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Tucked away in an estate outside of London, Professor Coupland along with a team of university students conduct an "experiment" on Jane Harper, a young girl who harbors unspeakable secrets. What dark forces they uncover are more terrifying than any of them expected.- From IMDB
After Oculus I was hoping for a great run of horror movies this year. The Quiet Ones dropped the ball in a major way.
What could have been an amazing ghost film, turns into a jump scare marathon. Jump scares are not bad, if they're not over used. After the 13th time they did it in The Quiet Ones you were barely startled anymore.
The way a lot of the movie was shot was distracting too. Many scenes in the movie were shown from the camera that was supposed to be filming the experiments point of view. Which means about a third of the movie looks like found footage. Why did the guy have to be holding the camera all the time? Couldn't he have just as easily used a tripod?
Save some money and wait till this one is on Netflix.
From what I heard, everyone is saying that it's not bad if you don't have to pay for it LOL They say it's better to view from your couch than a theater. I didn't have much hope for it with that PG-13 rating, but I'm sure I'll watch it when it comes on Netflix or cable.
ReplyDeleteIt's one that would be fun to try and scare your friends with. Scream at the same time as the loud noise on the movie and watch them jump.
DeleteJust download it... it's not that bad.
ReplyDeleteOnly do that when it's through a legal source.
DeleteStopping illegal downloading would cost massive amounts of money. Firstly, ISPs are given the responsibility of blocking the websites that cater for it as ‘The Pirate Bay’ found out to the detriment recently when it was blocked across the UK by force of court order. There are probably millions if not more sites that you can rip music from and the time, effort and cost are enough to put anyone off.
ReplyDeleteSecondly, who would enforce this ban? The government or more specifically, the police. Quite frankly, the police have enough work to do trying to stop the population from eating each other in a bath salt induced haze and trying to stop themselves getting in trouble for racism and corruption to worry about kids sitting in their rooms listening to the latest Usher track for free- besides it would bog the legal down beyond comprehension to go after this activity and cost more than the gain.
Napster came about in 1999, opennig the door for such a thing out of ALL of those threats against lawsuits and prosecutions- out of all those years and millions upon millions of downloads, only TWO were ever prosecuted and those have been nearly overtuned...
Thirdly, what is our incentive as a global community to stop illegal downloads? If anything the odds are stacked firmly against the record companies and artists in this respect. Think of record company and you think of P Diddy in ‘Get Him to the Greek’ in a huge office block beautifully decorated with enough money to sink a ship. Most artists fighting against the illegal market are extremely wealthy and influential. They actually make more money with enforcement of said laws against downloading... :)
The only ones who are afraid of it are big scared babies and idiots who don't know how to use the technology.
You say "The only ones who are afraid of it are big scared babies and idiots who don't know how to use the technology". That is a very revealing statement. It shows exactly how childish and entitled people who do this are.
DeletePeople who download illegally seem to feel they deserve these things for free. For some reason life owes them everything at no charge.
Another telling quote from your comment "think of P Diddy in ‘Get Him to the Greek’ in a huge office block beautifully decorated with enough money to sink a ship". Do you know how that (fictional) executive probably got that office? He got it through hard work and proving himself. He was the guy who took a financial risk backing an unknown band and hoping they would succeed. He's also the one who will bear the brunt of the backlash if the artist or band fails.
You resent him because he has all things you want, but haven't earned. I'm sure that someone out there is looking at you and thinking you don't deserve the things you have.
Another argument I hear a lot is "I can't afford to buy everything I want to see or listen to". Well there are plenty of legitimate ways to still rent for a low cost. You don't have to own every movie or CD. If you do want to buy things, it's called a budget. Maybe you can't buy ten movies this week, but you can surely buy one a week? Again, this falls into the entitlement mindset. You want all the movies and you want them now.
I've known people with hundreds of downloaded movies they haven't watched. Why would you need that? I don't get why you need to download 40,000 songs either. Even the best Ipod wouldn't hold them all. Because you like one Beck song doesn't mean you need every track he's ever recorded.
Again, it's just about having everything when YOU want it.
The other issue is morality, stealing is wrong. It's wrong to walk into Venture and steal a cassette tape. Why do people do that? Simple, they wanted it and didn't have the money buy it, so they took it. If someone wants something you own, but doesn't want to pay for it, should they be allowed to just take it?
The reason it upsets you for someone to come out against Illegal Downloads is simple. It reminds you that what you're doing is WRONG. You know it is, that's why it has the word "Illegal" in front of it. Stop trying to convince yourself that you're right, you know in your heart it's wrong.