TV/Movies Megathread

[Ideologue]

And Fantasia and Fantasia 2000 were sold as region free and are actually stamped Region B.  I guess that's what I get for shopping on amazon.chav.uk.  I'm surprised I didn't get coal in the box.  The fucking fraud of it all.

Edit: actually, the Fantasias work.  I guess I shouldn't assume malice when sheer fucking ineptitude will suffice.

[Ed Anger]

I'll beat up the old guy who runs the British food shop in retaliation.

[Josquius]

Pinocchio arrived today from Britain.  It was sold as region free; the box and the disc are stamped with the region free, "ABC," logo; guess what it is not?

Why are you buying British DVDs in the first place?

[Ideologue]

Because they're still in print there.

[Ideologue]

I'll beat up the old guy who runs the British food shop in retaliation.

Our credibility on the world stage demands it.

[Ed Anger]

Because they're still in print there.

I hate the Disney 'vault'.

[Neil]

If I had my way, I'd compulsory licence the vault out of existence.  Not that it matters I guess, since I already own every Disney animated feature ever produced.

[Ed Anger]

I want Song of the South.

[Josquius]

I've just looked up that Disney vault stuff. Wow.
This deserves to be better known. Rather transparetly dodgy business there.

[Ideologue]

If I had my way, I'd compulsory licence the vault out of existence.  Not that it matters I guess, since I already own every Disney animated feature ever produced.

If I had my way, movies from 1940 wouldn't still be under copyright.  But I'm obviously super-jealous.

Anyway, it's not like I couldn't just rip Pinocchio, so I did, but this is far and away not the format I thought I was purchasing when I handed Cameron's impoverished backwater ten and a quarter pounds' worth of real money.

I also can't find the bonus features--well, I found the trivia game that I don't care about--just the movie.  But I will.

[Syt]

Personally, I'd be in favor of a copyright that expires at the earlier of:
- 25 years after the death of the copyright holder (if a natural person)
- 70 years after the work's first published

[jimmy olsen]

Personally, I'd be in favor of a copyright that expires at the earlier of:
- 25 years after the death of the copyright holder (if a natural person)
- 70 years after the work's first published

70 years is too long, cut it to 50.

[Queequeg]

Anyone else here seen Byzantium?  I liked it quite a bit, unsurprisingly.  Gemma Arterton's body somehow seems impossible. 

[MadImmortalMan]

I want Song of the South.

I could be mistaken, but I think I saw that in a theater. When did it come out?

[Ideologue]

Anyone else here seen Byzantium?  I liked it quite a bit, unsurprisingly.  Gemma Arterton's body somehow seems impossible.

It's sitting on my table.  I decided to watch Fantasia 2000 instead, and then Harakiri.