Originally Posted by
Mattrick
It was a dumb movie to make. There is a REASON why presidents in films are always made up people, or stretching back (or more recently in Grand Budapest Hotel) filmmakers would invent countries to make fake leaders that draw allusions to real ones. Even with Team America, I mean it's a goddamn puppet. A big difference between a puppet and an actor with a striking human resemblence to a real leader of a real country who's name is the same as the real leader. If Russia made a comedy about two numbskull stoners (if they are that lol) assassinating Barrack Obama or George Bush while they were in office, I think a lot of America would be outraged ("Those red commie bastards!"). Don't agree with pulling the movie but still I said this movie was in poor taste from the get go. Doesn't help America and other parts of the world laughed at him when he was understandably upset at the premise of the film. I'm reminded of Lee Adama when defending Baltar and the double standards placed on Baltar by everyone else, and he says, "It's okay (that we're punishing him, making an example of him) because we just don't like him very much."
The movie being pulled is the thing I'm least upset about. Hope they barely make any money back. Idiots.