Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: A piracy poster I hadn't seen before

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Posted by Pete Naples (Member # 761) on 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?!

Posted by David Stambaugh (Member # 1102) on 09-22-2005, 03:37 PM:

They probably mean "pre-release" relative to the video release date, not the theatrical release.

Posted by Ian Price (Member # 14) on 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.

Posted by Mark Ogden (Member # 43) on 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?

Posted by Wayne Keyser (Member # 2420) on 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?"

Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 09-23-2005, 12:06 PM:

Like kissing your sister.

Posted by Jim Bedford (Member # 4) on 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....

Posted by Dominic Espinosa (Member # 2122) on 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...

Posted by Robert Burtcher (Member # 3227) on 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! [Big Grin]