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Post #151623

Author
ricarleite
Parent topic
Your favorite Hollywood excuse for 2005's crappy box office returns
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Date created
31-Oct-2005, 1:29 PM
If I feel a movie is good enough to be bought, I do. I had seen Fight Club several times and I bought the DVD nonetheless. People buy DVDs. Internet movie piracy only happens for movies that are unavailable on their country, like "Battle Royale". The piracy is more common here in Brazil through two other factors: movies being delayed and unproperly distributed ("Kill Bil vol 1" was delayed for almost an year and shown in few screens due to admitted incompetence by the local distributor, Woody Allen films usually take 1 to 2 years to get here, and shown on 5 screens over 2 weeks), or the price of DVDs lately. A good DVD may cost up to R$45.00 (fourty five reais), in a country where the minimum monthly wage is less than R$300.00. This is due to over-taxation of electronic products such as videogames and DVDs.