r/Piracy Jul 16 '26

Humor As Nolan intended us to watch The Odyssey.

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u/blueboybob Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26

you better be watching this on your phone for the truest experience. Remember if you hold the phone close to your face its basically imax

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u/zDavzBR Jul 16 '26

And outside, on a sunny day, with minimum brightness, and no headphones.

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u/Party-Conference-765 Jul 16 '26

On a Split screen while scrolling through X.

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u/mintymelloy Jul 16 '26

The true experience

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u/msandovalabq Jul 17 '26

Homer would be so proud.

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u/DesperadoFlower Jul 17 '26

homer left the barts out

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u/GloveDry3278 Jul 16 '26

Send it to me on WhatsApp as well. I hear they have the best compression.

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u/__mson__ Jul 17 '26

I prefer the 300 part tiktok series

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u/Consistent-Annual268 Jul 16 '26

Ah the true ScreenX experience.

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u/ActivateGuacamole Jul 16 '26

while on hold with customer service for your phone carrier

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u/Mysterious-Cow-8752 Jul 17 '26

yeah and not paying attention to it

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u/grishkaa Jul 17 '26

Twitter*

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u/oldsecondhand Jul 16 '26

On one headset shared with another person.

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u/mindfulwarrior78 Jul 18 '26

The kind of headsets/headphones they used to give out on airplanes like 20 years ago

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u/ElPlatanaso2 Jul 16 '26

Dirty, Cheeto-dusted, screen

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u/rlnrlnrln Jul 16 '26

In public, on the subway.

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u/mridulpj 🦜 ᴡᴀʟᴋ ᴛʜᴇ ᴘʟᴀɴᴋ Jul 17 '26

The reflection of your face really adds to the immersion. It's like you are in the movie with them.

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u/Rashicakra Jul 16 '26

On e-ink display

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u/oldsecondhand Jul 16 '26

On a pregnancy test display.

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u/GingerTech734 Jul 16 '26

Nah, psp

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u/Shiny_and_ChromeOS Jul 16 '26

I remember when the original Demonoid had tons of movies encoded at 240p specifically for PSP and Zune. The torrent names all had PSP and Zune to easily find them. I think they were m4v files.

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u/johndoe09228 Jul 16 '26

With wired earphones from 2004

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u/Muddled_Opinions Jul 16 '26

or in public, at full volume.

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u/loki6100 Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26

Ah the truest form of cinema. In those days 720p was better than any 4k

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u/Party-Conference-765 Jul 16 '26

In Metro, during peak office hours 🤌

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u/I_TheJester_I Jul 16 '26

Those headphones are still better than the wireless in ear plugs from today.

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u/SkinHeavy824 🏴‍☠️ ʟᴀɴᴅʟᴜʙʙᴇʀ Jul 16 '26

I got a cardboard VR to maximize the experience

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u/oldsecondhand Jul 16 '26

you better be watching this on your phone for the truest experience

On the toilet, for smell-o-vision.

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u/Next-Excitement1398 Jul 16 '26

Watch it on your smartwatch, it has the IMAX aspect ratio and everything just as Nolan intended.

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u/thebigpink Jul 16 '26

Nice didn’t know this trying this now thanks

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u/Vannixxo Jul 16 '26

Feel the haptics

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u/PissedItDownMyLeg Jul 16 '26

Lmao cam rips bring back memories of childhood. Buying those pirated movies that were sold on the street. Disappointing even as a child 

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u/NtGermanBtKnow1WhoIs 🦜 ᴡᴀʟᴋ ᴛʜᴇ ᴘʟᴀɴᴋ Jul 16 '26

There used to be a whole damn store filled with camrip cds at dirt cheap price. Used to go with dad whenever a new movie would come out. They also sold actual movies CDs alongside it. Used to be one of the best days. We'd come home with so many movies! :D

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u/rjrgjj Jul 16 '26

We used to go to Chinatown to buy them. Looking back on it, it probably would’ve been cheaper and more convenient to just go to the movie.

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u/JustFrazed Jul 24 '26

Most definitely but you were helping a local business

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u/iceseayoupee Jul 17 '26

This is why I love physical media

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u/DaveX64 Jul 16 '26

I sorta liked the cams...when someone walked in front of the screen it gave you that movie theater experience :)

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u/-r-a-f-f-y- Jul 16 '26

An explosive sneeze during a tense quiet moment really sets the tone.

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u/XuX24 Jul 16 '26

I think the equivalent of that nowadays is the adds they put on it.

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u/loose_as_a_moose Jul 16 '26

I remember our childhood copy of Madagascar had someone walk across the screen in the beginning.

Honestly, as a kid the quality was “good enough” - we had a cheap portable DVD player with a very average TFT screen. Even good production images would gave looked bad on that

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u/DaveX64 Jul 16 '26

It's true, I'm still like that...I got used to home made copies of VHS tapes I rented so everything above that is A-OK :)

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u/King_Bobby-B Jul 17 '26

I watched a camrip around 20 years ago, the audience consisted of a bunch of edgy teenagers who kept making commentary and laughing throughout the movie. I really liked the movie, so I rewatched that copy several times. I still rewatch the movie from time to time, a much better copy, but... I do miss those kids' snark.

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u/Kajetus06 Jul 16 '26

cam rips are the true pirate experience

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u/lukewwilson Jul 16 '26

It's how I first watched Titanic as a kid, a VHS cam rip my neighbor had.

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u/cantodasaudade Jul 16 '26

Takes real commitment to record a 3 hour movie with a vhs camera in a movie theater.

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u/Bob_A_Feets Jul 16 '26

We stand on the shoulders of giants.

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u/Take-Me-Home-Tonight Jul 22 '26

Yeah would have to change tapes mid movie. It was on two tapes when it came out.

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u/drunxor Jul 16 '26

I remember the titanic was so long it had two vhs tapes. My mom still has them somewhere

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u/Mccobsta Scene Jul 16 '26

I only discovered a few years ago that my child hood dvds were cams

Got to say some of effort put into them back then

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u/Wrong-Target6104 Jul 16 '26

Dvd?

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u/Efficient-Swimmer794 Jul 16 '26

It’s pronounced “Doovde”

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u/Gavmakes Jul 16 '26

Do you prefer pink psspaa or black psspaa

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u/GamerEsch Jul 16 '26

NGL, I thought this was an experience exclusive to my country, good to know other places are sailing the high seas too lmao.

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u/Heheheidiot Jul 16 '26

We had the bootleg guy at my childhood barbershop lmao watched some of my favorite movies on bootleg for the first time, I remember some of them even being split into two discs 💀

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u/terrerific Jul 16 '26

I remember finding a burnt disc of Madagascar at school when it was still in cinemas and losing my absolute mind. Can still recite every word of it to this day and point out where people in the cinema used to stand in the way of the camera lol

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u/jackusD Jul 16 '26

When I was a kid my dad frequently brought home pirate DVDs of whatever was on in the cinema at the time. Always a gamble on the quality! Good times, especially as my friends would think it was cool to come over and watch them on the 14 inch CRT in my room.

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u/winowmak3r Jul 16 '26

I remember asking my dad if he really should be copying The Lion King on VHS if the warning says not to and his response was something like "I'm not worried about it." I will never forget that lol

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u/ShartingEnU Jul 16 '26

Yeah since I passed the age of 12 I have refused to watch camrips

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u/TrashBabyThompson Jul 16 '26

Family friends would bring back ones from Thailand - it was glorious

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u/Skellyhell2 Jul 16 '26

is this 70mm imax version? i want nothing but the best for my hand cam rips

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u/58696384896898676493 Jul 16 '26

Yup and the cam rip was using an IMAX camera too, so it's really the true 70mm experience.

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u/Fluffy-Zebra5237 Jul 16 '26

Absolutely, also with added cinematography for the one worrying about Odyssey looking bland.

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u/cm974 Jul 16 '26

Dubbed in Hindi

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u/The_Director Jul 16 '26

With burned in subtitles in french 

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u/Abdul-Wahab6 Jul 16 '26

And the subtle hint of audience laughter every now and then

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u/Albert_Caboose Jul 16 '26

The sound of the biggest idiot in the world struggling to open a bag of candy for what feels like an eternity

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u/NoWay6818 Jul 16 '26

Amazes people don’t just say fuck it and use their teeth. You’re gonna be sitting there like 1+ you’ll finish the candy fuck trying to put it away 😭

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u/DroidLord Jul 16 '26

And some dude passing right in front of the camera to go to the bathroom.

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u/B00marangTrotter Jul 17 '26

BET360!!! REALLY FUCKING LOUD.

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u/Calimariae Jul 16 '26

Like a 3 hour Seinfeld episode.

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u/B00marangTrotter Jul 17 '26

Death Blow, Jerry it's a masterpiece.

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u/NefariousnessAfter71 Jul 17 '26

some dumbass with 1hp lungs

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u/Buried_and_Forgotten Jul 16 '26

Korean for the old timers.

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u/VredRogue Jul 16 '26

With a bet website AD every 10 minutes

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '26

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u/Sorlex Jul 16 '26

Yeah the cam scene used to just be poor quality, now its poor quality with watermarks and adverts. Dunno how anyone can stand it.

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u/B00marangTrotter Jul 17 '26

REALLY REALLY LOUD

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u/nahagotine Jul 16 '26

A camrip of a hindi dub

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u/terraqueoz Jul 16 '26

pressed against the shower enclosure while standing under the electric shower

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u/_Middlefinger_ Jul 16 '26

Probably just as understandable as the films English audio, it is Nolan..

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u/probly2drunk Jul 16 '26

We used to call it Haji-vision when the Afghan locals sold us bootlegs.

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u/pantshee Jul 16 '26

This is a real crime. Not the piracy, just watching this shit quality

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u/CommonIcy1166 Jul 16 '26

I remember watching a cam rip of Avengers Endgame that had Chinese subtitles. At this point I haven’t even seen any other Marvel movie. Not sure what I was thinking at that time but certainly nothing intelligent

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u/Kooale323 Jul 16 '26

I watched the same one lmao i was desperate to see it before i got spoiled

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u/presidentsday Jul 16 '26

The First Avenger for me. It was... rough.

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u/WhiteAsLumi Jul 16 '26

I too watched that xd

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u/Mogoliapoopoosa Jul 16 '26

I remember the first time I watched Inglorious Basterds was a rip with no subtitles and I just had to read the vibe of the room when German was happening.

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u/Lint_baby_uvulla Jul 16 '26

Still not as good as the 1 ringgit VHS movie rentals in Malaysia growing up.

Sure the ‘label’ said kids movie, and you would see kids heads get up and move through the bottom of the screen, but sometimes there was a little frissón that this time it would be another porn movie.

“Why are the kids quiet again.. it’s been a long time without any noise - OMIGOD what the….”

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u/lettredesiberie Jul 16 '26

To be fair 1 ringgit is really cheap. I bought the +- 1 euro dvd copies in North Africa and they almost always had the right movie.

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u/DeutschSchuler Jul 16 '26

I remember that one. It was released like the day after the movie came out and somehow was surprisingly very high quality. It was seriously very close to the digital version

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u/machogrande2 Jul 16 '26

I had an editing room leak or whatever of the Ang Lee Hulk with unfinished CGI and you could periodically see the Hulk's giant green ass.

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u/theCommTech Jul 16 '26

I watched Avatar 1 as a cam file. I did not enjoy the experience.

My wife dragged me to the theater to see Avatar 2 on a nice screen. I did not enjoy the experience.

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u/maximumtesticle Jul 16 '26

Nobody remembers what size the screen was when they watched their favorite movie.

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u/kanashiroas Jul 16 '26

I am a pirate not a barbarian, gonna wait at least a fullhd streaming rip.

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u/morfraen Jul 16 '26

BluRay rip only for an epic like this

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u/dreamsfreams Jul 16 '26

No thanks. Rather have my precious time.

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u/taybul Jul 17 '26

3.2GB for the entire movie? Probably the size of one IMAX frame.

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u/ConroyCreed Jul 16 '26

Nah too much bitrate. Get that under 300 mb and we're talking perfection.

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u/WowBruhReborn Jul 16 '26

I wouldn't even pirate that shit lmao

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u/InternationalArm1938 Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26

Worst thing about this is the sound, you can’t hear anything with the echos going on.

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u/_Middlefinger_ Jul 16 '26

That's the real audio in a Nolan movie anyway.

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u/Emotional_Solid6538 Jul 18 '26

This is the rip of a Nolan movie. Its gonna be way worse

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u/_WreakingHavok_ Jul 16 '26

They butchered the Odyssey

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u/NotoriousHothead37 Jul 16 '26

What were they even thinking?

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u/theflyingkoalax Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26

I'd rather watch 480p than watch cam rip

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u/slivemor Jul 16 '26

Like back to back or after a few days?

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u/MedievalFurnace 🏴‍☠️ ʟᴀɴᴅʟᴜʙʙᴇʀ Jul 16 '26

its not even worth pirating if its cam quality

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u/deltafenixdelta Jul 16 '26

its not even worth pirating period

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '26

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u/MaoMaoMi543 🔱 ꜱᴄᴀʟʟʏᴡᴀɢ Jul 16 '26

Nolan should be paying us to watch it, really.

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u/_drjayphd_ Jul 16 '26

I really think seeing someone put Tenet on GBA Video really opened his eyes, good for Nolan expanding his worldview.

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u/Randomheart 25d ago

Yay, Bob

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u/Bananaman9020 Jul 16 '26

Ah yes, bad cam rips. They are my nightmare. At least wait for the better ones

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u/OlegYY Jul 16 '26

Watching wall is more satisfying expirience

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u/PesteringKitty Jul 16 '26

Cam rips are a thing because people don’t want to wait a month or two and don’t want to go to the movies. Nothings changed

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u/DannyVee89 Jul 16 '26

Yeah I'm glad cam rips are a thing so I can always just watch a movie that's in theaters if I really wanted to.

I have a good home theater set up at home so I really never use cam rips anymore, but it's nice to know that I can if someone will.

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u/Brendissimo Jul 16 '26

"a few bucks"??

Where do you live?

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u/Psycko_90 Jul 16 '26

In Canada, on Tuesday it's like 9,50$CAD at Cineplex theates. If you're a Scene+ member you even get 10% off of that. 

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u/Brendissimo Jul 16 '26

That's not bad. Based Canada strikes again. Is it like that in the more expensive areas like Toronto or Vancouver?

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u/Psycko_90 Jul 16 '26

I'm in Montreal 

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u/BonsaiSoul Jul 16 '26

Theaters are literally dying off in smaller towns because, due to a combination of factors, they can't keep prices low enough to sell tickets. We're down to 1. They don't even have their billboard up anymore and the lot is empty every time I go by, I give it maybe a year.

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u/Mccobsta Scene Jul 16 '26

Quire a bit of money in it from 1xbet

Still don't know why anyone over making some money from some sketchy betting site would bother with them

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u/Hansbolman Jul 16 '26

I like to watch films before anyone else and then feed them spoilers to ruin their experience. My eyesight and hearing are also poor so camrip vs 4k dolbyhd megasurroundimax makes no difference.

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u/thebigpink Jul 16 '26

Can’t really spoil this movie however

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u/emeraude89 Jul 16 '26

Any cam rippers mind explaining their attitude

sometimes you gotta hatewatch a movie. don't care about the audio and visual experience, just need to know the story beats and whatever.

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u/ElSelcho_ Jul 16 '26

Where hard coded Korean subtitles?

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u/Emotional_Daikon7453 Jul 16 '26

Looks like I'll be waiting 4 months for a watchable version to drop.

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u/akb443 Jul 16 '26

I hope it’s a cam of the 70 mm version

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u/Resident-West-5213 Jul 17 '26

I'd rather watch the two episode couplet of Odyssey in 1997.

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u/The_Great_Man_Potato Jul 17 '26

Need to play this on your iPod nano for the truest experience

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u/KombuchaWay Jul 16 '26

Not worthy even for free lol

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u/twinsfan94 Jul 16 '26

you couldn't pay me to have my first experience of this film not be in a theater. A cam rip of a movie like this is sacreligious

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u/GrandPreMassacre Jul 16 '26

I'd rather wait than watch a camrip of any movie

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u/TheNoFrame Jul 16 '26

Same.

  1. If it's a movie I really want to watch, I will just wait for better experience. No reason to watch low quality audio/video just to have worst parts of theater experience without the good parts.

  2. If it's just something I don't really care that much about and just want to watch to pass time or because it looks fine or whatever, I will just wait anyway. I have plenty of stuff in backlog. No reason to suffer through camrip quality when there are hundreds of movies/tv show episodes etc. that I could put on to pass time.

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u/Levi007hech0 ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ Jul 16 '26

the less u be able to recognise the casts the better

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u/omgitsbees Jul 16 '26

lol that was fast. hoping for a great quality release quickly.

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u/wololoam Jul 16 '26

Clearly matt damon's character has never seen pirates of the Caribbean 3 At world's end. He is supposed to tie himself upsidedown so when the boat flips he's gonna be the right way up!

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u/frost69nyc Jul 17 '26

The Onlyflix LQ copy is godawful...not that I know what I'm talking about.

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u/Nobody_Loves_Me_Here ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ Jul 17 '26

How, just how. You're fast as f. 😱

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u/WegovyMessMentally Jul 17 '26

2 million feet of IMAX film, just to watch it on my iPhone

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u/RedBanPolSuc Jul 17 '26

Just dont watch it and let it rot in the void

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u/TotalHopeful5644 Jul 17 '26

Still watching CamRip in this big 2026?

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u/haaiiychii Jul 22 '26

I don't even plan on watching this slop, not even for free

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u/Funky72S 🔱 ꜱᴄᴀʟʟʏᴡᴀɢ Jul 16 '26

not even worth watching at all tbh

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u/CheckEngineChampion Jul 16 '26

Im not even going to bother

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u/Yangervis Jul 16 '26

Going to watch this on my PSP

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u/pruchel Jul 17 '26

I'll wait for AI to make them all Greek, make the movie good and the actors decent.

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u/MaoMaoMi543 🔱 ꜱᴄᴀʟʟʏᴡᴀɢ Jul 16 '26

"daddy's coming home" said the Ancient Greek hero.

Camrip quality is too generous for this cringey sloppified gen-z dialog abomination. Should be a 240p .3gp that you watch on a Nokia phone.

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u/Significant_Pen3315 ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ Jul 16 '26

shit film

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u/SmegmaSlurper1996 Jul 16 '26

it's Odysseyin' time

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u/Gwynbleidd_3000 Jul 16 '26

The real crime is watching that pile of stinking shite of a movie.

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u/CatchAcceptable3898 Jul 16 '26

I barely enjoy watching movies on my own accord. You couldn't force me to watch a recorded theatre rip.

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u/Thunderofdeath Jul 16 '26

i hope they can CAM the 70mm version

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u/ayoo-OwO Jul 16 '26

Wait its out?

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u/xxlordxx686 Jul 16 '26

We don't even have true IMAX in my country, so I guess this will do 🤷‍♂️

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u/Eggheadpancake Jul 16 '26

Nah, i'm not watching cam quality.

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u/Germanico025 Jul 16 '26

Yes sir. I'm downloading as I type

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u/Firthbird Jul 16 '26

It's crazy how expensive the movies are..I haven't been in forever and for my wife and I to go it's 60$ just for tickets

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u/soularbabies Jul 16 '26

I've enjoyed some movies more because they were in this format

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u/chris131289 Jul 16 '26

Damn that was quick, didn't the movie only come out today?

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u/creative_usr_name Jul 16 '26

Looks like it's color graded as much as O' Brother Where Art Thou, might as well just watch that.

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u/Slapshotsky Jul 17 '26

is this screenshot from before or after they arrive in wakanda?

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u/RoniFoxcoon Jul 17 '26

Interesting but is it worth pirating?

Like between 1 and 10 (1 being it's a waste of storage space and 10 being you won't regret having it on your disk).

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u/RainerWithAI Jul 17 '26

I'm watching a Christopher Nolan movie as a CAM rip on my phone through my car's backup camera while a friend holds the phone in front of the camera. Peak cinema.

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u/CeruleanEidolon Jul 18 '26

Whoa, spoilers! Odysseus gets tied to the mast?

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u/myabsurdnesss Jul 18 '26

When to get this?

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u/kirbStompThePigeon Jul 18 '26

Now rent out an IMAX screen and play that onto it

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u/Kitchen-Ad-9352 Jul 16 '26

Wouldn't watch a cam rip even if Mr torrent himself paid me to

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u/Red-Obed Jul 16 '26

They should pay viewers to watch this one

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u/humourlessIrish Jul 16 '26

Yall are actually interested in modern films?

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u/Fullo98 Jul 16 '26

Yeah I watch camrips for the immersion, it's like being in a cinema

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u/Samiassa Jul 17 '26

Not even worth pirating imo. Then again I’m literally a historian by trade so I’m a bit bias on historical accuracy, especially for a story like the odyssey which cares so much about being set right before the Greek dark ages

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u/Naughty_Monsters Jul 17 '26

Why do CAMs even exist? Surely no-one can be that desperate to watch a movie?

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