Soldato
Sadly it'll be impossible!
Leaders of all the countries in the world would have to agree to such a censorship for this to work. I cant see that happening!
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Sadly it'll be impossible!
Leaders of all the countries in the world would have to agree to such a censorship for this to work. I cant see that happening!
Caporegime
If the big media production company’s do the following then they have my ear:
- Stop turning out **** movies which people pay to watch at the cinema only to find it's a terrible rehash of the last in the series
- Get some original ideas stop dragging up movies from my childhood to remake
- Change your pricing and distribution structure to give us what we actually want
- Stop charging so much for content
- STOP BANGING ON LIKE SOME LITTLE CHILD THAT ONE DOWNLOAD = ONE LOST SALE, it simply doesn't, people download stuff to either try it out or because they've purchased many many £7 cinema tickets in the past only to find out the movie was total and utter ****, same goes with games and music.
In many ways the media industry has brought this on themselves, it's a consumer uprising which has been going on for the past decade.
- Stop turning out **** movies which people pay to watch at the cinema only to find it's a terrible rehash of the last in the series
- Get some original ideas stop dragging up movies from my childhood to remake
- Change your pricing and distribution structure to give us what we actually want
- Stop charging so much for content
- STOP BANGING ON LIKE SOME LITTLE CHILD THAT ONE DOWNLOAD = ONE LOST SALE, it simply doesn't, people download stuff to either try it out or because they've purchased many many £7 cinema tickets in the past only to find out the movie was total and utter ****, same goes with games and music.
In many ways the media industry has brought this on themselves, it's a consumer uprising which has been going on for the past decade.
Agreed!
Also it doesn't help that movies and games have rave reviews by payed in hand newspapers and reviewers only to be utter garbage and wasted money.
Well said that man.
You only have to look at the last three years movie releases to realise how many re-makes are being turned out, and look at coming release schedules at how many more are coming.
Soldato
Alex you just made a complete fool of yourself
Why the backbone of the internet is chock full of crappy downloads remove all that and you free up the bandwidth world wide, it should even make a difference to end user bandwidth as pretty much everyone in the UK is on a contended connection so sharing their bandwidth potentially with the download addicts who max their connections 24/7 to get the latest scrubs episodes.
I'm happy for you to point out how I'm wrong if you like?
And what about the 1%?
Yep, for example, why the hell did they need to remake "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"? What a waste of time IMO, the original is amazing and didn't need "Hollywood treatment".
And herein lies the issue. I've used Lovefilm's live streaming and I'm currently using Netflix, and while I didn't have a huge problem with the quality (albeit on a small screen) the choice was shocking, truly shocking. Old, poor films that everyone has seen a zillion times...
OT, but I watched the original with my other half when my parents came to visit... I'd read the books, but hadn't counted on the rape scene being so graphic and gritty! Uncomfortable few minutes in the living room right there
(rented it from Blockbuster btw, just so i keep some kind of on-topicness in this post)
Soldato
Sad but it's tough you can't turn a blind eye to a massive problem just because a tiny fraction of it is legit. I'm not even sure you can call it legit when it's clearly funded by rabid piracy, if there is genuine demand for the legitimate services and people are willing to pay the going market rate then someone will fill the void.
Caporegime
Don’t like lovefilm hate waiting for blurays to turn up in the post etc.
I've just upgraded to sky movies and since I have unlimited sky broadband hooked that up to the HD box, can now access the sky movie catalogue to download and watch on demand, its ok and HD quality is good, selection not so great, £6 a month so will see how I get along.
Soldato
So it's already a worthless 'alternative' to piracy.
Soldato
Totally off topic bad you've chosen a terrible example, the simple fact that it is a foreign language movie makes it ripe for a hollywood remake. I know some people find it difficult to accept but foreign language movies with subs don't have the mass market appeal of those in the English language particularly in the US and UK. The material the movies are based on is clearly massively popular so of course hollywood was going to come knocking, it doesn't devalue the origional movies and just makes it accessible to a wider audience.
Fixed for you. I think the fact that it hadn't crossed my mind that it was a foreign language film shows how good it was and didn't need a remake, but then that's just me. Anyways, sorry, OT again!
Good point. I use to download about dvds a week but now I dont download any because I got bored of the crap hollywood churns out. I very rarely even watch movies now days.
Soldato
Fixed for you. I think the fact that it hadn't crossed my mind that it was a foreign language film shows how good it was and didn't need a remake, but then that's just me. Anyways, sorry, OT again!
See your extrapolating your experience to be that of the majority which in the case of forign language films it clearly is not. It is obvious from the sales figures that the majority of US and UK movie goers would prefer to watch a film in the English language than in a subtitled one. I like yourself don't mind the subtitles but I will certainly be watching the new Holywood take on TGWTDT and I'm sure I will enjoy it maybe not as much as the origional but other will have a different prefference.
My point was simply that you could have picked much better examples of pointless remakes/reboots/sequels that were much more obvious cash in's I'm looking at you latest Karate Kid Movie.
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