‘Movies are marshmallow fluff’
p2pnet news | movies:- The Regal Cinemas Ballston Common 12 theater in the US has made a major mistake in paying attention to Hollywood. The result? For it, if audiences were dwindling, they’ll now dwindle even further
According to hit organization the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) the movie spindustry, which is reporting its best-ever revenues, is being “devastated” by camcording pirates.
With that it mind, it’s encouraging movie houses to bribe ushers into hassling patrons suspected of using recording devices while films are being shown.
Nineteen-year-old Jhannet Sejas (right) was arrested for using a camera to grab a 20-second clip of Transformers so she could show her young brother. Her idea was to get him to watch the movie.
She’s now facing a jail term for supposed illegal camcording.
And because Canadian prime minister George W. Harper allowed himself to be influenced by Hollywood lobbyists such as California movie star-turned-governor Arnold ‘Terminator’ Schwarzenegger, Canada now boasts new anti-’piracy’ legislation. Under it, someone could conceivably be prosecuted for doing the same thing.
Is it likely? – p2pnet asked Ottawa law professor and Net expert Dr Michael Geist.
“These kinds of cases are an inevitable consequence of the growing attention on movie camcording and the legal framework that has emerged to support prosecution of any unauthorized filming in movie theatres,” he said.
“Given the new Canadian legislation, it is entirely possible that similar stories could come north.”
In the US, agent zero, aka Jim Youll, is on a private list I subscribe to.
“I LOVE movies,” he posted, going on, “When I grow up I hope to make them. I miss my most beloved Ann Arbor film festival where I could literally soak in movie-light for three or four or six hours at a time, for days on end in the middle of winter, watching everything from long-form documentaries to Hungarian film school projects disguised as experimental shorts.”
But he says he doesn’t want to pay $15 to see art that’s not art anymore because of some, “misguided, absolutly incorrect ‘business’ decision that does nothing to stop the professed problem, while creating entirely new classes of problems and wrecking the ‘experience’.”
He also says:
After suffering through a several minutes of warnings, cautions, alerts, and threats of prosecution on rented DVDs over the past week, and now seeing this, as well as having paid $12 recently to sit through criminal warnings at a local theater… while “tolerating” the important people talking on cell phones during the film… and considering the recent DVD on which certain PREVIEWS resisted any when he joined judo andattempt to fast forward through them… I’ve been pushed over the edge into “screw them” mode.
I think I’m not the first, or only person, who feels this way, and it’s redundant to dump it into pho, but i had to tell someone.
Make 100% of the audience sit through insulting, can’t-be-skipped legal notices, because of the actions of 0.001% of the audience?
No more of that for me, thanks.
Seems like the best thing to do is rent DVDs, rip them to remove the noise, and then watch the films.
If that’s not allowed, then I’d rather just watch no movies at allAir, water, electricity, health, my bicycle, e-mail, food… these things are necessary.
Movies? Movies are optional. Movies are marshmallow fluff. People seem to have done ok for thousands of years without them.
When the enjoyable properties of a movie are taken away, when my movie-money is supporting the persecution of teenagers, then the movie has no purpose whatever.
Bye bye, “industry”. I’m not only bored with the crap you’ve been turning out lately, but disgusted by your treatment of legitimate, honest customers, including mys
And ……
I didn’t turn mainstream film into marshmallow fluff. The makers have done that. If a mainstream movie is just a ‘product’ now, then screw it. They used to be special to me. Now they just seem threatening.
Stay tuned.
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August 6th, 2007 at 2:17 pm
Might just be me – but I’m having problems accessing all pages on this site apart from the homepage in IE7.. It will load an article, show an error (URL is unavailable) and then redirect me, saying that IE cannot display the page.
August 6th, 2007 at 2:40 pm
I had that same error in IE as well…..but I used firefox and no problems…go figure.
August 6th, 2007 at 2:41 pm
Running FireFox, I don’t see the issue of site problems anymore. I did have a problem with the catchpas but that is gone now.
I long ago figured out that the movie industry as well as the other entertainment industries have hit rock bottom as far as value goes. Corporation trimming to return a bottom line to the shareholders while maintaining insane income levels for top management is showing up with the customers. Offshoring has removed much of the middle income brackets and that has also resulted in less money for discressionary spending as well.
The corporation would rather have the tried and true income producer instead of taking a chance on art in the biz. Customers are tired of remakes of remakes of remakes. They are also tired of the endless sequal which seems to think that the next in the series has to have more explosions and special effects to be better.
Add to this, the continual bombardment of advertisements, unwanted previews, admonishments to a paying audience who should not be their target, unruly behavior in the gallery, audio volume to rival a concert where you are sitting on the speakers, generally poor enviromental cleanliness, and the high prices of both ticket and concessions and it no longer takes on the aspect of “The Great Silver Screen” but rather leaves the customer with a very unsatisfied experience where he feels he was robbed of his money as well as of his time.
I haven’t went to the movies in years. I dislike long lines, I dislike crowds, I dislike the whole thing mentioned above. Far too many times I’ve read the billboard that sounds like it is the next contender for an award only to find out after viewing it was a dud in the worse sense of the word. That dissatisfaction eventually led me to realise very few movies are actually worth the “theater experience”.
When coupled with the industries’ spoiled brat attitude, there is no other assumption to come to but the entire thing has become a failure and one I don’t want to be in the middle of.
August 6th, 2007 at 2:52 pm
Hi:
It does the same for me in IE. I’ll get this sorted out ASAP, but I have absolutely no idea why it’s happening
This kind of thing happening is one of the reasons I switched to Firefox on long time ago
Has anyone any idea how long this has been going on? Is it recent or has it been happening since I switched to WordPress?
Cheers!
August 6th, 2007 at 3:29 pm
Problem fixed. It was a code error within a widget which we’ve now disabled.
Cheers!
August 6th, 2007 at 8:57 pm
why not just switch to blu-ray? the “Warning” messages are in the END of the movie instead of the beginning… +they are skippable.
If you really wanted to, you could watch the special features as you wait for the messages to pass by as well… but thats only with blu-ray.
I dont go to the theaters… due to quality loss (720p compared to 1080p), chairs getting kicked, cell phones, price, etc… you know.
but my point is- why not go blu?
August 6th, 2007 at 9:03 pm
i agree with “Readers wright”… ripping a blu-ray would be much harder due to the incredibly large size. Downloading it would just be all the harder. Not to mention, only HD-DVD has been burned. +No computer is capable of playing 120 fps in 1080p. so even if they DO find a way to burn blu-ray (which they will), its not like you’ll be able to watch it in perfect quality. As for the warning messages being at the end of the movie. the point is- they are still there. no matter where they are, whether you see them or not, and whether they bug you isnt the point. the point is that the movies are now all legal stuff and not just the movie that we want to see…
I do recommend switching to blu-ray if you own an HD TV. if you dont- dont bother.
im loving my blu-ray player…
August 7th, 2007 at 8:24 am
dvd / HD players will be obsolete soon. As bandwidth increases, everyone will simply download movies to their media centres. Of course the content wont be obsolete. Everyone would like to watch higher resolution videos.
Chris says:
“+No computer is capable of playing 120 fps in 1080p.”
If a monitor supports the resolution (which most do, 24 inch >), then a computer will have no problem playing 1080p (1920×1080). Computer aren’t restricted in playing content like the tv / hd player HDCP counterparts, they use a standard called DVI, which doesn’t encrypt the signal. The codecs are usually mpeg layer 2 (same as dvd), or mpeg layer 4 (mp4 | xvid | divx). These can be easily played.
The dell 30″ widescreen monitor supports resolutions greatly in excess of 1080p, 2560×1600, the last time i looked. HD players are a waste of money and time, just download (bittorrent, or a download service if you like to pay rip off prices) the videos onto a media centre or a regular PC setup, install codecs and bingo. No need for expensive discs or players.
August 7th, 2007 at 8:26 am
Blu-ray has 50GB recordable discs are out NOW. They make good hard drive backups.