In the un-kindest cut of all, a repressive foreign country that does not wants its citizens to go to the movies unless the movie exalts its leader for life, puts the kibosh on a comedy that no sane person would believe is reality. Sony Pictures pulled release of “The Interview,” a satire targeting that country’s dictator. Hackers made some ridiculous threats about terrorist violence after hacking emails from Sony’s computer system revealing many of the Hollywood studio’s best-kept secrets.

A mysterious group that calls itself Guardians of Peace was found by the US government to be the North Korean regime and was responsible for the hacking. They accomplished this from China. An hour later they should have been hungry for more, but luckily they stopped there.

It’s a Seth Rogan /James Franco comedy for crying out loud! Why couldn’t they let this Screwball 3 Stooges-ish film be fodder for the stoned crowd? So what if they laughed at the wrong parts? Would someone have truly thought it was for real? The lesson here is that no one makes fun of a young dictator whose pudgy finger is on a nuclear button that is probably as dysfunctional as he.

Why couldn’t the North Koreans have gone after the dystopian epic trilogy, Maze Runner?

It had all the elements. A formulaic coming of age young adult post-apocalyptic sci-fi trilogy with humor, tears and angst set against a community of boys trying to escape their walled-in-world.

They would have done us a big favor.