Soldato
Seriously? It's only two and half hours.
Tenet (2020) - Christoper Nolan
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Seriously? It's only two and half hours.
Soldato
Just stream it already... this film is quickly becoming toxic with its insistence to be released via a dead format in the middle of a pandemic.
Personally happy to wait for cinema, even if it took another year. Especially with new social distancing measures, went twice last week and was a pleasure.
This along with Dune are two films I want the cinema experience for.
This along with Dune are two films I want the cinema experience for.
Caporegime
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What? Hyperbolic much.
Nolan is a cinephile, I'm happy to wait and watch it in IMAX once things are safer.
Caporegime
I'm sure Nolan will just release a film that he's shot for cinema just to appease some impatient individuals 
like the investors ?I'm sure Nolan will just release a film that he's shot for cinema just to appease some impatient individuals
what are they going to do delay every movie for 6-12 months
Caporegime
Surely the investors will make more money on a cinema release rather than one to a streaming platform first?
you'd think so right? but how much do cinemas really want to pay for movies at a time they will be lucky to have half capacity ?
they would likely have made far more money just sticking the movie on the internet for £6.99 or whatever during the lockdowns when people were desperate for new things to watch.
I doubt the investors will be happy to wait another year or whatever for a return on their monies.
surely they had plans for getting the money back or some of it around whatever date, they then take that money and invest it in something else.
you think they want the money tied up for ages just sitting their cos nolan wants a cinema release
Soldato
If it's released online, it immediately gets ripped and put on free streaming/torrent sites.
At least with cinema releases, people have no choice but to go and pay to watch it, or wait months to sail the high seas if they don't want to settle for a camcorder job.
At least with cinema releases, people have no choice but to go and pay to watch it, or wait months to sail the high seas if they don't want to settle for a camcorder job.
people always say that but if people can afford something they will buy it.
I frequent a forum dedicated to piracy and most peoples attitudes towards pirating stuff on there has a changed a lot over the last 20 years.
why subscribe to netflix? how do they have a single customer? you can pirate everything as soon as it gets put on there.
oddly people still pay
I frequent a forum dedicated to piracy and most peoples attitudes towards pirating stuff on there has a changed a lot over the last 20 years.
why subscribe to netflix? how do they have a single customer? you can pirate everything as soon as it gets put on there.
oddly people still pay
Soldato
Subscribing to a monthly service is different to paying roughly the same amount to watch a single movie.
However go on any torrent site just after a new netflix movie premieres, being downloaded 10's of thousands of times in the first few days. A lot of people will pay but don't underestimate just how prolific piracy still is.
There is quite a vocal poster on these very forums who is always going on about having great audio/visual kit (well, they've apparently got the best of everything but I digress), quite often dressing down other posters how their own stuff is better and others have bought wrong. However a few weeks back said poster posted information for software for ripping movies from usenet/torrents and having "your own netflix library".
Caporegime
LMAO, that could never be Sonny could it?
Post was removed so i'm not going to name names.
As a follow up, just looked at a ranking of most pirated movies last week...Greyhound and The Old Guard...both streaming exclusives.
Caporegime
Not sure on The Old Guard but copies of Greyhound are limited to around 16GB even on private trackers which equates to around 24Mb/s bitrate. Streaming Greyhound directly through AppleTV with Atmos was pulling a fair bit more than that, between 29-41Mb/s. Not that these people particularly care about the quality they're getting though.
size: 16,967,148,943
runtime: 01:31:42.432
resolution: 3840 x 1604
bitrate: 24,668 kb/s
audio: E-AC-3 @ 768 kb/s (5.1)
the most seeded one on the site I saw was only 5gb, probably mostly students with laptops
for some other movies I see 30gb ones but theres no NFO and I ain't downloading something just to find out the bitrate, I guess they are blueray rips.
most seeded thing on there is the sims 4
If you've got good enough kit to care about bitrates, you've got enough cash to pay for a film.
I usually just wait until they hit rental on Prime, which is usually just a week or two after it goes on there to buy.
It would be interesting to see the numbers from some straight to streaming releases during lockdown. I would expect the distributors to be making a hugely better margin on each sale vs. whatever they get from cinemas.
I usually just wait until they hit rental on Prime, which is usually just a week or two after it goes on there to buy.
It would be interesting to see the numbers from some straight to streaming releases during lockdown. I would expect the distributors to be making a hugely better margin on each sale vs. whatever they get from cinemas.
There has been a lot of noise around Universal and their pulling back on some cinema releases based on how well Trolls 2 did direct to On Demand. To the point a few big cinema chains made a point about not showing Universal movies going forward.
However I imagine Trolls 2 being an ideal lockdown movie being more for kids, I can't imagine some of the bigger releases would have fared as well.
Soldato
I'd pay a few £ to be able to watch Tenet instead of cinema, and if it's like other Nolan films it should be worth the price of entry (saw Interstellar, Inception etc at cinema).
Maybe they've run the numbers though and just want to wait until they can get more people into the big screen showings to see it.
I think Tenet would do quite well despite the obvious piracy flaw with releasing on-demand.
Maybe they've run the numbers though and just want to wait until they can get more people into the big screen showings to see it.
I think Tenet would do quite well despite the obvious piracy flaw with releasing on-demand.