Since I currently run businesses in Asia, it’s pretty easy for me to indulge in my passion of movies. The typical DVD here costs about $5 a pop. So 10 DVDs cost me about $50. Not bad. In the US, $50 is barely enough for a movie date. With $50, I have the entire Star Wars series. Whoohooo! Break out the popcorn. Nothing can disturb me when the Home Theatre is blastin’ !
I was in the middle of Babylon AD the other day when my friend asked me if I had broadband at home. “Of course,” I said, adding that my connection blazed at 2Mbps. That’s when he asked me why I was spending a fortune on DVDs when I could watch the latest movies totally online. Free.
FREE? Of course that got me interested. DVDs come out six months after the movie release. Anything current would be a welcome addition.
My friend mosied over to my laptop and whipped up two websites, movierumor.com and watch-movies.net. Man, was I floored. There, arranged by genre, release and rating were the latest movies- plus those scheduled to be released in a few months. Hundreds of gigabytes of the stuff- plus ratings and reviews for viewers!
I was in movie nirvana.
How long these sites will last with the massive antipiracy campaign going on, I don’t know. But while it’s there, go ahead and indulge, my fellow movie buffs. It’s an orgy of cinematography.
