Why would anyone want to download bootlegs to begin with? Sure, I'm not a total innocent; I've dabbled in it once or twice and know what I'm doing well enough to find same things all you hardcore bootleggers find. But I simply don't see point. Presumably hardcore downloaders are doing this for love of film. It takes a real movie lover to put that kind of time and effort into hunting down something just to have chance to see it first. As a movie lover, how could you watch something so totally inferior?

Put aside questions of legality or morality involved with such things, this isn't a rant about breaking law or unjust behavior of fat cat studios that makes them richer and screws rest of us over. I'm talking about loving movies. Bootlegs are an inferior product. Generally they are grainy, fuzzy, and of poor sound quality. Most of them are taken by some guy with a camcorder in a movie theater, recording what's up on screen. There are a few high quality prints out there, most of these from stolen press screening copies, featuring type of quality you'd expect from a purchased dvd but these are rare and still not perfect.

Here’s long and short of it: IMAX theaters in several southern cities (Texas is listed specifically, so no doubt this includes my IMAX theater here in Dallas.) have opted not to show a film on volcanoes on grounds that it references theory of evolution. Cited are concerns that movie-goers might be offended, or worse still actually learn something. The South’s education reputation didn’t occur by accident after all.

Now granted, I don’t spend a lot of time watching The Discovery Channel, but when was last time you saw a nature program that didn’t reference evolution? They’re absolutely RIFE with it, perhaps because they’re put together by smart people known as “scientists” instead of evangelical, money-hungry preachers. Scientists you see are this weird cult of folks who worship this guy named Einstein and believe in crazy things like scientific method as a way for unraveling mysteries of Earth. They also feel pretty confident that we all got here by a process known as evolution. Fun fact… Pope agrees.