let s talk about the things that people really do find the most popular at the holiday to buy for themselves or others on the day itself. on december 25. they are i think i know the answer to this. a lot of the people end up going to the movies on christmas day. celebration on christmas eve maybe they don t celebrate. same with chinese food. a lot of chinese food restaurants so busy during you looked shocked about this, booth. lisa: also alcohol. which i imagine some people, you know, if you got tough relatives. maybe that s what it is about. we eat chinese food on christmas eve. my grand father when we were growing up he didn t live in the best neighborhoods we went to candlelight service and chinese food. he loved it and paid for it and a huge thing. we did that every year so it became a tradition and a lot of fun a little bit different than maybe some other families with christmas eve.
for many families goings to the movies on christmas day is just as traditional as openi in presents, but which film is worth your bucks. the first one is rogue one. tons of actions, plenty of special effects but did it meet expectations? gill, let s start with that, star wars, thumbs up or thumbs down? totally thumbs up, the movie has not only been reviewed favorably, but it s also earning lots of box office, big money at the box office. so should we take our kids or
perspective, this is a bees disetion for them. i am not saying i agree with it it. i am not saying i agree with it at all. but what they are saying is this the h die on? is this the hill we want to die on? this movie, we want to put people in the theater where a lope crazy person lone crazy person will shoot people? if this was 2002 what would he have said? this is not a veterans day parade. it is a silly movie. it is a terrible movie. obama said go to the movies. george bush said go shopping. when george bush said go shopping he was wrong. in this case owe bough obama was right. i have to disagree. it is unamerican and unchristian to go to the movies on christmas day. christmas day? who goes to the movies on christmas day? well you are jewish, andy. i said this is an attack on jews.
anecdotically with people i know who never would have watched this movie but because of the publicity they have gone and watched it on-line. some people wonder if maybe they shouldn t, afraid they might open themselves up to hacking. you heard possibly in that last report there was a woman who went to the movies, didn t want to use your credit card, she told her husband to use his credit card, didn t want to open herself up to retribution. do you think that s a real concern? i don t think it s a real concern. the north koreans would have to hack into, for instance, visa or american express and run an algorithm through it to see who went to the movies and, you know, just way too complicated. i think they the they ll go for a bigger cyber bomb likes against sony, more sony e-mails. at the end of the day i think we all did the right thing, sony did releasing this movie, not going to stand for external censorship, we can t. so i think it s a christmas day victory for us all. do you
idea, but it s embarrassing. wait a minute, let me bring in gordon chang here, too, actually, let me go to laurie seagall, first, because i want to talk about the financial investment. we re not only talking about a movie, we re talking about a lot of money, millions and millions of dollars that was spent. on the fact of sony here the fact that they two release for free online which some have mentioned is a way to get back. does that make sense for them? at this point they ve lost so much money from all the damage done, you could say could netflix, could amazon, sony bought a company called crackle where they can actually stream videos online but this is for free. they re not going to make a lot of money here. i think at this point you also have to look at why pull this on christmas day. they have some other films coming out on christmas day, this could be, i hate to say this, a bit of a business decision, too, they had films expected to do much better that are coming out and peopl