Remember the days before streaming services were a thing? Yep, basically that: as in people would burrow a rented copy from a friend who paid money to obtain a official copy on DVD from blockbuster then ripping the contents into those blank DVDs (the white ones) meaning they’ve pirated a copy for home use but it’s still a “torrent”. I remember watching a ripped copy of Finding Nemo (or other kids movies from that era) when I was younger.
The same with “lending” a purchased copy from a store a friend has proceeding to rip the DVD content onto a blank DVD having a copy. Then there are CAM’s (pirates using a video camera to record the film upon being shown in theaters) usually they do this around the debut (new releases in cinema) by sneaking a camcorder but the footage is shit (I remember back in 2010, I’ve seen Alice in Wonderland via CAM and it sucked due to bad resolution and audio).
Friend of mine got one of the Kingsman movies and before the opening credits was what I could only guess was the Russian pirater’s homemade rap video; he was injecting his own ads into the media.
Was it good rap?
Asking the right questions
Asking the right questions
Ok this is a whole story.
So back in the 90s, my mum’s friend came back from working in Kuwait for a few years.She gave us a bunch of pirated disney movies. These were cams, but camcorders from the 90s. The video quality was terrible, and several had ads all through them for some burger place like their equivalent of burger king. The ads had some guy dressed in Saudi style robes and turban watching his burger get eaten by an invisible genie or something.
One of the films was Beauty and the Beast. Seeing it now, it’s like a whole different movie. As a kid, it was gritty, darkly lit the whole time because of the shitty camera, and because of that it had this severely oppressive horror feel to it. It also didn’t have any ads. As kids, that was one terrifying movie. There was no Disney brightness and joy. Just darkness.
When I and my sister were kids, dad brought home a pirated VHS of the Sixth Day with Schwarzenegger. CAM quality shit but the worst part is that whoever was pirating the movies was using recycled VHS tapes… Porn VHS tapes, so after the movie ended there were like maybe 10 seconds of static and then just hardcore porn.
Return of the King [2003] cam Xvid while it was still in theaters. A nearly 3.5-hour film compressed enough to fit on a 700MB CD or two.
A Serbian Film… don’t watch it. You have been warned.
I remember getting a copy of American Pie 2 off Kazaa or edonkey and it literally being handycamed in a theatre with people laughing and getting up and walking past the camera during the movie
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I couldn’t watch more than 10 minutes of it. It was a CAM that you could hear coughs, laughs, people talking to each other.
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I am not lying but it was cam and the person below the cammer was talking and he said something along the lines of “oi mate, shut the fuck up I’m trynna film this, what’s fair is fair right? Shut your fawking mouth.”
I could not believe what I heard and started laughing.
I got a Downton Abbey movie for a friend. Someone had recorded it from their chair in the theater. Fully handheld.
I remember buying a VCD of some movie around 2000 and then 20 minutes in, I see the outline of someone getting up and walking out of the cinema the cam release was recorded in! I quit watching and from there on I only go for quality rips.
It’s funny how many talk about cam versions burned to disk because that’s my answer too. I found “Toy Story 3” in some bootleg ripped DVD’s long LONG before it was ever made.
I bought it just because I was curious what was on the disk because it couldn’t possibly be what the cover said.
Aaaand… what was it?
I think it turned out to be a buzz lightyear video. But the cover definitely said Toy Story 3.
“Gundala” (2019) by far
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It has… nothing. Go watch it. I cringed so much my future kids cringed
The Catwoman starring Halle Berry. Not only I found the movie sort of lame, also the quality of it was… Well. Someone went to the cinema and filmed the projection with a hand held camera. The image quality was trash, but the camera moved all the time, occasionally shaking. You got to hear the occasional cough or candy wrap noise from the audience, you got to see people standing up and moving across the camera because they needed a toilet break. You get the idea.
