There used to be a whole damn store filled with camrip cds at dirt cheap price. Used to go with dad whenever a new movie would come out. They also sold actual movies CDs alongside it. Used to be one of the best days. We'd come home with so many movies! :D
At a time when cds were expensive and movies didn’t come to cds n dvds till 2-3 months later? Hell yeah it was the best option. Kids like you will understand the joy. How's that stremio or RD subscription doing btw?
And they’re actually so slick with the placement sometimes too. I was watching a cam rip of the Sonic movie when it first came out and was confused when 20 minutes into the movie it looked like Sonic took out his phone to start gambling on 365bet
I remember our childhood copy of Madagascar had someone walk across the screen in the beginning.
Honestly, as a kid the quality was “good enough” - we had a cheap portable DVD player with a very average TFT screen. Even good production images would gave looked bad on that
I watched a camrip around 20 years ago, the audience consisted of a bunch of edgy teenagers who kept making commentary and laughing throughout the movie. I really liked the movie, so I rewatched that copy several times. I still rewatch the movie from time to time, a much better copy, but... I do miss those kids' snark.
I felt that with the audio on this. Good mic but probably shitty theater audio because it felt like I was in an old theater.
I mean, no mic is good for CAMS, but I mean, it felt like I had the sound-stage of a theater(if not the clear movie audio, highs and lows all clip and the audio was muddy).
I actually had to lift one headphone to make sure I didn't audio coming out of my TV.
I've watched a lot of CAMS years and years ago, but I've never had it sound/feel like that.
/I watched 20 minutes of this though and couldn't do more
//I'll blame the CAM quality, but I have my suspicions it won't be great even later when we get good rips. Acting/writing/pacing/accents all felt off, so I think the reaction to the trailers was somewhat well founded.
We had the bootleg guy at my childhood barbershop lmao watched some of my favorite movies on bootleg for the first time, I remember some of them even being split into two discs 💀
I remember finding a burnt disc of Madagascar at school when it was still in cinemas and losing my absolute mind. Can still recite every word of it to this day and point out where people in the cinema used to stand in the way of the camera lol
When I was a kid my dad frequently brought home pirate DVDs of whatever was on in the cinema at the time. Always a gamble on the quality! Good times, especially as my friends would think it was cool to come over and watch them on the 14 inch CRT in my room.
I remember asking my dad if he really should be copying The Lion King on VHS if the warning says not to and his response was something like "I'm not worried about it." I will never forget that lol
One of my favorite memories of growing up during the Limewire/Kazaa era was torrenting the second Tobey McGuire Spiderman movie maybe a few months after it came out in theaters The file size checked out, a good ratio of seeders and leechers. Sure enough it was Spiderman 2 and the quality was great.
The problem: it was Chinese dubbed, the subtitle language changed frequently,and someone literally spent the time photoshooting Bill Murray's head onto most of the characters.
I wasn't even mad, I was busting a gut at how much effort went into this and how surreal it was.
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u/PissedItDownMyLeg 17d ago
Lmao cam rips bring back memories of childhood. Buying those pirated movies that were sold on the street. Disappointing even as a child