Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by RGA (R) on February 22, 2015 at 23:53:12

In Reply to: RE: 'Fifty Shades of Merde': they released this? posted by Billy Wonka on February 20, 2015 at 16:21:11

of all time followed by Passion of the Christ.

Both movies about BDSM and flogging for 1.5 to 2 hours.

This is basically a romance novel level story with pseudo BDSM underpinning. As someone who has, shall we say, in the scene friends the BDSM elements were pretty much completely wrong. Indeed, all the feminists come out ranting about the dom sub thing which is kind of funny since in reality it is the sub who is almost always the one in "real control - subbing from the bottom as it's called. Learning about this stuff from this kind of book or movie seems rather dumb to me. People can go onto forums and ask questions about it if they want -open an account on fetlife if that's your curiosity.

As for the pirating of the film on camera - yes arrest them and fine them $250,000 and then note they have not one penny to their name. Throw them in jail - great so tax dollars can support them at probably $50,000 a year when you factor in food, guards, medicines etc etc etc.

The thing with the whole downloading community is these are people who will download a movie they never would have bought in the first place. Ie; if there was no internet they would not go and buy the DVD or Blu-Ray. Ditto for music albums/songs. People who can afford it will buy it - people who can't won't anyway. Which isn't to say it's not stealing but it's not the sort of stealing that is going to take money from the studio. It's not a direct line that 1,000 Lady Gaga albums were downloaded thus she lost 1,000 album sales - maybe she lost 10 because the other 990 would not have bought it anyway. Further Libraries have vast music titles - nothing stops people from taking it home and ripping the CD.

It doesn't excuse it but IMO law enforcement would be better off going after something else with their limited time and resources.

And maybe movie makers could make some actual movies that people will actually WANT to buy the deluxe Blu-Ray edition of and place it adoringly on their prized movie collection shelf. By the sounds of it Fifty Shades of Grey isn't worth buying or even bothering to download for free or taking an hour and half of one's life. Perhaps if they pay me $30 an hour I'd watch it.