Alamo Theater to show Team America: World Police instead of The Interview - Polidicks

[QUOTE] "Team America: World Police," a farcical 2004 comedy about North Korea by the creators of "South Park," will be shown at the Dallas/Fort Worth location of the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in place of Sony's hack-canceled "The Interview." "The Interview" is a comedy depicting American talk show hosts recruited to assassinate North Korea leader Kim Jung-Un. In "Team America," creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone depict Kim-Jung Un's father Kim Jung Il as the antagonist who is eventually killed in a comedy done with puppets. "We're just trying to make the best of an unfortunate situation," James Wallace, creative manager and programmer at the cinema's Dallas/Fort Worth location, told The Hollywood Reporter. A statement on the Alamo Drafthouse website promoted the "Team America" showing as a way of a protest. "The world is different in 2014 than it was in 2004," said the Alamo Drafthouse. "Kim Jong Il is gone. I don't know if Michael Moore is still around or not. But a lot of the brilliance in 'Team America' … That is how true American heroes will be celebrating this year, but if you want to let the terrorists win...well, that's your prerogative." [/QUOTE] [url]http://www.newsmax.com/thewire/alamo.../18/id/613720/[/url] Ignore all the other right-wing bullshit on the site. UPDATE: Paramount cancels viewing [url]http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/18/us-sony-cybersecurity-theaters-idUSKBN0JV2MA20141218[/url]

[img]http://imgkk.com/i/_3gc.png[/img] [quote]We'll have subtitles for all the songs and all of our favorite quotes, so you'll have plenty of opportunities to scream out "AMERICA! FUCK YEAH!" at the top of your lungs. And yeah, we will have American flags, red white and blue streamers, balloons, and more for everyone.[/quote] amazing Alamo Drafthouse is also famous for [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alamo_Drafthouse_Cinema#Etiquette]kicking out anyone who talks or texts[/url] during the movie

[QUOTE=smurfy;46741656] amazing Alamo Drafthouse is also famous for [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alamo_Drafthouse_Cinema#Etiquette]kicking out anyone who talks or texts[/url] during the movie[/QUOTE] Alamo is such a good fucking theater. Their food is amazing too.

Rooster Teeth guys talking about this theatre all the fucking time. So it must be good.

Can't believe NK seriously censored a movie in US.

I always wanted to visit this cinema as I live in Dallas. I've already knocked off LOOK theater so this should be the next one I visit. The grand selection of beers is calling my name.

durka durka, allah.

The Alamo Drafthouse is the shit. There's one near me. Order food and drinks during the show, obnoxious people get kicked the fuck out, and... well, that's all you really need to enjoy a movie. Good on them for not [I]letting the terrorists win.[/I]

I want one of these near me.

Why don't they show a good movie instead?

[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;46742158]The Alamo Drafthouse is the shit. There's one near me. Order food and drinks during the show, obnoxious people get kicked the fuck out, and... well, that's all you really need to enjoy a movie. Good on them for not [I]letting the terrorists win.[/I][/QUOTE] Ordering drinks and food in the midst of a movie? And/or people actually getting kicked out? From the fucking cinema? What the "F" [editline]18th December 2014[/editline] Or is it a movie theater at all?

[QUOTE=smurfy;46741656][img]http://imgkk.com/i/_3gc.png[/img] amazing Alamo Drafthouse is also famous for [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alamo_Drafthouse_Cinema#Etiquette]kicking out anyone who talks or texts[/url] during the movie[/QUOTE] Really? I thought you could eat while watching a film there? That would annoy me just as much, someone eating a full meal in a cinema.

[QUOTE=Memobot;46742402]Really? I thought you could eat while watching a film there? That would annoy me just as much, someone eating a full meal in a cinema.[/QUOTE] good thing they mostly have a strict policy on film-watching etiquette.

[QUOTE=Tuskin;46741776]Rooster Teeth guys talking about this theatre all the fucking time. So it must be good.[/QUOTE] The theater itself is nothing special, but the shut the fuck up rule and the food is off the fucking chain. [editline]18th December 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=Deaglez7;46742115]durka durka, allah.[/QUOTE] sherpa sherpa jihadi jihad

[QUOTE=Bat-shit;46742392]Ordering drinks and food in the midst of a movie? And/or people actually getting kicked out? From the fucking cinema? What the "F" [editline]18th December 2014[/editline] Or is it a movie theater at all?[/QUOTE] Yes, it is a movie theater. There is a walkway between rows of seats (pretty low so servers moving around don't block the movie) and you just write what you want on a card and sit it up so they can see, and they bring you what you ordered. People eating is really not as distracting as you'd think. Much less than groups of teenagers talking, for instance. And yes, if you talk and it bothers other guess, you get kicked out. Don't like it? Go to a different theater. It's a theater for people who want to enjoy their movie a certain way.

[QUOTE=Bat-shit;46742392]Ordering drinks and food in the midst of a movie? And/or people actually getting kicked out? From the fucking cinema? What the "F" [editline]18th December 2014[/editline] Or is it a movie theater at all?[/QUOTE] Maybe yelling at the screen of a big screen TV from the 90's in an abandoned warehouse is okay in Somalia or whatever freedom-hating country you live in, but here in our non-pleb AMERICAN theaters, we got standards.

Might try to go to this.

[QUOTE=smurfy;46741656]Alamo Drafthouse is also famous for [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alamo_Drafthouse_Cinema#Etiquette]kicking out anyone who talks or texts[/url] during the movie[/QUOTE] Wait. Wait wait wait. [QUOTE=Ray-The-Sun;46611790]I have some ideas on how they can make some money. For example, I would pay an additional £20 for the ability to call staff to remove any person who is making noise. This way, people might finally understand the rules of the moviegoing system, like how talking is [I]shut up[/I] and phones are [I]shut up[/I] and how babies are especially a no-go because they're [I][B]shut up[/B][/I][/QUOTE] It's real!? And it's [I][B]free[/B][/I]?! America, fuck yeah [I]indeed[/I].

Wow I live in DFW and didn't realize we had an Alamo Drafthouse here. I would go, but it's in Richardson, which is still like an hour drive from West Fort Worth if traffic is light.

[QUOTE=Ray-The-Sun;46742963]Wait. Wait wait wait. It's real!? And it's [I][B]free[/B][/I]?! America, fuck yeah [I]indeed[/I].[/QUOTE] I can't stand people who bring babies to the cinema Your baby is not going to appreciate or enjoy the film as he can't even talk, your baby is just going to cry during the really good parts

God [B]BLESS[/B] America. *clapping*

Followup: Paramount has apparently banned cinema showings of Team America in the US. [QUOTE=The Daily Beast]Three movie theaters say Paramount Pictures has ordered them not to show Team America: World Police one day after Sony Pictures surrendered to cyberterrorists and pulled The Interview. The famous Alamo Drafthouse in Texas, Capitol Theater in Cleveland, and Plaza Atlanta in Atlanta said they would screen the movie instead of The Interview but Paramount has ordered them to stop. (No reason was apparently given and Paramount hasn't spoken.) Team America of course features Kim's father, Kim Jong-Il, as a singing marionette.[/QUOTE] [URL="http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2014/12/18/paramount-bans-showing-team-america.html"]http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2014/12/18/paramount-bans-showing-team-america.html[/URL] [video=youtube;nJ-bIeJ4zOY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJ-bIeJ4zOY[/video]

[QUOTE=dendi;46742216]Why don't they show a good movie instead?[/QUOTE] That's what they're doing, showing Team America instead of The Interview. [editline]18th December 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=BLUchameleon;46743681]Followup: Paramount has apparently banned cinema showings of Team America in the US. [URL="http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2014/12/18/paramount-bans-showing-team-america.html"]http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2014/12/18/paramount-bans-showing-team-america.html[/URL] [video=youtube;nJ-bIeJ4zOY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJ-bIeJ4zOY[/video][/QUOTE] Now that's some bullshit.

[QUOTE=BLUchameleon;46743681]Followup: Paramount has apparently banned cinema showings of Team America in the US. [URL="http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2014/12/18/paramount-bans-showing-team-america.html"]http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2014/12/18/paramount-bans-showing-team-america.html[/URL] [video=youtube;nJ-bIeJ4zOY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJ-bIeJ4zOY[/video][/QUOTE] Oh come the fuck on. It sure is easy to talk the talk when you know the opposition isn't going to get violent, but the moment they do you start squealing like a little bitch.

[quote]Team America of course features Kim's father, Kim Jong-Il, as a singing marionette.[/quote] "How dare you show a movie in which a North Korean leader is depicted as what they really are?!"

That's awesome, I love this movie.

[QUOTE=Flash_Fire;46743083]I can't stand people who bring babies to the cinema Your baby is not going to appreciate or enjoy the film as he can't even talk, your baby is just going to cry during the really good parts[/QUOTE] probably because not everyone is able to afford a baby sitter just a hunch

[QUOTE=Gamerman12;46744571]probably because not everyone is able to afford a baby sitter just a hunch[/QUOTE] If you can't afford a sitter you shouldn't go to the movies.

[QUOTE=Canuhearme?;46743743]Oh come the fuck on. It sure is easy to talk the talk when you know the opposition isn't going to get violent, but the moment they do you start squealing like a little bitch.[/QUOTE]Since when has *anyone* been taking North Korea seriously? Like, a week ago it was the butt of jokes, now it's some serious threat.

[QUOTE=BLUchameleon;46743681]Followup: Paramount has apparently banned cinema showings of Team America in the US. [URL="http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2014/12/18/paramount-bans-showing-team-america.html"]http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2014/12/18/paramount-bans-showing-team-america.html[/URL] [/QUOTE] Yep, it's official. Confirmed via Alamo Drafthouse's facebook page. [img]http://i.imgur.com/yR3w9tU.png[/img] Dammit, this bums me out. I live 5 minutes away and I was definitely gonna go.