I have been finding myself in the strange predicament of realizing that I am an adult now and do in fact care about the state of affairs that my field of art is in. That is all to say that I don't file share/ pirate films anymore.
I don't normally prefer to stream movies as there is always a chance of the connection being lost or whatnot. Im not opposed to buying the download to a film and keeping it digitally on my computer. But in the case of AVGN: The Movie, I didn't feel like buying it outright as it did not contribute to my horror collection. But I did want to watch it so I went Vimeo to stream it for 5 bucks. It didn't work. I had to create an account to get it to accept my credit card of course but try as I might I couldn't get it to work. I am a man who gets set on watching a film if I want to watch it. It takes quite a lot to get me to give. But along the line somewhere I did consider torrenting a download of the film illegally. I had done this in a long while and I knew how to do it. But to me it felt wrong this time. I have been following James Rolfe aka The Angry Video Game Nerd on YouTube for a very long time. He is hilarious and his inside to video games and film is astounding. He and Cinemassacre made this movie for the fans of the Web series and it felt like I was being directly unsupportive by pirating the film. I decided I was going to give it up altogether. I spent another day or so emailing Vimeo to get my account to work and last night we finally got it to work and I got to rent the movie and the site even sent me an email telling me that I did well in supporting the artists I want see succeed using Vimeo. Th at was a nice touch.
**light plot spoilers **
The film itself was definitely worth the watch... If you're a fan of The Nerd. Wife watched it with me and while she thought it was funny, the silly effects, blue humor, and over the top action and acting put her off because unlike me, she was not as familiar with gaming or The Nerd. So this film revolves around a silly plot that has to do with topics such as old bad games becoming popular, the video game crash of 1983, the E.T. video game being buried in the new Mexico dessert and the Roswell alien. I loved it. But I loved it because I loved the Nerd. If you're interested in this film but are not sure if you would like it check out his show on YouTube or Cinemassacre.com and if you dig that, you'll dig this.
The film itself was definitely worth the watch... If you're a fan of The Nerd. Wife watched it with me and while she thought it was funny, the silly effects, blue humor, and over the top action and acting put her off because unlike me, she was not as familiar with gaming or The Nerd. So this film revolves around a silly plot that has to do with topics such as old bad games becoming popular, the video game crash of 1983, the E.T. video game being buried in the new Mexico dessert and the Roswell alien. I loved it. But I loved it because I loved the Nerd. If you're interested in this film but are not sure if you would like it check out his show on YouTube or Cinemassacre.com and if you dig that, you'll dig this.
I do think that what I learned most about my love of film and being supportive of filmmakers has definitely left an impact where I know I will be mindful of the affects my procuring methods have. I don't think pirating is innately wrong. If a film is nigh impossible to get outside that means, I'm going to use file-sharing to get it. But for the sake of making sure the movies I want to be made get made, I'm going to pitch in what I can to support the art.
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