But with word of mouth going around, their boxoffice take plummeted...
(Chaucer hath a poem on DVC HERE)
However, the word of mouth on X Men 3 is that it rocks..
(Ian McKellan has neat photos on his webpage LINK)
The pirated DVC VCd's hit Manila last Thursday... I figure X Men will be here by next weekend.
Isn't movie piracy wonderful? I'm joking, of course, I would have no problem paying money for a movie, but until a couple months ago, we didn't have a theatre here. And when you buy a disk, you don't know if it's legal or pirated.
And when the local salary is five dollars a day, who can afford 2 dollars to go to a theatre? You can buy a used tv for 20 dollars, and a VCD player for 20 dollars, and a VCD for 60-80 cents...so that is how locals watch movies. (we don't use DVD's here...but MP4 type CD's, which are cheaper).
However, most of the films sold at the Palenke are action movies or broad comedy where you don't have to know the language, or locally made films. Nor are all the films from Hollywood. Many are made in Europe or China. So you get a Stephen Segal movie in Portuguese with English subtitles, or a Steven Segal movie in English with Indonesian subtitles...
One of the funniest movies I've seen recently is The Gods must be Crazy III...made by a Chinese director...and the characters speak their own languages in it...so the characters spoke Cantonese Chinese, Afrikaans, K!ung, Tswana, and English... with Chinese subtitles...about a hopping Chinese Vampire....who ends up in Botswana...
Isn't globalization wonderful?
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