flat is the comedy. It’s most made up of what I call 3rd grade humor. A lot of sex & poop & pop culture references. If you’re under the age of 12, its fucking hilarious! But for everyone else, it’s unfunny & full of jokes you haven’t heard before. It’s disappointing since we’ve gotten some great comedies from this cast in the past, but this one is definitely a much better drama than it is a comedy.

Overall, it’s a good movie. The acting is great for most of the cast, the writing is great everywhere but the comedy, & the directing & cinematography is fantastic all around. The Interview is definitely a film worth checking out, but don’t expect to laugh your ass off.

7/10

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Skylark: This whole time I thought you were Samwise to my Frodo. But you're just... Boromir!

Rapaport: I don't know who the FUCK that is!

Skylark: 'I don't know who Boromir is', that's such a Boromir thing to say!

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Okay, so I saw The Interview

And holy shit, everyone needs to tone it the fuck down with their "white savior/all-hail-america" complexes because if you think this movie was offensive, then you might be looking at it the wrong way.

It's supposed to be stupid, satirical, and a kinda/really fucked up.

 But more importantly, it got your attention didn't it? The whole point of this movie was in the characters.

Dave Skylark got manipulated by Kim into thinking he was cool and that he was misunderstood, Aaron Rapaport was supposed to show both Dave and the viewers, that that is exactly what these types of governments do, they manipulate their people and outsiders into thinking everything's okay.

Next, everyone freaked the fuck out about a movie in which a dictator is assassinated but if you watched the movie, you'll notice that in the end they decided not to. Sook pointed out that killing him wouldn't do anything, there'd be a replacement for him within a day who would do the same exact thing, and she's right. They instead take away his power by exposing him to his people.

Yes, Kim is killed in the end, but there weren't a lot of other ways to end the movie, plot-wise. 

In other news, some North Korean defectors are saying the movie is shit, others are saying it's funny and draws attention to what's going on in North Korea.

Be honest. Did you know the full extent of what was going on before you heard about this movie? Because most people didn't, and that was kind of the point of this movie.

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feast your eyes!

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Tina Turner, 1990s

Photo by Aaron Rapoport/Rock Paper Photo

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The Interview: Is This Controversial Movie Worth Seeing?

The Interview: Is This Controversial Movie Worth Seeing?

The Interview, starring Seth Rogen and James Franco, has gotten a lot of attention in the media in the last month.  The action-comedy flick’s plot centers around the exploits of entertainment show host Dave Skylark and his producer Aaron Rapaport when they land an interview with Kim Jong Un in an effort to be taken more seriously as journalists.

Their plans are quickly change when the CIA…

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