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Author Topic: A piracy poster I hadn't seen before Pete Naples Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1565 From: Dunfermline, Scotland Registered: Feb 2001 posted 09-22-2005 02:47 PM                     I wish I'd had a camera handy on Tueday. I went to a service call at a place I hadn't been before, and they have a poster up from FACT or whoever. Which is worded "90% of all pre release videos are filmed with a camcorder in a cinema" Erm, am I alone in spotting a fundamental flaw with this? If a feature isn't on release yet, how can it be camcordered in a cinema?!  |  IP: Logged David Stambaugh Film God Posts: 4021 From: Eugene, Oregon Registered: Jan 2002 posted 09-22-2005 03:37 PM                        They probably mean "pre-release" relative to the video release date, not the theatrical release.  |  IP: Logged Ian Price Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1714 From: Denver, CO Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-22-2005 05:40 PM                     Camcordering a movie in a movie theatre is like recording a song over your cell phone in a car. It's like taking a bath with your socks on, It's like being able to watch but not touch, It's like looking in the window at the pastry shop, I say, go ahead and let people camcorder in the movie theatre, they deserve what they get. Insert your analogies below.  |  IP: Logged Mark Ogden Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 943 From: Little Falls, N.J. Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-22-2005 06:19 PM                     quote: Ian Price Insert your analogies below. Ummmm . . . Trying to suck your wife's tits thru her nightgown? How's that one?  |  IP: Logged Wayne Keyser Master Film Handler Posts: 272 From: Arlington, Virginia, USA Registered: May 2004 posted 09-22-2005 09:44 PM                     Point 1: Most of the people who buy streetcorner DVDs wouldn't care how bad they are (by and large) because: A) While watching, they're too busy talking and going to the refrigerator and whatnot (the same reason you could spread vaseline on your projector lens and half the people in the auditorium wouldn't care) B) Does anybody remember the early days of VCRs when a 10th-generation dub of STAR WARS was a treasure? Point 2: "Just in case you didn't know how these things are done, here's how. Now that we've alerted you, YOU wouldn't bring in a camcorder, would you?"  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 09-23-2005 12:06 PM                        Like kissing your sister.  |  IP: Logged Jim Bedford Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 597 From: Telluride, CO, USA (733 mi. WNW of Rockwall, TX but it seems much, much longer) Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-23-2005 01:59 PM                        Sort of like Plato's watching hand shadows on a cave wall lit by fire.... As far as the market for these poor imitations of the real thing go, I remember when Betamax first happened and there were only a few titles available, people went nuts trying to get any copy of anything that wasn't released. They didn't care about the quality, they just cared about being first and being able to one-ups other collectors. I believe that being the first kid on your block (be it Shanghai or New York) to have a DVD title still carries the same attraction to a small portion of the market as it always has, quality be damned. And as we know, the best copies don't come from movie theatres or projectionists, but from copies passed around by studio execs and within studios, often before the film is even in release. Of course, many here know that DVD's are still only a poor imitation of the real thing anyway....  |  IP: Logged Dominic Espinosa Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1172 From: California, U.S.A. Registered: Jan 2004 posted 09-23-2005 02:06 PM                     I'll give credit to some of the assholes that cam films in the sense that they do it from the booth and dub the audio from the processor but they're still awful quality since it's of course not a professional telecine. Blaming theaters for it is rediculous since the big ones are always leaked from some inside source. But for funs sake...Watching a bootleg film is like: Driving a Porsche with a geo metro engine in it Playing a guitar with really old strings Shaving without a blade Playing video games in a blackout Oh, this one's perfect... Like watching a low-quality, inferior presentation, on a smaller screen, with shittier sound...Oh wait...  |  IP: Logged Robert Burtcher Expert Film Handler Posts: 194 From: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Registered: Jun 2005 posted 10-18-2005 10:00 AM                     quote: Dominic Espinosa Driving a Porsche with a geo metro engine in it Mmm... 55hp of pure driving excitement. 1.0L 3-bangers for the win!  |  IP: Logged

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