Dec 30 2009
Avatar: The Making of a Bootleg
As pro-”file sharing” as I may be as a connoisseur of the internet, one film I can’t promote pirating is Avatar, not for any moral reasons, but watching a blurry 2D version on your laptop is the equivalent of looking at a pixelated picture of the Mona Lisa on your iPhone, and claiming you now have no need to go to the Louvre.
But for those of you who really, really don’t think that $15 is worth seeing a movie meant to change all other movies forever, by all means, download it. And be sure to watch this handy BTS documentary about the sheer amount of work that went in to making the most epic bootleg of all time. It’s a pretty fascinating process actually, as is clearly something of art form.
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LOL its kinda doushy but i like it
Wow, they “don’t want to get ripped off” by the internet while they are ripping off the people that put some $250mil into making the movie.
I love the “head cam” thing. Awesome, hope no one sneezes. Are these people completely stupid by putting their images and “names” on screen? How long before the MPAA comes down on them.
I like the “this is the movie I wanted to bootleg since I was 14(?)”. Yup, “that’s the bank I wanted to rob since I was 14!” Not the same thing, but the attitude is atrocious.
And sorry, awesome tech guy, your method isn’t going to work because the original shooting was done at precise distances and angles to make the effects, not 2 bobbing heads.
OK, I hate the MPAA as much as anyone else, but these wankers come over as sooooo proud of themselves for doing this. For what, the “director” can stand on a cold corner with a blanket that has 6 or so DVDs. I know this works in NYC, and probably LA, but for “all the time I put into this” you probably would have made a whole bunch of more money actually working some real job. Oh, that’s right, he has no skills. I think even janitors make like $7/hr, so at 40 hrs you got 280 dollars. How much is your blanket “company store” going to make you in a week? To make it desirable you have to put it under $10 (or whatever your local rate is), so you’re going to have to move a bunch of product that people with DVD players won’t be that tempted by. The VHS days were a different story when you could wait for a loooong time to get a rental copy. Avatar will be out in April/May on DVD, and with much better fidelity.
I agree with DaSwa that I like people trying new things, but this is so… dumb. I once watched a loaned (yeah, I’m gonna pay for that) bootleg. The video was as atrocious as show in the video, the sound was horrific, if even comprehensible, and back then he paid $5 when movies were only $7! WTF!
Somehow I think this is some type of viral video. They show the “headcam” in full light? Don’t you think someone might notice the thing on the hat?
Your sarcasm detector needs some serious work ^
This is simply a wonderful gag film…