Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

Sorry, Greg, not an option. I listen to my music on my computer at home and also on my phone. Their concerns over piracy really aren't as big as they play them out to be. Who hasn't loaned a CD to a friend to burn a copy? It's common practice. Or to go back further, recorded a song on tape instead ...

Big Magilla wrote:I am much more bothered by dubbed singing in which the singer's voice doesn't remotely sound like the actor's.

I see this more in animated Disney films than live musicals. In which case they just get actors that can't sing, both amusing and annoying at the same.

Dubbing is also prevalent in American productions. A notable example is the first Star Wars film, and I'm not talking about James Earl Jones as Darth Vader. In the film, Aunt Beru is played by Shelagh Fraser but her voice was dubbed by a voice actress in post-production. Every re-release of the orig...

That could work.

And yes, Kanye's snub at album of the year seems like the news of the day... It is weird not to find Björk's "Biophilia" up for Best Alternative Album. Coincidentally, the only Kanye West I like. And Biophilia wasn't officially released until after the cut-off date, which was in September.

For movies, I don't see that being a problem. They already have On-Demand and Pay-Per-View services, as well as Netflix, but I still don't agree with the music bit. I like having it readily available.

Wouldn't the best way to prevent illelgal downloading of movies and music be for the companies releasing the material to release them only on a pay-to-watch/listen basis whereby you could only pay to download the material on the Internet and watch it/listen to it at that time, but not download a co...

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It's a good look for him.

I'd wait until after the Holiday season to get fingers. There's a considerable price drop in January.

OTOH, watching films in English dubbed into another language you don't understand is great fun to watch. It's a blast listening to what voices come out of the celebrities' mouths on the Telemundo network. I got through an entire Schwarzenneger action film that way. That's a good sociological experi...

Hmph! Producers ARE artists. Haha, well, either way - my key word is hardly. Some producers are artists when you consider hip-hop and electronic producers make the actual music. Some just tell the recording artist to reign it in and focus. Others are just there to make money. Skrillex fits into the...

You're all about that semi-colon lately, Magilla.

Figures. After the amazing triumph of Arcade Fire we get this shitlist. At least Bon Iver is getting some attention. And Skrillex!? He's hardly an artist. This guy needs to stick with producing. All he does is jump around while his iTunes playlist does all the work. Deadmau5 should prevail. Overall,...

Wouldn't the best way to prevent illelgal downloading of movies and music be for the companies releasing the material to release them only on a pay-to-watch/listen basis whereby you could only pay to download the material on the Internet and watch it/listen to it at that time, but not download a co...

I have to watch it with subtitles. Dubbing takes me out of the movie. In the case of Miyazaki films, it's fine just to hear how the A-list cast portray the characters - then I'll just switch it. Most foreign films I watch don't involve much action, so I'm not missing much when I read. And in the cas...