After previously snubbing Sony’s offer to distrubute the film in the wake of the Sony hacks, Apple is now streaming The Interview on iTunes.
Available now from Apple at the same price as on Google, YouTube and other streaming services, you can now rent James Franco and Seth Rogen’s North Korea assassination comedy for $5.99 or own it for $15.
But should you? Cult of Mac’s Lewis Wallace said last week that you should watch The Interview because: “Nothing could be a more powerful statement against this kind of supposedly state-sponsored cyber-bullying than having the film turn from probable flop to cultural touchstone.”
Personally, I’d come at it from a different perspective. By pretty much all accounts, The Interview is a terrible film, and you shouldn’t support terrible movies with your money, no matter what. Especially when the film in question makes light of one of the greatest humanitarian disasters of our time. North Korea isn’t funny.
What do you think? Will you be renting or buying The Interview now that it’s available on iTunes? Let us know in the comments.
Source: iTunes
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
4 responses to “The Interview is now available on iTunes”
Personally, I find your conclusion insulting and unamerican. For starters the movie is not that great. I knew that before I bought it Christmas eve. I defiantly knew that before paying to see it in the cinema on Christmas!
Lastly, Korea is funny! Anyone who believes in its leader deserves to be laughed at just like he does! Nothing would be better for it as a country than for its people to do exactly what this movie shows…. And that sir is the point!
Itunes connect, the system you load new movies, apps and music on to itunes is offline for the holidays. It always is like this every year. So now that updates are happening again the movie is available. Apple just didn’t make an exception of this rule for sony. This is non news.
The movie is not great, but it is OK. Definitely worth $5.99
I want my $5.99 back. It was a piece of garbage.