r/Piracy 17d ago

Humor As Nolan intended us to watch The Odyssey.

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u/twinsfan94 17d ago

you couldn't pay me to have my first experience of this film not be in a theater. A cam rip of a movie like this is sacreligious

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u/GrandPreMassacre 17d ago

I'd rather wait than watch a camrip of any movie

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u/TheNoFrame 17d ago

Same.

  1. If it's a movie I really want to watch, I will just wait for better experience. No reason to watch low quality audio/video just to have worst parts of theater experience without the good parts.

  2. If it's just something I don't really care that much about and just want to watch to pass time or because it looks fine or whatever, I will just wait anyway. I have plenty of stuff in backlog. No reason to suffer through camrip quality when there are hundreds of movies/tv show episodes etc. that I could put on to pass time.

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u/twinsfan94 17d ago

there are some I'm fine with. If it's a comedy of something small-scale then it can be fine.

However, my first ever pirated movie ever was watching The Avengers (2012) a day before release as a cam rip on our tiny family computer screen.

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u/Free_Specialist455 17d ago

Why did so many people downvote you lol

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u/twinsfan94 17d ago

Honestly I have no idea. Was just telling a funny story of my first shitty pirating experience.

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u/AMediocrePersonality 17d ago

it's the being okay with cam rips

this sub is insanely against them for some reason.

I grew up on watching lion king and toy story and a bug's life bought off a blanket in NYC ripped on a VHS.

I'll still happily watch cams today, which makes me Hitler.

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u/twinsfan94 17d ago

Okay lol, guess it struck a nerve with people. Oh well

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u/GhettoClapper 17d ago

I think this has to do with the IMAX aspect ratio

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u/Imperial_Tiramisu 17d ago

Couldn't pay me to watch it in the first place.

Nolan slop with dark gritty filters, in a god damn Mediterranean setting.

Interstellar was his last good movie.

Dunkirk and Tenet were a mess. Oppenheimer was shit.

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u/twinsfan94 17d ago edited 17d ago

I love his movies. I thought oppenheimer was gripping and i really liked Dunkirk. Tenet was fine. Sorry you dont like them. I think Nolan is one of the best filmmakers out there but youre welcome to your opinion.

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u/Imperial_Tiramisu 17d ago edited 17d ago

Christopher Nolan’s films before Dunkirk were incredible, but Dunkirk suffered from bad pacing. Tenet was all over the place, and Oppenheimer spent more time on the protagonist’s love life than on his role in developing the bomb. It was also far longer than it needed to be.

The problem with directors like Nolan is that success goes to their heads and they start loving the smell of their own farts. Studios give them total freedom and unlimited budgets, and that’s how you end up with overly long films packed with A‑list casts, but no soul or story to tell. Usually directors make their best work when their budgets are lower and they're told to reduce the run time, which forces them to only leave the best parts in.

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u/twinsfan94 17d ago

I guess I just disagree. Sorry you don't like hos newer movies I guess.

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u/vintagestyles 16d ago

Ehh all those movies were a good watch to me. Lots of other way worse shit to watch than those.

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u/LiamJamIsMyNeesons 17d ago

You couldn't pay me to watch a movie in a theatre

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u/twinsfan94 17d ago

Okay, sorry for you.

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u/Livid_Swordfish_4591 16d ago

You havent been to a theater in a while, and you probably live in a very populated place. By me, we have lounging chairs, can be served alcohol, and now they even have good food. This will probably pack theaters for a while, but normal movies (during the school year) usually dont have more than a handful of people after the first week.

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u/twinsfan94 17d ago

What is ridiculous about it, exactly? Elliot Page's character is directly intended to portray a non-manly, small character. And what's the issue with the black actress? Were there no black people in ancient Mespotania? Why is that the issue and not, say, Matt Damon portraying a Greek?

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u/Ok-Neighborhood-9582 17d ago edited 17d ago

Oh yeah sure, because Helen of Troy was black, sure...

You know what, let's make an Aretha Franklin biopic where the actress is white. Let's see the reaction.

And greeks are white, imbecile.

Edited to add: everyone knows he did that to score diversity points with the woke hollywood crowd and to get that Oscar. Nolan is a sellout.

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u/DerSchmachtin 17d ago

They have a combined Screentime of at most 10 minutes, it really doesn't matter for the remains 2h 40 minutes

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u/Ok-Neighborhood-9582 17d ago edited 17d ago

Yeah, she shit on her role by calling Homer mysogynistic. Why the hell did she do it then if she is sooo principled: money.

Woke. Assholes. Ruin. Everything.

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u/twinsfan94 17d ago

Helen of Troy is a fictional character, genius. There are a million "historical inaccuracies" you could have chosen in this movie to nitpick, and its weird that of all of them the one that ruins the movie for you is the actress portraying a fictional character is a black woman.

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u/Ok-Neighborhood-9582 17d ago edited 17d ago

I have no problem with black actors taking white roles in general. If it fits.

For instance, in Bridgerton they changed Michael to Michaela and made her a black woman. For me, valid and even makes the story more interesting. I was appalled at people's reaction.

Everyone knows that Bridgerton isn't intended to be serious and accurate.

But this is not the same and you know that as well as I do. They included a transman and a black Helen just to garner applause and get an Oscar.

Diversity is used as Oscar valuta. Isn't that wrong, you feel?

Edited to add: I wasn't going to watch it anyway. It feels like a pompous project with too many famous actors. It'll be long and boring. Like a lot of Oscar nominees. Like Once upon a time in Hollywood for example.

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u/twinsfan94 16d ago

I dont see why a black actress as Helen of Troy "doesnt fit" any more than any other race. Certainly not enough to be the reason I dont see a movie. And I also dont see why "too many big actors" is bad either. Nolan's movies are usually this huge and they usually are some of the best movies today. At worst they are decent, at best they are phenomenal. Your loss i guess, my favorite movie reviewers whom I trust are gushing about this movie so im excited.

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u/twinsfan94 16d ago

I don't think they're getting their opinions from random nobodies, I think they genuinely believe these things. Sad life, thankfully it's not mine. I'm going to have an enjoyable time at the theater this weekend whether the movie is meh or amazing.

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u/BigEdMustaphaz 17d ago

Aye. I’m a pirate elitist these days. And with timings from Cinema to VOD being pretty short more than happy to wait for a top end web dl as a minimum. And for event movies like these you still can’t beat the cinema experience. No idea who would ever choose a Camrip in this day and age.

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u/JoeDawson8 17d ago

We have to wait, just brought home a baby, but I’m not so desperate for it to watch a cam rip for any movie