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Hey all. Long time lurker/ new subscriber. Loving my mag and these boards are tons of info. Anyway, I'm sure all of you know about Eric Banna's documentary Love The Beast. So it's out now and I got it the other night. REALLY enjoyed this one. From what I've read in you alls posts, many of us suffer from similar obsession. Just giving back to the board with my non review/ recomendation. Banna, Clarckson, Leno.... and Dr. Phil... Check your local torrent.. er um video store. It's worth the downloa.. um rent. ---Cheers.
Tried to embed trailer, obviously beyond my puter skill. Trailer for film here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qffLoJh0wic
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July 20, 2009 5:58 p.m. Ghetto_Sled_101 New Reader
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July 20, 2009 6:09 p.m. Snowdoggie HalfDork
I don't see it being released anywhere in the US. The only DVD I see for sale on the site is in PAL format that won't work on my DVD player.
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July 20, 2009 6:33 p.m. confuZion3 SuperDork
My old local video store went out of business for some reason. I guess it became too easy to not leave your house and rent movies. Or that took too long for most people...
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July 20, 2009 6:59 p.m. Keith UberDork
Ghetto_Sled, where did you see it? I just got back from Australia and one of our goals was to see the film there - but we didn't find it.
You can play PAL DVDs on your computer, though.
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July 20, 2009 10:14 p.m. Carrera30 New Reader
Shagged. Looks like I have something to watch tomorrow night. The int3rw3bs rock.
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July 20, 2009 10:25 p.m. aussiesmg Dork
Eric was once a bit player in a weekly comedy show called the Comedy Company, you may be able to locate some of his bits online.
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July 21, 2009 7:12 a.m. JG Pasterjak Production/Art Director
I got in touch with Bana's management company a few months ago. He was busy promoting a little space movie at the time, but they said they'd try to set something up with us when the film was ready for official US release.
As far as I know there's no firm date for US release as of now. If they're releasing PAL versions it can't be far off, though.
jg
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July 21, 2009 7:18 a.m. 4cylndrfury Dork
Aside from the steering wheel being on the wrong side of the car and having to shift with the wrong hand, I think I could realy be intrigued by this film.
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July 21, 2009 7:40 a.m. Carrera30 New Reader
aussiesmg wrote:
Eric was once a bit player in a weekly comedy show called the Comedy Company, you may be able to locate some of his bits online.
That's actually how the movie opens - I did watch the first 5 minutes or so.
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July 21, 2009 7:53 a.m. Tom_Spangler Reader
Carrera30 wrote:
Shagged. Looks like I have something to watch tomorrow night. The int3rw3bs rock.
+1 Looks like car-guy gold to me!
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July 21, 2009 10:41 a.m. 16vCorey SuperDork
Go to dvdregionhacks.com, reset your DVD player to region free, and enjoy the dvd from anywhere you'd like to buy it.
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July 21, 2009 12:17 p.m. Keith UberDork
Bypassing the region tag isn't going to convert PAL to NTSC.
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July 21, 2009 12:33 p.m. Matt B New Reader
That's weird, I saw the trailer somewhere (independent movie theater or video, can't remember?) It'd be strange to go to the trouble of promoting it stateside without plans to release it.
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July 21, 2009 1:19 p.m. 16vCorey SuperDork
Keith wrote:
Bypassing the region tag isn't going to convert PAL to NTSC.
I thought PAL and NTSC was just vhs and other tape formats, and DVDs were just set for the region. I've set my DVD player and I haven't found a foreign market DVD that I can't watch yet.
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July 21, 2009 1:40 p.m. Keith UberDork
PAL and NTSC are broadcast video standards, and they differ in things like the number of scan lines and frame rate. Now that I think about it, HDTV might get rid of that particular little problem and it's possible that modern DVD players will do the conversion as well. I'm a bit out of touch with current video standards.
I do know from experience that Playstation 1 games in PAL format won't display properly on an NTSC set.
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July 21, 2009 2:28 p.m. Tom_Spangler Reader
16vCorey wrote:
I thought PAL and NTSC was just vhs and other tape formats, and DVDs were just set for the region. I've set my DVD player and I haven't found a foreign market DVD that I can't watch yet.
I think this is true. I know that NTSC is essentially dead in the United States now since the digital transition. All broadcast TV is ATSC (digital) now.
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July 21, 2009 9:25 p.m. Dr. Hess PowerDork
A decent DVD player (like the cheapest ones) will have a setting for the TV. You set the TV to NTSC and to convert PAL to NTSC, then you can put anything in the drive and watch it. And you should have a hack or boot ROM available to set it region free. DVD regions was about the second dumbest thing the RIAA could do to us. The dumbest being an encryption of the video when every single DVD player has the decryption key built into it. Gosh, where could we find the key? I just don't know. I guess that encryption stuff must really be good.
As fer the movie:
Search usenet wink-wink. You'll need a premium news server.
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July 21, 2009 10:50 p.m. Carrera30 New Reader
Watched movie tonight. Wife showed no interest. She just doesn't understand.
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July 21, 2009 10:54 p.m. Keith UberDork
Maybe I should buy a DVD player that's less than 13 years old then :) Heck, I race a car that's newer than my A/V setup!
Not that there's a copy of Love the Beast on my hard drive. Oh no. If I can legally buy a copy on DVD that I can play on an unhacked DVD player in North America, I'll do that. It'll go on the Car Movie shelf.
It was actually my wife's suggestion that since we were going to be in Australia, we should try to find the movie in theatres while we were there. Why did I marry her again? Oh yeah, the green card.
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July 21, 2009 11:05 p.m. griffin729 New Reader
One of my current jobs is for a digital media transfer company. We burn all our DVDs to NTSC. DVD players still use it as pretty much standard. We can convert from PAL to NTSC, but there is that whole copy right thing, so we didn't do it. We know nothing. But, if any of you get a copy in PAL and want it converted I might do it for a copy for myself. But if anyone wants home movies and such on DVD drop me a line.
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July 22, 2009 12:12 a.m. Opus Dork
may try a PS3 to play it. As I understand, there is no region coding for blue ray players
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July 24, 2009 10:50 a.m. daytonaer Reader
Wonderful movie!
If watching this isn't motivating enough to get you to want to work on your car, I don't think anything will.
The crash sequences, when that yellow ferrari hit the tree at speed looked bad. Noticed the driver did not have a HANS on. Hope he was ok.
I loved the driving sequence 39 minutes in, split screen with the road, navigator and pedals. Pretty cool.
I also noticed in the credits the driver and his friends played allot of the music in the movie. The driver played the drums. How cool is that.
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July 24, 2009 12:27 p.m. jpod999 Reader
It's in Netflix but it says that the release date is unkown. I really want to watch this movie so hopefully it comes out soon.
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July 24, 2009 12:43 p.m. Autolex Reader
just play it in a computer with vlc installed (www.videolan.org) ... it does all the work for you (the PAL to NTSC conversion)
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July 24, 2009 9:14 p.m. mulluthuntur New Reader
I have to turn in my dude card. I almost cried.... and I laugh at burning orphans.
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