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12-24-2014 , 02:30 PM
How would I go about watch fit in my xbox
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12-24-2014 , 02:32 PM
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Originally Posted by wesrwood
How would I go about watch fit in my xbox
Search for it under TV and videos. It was released around 1 est
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12-24-2014 , 02:33 PM
How much is it?
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12-24-2014 , 02:33 PM
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Originally Posted by wesrwood
How much is it?
$5.99
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12-24-2014 , 02:34 PM
Available on Youtube and Google Play:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2014/...on-google.html
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12-24-2014 , 02:35 PM
This can be torrented so easily but im definitely supporting Sony and giving them my $5.99
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12-24-2014 , 02:40 PM
lol
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12-24-2014 , 02:43 PM
Was gonna pay 3.75 and drive far and gas so I'm in. Is it a one time rental or 24 hours?
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12-24-2014 , 02:54 PM
Classic.

1. After losing half the exhibitors (or more), Sony cancels the movie, because they know there's no chance they'll make their money back via traditional avenues. By doing that, they can do a complete write off of the movie, and get a nice big fat insurance refund. They say there are no plans to release the movie on any platform period.

2. Then, they backtrack and say, well, maybe, but no way no how Christmas release.

3. Netflix is floated, and the next day, we have a limited Christmas release, with theaters willing to show it increasing by the hour.

4. By 1am today wherever other people are, it's evidently available on Xbox, YouTube, and Google Play.

So, not only did Sony lie about its plans for never releasing it, they actually released it BEFORE it was supposed to be released. LOLSony.

Everything post-hack is so obviously a publicity stunt now (or a backfired insurance grab attempt if you want to go that route), and it's 100 percent clear the only reason they're now doing what they're doing is because the insurance company told them to eff off. They were reckless doing the movie to begin with, and the insurance didn't feel what happened warranted a refund. It's almost the equivalent of a person buying a car for crash testing, getting it insured normally, crashing the car, and trying to collect the insurance while telling the insurance company that it was wrecked during crash testing.

Because of no insurance refund, they had to figure out a way to re-coup their money, and waiting a few months to cash in on the mountain of free publicity they received just wasn't gonna happen. Money won when the exhibitors pulled out causing cancellation. Money won when the insurance pulled out, causing its return before its original release date.

Sony is like the best friend of a guy with a smoking hot girlfriend he wants to be with. The best friend kills the guy doing some reckless act, but makes himself look like a hero trying to save him. The girlfriend is now available, and needs consoling, but he knows that won't play out right even though he can capitalize on his hero image. He waits a few days, but his boner gets the best of him and he asks her to sleep with him. She says yes. That's the equivalent of what any moviegoer seeing this only because of what's happened has done. Too bad the smoking hot girlfriend has an STD.
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12-24-2014 , 03:07 PM
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Originally Posted by wesrwood
Was gonna pay 3.75 and drive far and gas so I'm in. Is it a one time rental or 24 hours?
24 hours
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12-24-2014 , 04:08 PM
Nunnehi your analogies are terrible.
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12-24-2014 , 04:19 PM
So anybody seen it yet? Any good?
Should be on netflix in a few days for subscribers right?
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12-24-2014 , 04:33 PM
It was exactly what I thought it would be. I can understand why north Korea would be pissed. Makes the supreme leader look like a bumbling idiot
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12-24-2014 , 04:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Gonzirra
Nunnehi your analogies are terrible.

Spoiler:
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12-24-2014 , 04:45 PM
Movie was even less funny than expected. But I'm inside because of rain & holiday and she was watching bull**** cooking shows anyway.
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12-24-2014 , 05:00 PM
Cool I'll likely rent it tonight and try out my chromecast
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12-24-2014 , 05:01 PM
I haven't laughed at a Seth Rogan movie in a while, nor his understudy Jonah Hill. I'm going to guess there was one fairly funny scat/sex joke, some special effects and action scenes which don't even try to be funny, and a bunch of really dead gags.
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12-24-2014 , 05:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Gonzirra
No, nobody cares about NK. At least not the small group of elites actually permitted to enjoy Internet access.

Also, lol @ this being a publicity stunt. The movie would have done fine. People know what they're getting out of a Rogen/Franco comedy by now and past ones have dragged in $100m on similar low-medium budgets. This one might have done better still on the strength of This is the End last year. Either way, Sony doesn't control theater chains.

That the movie probably sucks is almost irrelevant and a given anyway. I predict 4 or 5 quick laughs in the entire movie, with some weed smoking, some bromancing, and mostly a boring movie that should have had Danny McBride in it.
Wat? He isn't in it?
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12-24-2014 , 05:36 PM
Well, I learned something from this thread. You can watch movies on a xbox. I thought they were just for playing games.
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12-24-2014 , 05:49 PM
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Originally Posted by nunnehi
Classic.

1. After losing half the exhibitors (or more), Sony cancels the movie, because they know there's no chance they'll make their money back via traditional avenues. By doing that, they can do a complete write off of the movie, and get a nice big fat insurance refund. They say there are no plans to release the movie on any platform period.

2. Then, they backtrack and say, well, maybe, but no way no how Christmas release.

3. Netflix is floated, and the next day, we have a limited Christmas release, with theaters willing to show it increasing by the hour.

4. By 1am today wherever other people are, it's evidently available on Xbox, YouTube, and Google Play.

So, not only did Sony lie about its plans for never releasing it, they actually released it BEFORE it was supposed to be released. LOLSony.

Everything post-hack is so obviously a publicity stunt now (or a backfired insurance grab attempt if you want to go that route), and it's 100 percent clear the only reason they're now doing what they're doing is because the insurance company told them to eff off. They were reckless doing the movie to begin with, and the insurance didn't feel what happened warranted a refund. It's almost the equivalent of a person buying a car for crash testing, getting it insured normally, crashing the car, and trying to collect the insurance while telling the insurance company that it was wrecked during crash testing.

Because of no insurance refund, they had to figure out a way to re-coup their money, and waiting a few months to cash in on the mountain of free publicity they received just wasn't gonna happen. Money won when the exhibitors pulled out causing cancellation. Money won when the insurance pulled out, causing its return before its original release date.

Sony is like the best friend of a guy with a smoking hot girlfriend he wants to be with. The best friend kills the guy doing some reckless act, but makes himself look like a hero trying to save him. The girlfriend is now available, and needs consoling, but he knows that won't play out right even though he can capitalize on his hero image. He waits a few days, but his boner gets the best of him and he asks her to sleep with him. She says yes. That's the equivalent of what any moviegoer seeing this only because of what's happened has done. Too bad the smoking hot girlfriend has an STD.
This took an abrupt turn in the last act.
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12-24-2014 , 06:13 PM
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Originally Posted by fuluck414
It was exactly what I thought it would be. I can understand why north Korea would be pissed. Makes the supreme leader look like a bumbling idiot
as opposed to all the thousands of KJU is it cake? can I eat it? memes?

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12-24-2014 , 07:25 PM
nunnehi,

i wish we could somehow bet on whether any of your claims about how this actually went down are true. i suspect they are completely off. and as someone else pointed out, the last paragraph is just pure aids.
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12-24-2014 , 07:40 PM
And now it's opening in many cities on the biggest movie night of the year... fishy
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12-24-2014 , 07:47 PM
don't care, rogans a douche and isn't funny.
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12-24-2014 , 08:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Yeti
nunnehi,

i wish we could somehow bet on whether any of your claims about how this actually went down are true. i suspect they are completely off. and as someone else pointed out, the last paragraph is just pure aids.
Um, my claims are following the timeline of how it actually happened. Publicity stunts, insurance, etc. are pure conjecture and speculation based on industry logic. It could all be wrong, but how else do you explain them saying no way no how to a release on any platform last week (quickly walking it back day by day), to it actually being made available for money BEFORE it was originally going to be released? That's a big batch of lolHollywood b.s. They looked at the P.R. storm, and realized it would be more beneficial for them to get it out than shelf it. If the insurance wouldn't refund their money for production costs, there's no way they're just going to let $85-90 million evaporate into thin air. Compare an $85-90 million loss to a potential $60-70 million profit with all the free publicity it's had. This movie was fairly unlikely to make any real money (it making maybe $65 mil is a reasonable domestic run in its intended wide release, with no clue how foreign markets would like this movie, as This is the End performed pretty poorly in foreign markets even though this isn't similar). Now, with the publicity, it would be a joke for it to make less than $125 mil domestically (theaters/VOD), and it should make $50-60 mil foreign based on the publicity alone (though that's pure speculation as I can't imagine a U.S.A.#1 movie is going to be a huge sell overseas with that kind of subject matter).

Remember, half the exhibitors (or more) backing out would have made the movie have an absolutely sure loss, and if they just let it play through the limited theatrical run (maybe 4-5 weeks max in the types of theaters that would run it) they wouldn't be able to benefit with the VOD that they can now.

As for the other part, you mean the last paragraph was pure hilarity on the level of The Interview, right (yes, I agree it was terribly stated...lol, but I hope a point was made)? Are you someone like Gonzirra who had absolutely no plans to see the movie until it was canceled?
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