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Originally Posted by sabredog
Movie piracy has a lot lot do with the dismal run of second rate remakes that have appeared of late. Has Hollywood run out of ideas or do the latest crop of writers simply lack imagination like the music industry?
The latest remake I heard of is Arnies Commando....
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This, I think you'll find, is one of the first signs of the coming apocalypse.
Commando is un-remakeable (is that a word?). It is totally a product of it's time. You can make another film
called Commando, but it won't
be Commando.
It has Schwarzenegger feeding a bloody
deer, for crying out loud.
The entertainment industry is massively hypocritical (as if we didn't know). On the one hand it bleats and moans about people downloading stuff for free and then on the other keeps upping the price of going to the cinema or buying a CD...complaining that they have to do it to off set all that money they're losing through piracy.
What a load of old codswallop.
The truth is, lower prices and offer a good product and people
do pay.
Ask me to pay out £8 ($12) to go see a po-faced, boring re-tread of a film that was pretty much crap in the first place (Clash of the Titans) and you bet I'll be surfing uTorrent before you can say 'this cinema uses night vision technology'.
And as for the claim piracy effects sales of popular movies, I invite those who claim this to look at the box office for The Dark Knight. It made a billion, even though it got pirated to high heaven, because it was
a brilliant movie.