Well.....nobody goes to see low budget films because they don't get 'general release' in cinema chains, they don't get posters, and they don't get reviewed in newspapers because newspapers only review films that take out lots of advertising with them.
The only way these films ever become profitable cult movies is through free advertising when they get when they are shown on TV. Piracy is an additional avenue of free advertising, it's the same people who watch a film for free on TV and then decide it's so good they want to buy the DVD that will watch the film for free via bittorrent and then decide it's so good they want to buy the DVD.
If free advertising is bad for a film, then that's because it's one of those 'I want my £6 and 2 hours of my life back please' films.
(The only way these films ever become profitable cult movies is through free advertising when they get when they are shown on TV. Piracy is an additional avenue of free advertising, it's the same people who watch a film for free on TV and then decide it's so good they want to buy the DVD that will watch the film for free via bittorrent and then decide it's so good they want to buy the DVD.
If free advertising is bad for a film, then that's because it's one of those 'I want my £6 and 2 hours of my life back please' films.
Andy_R At the third stroke, the time will be precisely,
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