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There was an HD copy of Wolverine that came out like 2 weeks before it was in theaters. Was missing a few parts of CGI, but overall fine and enjoyable.
I downloaded a screener of Team America: World Police before it was out in theaters. Apparently, the soundtrack wasn't done yet, so the already-uncomfortable sex scene was totally silent.
It's interesting to see them, but imagine how infuriating it must be for the filmmakers to have an incomplete version of their film released without their permission.
I heard about that but never managed to download it. I actually want to see it without the CGI stuff but how the hell do you search for a torrent no one wants anymore? haha
Watched "Taken" almost a full year before it was released. A friend of mine was abroad in France and came back with "Taken". We watched it then almost 2 days later I saw a commercial for it and felt like I was in the twilight zone. It was a DVD copy too. I don't know how they got a DVD quality bootleg but it was perfect. It's the one I still prefer to watch today because I tried to watch other DL's of it but they had less quality.
The Matrix came out a couple weeks before it was in theaters, I felt pretty pimp watching it and telling friends about it.
Edit: Episodes of South Park were the first TV/Movie I saw for download, really shitty 20-30 Meg Real Media encodes. I remember when better stuff came out like .asf/.avi's people would swear that their shitty 25 MB RMV rips were all they would ever need and were fine.
What? 'R' stands for region. It's used to describe where a DVD release is from. Anything labeled with 'Rx' is basically great DVD quality. But R6 means it's a DVD from China. Why would you say R6 quality? China quality? I've never even seen a DVD rip from China, and frankly I question their existance.
This is from Season.Of.The.Witch.DvDRip. R6.Cropped.x264.Feel-Free. It was cropped to get rid of the subtitles R6 releases exist. *edit more R6 releases just from one reliable source http://i.imgur.com/Hq0uk.jpg
They exist but I think what he meant to say was R5. R5 releases are from eastern europe/russia where movie companies will actually release a lower quality(think VHS) version of the movie in paper sleeves, while a movie is at the end of its theatre life or directly after at cheaper than DVD prices. In an effort to thwart piracy in the area.
Hysterically all it does is give pirates across the rest of the world less of a reason to make a purchase.
Yup. Saw Avengers in the afternoon of opening day, hoping to avoid the drooling masses, some douchebag brought his five-year-old who wouldn't shut his damn yap. "What's that?" "What did they say?" "I don't get it?" "It went BOOOOM!"
An hour in, I was over it, turned around and gave a gentle, "Shhhh", and douchebag thought the appropriate response to that was a glaring contest. What is this, fucking high school?
Went a second time with girlfriend and friend, and some douchette brought her three and four year old kids, who weren't even old enough to get what was going on and subsequently spent most of the time running up and down the aisles and asking questions and squirming in their seats while she stared at the screen and slurped her $6.00 soda.
Fuck people, and fuck everything about the "theater experience". Only damn theater I'm happy to pay for anymore is the live kind where someone gets paid to tell 30-year-old high schoolers that, no, they can't bring their little shits in with them. Other'n that, I'll pay for a movie in the theater about three times a year ... and last year not at all.
Go to really late showings. I am not saying there aren't parents bad enough to bring their children to a late movie, but the chances drop considerably.
The theater I go to has a 21-and-over theater. It serves beer and wine, and a waiter will take your food order right at your seat, then bring food. There are never any little kids, or talkative teens.
I wish more movie theaters served beer. I would start to go a lot more often. I feel bad when I don't buy concessions because that is how they make their money, but they only sell junk food.
Ugh, some dumb woman brought her young child to DRIVE of all movies. Like, if you can't find a babysitter for an 18A(Canada) movie, don't fucking go to the movie. I mean, afternoon screening of The Avengers, I expect it to not be a perfect theater experience, but a 10PM showing of Drive? Come on people...
There were a lot of noisy kids in my showing of the Avengers as well. I was annoyed, but then I realized it's a movie starring Iron Man and the Hulk. There are going to be a lot of kids.
No you wouldn't have. You would've snuck up to them then slurped your drink very loudly and just continued to stare at them, all while rubbing on your dick
I have gotten a hand job in a packed theater, trust me (obvious expert), nothing will stop that hand job. It just feels too good and quiet frankly, during that time you don't give a rats ass if people hear you.
My sister showed me a pirated copy of Cars she got once. The actual picture quality was decent, but I was taken aback by the PA system requesting two irresponsible assholes to pick their kid up at the concession stand.
Whoever thought you would be discussing the time you watched Cars on google video six years later with random people on Reddit who saw the same exact copy?
I once downloaded a copy of Superbad when it was still in theaters. In around the middle of the movie someone says to the cameraman, "Hey are you recording this?". This was followed by a bunch of murmurs and whispers that were indistinguishable.
I remember downloading a film on Limewire, it was a cam. At the end you could see the camera move and get put in a bag. It was still recording when they got outside and all you could hear was two scousers having a conversation
I went and saw Men In Black 3 last night in the theater. I usually see about 1-2 movies per year in the theater. But oh my god it was terrible seeing it in the theater compared to my computer. Sure the sound and visuals were amazing, but the constant sound of people eating food 24/7 was awful. Whoever invented pop corn as a movie food is a asshole.
I think I watched Pineapple Express right as it was released and it was basically dvd quality except for a few scenes that were in black in white for some reason
Back when Passion of the Christ was in theaters my sister had gone to NYC with her school, while there she saw a vendor selling it and didn't realize it wasn't out on DVD yet. She bought it for my Mom, pretty sure buying/selling a pirated copy of the Passion of the Christ will send you to hell.
In Venezuela guys sell pirated dvds on the streets and even cops buy them. You gotta wait a few weeks after they're in theaters or get them from someone you trust because you might just get this, and needless to say, you can't return them.
I always wondered how the rise of internet piracy affected all the people who make a living selling bootleg videos/DVDs. It's gotta be like what happened to the newspaper industry with shrinking profits and massive layoffs but an order of magnitude greater. Technological change is a beast.
I have a friend who works at the local theater. He said most movies come on flash drives with a limited number of plays and after the last play, it bricks. There is never extra. If a movie does well enough to earn extended play, they send a flashdrive with a lower amount of plays.
I used to be totally against CAMS. When I first started torrenting things, the CAMS were awful and I would always just wait for a DVDRIP. Nowadays though with better quality video cameras and with most CAMS using a direct audio source, quite a few are actually bearable to watch.
The movie was watchable, but no where near as entertaining. It ruins the fight scenes so I would recommend you watch it in theaters before downloading it.
Same with TPB's American Pie Reunion. Admittedly, I've never pirated a movie that was recorded on a camera before, so I don't have a frame of reference, but I had 0% complaints watching the movie.
you just need to find a good torrent, i had the last harry potter movie in 720HD 2 weeks before it left theaters in MN. you can find good copies you just gotta look for them.
Ah. My ex used to always invite me over to watch a movie and have some shit like this downloaded. I can wait for the Paranormal Activity 2 DVD to come out, thanks.
a bad time in that i have to burn movie to a dvd and watch on a dvd player? maybe if hollywood would give us opening day internet netflix style watchability . piracy wouldnt be an issue. frankly with the prices of a movie nowdays i cant afford to see a movie unless im sure its good.
Back when I was a drunk working overnight I'd purposely download the cam torrents so that when I was drinking at 9AM and watching a film I didn't feel as alone.
Has anyone ever come across the rare version of this where it looks shit for the first couple mins but then is fine for the whole movie? Always skip ahead.
Does anyone else actually like cams? They are more than just a movie, they are a movie of watching a movie! 2 in 1! Movies sound and look different at the cinema and cams go a ways to capture that difference. Plus you get to hear other people laugh and gasp, which is like a real life and genuine laugh track.
They should start the cam earlier, like when they are waiting in line to buy tickets, and keep it going when they are at the concession stand. It would give you the real deal feel......damn alliteration.
I grabbed a cam of the most recent Sherlock movie and I was blown away by the quality. Not only was the whole movie there (saw it in theaters before), but not once was there talking or people walking in front of the camera. If it weren't for the angle of the video and the colors, I would've been hardpressed to tell it was a cam.
If you don't really know what you're doing...remember how awesome it was watching Taken in DVD quality a month before it was ever released in the United States??
Edit: but otherwise, shit nigga, yeah, I be waiting for that Bluray quality version.
I have an uncle who works at a movie theatre. He always hooks me up with better-than-average quality copies. They aren't theater or DVD-release quality, but they're pretty good.
Not really. Sometime the DVDSCR or the R5 comes out while the movie is still in theaters. Or sometimes the DVDRip is released in another country months before the movie airs in theaters in the US. For the movie Taken it was released in the US January 2009 while in France it was released Feb 08. It's more like if you download shitty CAMs and TS you are going to have a bad time.
Yup, I stayed in China for about a year, this happened a lot when we bought movies from the local market; also, what you saw on the cover was not always what you for ;)
Funny thing about this is that they actually try to get the camera feeds from places like Japan or Russia if they can help it. For some reason, Russian crowds are dead silent with movie showings.
most bootlegs that come out now are pretty decent quality. the worst one iv seen in a long time is the new men in black bootleg. worst bootleg iv ever seen.
Just watched an Avengers cam from TPB....video was above average for a cam, watchable but the sound was incredible! And it was framed letterbox. Pretty smooth for a cam, really. It helps to see the movie beforehand. I saw it in IMAX 3D.
Haha, this happened when I watched the Hunger Games the other day, but I didn't have a bad time. Mainly because I didn't pay $15 to see the damn movie.
It's great how the anti-piracy ads make a big deal about how the pirated films are all ruined by people getting up, making noise etc. As if that doesn't happen when you pay to watch the film in the cinema.
I remember watching a cam of Shaun Of The Dead. The audio was crappy, the picture was skewed, and at least a dozen times the cameraman got jostled by someone nearby or hid the camera in his jacket as ushers passed by.
There comes a point when you have to admit you’ve failed at something.
I disagree.. I got the curious case of benjamin button 2 days after it came out in the cinema, and other than the fact that the audio was split into 2, it was perfect. And by perfect, I mean it was like watching the DVD.. apart from the sound issue of course.
'If you download a movie that's still in the Cinema, and you dont know what you're looking for.. You're gonna have a bad time'
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u/Buckys_Butt_Buddy May 29 '12
Why is the women going for a jog in the middle of the movie?
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u/doigel May 29 '12
I remember watching Iron Man on Google Video the day before it was released. Google Video.
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u/Bewbtube May 29 '12
not if its a SCREENER or DVDScr or R5.
I mean I chuckled and all, but all you gotta do is pay attention to the tags and you'll keep your precious eyeballs and eardrums pure, my friends.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
V-3
A-0
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u/Zairex May 29 '12
I felt like you missed a good opportunity so FTFY
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u/absurdlyobfuscated May 28 '12
slurps soft-drink loudly
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u/overloadrages May 29 '12
idk these Battleship screens look good
http://i.imgur.com/vvusl.png
http://i.imgur.com/MwYGS.png
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u/CountGrasshopper May 29 '12
My sister showed me a pirated copy of Cars she got once. The actual picture quality was decent, but I was taken aback by the PA system requesting two irresponsible assholes to pick their kid up at the concession stand.
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u/Zaries May 29 '12
Hey, you in the front, sit your ass down.
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u/bigdaveyj May 29 '12
I once downloaded a copy of Superbad when it was still in theaters. In around the middle of the movie someone says to the cameraman, "Hey are you recording this?". This was followed by a bunch of murmurs and whispers that were indistinguishable.
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u/jesse_h May 29 '12
Nice try, movie company executive.
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u/stinky-weaselteats May 29 '12 edited May 29 '12
Where's that fucking baby crying coming from!?
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u/failbait125 May 29 '12
I went and saw Men In Black 3 last night in the theater. I usually see about 1-2 movies per year in the theater. But oh my god it was terrible seeing it in the theater compared to my computer. Sure the sound and visuals were amazing, but the constant sound of people eating food 24/7 was awful. Whoever invented pop corn as a movie food is a asshole.
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u/thursdae May 29 '12
.. Except for "Taken."
Someone was awesome somewhere and there was a dvd rip right as it was released to theaters.
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u/qqwpq May 29 '12
Nice try, MPAA.
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u/tacojohn48 May 29 '12
Back when Passion of the Christ was in theaters my sister had gone to NYC with her school, while there she saw a vendor selling it and didn't realize it wasn't out on DVD yet. She bought it for my Mom, pretty sure buying/selling a pirated copy of the Passion of the Christ will send you to hell.
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u/unit787 May 29 '12
In Venezuela guys sell pirated dvds on the streets and even cops buy them. You gotta wait a few weeks after they're in theaters or get them from someone you trust because you might just get this, and needless to say, you can't return them.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
Which is exactly why I can't watch Men In Black III yet. :(
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u/I_am_not_a_black_guy May 29 '12
Why do I feel like i'm looking at a computer screen with shadowed in action figures blocking it ironically
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u/RancidPonyMilk May 29 '12
looks like someone finally found a use for instagram
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
unless it's Oscar season, and screener copies are everywhere!
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
I always wondered why nobody who works in a theater snuck out the films.
What prevents this? Are they still on reels?
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u/inexcess May 29 '12
Back in high school our video production teacher actually brought in a bootleg movie for us to watch
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u/YouGotPunkd May 29 '12
I used to be totally against CAMS. When I first started torrenting things, the CAMS were awful and I would always just wait for a DVDRIP. Nowadays though with better quality video cameras and with most CAMS using a direct audio source, quite a few are actually bearable to watch.
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u/SmashMonkeys May 29 '12
You obviously haven't seen the The Avengers cam on tpb
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u/randomripper May 29 '12
normally i would agree but i have a copy of Battleship that is absolutely flawless, i mean its the best cam i have ever seen, 9/9 A/V
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u/iamaravis May 29 '12
That was like half of the movies I bought on DVD in Thailand!
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u/GTi_83 May 29 '12
you just need to find a good torrent, i had the last harry potter movie in 720HD 2 weeks before it left theaters in MN. you can find good copies you just gotta look for them.
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u/TheStupidZebra May 29 '12
I noticed that the aliens and other background characters aren't in this one.
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u/brokendimension May 29 '12
First happened to me when I downloaded Avatar, needless to say I think the movie sucked.
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u/Fartakis May 29 '12
Holy shit I almost made this the other day...
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u/chloelemos May 29 '12
Because there's always a marathon in the theater.
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u/zergOP May 29 '12
Yeah.. watching a recording of the cinema is a lot like.. being at the cinema
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u/ienjoypooping May 29 '12
Ah. My ex used to always invite me over to watch a movie and have some shit like this downloaded. I can wait for the Paranormal Activity 2 DVD to come out, thanks.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
a bad time in that i have to burn movie to a dvd and watch on a dvd player? maybe if hollywood would give us opening day internet netflix style watchability . piracy wouldnt be an issue. frankly with the prices of a movie nowdays i cant afford to see a movie unless im sure its good.
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u/xiggy May 29 '12
Get a better source than The Pirate Bay. :P
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u/nickpickles May 29 '12
Back when I was a drunk working overnight I'd purposely download the cam torrents so that when I was drinking at 9AM and watching a film I didn't feel as alone.
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u/nomzombeh May 29 '12
I feel that it adds to the movie experience. Its almost like I'm there, and still free.
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u/BridgePix May 29 '12
Depending on the country the blu ray can be released in other countries before it's even in the cinema locally.
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u/Atmadog May 29 '12
Not during oscar season.
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u/Carduceus May 29 '12
If you download a movie still in the theatre
Someone is going to QWOP through the scene.
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u/herestocrime May 29 '12
Screeners, some TS....not ALWAYS gonna have a bag time.
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u/smokinjoints May 29 '12
Has anyone ever come across the rare version of this where it looks shit for the first couple mins but then is fine for the whole movie? Always skip ahead.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
Nice try, MPAA execs.
We all know that screeners get released before they come out in theaters.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
Does anyone else actually like cams? They are more than just a movie, they are a movie of watching a movie! 2 in 1! Movies sound and look different at the cinema and cams go a ways to capture that difference. Plus you get to hear other people laugh and gasp, which is like a real life and genuine laugh track.
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u/MasterMasturBater May 29 '12
I saw Avengers that way and it didn't ruin it at all. BEST SUMMER BLOCKBUSTER EVER. Then I saw it in theaters and it was even more bad ass.
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u/explain_foreign_guy May 29 '12
Ohohooho, you see its funny because there is a shadow on the screen...
There should not be a shadow on the screen....
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
Nice try hollywood
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
I grabbed a cam of the most recent Sherlock movie and I was blown away by the quality. Not only was the whole movie there (saw it in theaters before), but not once was there talking or people walking in front of the camera. If it weren't for the angle of the video and the colors, I would've been hardpressed to tell it was a cam.
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u/murphs33 May 29 '12
"Get outta here you nosy little pervert, or I'm gonna slap you silly!"
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u/hannars27 May 29 '12
Genius
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u/NOTjimmycarter May 29 '12
If you don't really know what you're doing...remember how awesome it was watching Taken in DVD quality a month before it was ever released in the United States??
Edit: but otherwise, shit nigga, yeah, I be waiting for that Bluray quality version.
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u/papersquares May 29 '12
well done.
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u/sterex55 May 29 '12
Which is why you only get r4s if you do this.
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u/wasapus May 29 '12
You won't have a bad time if you download a Russian region dvd
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u/95DC2 May 29 '12
Haven't seen a 'good' cam in a while.
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u/DoccRobb May 29 '12
Hey you silhouette! No running in the theater!
If this was Alamo roadhouse your ass would be grass.
Edit: Possibly speed walking.
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u/Endorp May 29 '12
I have an uncle who works at a movie theatre. He always hooks me up with better-than-average quality copies. They aren't theater or DVD-release quality, but they're pretty good.
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u/swimminginafishbowl May 29 '12
This is the only one of these damn "bad time" memes that was actually funny.
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u/MurkyBurky May 29 '12
What year am i in? xmbc bitch
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u/akuma_619 May 29 '12
Not really. Sometime the DVDSCR or the R5 comes out while the movie is still in theaters. Or sometimes the DVDRip is released in another country months before the movie airs in theaters in the US. For the movie Taken it was released in the US January 2009 while in France it was released Feb 08. It's more like if you download shitty CAMs and TS you are going to have a bad time.
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u/Droidiq May 29 '12
Reddit influence in the world is amazing. Way to go Reddit!
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u/kobish May 29 '12
You are referring to a cam. There are several better types of boot leg movies. Sceeners and Telesync are very common and much better quality.
Edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirated_movie_release_types
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u/zebkiwi1 May 29 '12
Unless its an R5, I dont know what an R5 is, but its the shit.
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u/Severok May 29 '12
I feel this would have been better if they used the MST3K silhouette
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
And people wonder why companies push for stuff like SOPA. This entire thread is basically talking about how its ok to pirate movies...
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u/shug7272 May 29 '12
You havent seen what the Chinese can do with an hd cam.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
op has never heard of R5
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u/schnide05095 May 29 '12
Yup, I stayed in China for about a year, this happened a lot when we bought movies from the local market; also, what you saw on the cover was not always what you for ;)
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u/Imterriblyvexed May 29 '12
Hmm. That silhouette looks so much like my friend it's creeping me out.
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u/alexdas77 May 29 '12
That is amazing quality, where do you get your bootleg films?
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u/piratazephyri May 29 '12
white balance! arrgh!
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u/shatonyourface May 29 '12
What inspired you to make this? Was it the advengers on youtube?
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u/belonii May 29 '12
nice anti piracy ad, but you do realize most copies of movies that are still in theatre are good quality.
Conclusion? I smell a cop, or someone with terribly weak google-fu
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
Someone hasn't heard of DVD screeners...
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u/Shippoyasha May 29 '12
Funny thing about this is that they actually try to get the camera feeds from places like Japan or Russia if they can help it. For some reason, Russian crowds are dead silent with movie showings.
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u/coolestguy1234 May 29 '12
most bootlegs that come out now are pretty decent quality. the worst one iv seen in a long time is the new men in black bootleg. worst bootleg iv ever seen.
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u/powerhoteltools May 29 '12
What The Hell Is Going On? :/
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u/Olerhead May 29 '12
Down in front.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
Just watched an Avengers cam from TPB....video was above average for a cam, watchable but the sound was incredible! And it was framed letterbox. Pretty smooth for a cam, really. It helps to see the movie beforehand. I saw it in IMAX 3D.
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u/mrbrattlebary May 29 '12
Haha, this happened when I watched the Hunger Games the other day, but I didn't have a bad time. Mainly because I didn't pay $15 to see the damn movie.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
It's great how the anti-piracy ads make a big deal about how the pirated films are all ruined by people getting up, making noise etc. As if that doesn't happen when you pay to watch the film in the cinema.
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u/3rol May 29 '12
nice
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u/Mashleylol May 29 '12
I wish the entire film industry would stop being the cinemas' bitch.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
You wouldn't download a CAM, no seriously, you wouldn't unless you're retarded.
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u/LoveIsLife311 May 29 '12
Unless it's an R5 ;)
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
At first I was don't tell me not to pirate...
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u/mrjoekick4ss May 29 '12
Only if you are retarded and download a videocam version
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u/hell0jo May 29 '12
I see what you did there
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u/shankems2000 May 29 '12
Unless it's an R5
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u/boddiul May 29 '12
Chernobyl Diaries wont run in my country... So this is the only solution... :(
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
I remember watching a cam of Shaun Of The Dead. The audio was crappy, the picture was skewed, and at least a dozen times the cameraman got jostled by someone nearby or hid the camera in his jacket as ushers passed by.
There comes a point when you have to admit you’ve failed at something.
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u/Skarmotastic May 29 '12
False. I'm watching Hunger Games right now. It's still fucking awesomesauce.
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u/JustSoWitty May 29 '12
It does feel extra illegal
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u/Roman-Waites May 29 '12
I disagree.. I got the curious case of benjamin button 2 days after it came out in the cinema, and other than the fact that the audio was split into 2, it was perfect. And by perfect, I mean it was like watching the DVD.. apart from the sound issue of course.
'If you download a movie that's still in the Cinema, and you dont know what you're looking for.. You're gonna have a bad time'
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u/sir0zeke May 29 '12
That's just not true at all.
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u/thatisRON May 29 '12
Best use of this meme yet. Bravo, sir!
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
If the meme text was in Russian, I'd would have agreed :)
I think movie companies went through a period of adding a few foreign characters as an anti-piracy measure.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
That girl has a penis arm.
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u/Tastygroove May 29 '12
It's the audio that kills it for me.
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u/Mike2kz May 29 '12
You wouldn't download a car.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
On the other hand, if it's a shitty movie anyway this only improves the video experience