I’m surprised this thread is still open, and grown adults are still debating/fighting over it, when the theoretical thread ender was right on the very first page, #7 post. Second run doesn’t mean “second class” nor does it have any derogatory connotation. It means what any sane person would think it meant: the second run of a product after the first run, IE: the first release. What do you think a rerelease of a film to theaters is called? Stop putting heads in the sand like ostriches were bum-steered to do, and take like 2 minutes to do critical thinking and learn what the term means before producing a comment.
I’m so glad I was always heavily into books as a kid, and worked in a library for 4 years, because such taught me how to know what weird words and terms mean, or to like, do actual research to learn lol. It takes a good 5 minutes to do at best.
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I didn't knew it was called 'Second-Run' in english, and by the context I knew what was being talked about since I studied Audiovisual Arts from 16-18 in high school, so it shouldn't have been so difficult for you(and other stubborn people) to grasp the correct meaning of 'Second-Run'.
Lets not be Captain Literal and get hung up on the word 'Second', and if you read so much, please read this
en.m.wikipedia.org
English isn't my mother tongue, so excuse any grammatical/syntax fuck ups.
Second-Run means EXACTLY Not the best/ insert any number other than one-Rate/Tier/Class/Quality. And could perfectly be Third, Fourth, Fifth-Run etc etc ad nauseam. But the convention has always been to call it Second-Run in cinema. Hell, usually Second-Run means more like 5th-Run than Second-Run.
And it has to do with the
physical film roll and its state and quality after it's been USED and ABUSED for quite some time, and its value due to that. Nothing to do with how many times a movie was shown at theaters, how many theaters it passed through before, how good the movie was, etc.
Theaters with the means(huge means) used to RENT pristine First-Run film rolls. Now they all get the same files on their servers, but at different times, and the bussiness model is still in place, but much cheaper and accesible to smaller venues, but I digress.
Film Rolls cost a fuckton to make, and an even fucker fuckton to rent for pristine First -Run Opening week/month. So much, that even pretty well pocketed directors/actors can't afford to have their body of work in film roll to project at their leisure. Usually it is a gift from the studio/producers or they lent them those rolls for whatever time the studio wanted.
What happens to those incredibly expensive KM of pristine rented celluloid after a few good weeks on the projector? They've been used and abused and can potentially have any number of cut-and-glue, glued blacks, scratches, blotches, spots, holes, burns, scratched audio tracks or whatever form of abuse you can think a film can endure, in more or less quantity.
Film roll still good enough to hit second/third etc etc tier of First-Run venues? They RENT it with a nice discount after some time(days/weeks) of opening night. And so on and so forth.
After that film roll has been through the ringer for weeks/months in First-Run theaters and venues projectors...
then comes SECOND-RUN.
Not too deep pocketed little theaters, mom and pop ones, open-air, whatever, etc, get their hands on pretty used and abused film rolls. With a HUGE HUGE DISCOUNT. That film roll could be perfectly viewable after all the frankenglues and frankencuts and frankenfixes projectionist have had to make over the months to keep that roll...rolling. Or could be pretty fucked up and prone to get stuck in front of the lamp and burn, like I've seen quite a few do.
So yeh, quality, not the times it has been run is what Second-Run means. Degraded, low, shitty quality film roll.
BG3 is a low quality second/third/fourth class product in a low quality second/third/fourth class platform/service per Phil's words.
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