'Sith' Already Found Online

ScentCone writes "Of course it was bound to happen, so now it's mostly a matter of discussing why Lucas does or does not deserve to make the proceeds, or whether people would or would not have gone to see it now that the usual path has been carved around the opening weekend box office." I've yet to find a blockbuster movie that isn't readily available on the net after it opens, but somehow this is still news. It's still usually worth shelling out the cash to see a version that isn't fuzzy with garbled sound, though.

Revenge of the Nerds

[Anonymous Coward]

I've yet to find a blockbuster movie that isn't readily available on the net after it opens, but somehow this is still news.

CowboyNeal confirms it, this isn't news.

'Shit' found online?

[Anonymous Coward]

I've found lots of Shit online before. Oh, wait...

Not really surprising to me...

[suitepotato]

(...)a version that isn't fuzzy with garbled sound, though.

After reading the script, I'd say the movie itself is fuzzy with garbled writing.

Sadly, since I don't use BitTorrent with much success and instead rely on eMule/aMule, what copies I get will likely take two weeks to finish downloading and be in Spanish with German subtitles. Oddly, this will probably be easier to follow anyhow.

Re:Cam-rips are usually unwatchable

[Skyshadow]

Interesting, "unwatchable" was exactly the word I was looking for. Of course, I was thinking about Ep. 1 at the time...

Re:Go see it in theaters

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes but you are forgetting that plenty of casual fans value free stuff over better quality not free stuff.
Hell even Jesus himself wanted the free barn over the costly Inn to make his appearance to the world.

Re:Go see it in theaters

[Locke2005]

True; if you watch it on your home computer, you won't be surrounded by people dressed as Imperial Storm troopers, Amidala, young lord Vader, etc. Uh, and this is a bad thing because... ?

Captain Obvious to the rescue..

[devross]

It's still usually shelling out the cash to see a version that isn't fuzzy with garbled sound, though.

Yes, yes it certainly is worth.

Re:Go see it in theaters

[Anonymous Coward]

You don't get that kind of experience from a computer.

I use Windows I see the dark side everyday.

Re:Go see it in theaters

[carpe_noctem]

You don't get that kind of experience from a computer.

What if I beat my head against the table a few times and then mailed George Lucas $7?

Predicted on Fark

[mobby_6kl]

2005-05-19 11:01:56 AM vroxx

Reported on Digg yesterday... WITH a BT link.
http://digg.com/movies/longasstitle [digg.com]...

Reported on Slashdot Tomorrow.

/news for nerds my a$$

On a FARK thread here [fark.com]

Proceeds...

[soupdevil]

why Lucas does or does not deserve to make the proceeds

Let me be the first to say that I think Lucus should make a cut of the proceeds from P2P downloads. In fact, I'll send him 10% of what I paid to download it on BitTorrent. What's your address, George?

Re:Story posted by MPAA/RIAA member TIME WARNER

[Anonymous Coward]

> What did you expect, really?

Are you suggesting IT'S A TRAP?

Re:Cam-rips are usually unwatchable

[croddy]

well, that changes everything!

My Naive Boss

[ranson]

Our whole company was treated to a screening of ROTS this morning. My boss, who doesn't watch television and later admittidely never saw a Star Wars movie prior to today, asked us after it was over, "So do you think they'll make movies about those two twin babies now?" I still have not stopped laughing.

Re:Go see it in theaters

[Theaetetus]

True; if you watch it on your home computer, you won't be surrounded by people dressed as Imperial Storm troopers, Amidala, young lord Vader, etc. Uh, and this is a bad thing because... ?

... because you won't be surrounded by people dressed as Amidala. Duh.

Do they buy what they download, or not?

[SuperBanana]

The kind of people that would watch a crappy version on their computers are NOT the people who would pay $9 to see it in the theatre. Will this affect anything? No.

Slashdot Citizen! Do not oppose the Group Think that P2P is used for 'TEST DRIVING' content, and that EVERYONE buys what they download! And that if Hollywood/MPAA only produced better stuff, we'd...buy...more of...

Wait...I thought we said we bought everything we downloaded?

Aaaaaaa! [head implodes]

Re:News? Yeah right.

[_Sprocket_]

The Star Wars marketing was rather interesting this time around. CNN ran all the usual Star Wars news segments ("look at those wacky fans") and some less-usual ones ("everything you need to know to get up to speed on Star Wars lingo"). Discovery Channel dipped in to the pot with Science of Star Wars and their Animal Planet special on Star Wars fauna and their earthly inspirations.

Me, myself... I got two bags of M&Ms. Jedi Mix and Darth mix. I put them in two seperate bowls. Then I mixed them. Stunning Jedi battles did not ensue.

Wow

[The Bungi]

so now it's mostly a matter of discussing why Lucas does or does not deserve to make the proceeds

It's interesting and telling that this needs to be "discussed".

Re:Go see it in theaters

[aywwts4]

... because you won't be surrounded by people dressed as Amidala. Duh.

Yeah I saw that guy, Uhg!

Re:My Naive Boss

[Anonymous Coward]

LOL, he's never seen Star Wars, what an ass.

Re:Go see it in theaters

[Anonymous Coward]

Thanks for clueing us in on the sexual bargaining you and your g/f engage in. It really adds to my day to know that you're pussywhipped. What are you, 15?

That's absurd!

[cfalcon]

...I'll only be seeing it one additional time this weekend. Unless this other circle of friends of mine that isn't big on movies wants to go. Then I'd see it two more times this weekend.

Also, I'm using the gnutella network, which is less dishonest than bitorrent because it is slower.

That's sarcasm, thx.

eh ...

[w98]

sith happens ...

Re:Go see it in theaters

[Xzzy]

Dude, that's just surround sound for your eyes.

Re:Go see it in theaters

[justin12345]

But a Beowulf Cluster of Amidalas dressed in hot grits?

Eh, sorry....

Bothan death toll mounts...

[EdZ]

Many Bothans died to bring us this leak.

Noooo...!

[__aaclcg7560]

I got finals on Monday! I will resist the Dark Side... I... will... not... download... BSD 3.7 until then...

Who cares about garbld sound?

[kindbud]

Who cares about garbled sound, when the dialog so low-brow?

"You're so beautiful."
"That's only because I'm so in love."
"No, it's because I'm so in love with you."

BARF!

NO SPOILERS!

[MyHair]

those two twin babies

Stop! No spoilers! I haven't seen it yet!

Re:Go see it in theaters

[Mikito]

Of course, the entire film itself was made on a computer. (OK, two computers)

You've all heard how George Lucas delayed production on the prequels because technology couldn't adequately produce the special effects he wanted.

The real reason for the decades-long gap in films is that Lucasfilm had been using computers since the early 1980s for the digital effects, and the computers only finished rendering frames fairly recently. Digital rendering takes time on a bunch of 4.77 MHz machines.

Re:Go see it in theaters

[panaceaa]

And nose!

Re:Go see it in theaters

[YOU LIKEWISE FAIL IT]

Or the Tall Guy sitting in front of you?

That would be me. I can come over and sit in front of your computer if you like, but you have to buy the popcorn.

YLFI

Re:NO SPOILERS!

[Anonymous Brave Guy]

Yeah! If I wanted to know what happened in the end, I'd have watched the sequels first!

Re:Go see it in theaters

[vsprintf]

True; if you watch it on your home computer, you won't be surrounded by people dressed as Imperial Storm troopers, Amidala, young lord Vader, etc. Uh, and this is a bad thing because... ?

At the very least, I would wait a few days so those people who camped out in line for a month (and in costume) are long gone from the theatre.

Re:Go see it in theaters

[21st Century Peon]

Plus, they'll occasionally splice a single frame from a porn film in there.

"So just when the snooty droid and the pregnant princess have met with the fallen Jedi for the last time, that's when you'll catch a flash of Tyler's contribution to the film. Nobody knows they saw it, but they did."
"A nice big lightsabre."

Re:Go see it in theaters

[vsprintf]

It seems like you could a modern cinema, where there is no such thing as uncomfortable seats and a tall guy in front won't even touch your line of sight.

It seems like you could the missing word. Design? Build? Finance? Drive 500 miles to? Now, I'm going to lie awake all night wondering what it was.

Re:Go see it in theaters

[drinkypoo]

You mean the Endor infiltration outfit? God, I love a woman in camoflague!

Re:Go see it in theaters

[Minna Kirai]

Take for example (SPOILER)

Thanks, because I only heard about him getting a cyborg body twenty-three years ago.

I can top that.

[955301]

Some coworkers and I saw the 3:30 showing here in Atlanta. The movie cuts to Vader's mask being put on for the first time and one of the guys in our group whispers "wait, now who is this guy?".

We're still punching him as I type.

Re:What ever happened to intermissions?

[mmontour]

Those Lord of the Rings movies were just too much.[...]not missing part of the show for a trip to the can.

That's what the Arwen scenes were for.

Re:Go see it in theaters

[paul248]

Doesn't the loaves & fishes story sort of correlate with file sharing today? In that time, some people's primary income was derived from fishing or baking bread, and Jesus took the fruits of their labor, made copies, and distributed them to thousands of people.

Re:Go see it in theaters

[DrXym]

You mean the young bastards with the laser pointers and cell phones? Or the Tall Guy sitting in front of you? Or the uncomfortable seats? Or the fact that you can't pause the movie?

Of course if you download the copy doing the rounds, you'll probably get all of the above lovingly encoded into your home viewing experience.

Re:What ever happened to intermissions?

[jdcook]

I was forced to conclude that Peter Jackson hates the audience. Now, it is true that just before viewing LOTR:FOTR I drank a washtub-sized coke at the piza joint. But *man* that's a long movie. And I'm holding out, crossing my legs, trying to concentrate on the action instead of my bladder. And then there's a fuckin' WATERFALL. Oh man I gotta go. And then he does it AGAIN with the flood during the ent attack in Two Towers. Fortunately I was prepared that time. I saved my cup from the pizza joint.