MOVIE CHAT: Day After Tomorrow

[Tard]

Guess what I just bought a bootleg DVD of? [img]wink.gif[/img]

[rocketmaster]

OF THIS TOPIC???
DAMN! I've never seen one! I'm quite curious but whenever I see them on the street in NYC I can't bring myself to buy one because I'm in the biz of protecting IPRs. Can I come over and watch yours? LOL!

[Tard]

Yea, the first one I ever bothered paying for. $10. But I bought it from a legit business, so they probably hiked the price 30% of cost.

You have to realize, they're made by someone with a tripod in the back of the theatre. So the sound is crap (catches mostly the back booming speaker-audio), audio coming up behind the audience, and a lotta the soundtrack overtakes verbal speech.

Can't get too angry about someone getting out of their seat to take a leak (which puts a MST3K sillouette in the picture).

Quality is usually comparable to a 3rd generation VHS dupe.

Still, I can watch it over & over until an authorized DVD is released, with extras. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

[Tard]

I'll probably watch it only once or twice more, & mail it to ya. It's a DVD-R, which one of my machines can't play. Hehee, let you see how crappy the quality of a bootleg REALLY is! [img]tongue.gif[/img]

[Tard]

But that's all boots are for; keep it for a month or two until the 'real' DVD gets released. They're disposable after a week or so.

[kingfozzy]

I had picked up one of X-men 2 way back when that was 1st in theatre's and it was a load of bollocks.
..but that was what I expected. Ended up throwing the darn thing away. [img]wink.gif[/img]

[rocketmaster]

Hey, I just saw...You're going to send it to me? really? [img]biggrin.gif[/img] Wow! Curiosity factor alone! Thank you! But, I mean, it hardly seems worth buying a boot for $10, you already paid $10 to see it in the theatre. And you can buy a previously viewed rental copy in the store for $7.99 - $12.99, and they're top quality! Not judging, but what's the appeal?

[Tard]

But this movie's still in theatres. There are no previously viewed rental copies available (yet).

Saw it once in theatres to be blown-away by the scope and destruction. Got the boot as a screener of the DVD rental, to watch whenever I want without having to pay $10 each viewing. Also, the first time I ever bought a boot. Was curious if the quality would differ from other peoples boots I've seen before (like Hellboy). It wasn't.

[rocketmaster]

SO...as a man who has paid top dollar and stood on line for the premiere of this film in a commercial theatre.

AND!

As a man who paid that same admission fee again on a street corner to take a bootleg version of that DVD home with him!

Um....WHAT's my point...I have NO idea...can I buy you some popcorn?