Oh, come on!
May. 30th, 2009 11:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nano_mooseOkay, Australian film distributors, just what the hell is going on here?
Star Trek we get pretty much at the same time as America. Terminator: Salvation, and Wolverine as well, even though I don't actually give a shit about either of them. We get many games and books at the same time, sometimes even before (The Faceless Ones, for example). But WALL-E, Up, Coraline and probably 9 too, all the big animated films, are delayed and delayed and delayed until all the online release buzz is gone and hardly anyone cares any more.
What are you doing?
Seriously, there has got to be a reason for this, but I can't think what it could be. Do you have to convert it or something? Do you want to line them up with the school holidays, do you want to make it easier on whoever hauls the film around to theatres? Is there a clause in the Satanic contract Pixar signed for their amazingness that states Australians must get their films a minimum of three months after every other English-speaking country, so as to encourage the sin of piracy?
Do you just hate me, personally?
Because you know, there was evidentially a plan to release Up in June. I saw the posters and the cut-outs when I went to see Star Trek (because of all the online buzz) that said 'June 2009' in large type. But now it's officially September. For Christ's sake, now Egypt gets it before us. Was this a screw-up, or was it intentional, just to torture me and my animator schoomates? I can't decide which would infuriate me more.
Auuugh.
Pixar, you know I love you with all the love in my nerdy little heart. Can't you do something to stop this?
Star Trek we get pretty much at the same time as America. Terminator: Salvation, and Wolverine as well, even though I don't actually give a shit about either of them. We get many games and books at the same time, sometimes even before (The Faceless Ones, for example). But WALL-E, Up, Coraline and probably 9 too, all the big animated films, are delayed and delayed and delayed until all the online release buzz is gone and hardly anyone cares any more.
What are you doing?
Seriously, there has got to be a reason for this, but I can't think what it could be. Do you have to convert it or something? Do you want to line them up with the school holidays, do you want to make it easier on whoever hauls the film around to theatres? Is there a clause in the Satanic contract Pixar signed for their amazingness that states Australians must get their films a minimum of three months after every other English-speaking country, so as to encourage the sin of piracy?
Do you just hate me, personally?
Because you know, there was evidentially a plan to release Up in June. I saw the posters and the cut-outs when I went to see Star Trek (because of all the online buzz) that said 'June 2009' in large type. But now it's officially September. For Christ's sake, now Egypt gets it before us. Was this a screw-up, or was it intentional, just to torture me and my animator schoomates? I can't decide which would infuriate me more.
Auuugh.
Pixar, you know I love you with all the love in my nerdy little heart. Can't you do something to stop this?
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Date: 2009-05-30 04:11 am (UTC)Clearly, the answer is to take a vacation to the United States. Best Possible Answer.
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Date: 2009-05-30 08:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-05-30 09:43 am (UTC)I seem to recall somebody asking the distributors about this. Their answer was, and I quote: "Nobody goes to the movies in the summer." Facepalm.
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Date: 2009-06-03 04:20 pm (UTC)That's just UNFAIR! God dammit. I NEED to see this movie.