Comments on: “Saw” Director Explains Why He Was Worried By BitTorrent

By: BlackBeard

BlackBeard — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 06:38:34 +0000

I would never have really known about saw if my mate hadn't bit torrented it, I have now bought all of them, so piracy helped spread the word of saw, if suddenly instead of 6 cinemas, what would happen if Repo was been played on 100,000 + TV's?? mighr just raise some awareness me thinks…

By: Spiral

Spiral — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 04:00:57 +0000

So you were treated as if you were a thief, so now you’re going to steal?

Wow, you sure proved them wrong. Great logic you have going there. Good thing they didn’t treat you like a murderer or rapist.

By: mistreated

mistreated — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 08:58:27 +0000

I had tickets for the session that was cancelled. We were treated as if we were a nasty bunch of thieves and pirates, so I WON’T PAY to watch that movie. I’ll simply wait until someone upload it. That’s the only thing the autor deserves.

By: hmm

hmm — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 03:16:42 +0000

You can’t really scapegoat people who download the soundtrack. How is anyone supposed to be interested in purchasing the soundtrack if they can’t even see the movie?

A soundtrack for a movie that tens of thousands of people saw is not going to generate ten million sales, i’m sorry to say.

What needs to be done is get as many people as possible to see the movie and it will build an enourmous fanbase on its own, even if the subject matter is obscure.

This “buy the soundtrack first if you want to watch the movie” plan sounds a litte silly and unfeasible.

I wonder how you get 10 million people to see a movie that is only in 3 cities, hmmmm…

By: in.cog.nito

in.cog.nito — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:33:10 +0000

“At one point there was talk of not even releasing a soundtrack. I fought, screamed and fought some more to get this small release we have – on Amazon, iTunes and other downloadable sites. This was a way to gauge the interest in the film. I did this to show all the nay-sayers LOOK at our numbers.”

If you wanted to show interest show how many people downloaded it, just like the authors who released their books to thepiratebay and watched their sales rise, don’t try fucking up our torrent sites because of some assbag followers want to keep it out of our hands.

By: xmanx

xmanx — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:27:28 +0000

Saw>saw 2 3 n 4 multiplied by each other amirite?

Saw 4 n 3 where horrible and frankly having payed to see them i demand my monies back in Ugandan dollars.

By: Me

Me — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:04:15 +0000

“I’m not going to pay for this… I don’t pay for anything regardless of how much I like it.”

You, sir, are an ass.

By: Tina

Tina — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 22:16:50 +0000

yeah, I feel kinda bad for the guy aswell. I mean they over-promote some horrible overbudget movie like Tranformers (which was based on a toy not an original idea) but somone who actually puts his heart into making somthing “different” they don’t even give him a chance of it succeeding.

He should send his army to attack some corrupt movie studio since they are the ones who killed this movie not us.

I wish him well, and might actually buy this on itunes (yes some pirates do give something back every once and a while).

By: Darren Who?

Darren Who? — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 22:04:00 +0000

BAAAWWWWING in advance over (possible) $ = Epic Fail.

By: odd

odd — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 16:01:15 +0000

Why would anyone bother camming a small-scale screening of a limited-release movie like that? FAR safer to wait for the DVD release and just rip that.

That’s like trying to CAM a movie at Cannes, just retarded.

By: guy57

guy57 — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 12:19:28 +0000

here in Sitges too. It was shown at one AM. It was canceled by the festival after another screening right before it someone was caught taping.

By: KMFDM

KMFDM — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 12:13:11 +0000

here in Spain in SITGES film festival the REPo the genetic opera preview of yesterday, was canceled by order of the company arguing that is a high RISC of piracy the movie or the ost, in the preview
it was a little scandan here, because they cancel the preview with the room full of press

sorry i only find info in spanish
http://www.publico.es/culturas/cine/161477/cancela/sitges/pase/pelicula/miedo/pirateria

By: shame they're gone

shame they're gone — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 11:18:05 +0000

I tried a re-up on TPB but as they’re still tracking it, it can’t be put up again

By: What the..

What the.. — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 10:52:01 +0000

Seriously why would he take the torrent down..

I understand that we have come to peace with Repo, but thats no reason to take the torrent down.. lol. Everything needs to be shared regardless.

By: God

God — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 10:25:33 +0000

Meh…

Soundtracks alright.
Not great.

Thank god I didn’t fork over any money for it.

Perhaps being foreclosed on right now. How can anyone in the US waste their money on shit like this?

By: hack

hack — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 09:53:29 +0000

For a hack. He has turned out quite the box office. #51 what have you done?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 09:03:17 +0000

Sorry, but if Repo is like anything in the past that this guy directed…it will be awful.

The guy is a hack.

By: John Ones

John Ones — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 08:18:42 +0000

The Saw series sucks anyways so I dont see why he cares.

http://www.privacy-center.ru.tc

By: MISSING THE POINT

MISSING THE POINT — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 07:41:04 +0000

Everyone is missing the point; REPO haa all the odds stacked against them. REPO has a very limited window of success. The soundtrack sales were the hope to widen the release and dvd units. This is not like most films. Not saying I agree or disagree with either side. But their only chance is purchased downloads.

By: Flyer

Flyer — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 05:56:17 +0000

Darren Bousman should hope that Opera will be shared a lot in the various file sharing networks – cause if that happens – he for sure will make it a success in the RT world as well

At the other hand – if only a few bother – his opera will probably never be a commercial success either!

Darren Bousman should look at the facts rather then depend on his believes. – Those songs – TV-shows – movies – games which are shared the most are also the most successful in the commercial world and vice versa