12 Movies The Studios Should Have Pulled Instead Of The Interview

Everyone knows it was a bad idea for Sony to pull The Interview, but here are some movies the big studios perhaps should have caved on.

1. Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

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This movie has TONS more racist caricature than The Interview could ever hope to have. Plus, Jar Jar.

2. Around two-thirds of the new Hobbit trilogy

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This poster adequately illustrates how small one feels when staring down twelve hours of Hobbit footage. That awesome Rankin/Bass cartoon was 77 minutes!

3. Hackers

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If mocking North Korea is such an offense to hackers, then shouldn't mocking hacking itself be even more offensive? Boot up or shut up!

4. Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas

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File this under the 'wishful thinking' category. At the very least, the use of a cool Die Hard font should have been nipped in the bud.

5. MASH

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Here's another comedy in which lovable goofballs fight North Korea. It must have just squeaked by. Freedom of the screen, eh? Sigh.

6. Theodore Rex

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Surely the Fraternal Order of Police should have petitioned the movie studio about this one?! That outfit Whoopi is wearing isn't even standard issue!

7. Borat

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Sure, this movie made a mockery of the real life country Kazahkstan, but it's really on this list to retroactively stop all of those horrible impressions your friends still do. (See also: Austin Powers.)

8. Superman IV: The Quest For Peace

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Surely, the intersection between hackers and nuclear-powered super villains couldn't have been that small, right? Sadly, the protests never came.

9. Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo

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If Sony is so itchy on the banhammer, then how in tarnations did this 'gem' get released?!

10. The Adventures of Pluto Nash

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Warner Bros would have given their eye teeth for a hacking scandal to blame the pulling of this film on. It lost $100 million bucks in 2002 which, according to an inflation calculator, rounds up to around $130 million now.

11. Paul Blart Mall Cop 2

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This doesn't come out until next year so, Sony, if you want to go ahead and somehow tie this into the whole hacking scandal, we won't tell. Do it for your love of God and country.

12. Team America: World Police

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Wait a minute. This one actually was pulled. Damn you Paramount!