Jamie's in trouble!!

[Discloner]

Did anyone else see this report at Yahoo.com?

North Korea Attacks James Bond Movie


In a challenge to Hollywood, North Korea (news - web sites) called on the United States to stop screening "Die Another Day," saying the 20th James Bond feature slanders the isolated communist state.


The MGM hit proves that the United States is an "empire of evil" and "the headquarters that spreads abnormality, degeneration, violence and ... corrupt sex culture," said North Korea's Secretariat of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland.


The committee is a communist party organ that deals mainly with relations with South Korea (news - web sites). Its statement was carried by the North's official news agency, KCNA.


In "Die Another Day," Bond races a hovercraft through the demilitarized zone dividing North and South Korea. He is captured, imprisoned and tortured in North Korea, and released through a prisoner exchange.


"Die Another Day" has irked some South Koreans as well, although it will not open in Seoul theaters until Christmas. Some Koreans have urged a boycott, saying the movie is shows an ignorance of their culture.


The movie shows a U.S. intelligence official ordering the mobilization of the South Korean army and an outdated scene of Koreans using a cow to till fields. Bond also has sex in a Buddhist temple.


"The United States should stop at once the showing of (the movie) describing the DPRK as part of an 'axis of evil,' inciting inter-Korean confrontation, groundlessly despising and insulting the Korean nation and malignantly describing even religion," North Korea said. The DPRK, short for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, is the official name of North Korea.

Ok. So now Bush isn't going to be the cause of WWIII...

Hollywood is.... Sheesh

Anywone who wants all the nice little news links that are on the page, here they are: Story


Comments?

[Tobias]

Where to start?

First of all... IT'S A F(expletive deleted)G MOVIE! It's fantasy, make believe! What's next, are teenage girls going to boycott "The Hot Chick" because it puts snobby girls in a bad light?

[mbaker]

Now I don't want to sound like Joe McCarthy, but North Korea made it's own mistake of becoming communist, and the sad part is that most people in the Hollywood community support their views (Jane Fonda anyone?) It's kinda funny that the same country that Hollywood secretly worships is now accusing them of "slandering the isolated communist state". Blaming the outside world instead of themselves for their own problems. revealing their hypocricy yet again for all to see.

[BeastBoyWonder]

Most of Hollywood does not secretly worship Communism, Mr. McCarthy.

The article does kind of have a point. The movie was disrespectful to a religion and culture. I mean, I love stuff like South Park and satire like that, but I think the problem is that the movie makers take themselves seriously, so its not funny, its just stupid. While I don't think that boycotting the movie is the answer, I also feel that it was pretty dumb of the movie makers and script writers to throw this stuff in there.

[mbaker]

Another problem is that some people can no longer make decisions for themselves on what they like, and don't like. It all comes down to this. If you don't like it, don't watch it.

[Outlander00]

Originally posted by Tobias
Where to start?

First of all... IT'S A F(expletive deleted)G MOVIE! It's fantasy, make believe! What's next, are teenage girls going to boycott "The Hot Chick" because it puts snobby girls in a bad light?

Actually Id boycott it because it looks stupid!

Typical politics, nothing more.