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Topic: Sony Hack Hits Home
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Marcel Birgelen
Film God
Posts: 3357
From: Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands
Registered: Feb 2012
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posted 12-26-2014 05:26 PM
quote: Monte L Fullmer
SONY struck gold with this one along with the limited release houses playing it.
Yeah, they made a whopping ONE MILLION dollars already on their "theatrical release"... On a movie with a budget of about 44 million dollars, which apparently got SPE’s most kept secrets stolen and almost triggered an International crisis, this ONE MILLION $$$ sure sound daunting...
But yeah, forgive my sarcasm.
You know who really struck gold? The pirates! The movie was downloaded about 750.000 times alone via BitTorrent in the first 20 hours...
quote: Monte L Fullmer
Like going to McD's: Crappy hamburgers, but people buy them in throngs.
Yeah, but the whole point is: People can have crappy Mickey D's quality movies at home nowadays. They just need to turn on their tube and hit the Netflix button, they don't even need to get in the car. It's like having a McD's "hamburger" delivered instantly to your plate by the push of a button. The day this materializes (quite literally), your local McD's franchise will go the way of the local movie rental shack.
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That's true, but upping the quality of the experience can help. I remember when we first put in DTS sound. A friend and I tested the system by watching the movie "True Lies." During the first big shootout scene, my friend leaned over to me and yelled, "Wow, this could even make a shitty movie fun to watch!"
In my very personal experience, a good presentation can make a mediocre movie a good experience and a good movie a great experience. A crappy presentation can even ruin the best movie. It has always been a combination of both movie and presentation and it will always be this way. Hollywood and the exhibition industry need each other. I guess the f*cked up release of this movie really proves this point.
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Bobby Henderson
"Ask me about Trajan."
Posts: 10973
From: Lawton, OK, USA
Registered: Apr 2001
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posted 12-26-2014 08:25 PM
One thing that might be on the side of Sony -or could be if they bothered to educate the public about it, is that anyone downloading torrents of The Interview (or torrents of anything else) is putting their computer's security at extreme risk.
Personally, most people I've known to get their computers hosed by trojans or other malware were doing something illegal. They were illegally downloading pirated music, movies or software. They get baited to download something they want badly and end up getting their computer infected in the process. Some of it is all too easy, like a person downloading Adobe Creative Suite and then downloading what he thinks is a license key generator, but is really a malicious script to totally fuck up his computer. It's even better than attaching malware to a junk e-mail.
quote: Terry Lynn-Stevens
I am sick and tired of waiting for months until a movie is released on Netflix or DVD. I don't want to see everything with a theatrical experience and if it takes a down a few shitty theaters with it then so be it.
Leave it to Terry the Troll to throw some obviously ignorant flame-bait into the thread.
Just in case you're serious about that stance Terry, and are too stupid or ignorant to release the often previously repeated truth, it's pretty damned simple math. If the movie studios release movies onto VOD and home video formats the same time they release the same movies in theaters ALL commercial movie theaters will go out of business. When they go out of business, the movie industry as we know it will go out of business.
The theatrical release platform is what bankrolls those $200 million productions and $100 million ad campaigns. There is no fucking way any movie studio is going to ever spend that kind of money on a 2 hour movie made only to watch on little home HDTV screens. No way at all.
You'll say goodbye to all those epic-level movie productions and say goodbye to "A-list stars" commanding $20 million paychecks to helm a movie. All the big movie studios will be reduced to companies far lesser in size and relevance. They'll be production companies merely trying to sell content to cable or broadcast networks. They won't even be on par with outfits like Netflix.
The contagion will spread to all tiers of home entertainment. Anything that relies on "Hollywood Movies" to attract customers will just be screwed. An unstoppable domino effect will take place. Movie theaters will die first. As movie content goes low-budget and shitty due to its new "direct to video" model, customers will sour on buying/renting movies via PPV VOD and optical disc formats like Blu-ray. Then they'll sour on paying for premium cable channels like HBO. Then they may sour on paying all that money for cable. Netflix and other streaming outlets will also take it in the ass.
At least the movie theater has the opportunity, like restaurants, to deliver a great "out of home" entertainment experience. If you're paying to watch movies in your home it's only going to be about the quality of the content. Nothing else. If all the content is low budget and shitty then why bother paying for it? In the end TV networks will be the only game in town for dramatic recorded entertainment.
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Randy Stankey
Film God
Posts: 6539
From: Erie, Pennsylvania
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 12-27-2014 12:10 AM
Terry, my family ran a steak restaurant. I grew up eating steak virtually every day of my life since I can remember until I went away to college. In fact, even after all these years, I went out to dinner, this evening and had steak.
There is nothing, absolutely NOTHING, that Ruth's Chris does that you can't do at home except provide a good atmosphere with attentive staff and excellent chefs. That "1,800 degree" stuff is bullshit, pure marketing bullshit.
I have eaten at Ruth's Chris and it was a top notch dining experience. The food was delivered hot and well-cooked. The waiter stood at his station, two tables away, and any time I needed something, I didn't even have to call his name. He was right there in two seconds. The guy even laughed at my stupid jokes.
I paid top dollar for that meal which I could have bought from the butcher's counter at the supermarket and I could have cooked it myself for less than one tenth of the price, yet I WILLFULLY got dressed up and hauled my butt to that restaurant because I wanted to have a nice time at a nice restaurant where people pay attention to ME and what I want.
Yes, I can download "The Interview" virtually for free and I can watch it on the TV in my home. I won't have to get dressed. I won't have to drive anywhere. I won't have to do anything.
All of us here at Film-Tech, know how to put on a great movie presentation at home. We don't need to go to the theater but we still WANT to.
Because what we REALLY want is for other people to pay attention to US and take care of OUR needs if only just for two hours out of a day.
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