Yami
Thousand Master
It hasn't even had its UK premiere yet, don't abandon all hope.
It's not only its UK premiere, it's a European premiere!
It hasn't even had its UK premiere yet, don't abandon all hope.
It's not only its UK premiere, it's a European premiere!
Why do you need to see it first? This seems unhealthy...God just clicking on this thread again has gotten me angry again! And I can't even swear to let it all out! Arggghhh!!! WHY!!!!
I'm more just perplexed and annoyed beyond belief to the point that I want to bash my head against the wall until I pass out from loss of blood that nobody picked it up, not even for the LIFF, like...why? UK Distro's being incompetent or Japanese committee being up their own ass, either way I'm angry! Kudos to Funimation man, I don't know how they did that one, or maybe it was easy and the UK is just garbage. I paid £100 for the Hideaki Anno Live Action Blu-ray, I'm such a fan of everything he does, my excitement for this was palpable, now I'm just in the mood for a fight. I needed this movie so bad, now...take your stupid kaiju movie, I've got a new love interest now. *cries*
If Godzilla is released on home video in the UK it'll bomb beyond belief now and I'm going to laugh my ass off, idiots. It'd be like delaying the release of Pokemon Go in the UK so it'd be closer to the launch of Sun and Moon, idiots don't they realize rising tides lifts all boats. Apples and oranges, different medium, different genre but Your Name is going to be huge for AL and the hype they built for it will contribute to that handily. If I buy Zilla, and that's a huge if because I might just skip it altogether now, I'll just import it. These guys can go to hell.
As I said earlier, I think the UK distributor was waiting to avoid a huge gap between home video and theatrical. I guess they were trying to avoid a repeat (prepeat?) of the Your Name scenario AL are facing. AL has hyped and hyped and hyped Your Name, now there's still a 6 month+ wait for home video.
Having seen Your Name now, I don't know that it would benefit that much from IMAX. Sure a larger screen and maybe better audio quality are nice, but its not a film that needs it. It worked perfectly fine on a seat back tablet, with the occasional annoying interruption for duty free.Stepping in here to shed some light on this but that's just not the case and Altitude are very smart people too who know the longer you leave a film after original theatrical, the harder it can be to push to the market. Piracy is a huge barrier to entry as if people can pirate it (spoiler from Japanese home video, they can do that) is the minute you have an issue especially. Also nobody sane in business doesn't get part moving sooner or you just are risking losing £££ you invested to acquire the film to start.
Your Name's hype has benefitted - it has been a #1 best seller regularly on Amazon just now and pre-orders are great plussss there's always things we can do before homevideo too (IMAX would be nice to start). That said of course we don't want to wait but ultimately what normally slows down a release is not delaying it so you can do it close to homevideo but actually contract points or other business restrictions. So I'm pretty sure it's not been a grand strategic move anyway...
So I'm certain you'll find trying to avoid a situation like Your Name is 100% not the goal with this. It's actually still in cinemas though and passed by Arrietty now though so we're still working hard in the meantime!
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You just want the IMAX screenings to be somewhere that's a pain for me to get to out of spite, don't you?If you could somehow do a coordinated push on places that didn't get the film upon it's initial release
I wouldn't object. It's not like you haven't been obtuse about the whole thing on Twitter ever since the film first came out. I mean, people were just being lazy when they didn't take a train to go see the film, weren't they?You just want the IMAX screenings to be somewhere that's a pain for me to get to out of spite, don't you?
Yes, in situations with a train journey of under one hour and no prior commitments.I wouldn't object. It's not like you haven't been obtuse about the whole thing on Twitter ever since the film first came out. I mean, people were just being lazy when they didn't take a train to go see the film, weren't they?
Yes, in situations with a train journey of under one hour and no prior commitments.
My actual local cinema are 25 minutes away by bus or one of them is 18 minutes by train. The "local" cinema I use for anime is 40 minutes by bus or 30 minutes by train. The people whose primary issue was having to travel that little to a cinema are those I take issue with. It does seem that some people just have unrealistic expectations as to how close a cinema should be to their home.I'm not sure you can say that. Perhaps I'm being unfair, but anime fans seem to be a socially anxious sort. Taking a train and finding a cinema in an unknown city/town is not necessarily as easy as you'd think, and the potential consequences of it going wrong are quite severe. I personally get incredibly nervous in cinemas and prefer not to go on my own.
Yes, in situations with a train journey of under one hour and no prior commitments.