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Re:Update on Sony Investigation by DanBC on Friday December 19, 2014 @01:31PM (#8773632)
Seth Rogan movies are a reasonable product. He got paid a bit more than $10m for this film. James Franco got a bit less than $10m. It cost something like $45m to make. There are very many much worse films being made, especially in the comedy genre which is pretty poor overall. (Does anyo e have recommendations for great comedy films from the last ten years?)

While not great comedy they're better than the Adam Sandler shovelware being churned out by Sony -- films that were given pretty heavy criticism from Sony employees in the leaked emails.

Re:Update on Sony Investigation by kolev on Friday December 19, 2014 @02:34PM (#8774018)
Well, I totally agree about Adam Sandler, but we need to demand quality. If we keep watching (i.e. paying for) subpar movies, movie studios will keep making them - cha-ching! I'd rather watch one quality comedy than 10 crappy ones. And the humor these days is getting very primitive - nothing sophisticated like in the British flicks or, let's say, Louis de Funes. These are comedies, the rest is idiotware made for people who're brain-dead to enjoy them as well (wider markets). I recently started to show my kids Charlie Chaplin movies and they love them. We need to keep raising the bar, not constantly lower it.
Re:Update on Sony Investigation by gballester on Friday December 19, 2014 @08:34PM (#8775523)
Not everyone has the same taste in humor as you.
Re:Update on Sony Investigation by kolev on Sunday December 21, 2014 @05:17AM (#8779421)
By definition, most people lack taste, intelligence, manners, beauty, etc. I know my taste isn't popular, because I'm blessed not part be of the gray mass of the majority.