What was the last movie you've seen?

[Luke]

Yeah, just pop it in your computer copy it, then watch it. I guess that's how my brothers friends has movies before they come out. How do you get pre screenings?!?

For one thing, trying to rip the disc leaves you with two discs with no content. Plus it is fraud and a direct violation of a written agreement. I tried it once, not to copy a movie, but to see if it would work. It didn't.

How do I get per-screenings? Mostly because some lunatics I've known for over a decade in Hollywood highly respect my opinion for some reason. That's all I can say about that without breaking code.

Less importantly, I have an in with one of my local theater managers who let's me know about early showings for staff and friends. Usually these screenings are only a week or a few days before theatrical release where as screenings from studios can be easily six months in advance if not earlier.

[indecks]

Yeah, just pop it in your computer copy it, then watch it. I guess that's how my brothers friends has movies before they come out. How do you get pre screenings?!?

For one thing, trying to rip the disc leaves you with two discs with no content. Plus it is fraud and a direct violation of a written agreement. I tried it once, not to copy a movie, but to see if it would work. It didn't.

How do I get per-screenings? Mostly because some lunatics I've known for over a decade in Hollywood highly respect my opinion for some reason. That's all I can say about that without breaking code.

Less importantly, I have an in with one of my local theater managers who let's me know about early showings for staff and friends. Usually these screenings are only a week or a few days before theatrical release where as screenings from studios can be easily six months in advance if not earlier.

That's pretty rad man.

[fastbilly1]

Yeah, just pop it in your computer copy it, then watch it. I guess that's how my brothers friends has movies before they come out. How do you get pre screenings?!?

For one thing, trying to rip the disc leaves you with two discs with no content. Plus it is fraud and a direct violation of a written agreement. I tried it once, not to copy a movie, but to see if it would work. It didn't.

How do I get per-screenings? Mostly because some lunatics I've known for over a decade in Hollywood highly respect my opinion for some reason. That's all I can say about that without breaking code.

Less importantly, I have an in with one of my local theater managers who let's me know about early showings for staff and friends. Usually these screenings are only a week or a few days before theatrical release where as screenings from studios can be easily six months in advance if not earlier.

I can comment on this. If you rip the film and get caught it is a big fine. And they will catch you. They have data encoded into certain frames that if they find your rip anywhere, they can pull the data and bingo bango you have someone at your frontdoor. This happened to a friend of my families back when they sent out big boxed VHS tapes and someone stole it from his front porch.

Word from the industry is that they are going to have you use a certified bluray player in the future and have an access disc mailed to you. I know this because of connections I cannot say...

[Luke]

That's pretty rad man.

It is and it isn't. Getting to watch movies way early is a great perk, but at the same time you are expected to nit pick and point out what "won't work" with an audience. And I can't say anything besides "this was good, this was bad" until the theatrical release. Well, I do tend to say a bit more than that, but I can't say "there is a specific moment when Joaquin Phoenix mentally addresses his own cognitive dissonance that with but a glance shows anger, frustration, confusion, bewilderment, as well as a hundred different emotions as if we could actually think what he was thinking at that exact second"....< I totally made that up as a reference.

Plus, with this forum, I can simply say "I highly recommend this" and not have to spend four hours picking apart a two hour movie. Almost therapeutic.

The in at the theater is a big plus. Not that my theater is usually packed, but getting a text of "We just got <insert movie title> in. 10pm screening" lifts my spirits.

In short, it's a cool chore that is usually fun but I have to sit through a lot of crap.

[Luke]

I know this because of connections I cannot say...

^Yeah, I almost feel I already said too much, but explaining the process isn't breaking Omerta. It's not only the legalized pot that makes people in Hollywood so weirdly paranoid, they are just wired that way.

Unfortunately, you are right on a certified blu ray player for screenings in the future; and not everyone screening is going to get one for free. And also, the discs already look different and it's not like you get the theatrical release. Not a final edit (usually), frame times all over the screen, "property of...." across the screen...It's not the final product in quality in visuals, and definitely far from done with the audio.

[Hobie-wan]

what is up with people and broken image links?

People keep hotlinking. I've mentioned this before, but of course not everyone read the post and not everyone listens. What happens is someone finds a picture on a site, but unless you're actually looking at the picture from that site, it won't serve you the picture. So then someone comes here and posts the picture, but when the server tells their browser to DIAF, it just uses the cached copy already on their machine.

If people would stop hotlinking major sites or at least SHIFT+RELOAD after posting, they'd see if it is going to work or not since that forces it to reload a fresh copy from the site and ignore the cache. Most big movie sites don't allow hotlinking, so IMDB and places like that are never going to work.

[Luke]

Most big movie sites don't allow hotlinking, so IMDB and places like that are never going to work.

...hosting an image thru a hosting site takes about thirty seconds or less, and you don't steal someone's bandwith.

[AppleQueso]

Everyone should just get a dropbox account and throw images they want to show off into that.

It's what I do most of the time these days. (It also makes my dropbox folder look like a complete mess because i'm disorganized)

[fastbilly1]

and it's not like you get the theatrical release.

Depends on what its for, but your right. Most of the time you get something with timecode, and 99% of the time you get something with do not distribute all over it. The worst are when they have a voice over during parts. A friend of mine had a copy of Phantom Menace and Fellowship of the Ring that had the voice over, during the battle scenes of all places.

[indecks]

I usually just put stuff up on photobucket, but if its a movie, I'll just google search it, right click, view image, copy and paste.

Usually works just fine.

Depends on what its for, but your right. Most of the time you get something with timecode, and 99% of the time you get something with do not distribute all over it. The worst are when they have a voice over during parts. A friend of mine had a copy of Phantom Menace and Fellowship of the Ring that had the voice over, during the battle scenes of all places.

lol yeah. I remember I had downloaded a copy of the Dethklok album before it came out. About twice each song, we'd hear "Dethklok Advance album, 2007..."