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specter 01-11-2008 04:49 AM

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Originally Posted by fat elvis (Post 441157)
maybe this is in reference to the "Mystery Science Theatre" style movies that are sometimes sold on the black market. you know...the ones with that are filmed on a camcorder at the local movie house by some kid in a big jacket in the middle of the summer.

Well, we have a great deal of such copies here. They're called "a screen version" and can appear months and months before the movie is out in Russia.
Some dude just films the movie with his compact camera right from the cinema, then they make an awful one-voice translation, and here it comes! The sound is bad, the image is even worse...
The strangest thing is that people still buy this crap...

Here in Russia people aren't ready to pay 400$ for Vista, for example. This is kind of our mentality: why pay, if I can take it for free. No matter of what quality this product is, it is free!

CAlvarez 01-11-2008 08:19 AM

I live with a devout pirate. Not that she won't pay for it if given the chance, but often you can't get someone to take your money for what you want. She will get what she wants, one way or another. So I've seen lots of "cam" versions where someone used a camcorder, and that's just a retarded way to watch a movie. However the screeners are nearly always as good as or better than the real thing; these are copies sent out pre-release to reviewers. Often they contain things that are later removed from the release version.

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This is kind of our mentality: why pay, if I can take it for free.
Many decades of socialism can't be reversed immediately, that's understandable.


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