thats completely not true. a better statement would be i watch a handful of new movies each year without paying and 99.9% of those were dvd/br/r6 rips. there just isnt much worth watching anymore, judging by how dead this forum is im not alone.
I would actually spend money in a situation like this, rather than wait for them to hit the bargain bin or borrow a new release from a friend.
i assume the studio suits are nervous about releasing a big film on demand because they think people will pack in their friends and relatives to mooch a film they might have paid for. while thats possible, its not likely. when pay-per view was new people did crowd over someone's house to watch a new film or a sporting event. nowadays, people stay home and want the convenience of turning on their own tv, getting out of their clothes ordering takeout and watching a good film in their undies while eating dinner. for every person that watches a new film at someone's house instead of paying at a cinema, they will gain 2 or more that would not have gone out to the movies at all.
Mind you, Pay-Per-View movies (when I was a kid at least), were in the double digits for a rental, while sporting events were $40+.
aye, first PPV event i saw was tyson vs spinks or whoever that dude was who got beat in 90 seconds. me and a bunch of friends chipped in for it. i would pay around ten bucks no sweat to watch a new film on my setup at home as well. i really dont like going to the movies that much anymore, the seats are always broken and the fucking kids are annoying and they keep the theater so fucking cold i get hypothermia. fuck that shit more than once or twice a year.
Ding ding ding. There's a reason the first cam rip of every movie has Russian or Chinese subtitles. Which I am somewhat thankful for actually, since I got a cam copy of The Avengers right before I deployed last year (April 30th). So once we got all settled in at work we were able to watch it before it even hit theaters in the US.
Are they not allowing haji to sell stuff in the fobs any more? A dude would come in with a van full of shit including pirated dvds of all the latest film releases. It was like china town on wheels. Everyone I know that was in the military calls them haji cams for this reason.
We were at Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti, not Afghanistan. I've heard stories about the rolling haj-mart at places like Bagram though.
Yes, but then again why even care about Kazakhstan and Indonesia market? I thought the movie industry judged a movie's success exclusively by the NA box sales.
I don't think this is true at all. There are lots of movies that do fairly poorly in the U.S./North America but make up for it with huge numbers overseas. Overseas markets provide a huge amount of money to the movie industry, as far as I know.
