Untraceable: Unphukinbelievable
p2pnet news view | Movies:- “My sister suggested I watch this ‘movie” called ‘Untraceable,’ says p2pnet reader Tronix.
But, “I’ve seen newsreels about Hitler that didn’t have so much propaganda,” says Spill.com in a YouTube video (see the end of this post).
Tronix goes on »»»
I thought it would be an excellent movie since she’d rarely ever been wrong about a film recommendation. I’d have been in complete agreement with her had I been able to overlook the blatant propaganda the entire movie is drenched in.
Almost all MAFIAA talking points have been well covered except, surprisingly, how they’re losing money to file sharers.
Fear-mongering of P2P apps being the culprit behind trojans that will steal all your data. Check.
- Footage showing a young child being arrested as a result of being responsible for said program…check.
- Snide comments criticizing Net Neutrality proponents. Check.
- Footage of FBI agents walking in on someone supposedly watching a video that was downloaded. Check.
And I’m certain this movie had many more anti-p2p references.
Normally, it’s easy for me to watch movies, even if they aren’t exactly based in reality. What really made me mad abiout this one was how the P2P app that spreads malware is called TuneThief in the movie and has for it’s icon a burglar holding a bag.
Another terrible thing is the way in which the movie portrays Net Neutrality proponents.
Net Neutrality has always been about preventing vested interests from controlling what you can access from your computer. Some of the bigger ISPs are also your monopolistic phone or cable companies who just so happen to also want in on selling you movies.
Is it any wonder they don’t like net neutrality? These are the same folks who were first in line to sign up with the RIAA recently to get their users banned from their networks after being given so many warnings.
Unfortunately, in the movie, they’d rather have the audience believe opposing Net Neutrality would somehow bolster law enforcement efforts, which is anything but the truth unless law enforcement should happen to also include helping the RIAA and MPAA steal money from the pockets of millions.
I’ve heard complaints before about some movies having a few anti-p2p sentiments strewn throughout them but this movie takes the cake.
Should you see it at the video store, ask yourself this: “Can I stomach blatant MAFIAA BS propaganda?”
If the answer is No, think twice about spending hard earned money renting the movie.
And if you must watch it, I suggest you download it from a P2P network. How would that be for irony?
“It would be wonderful if this review of the newest cyber-torture-stalker-thriller could begin with the words ‘Untraceable is unwatchdable,’ but sadly that would be a lie.” says contactmusic.com. “Our tastes have very simply become too degraded over the years for us not to have become used to it as studios have continued to shove out purposeless dreck like this.”
Says Sun Media, “Just in case you thought all the grisly killings and violence were gratuitous, Untraceable has a strict moral lesson to deliver about the pitfalls of the Internet: Loss of privacy or identity, intellectual property theft, financial swindles of one sort or another, uncensored websites that cater to the basest of tastes, a world of like-minded sickos at your sicko fingertips. (And how about those plagiarized college essays!) Untraceable says that the people who log on to watch the horrible murders are accomplices to the crime, both philosophically and actually.
“So what does that make the movie audience that turns up to watch Untraceable?
“Accessories?
“Idiots, maybe?”
And, says the New York Times, “You may view ‘Untraceable,’ as I do, as a repugnant example of the voyeurism it pretends to condemn,” adding
“When the killer crows that it won’t be long before we are paying to download commercially sponsored atrocities on our cellphones, you have the uneasy feeling that he may be right.”
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January 3rd, 2009 at 11:45 am
Im intrigued lol
January 3rd, 2009 at 11:59 am
No shit, it’s got a good 6.1 “user review” rating on IMDB! Guess the shills are voting…
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0880578/
January 3rd, 2009 at 2:05 pm
how do u think i watched it in the first place!
January 3rd, 2009 at 6:29 pm
Haha! I nearly forgot I’ve seen this movie way back in time. First thing that comes to my memory now is a scene in which FBI agents run into some wannabe-hacker’s flat who copies dvds, including the “unauthorized copying…”-warning. One of the cops cleverly forks out his tongue: “Don’t say you haven’t been warned”. Big laughter in the audience (shame on me – I payed to watch this…).
January 3rd, 2009 at 8:52 pm
not so ironically, the movie is on file sharing networks.
it is absolutely hilarious how they use pseudo-geek-speak with fantasy tools to instantly acquire unobtainable information in real time.
And the MAFIAA testified in court that ‘it is IMPOSSIBLE for more than one computer to be related to a single IP address at the same time’.
Reality. FAIL.
January 3rd, 2009 at 9:47 pm
dont watch the movie watch the utoob video. its all you need
January 4th, 2009 at 7:16 pm
“When the killer crows that it won’t be long before we are paying to download commercially sponsored atrocities on our cellphones, you have the uneasy feeling that he may be right.”
If people could buy & watch real executions on their phones/TVs/computers they would be ponying up right now, in droves. “A hanging in the square? [Insert gleeful pig-squeal sound] What are we waiting for ?!?!”
What? Am I a misanthrope? Oh yeah. 100% equal opportunity.
As to the movie, the whole premise sounds idiotic.