I went to see Walking Tall on Saturday, and as is common now the film was immediately preceeded by a couple of screens asking me to kindly put away my camcorder, camera, mobile video phone, 8-track and any other recording equipment. Not as bad as Harry Potter where we were all kindly informed that staff would be using “see-in-the-dark” telescopes to spot anyone video-ing the film for distribution on the internet.
It was also made plain that anyone nabbed could face jail time and an “unlimited fine”.
Now, to change tack, a welcome announcement was made this week increasing the penalties for animal cruelty. You can now face jail time and up to £20,000 in fines. This is good, but wait…
Financially, pinching some cash from a film company that’s worth billions will result in worse punishment than crucifying a living dog, starving a field full of hourses or putting a koala in a microwave?
Yup. Nice to see that once again the law has it’s priorities right. Let’s protect the gold reserves of the rich more than the animals we share the planet with. ******* typical.
Insurance companies lost a fortune when Red Rum got turned into Pedigree Chum (allegedly). Though I appreciate that’s a slightly different matter.
U have rather an individual way of looking at things dearest… anyway downloading a wiggly cinema effort of a copy is pants…Why not just pay £5 for a ticket or just wait for the DvD and get a decent version
Well, no-one loses money if you kill an animal. Welcome to the capitalist society we live in where movie companies have rich lobbyists, and animals don’t.
(HE said munching on a lamb carcass)
Why not make the fines for animal cruelty unlimited? Surely murdering a livem intelligent creature should be punushed more severely than theft?
I’d not call that an unusual way of looking at things.
I agree with the comments about crappy recorded copies fo films, though. One way for them to solve it would be to release the bloody thing on both sides of the Atlantic at the same time. Hellboy, as an example, comes out over here in the next few weeks. It’s already legally available on DVD in the US. Surely that will affect cinema-goers over here?