Above: “Hey, what the fuck are you looking at? You mudda-fucka”
Look at this scumbag or as I’d like to call him, man of commerce. You know, I read this article a while back on Slate.com (I’ve been looking at the site quite often lately) about how people, well, I don’t know if you know, but people in China operate these illegal carts/shops everywhere in the major cities, everywhere like they’re McDonalds in Manhattan, anyway, people will watch movies that they generally won’t pay to rent and definitely not watch in the the theaters but if it’s cheap (bootlegged) they’ll give it a try.
Above: 5RMB to 8RMB ($1) a DVD and you get a discount if you buy a bunch, seriously.
Well FUCK THAT SHIT. Are you fucking kidding me. Now you’re telling that you’re going to sit through Norbit just because it cost you a few dollars less? No, that’s bullshit, because NORBIT IS A PIECE OF SHIT - I don’t need to see it to know. The article goes on talking about how movie industries should consider this, consider how they’re not actually losing as much money as they think they are because people who buy bootlegs may not necessarily buy the original or watch it in the theaters but will buy this bootleg cause it’s cheaper. Now this may be true to a certain degree but it’s not accounting for the fact that because I now know and am so accustomed to watching crap on bootleg, because it’s cheaper and I’m all about the content, that I’m not going to watch movies at the theater or buy it when it comes on official DVD and instead just wait for the bootleg.
Above: Mistakes 1.) Letting reporters know that he slept with a tranny 2.) Norbit
TORRENTS - Now it’s pretty mainstream right? I mean, you probably have either heard of it or download movies on the internet (illegally) yourself. There are websites full of links to torrents that let me download new movies on the internet, bootleg-video-camera’d versions or dvd quality, that are cutting into BOTH Hollywood and that black guy on the street in Chinatown. I have not been to the theaters in months. However, the fact that I’ve been to the theater at all was because the movie I wanted to watch (The Departed) just needed to be seen on a big scale. Now that’s the bullshit thinking they should be marketing more. There is NO way to eliminate piracy. Piracy is like a virus, fat lazy people who don’t work because what they ultimately want to do is just watch movies and eat fried pork grinds, skip the get-a-job-pay-for-ticket part, and just download shit while sitting in their parent’s basements and jerk-off afterwards.
Above: Mr. Master Bator says, “I have mosaic eyes.”
Movie theaters are never going to disappear, The New Yorker had an article about how it’s such a social experience - even if you go alone - that it will never disappear, BUT! Hollywood isn’t making their margins solely on tickets, they’re LOSING money on DVDs. My suggestion is, make DVDs so much better and SO full of crap that the bootleg pales by comparison. A special edition box is not going to work. A double dvd set? Eh, better. ‘The Departed’ in a special edition box double dvd set with extra nude scenes featuring Vera Farmiga (the broad who played the psychiatrist) that’s lengthy and can’t fit on those bootleg 4.2 gig bootleg dvds? I’m sold, where can I buy? - the extra porno could probably be bootlegged and I’d just wait in my parent’s basement for THAT too.
Above: “Sure Mr. Scorsese, I’ll take off whatever you want. (wink)”
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