Bernina
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Since I stopped watching HLN news and mainly watch The Weather Channel in the AM, what is The Interview really about and why all the hub-bub about it? Is it a comedy of sorts?
And yes, things we can't do anything about and worrying about them is just "whistling in the wind" for me.
I tried AGAIN, last night, to watch "The Interview" on Vudu.......urgh! 60 seconds of the movie and then "buffering".
Curses!
Went to sleep early, like 10:30, was up at 5:00 for some reason, and tried it again.......no deal. I've watched other fliks on Vudu, no problem. So what do I do? Go online to Amazon and buy the streaming version.....and it worked great! Got probably into 20 minutes of it and fell asleep! Tonight I WILL watch it!!!
"The Interview" is about the producer Aaron Rappaport(Seth Rogen) and the host Dave Skylark(James Franco) of a Hollywood type "60 Minutes" program, "Skylark Tonight". They want to take it "legitimate" with real news, not Eminem admitting he's gay or Rob Lowe pulling his toupee off on camera <---2 pretty crazy segments. Lowe's segment gets pre-empted by breaking news that Kim Jong-un has launched a missile.
Skylark does a google search and finds out Kim Jong enjoys watching "The Big Bang Theory" and "Skylark Tonight". They devise a plan to get an interview with Kim by contacting the North Korean Olympic committee........that's in the first 10 minutes, besides an opening song by a little N. Korean girl who sings about torture and death of Americans making her small heart fill with joy, with a missile launching into the heavens behind her as she finishes her song.
When Rappaport gets the deal for the interview with Kim (goes to crazy lengths), Skylark announces the impeding broadcast on tv. That's when the CIA knocks at their doors and asks them to "take out Kim" as in "kill him". This involves a ricine laced strip which Skylark attaches to his palm with the intent of shaking Kim's hand, which goes very wrong.
So far, I've found it pretty funny, but I enjoy watching stuff that makes fun of all the over hype/doom and gloom of politics and MSM. I LOVE South Park and Monty Python's Flying Circus so you have an idea about what crazy stuff I think is funny.
It IS a comedy, the filming is first rate. Fast slapstick. And for all the hype about the hacking, it's now come out that North Korea is NOT the responsible party, just caught a bit of a blurb where it originated from Colorado (?) and no US government agency had actually verified the source as BEING N. Korea. And MSM has pie on their face, once again.