Australia Day promo: Tivo gives away movie download

Dan Warne
25 January 2010, 12:39 PM

To get people into the habit of using its new CASPA content-on demand service, Tivo and Hopscotch Films are giving away the gritty teen sexuality/romance movie "Somersault".

Normally we wouldn't give a plug to something like this, except for the fact that the movie they're giving away is actually quite good -- Somersault got 13 AFI awards and has some big names in it like Sam Worthington (Avatar) and Abbie Cornish (movie trailer below).

The download is only available to Tivo owners, and to get it, all you have to do is go into the CASPA menu option after midnight tonight to claim the free movie. You have until midnight on January 26th to commence your download of it.

Of course, to use CASPA at all you need to put your credit card into your Tivo Wallet on their website, but this movie download won't charge anything to your credit card. It just makes it convenient for you to be tempted to spend money on their download service later ("moooahahah" -- Tivo).

If you haven't heard of CASPA yet, it's Australian Tivo licencee Hybrid TV's take on a TV and movies on-demand service straight to your TV screen, with no PC involved -- much like the Apple TV.

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Aubrey (User):

".... the movie they're giving away is actually quite good" Really? I walked out of the cinema halfway through when I went to see it. It managed to simultaneously bore and depress me. But I suppose it is a classic celebration of Australian bogan inarticulateness - or perhaps the ultimate example of why the Australian film industry can't deliver films people actually want to watch. I bet Sam Worthington didn't put it on his CV for the Avatar job.

25 January 2010, 8:22 PM (2 years ago)report abuse Send to a friend

Tin (Regular user):

Quoting Aubrey:
It managed to simultaneously bore and depress me.

Can't tell the level of boredom it would induce from that trailer, but I definately got the depressing part from it. I would never pay for a movie like that, and would be extremely unlikely to bother getting it for free either. I can get the same feelings by simply looking around at real people and wishing the world wasn't so messed up.

Poor choice for attempting to suck people into a movie sales system. Something mildly funny and made for families might have worked better.

25 January 2010, 8:50 PM (2 years ago)report abuse Send to a friend

Raindog (User):

Quoting Aubrey:
But I suppose it is a classic celebration of Australian bogan inarticulateness

Is the footy show back on TV again?

Quoting Aubrey:
or perhaps the ultimate example of why the Australian film industry can't deliver films people actually want to watch.

Just look at TV programming, Australians (and the rest of the planet for that matter) will watch almost anything and believe they've enjoyed it. Hell the highest rater was a few misfit knobs argue over saucepans in 543 excruciating episodes. They'll watch anything.

As for knocking Aussie movies you can cringe at Mad Max all you wish but only until you watch the NZ equivalent of the time "Battle Truck"!

25 January 2010, 9:06 PM (2 years ago)report abuse Send to a friend

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