Theres a boat load of movies coming out May 1st

[Patriotic Kaz]

How can you be slightly obsessed?

Why would they make a live action movie of a crappy anime??

[Bookstore Guy]

9 does look cool.  But I'll wait for it to show up on Rotten before I consider seeing it in the theatre—I have a tendency to avoid paying $9/ticket for anything but real massively major films: stuff like LotR.

Considering a fragment of the movie was nominated for an Oscar a few years ago, I'm willing to give it a shot. Plus, like Ookla said, the cast is seriously impressive.

[firstRainbowRose]

What surprised me was the live action version of "Death Note" that is supposed to be coming up.  The way the series lost focus and started gettting ridiculous with the repeated amnesias and musical notebooks. . . I just never expected a movie to come out of it.

Are you talking about the american remake or the Japanese version?  Because the Japanese ones are really cool.  I actually liked them a lot more then the actual series.

[Miyabi]

I did too, it went Manga > live action > anime.

Plus, the guy that played L was hot.

[firstRainbowRose]

You know, I was more into Light.  Although, I loved the doughnut-kabob.  Very funny scene.

[ErikHolmes]

Meh. Apparently there's copy of Wolverine out for download. My buddy watched it and said the movie completely sux.

I shouldn't be surprised, X-Men 3 made me cry, (except for the "I'm the Juggernaut Bitch!" part, that was classic).

* ErikHolmes waits for Star Trek.

[The Jade Knight]

X-Men three forced me to buy 1 and 2 separately, so I wouldn't get 3 with them.

[ErikHolmes]

I can understand that. Stupid Bryan Singer. Superman Returns wasn't half the movie X-Men 3 would have been if he'd just stayed on board and directed it like he was supposed to. Man I'd like to slap him.

[Renoard]

Viewing screeners is theft.

Someone steals a copy of a book maybe someone buys a new one to replace it.  Screeners just cost actors their royalties.

[The Jade Knight]

Ah, I'm surprised you buy into that whole "theft" business, Renoard.

If a destitute man sees a loaf of bread, and knows how to turn that loaf of bread into two so he can take one to feed himself and his family, the only thing he's "stolen" is an opportunity that wasn't even there in the first place.

But the bread is still there, and as such has not been "stolen".

That said, it's always good to (financially) support works of art that you find value in.


…which is probably why I almost never see films in the theatres.  They're worth my netflix subscription, but not the ticket price…

[Renoard]

That turn of phrase reminds me of something:

Proverbs 6:30,31 Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry; But if he be caught, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house.

 

In general I can't tolerate a thief, or a liar. Screeners and warez don't put bread on a hungry man's table they steal bread from hard working professionals.

[The Jade Knight]

Yes, a thief takes something away.  Filesharing takes nothing but opportunities away.

If you had an opportunity to attend a concert, but then the tickets sold out, and you lost your opportunity, you'd hardly call anyone a thief.  Certainly, it might suck for you, if you'd wanted to attend that concert.  But those that deprived you of that opportunity are not thieves.

Several independent studies have determined that filesharing's economic impact on the music business has been (depending on the study) somewhere between negligible and almost negligible.

Here's an overview one such study which was published in the Journal of Political Economy: http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2007/02/8813.ars

And here's a copy of the study itself:  http://www.unc.edu/~cigar/papers/JPE%2031618%20FileSharing%202006-12-12.pdf

Note that this study uses empirical methodology (as opposed to subjective and unreliable survey-based or purely speculative methods).

[Reaves]

Ah, I'm surprised you buy into that whole "theft" business, Renoard.

If a destitute man sees a loaf of bread, and knows how to turn that loaf of bread into two so he can take one to feed himself and his family, the only thing he's "stolen" is an opportunity that wasn't even there in the first place.

But the bread is still there, and as such has not been "stolen".

...And then, that poor man makes another copy of that bread, uploads it onto Torrent, and shares it with the other destitute men and women of the world!

[The Jade Knight]

...And then, that poor man makes another copy of that bread, uploads it onto Torrent, and shares it with the other destitute men and women of the world!

World hunger solved!

[ErikHolmes]

No!!!!

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