Your blogs just get me laughing so....I love them.

Ok. Here is my research: Bless the Beasts and the Children

Plot Overview

The Bedwetters, a group of misfits at the Box Canyon Box Camp, have a mission that provides the basis of the plot of Bless the Beasts and Children. Their mission is to rescue the buffalo from their deaths and to escape from the oppressive camp environment. The book opens with John Cotton's dream, in which he and his fellow cabin mates become the victims of a shooting very similar to the buffalo killing that he has witnessed the previous day, at the Arizona Game and Fish Department's annual three-day "hunt." After their visit to the buffalo preserve, the boys had remained sickened by the memory. Cotton awakens to realize that Lally two has run away, and, upon finding him, the boys unanimously support escaping for the night on a mission to rescue the buffalo from their gruesome deaths. After packing for their adventure, they futilely attempt to roll a car out to the road. Spotting the camp director outside his cabin, the boys stiffen with fright, but pass unnoticed.

The boys mount horses from the camp, and exiting the camp gates in pride at their boldness. Filled with excitement and anticipation, they gallop down the road. As cars pass them in the night, Cotton recognizes their high visibility and their need for a vehicle of some sort. Abandoning the horses, they travel by foot into Prescott. After failed attempts to steal cars from a hotel parking lot and a used car lot, they finally succeed in hotwiring an old Chevy parked next to a body shop. Piling into the pickup, all but Teft, the driver, keep low and out of sight as they reach the open expanse outside of Prescott. Cotton contemplates their adventure, and the potential respect it might win the boys within the camp if they succeed. At the top of Mingus Mountain, the boys awake to see Flagstaff in the distance.

When the Bedwetters stop in Flagstaff to pick up some dinner at an all-night bar and restaurant, two bowlers hassle and interrogate them. Their jumbled accounts force Cotton to tell the truth and to urge the boys to head out to the car without waiting for their food. When they realize that the bowlers have followed them, they pull over, and Teft responds to their threats by aiming the rifle straight at them, and turning to shoot and puncture one of their tires. The bowlers retreat to their car and the Bedwetters resume their journey. In the last few miles before their destination, the engine sputters and dies because the truck has run out of gas. They must decide whether to continue with their mission or return home immediately, and the group votes to continue. The Bedwetters arrive at the buffalo preserve, where in the darkness they slip on a pool of blood, and then rinse off in a nearby pond. In their effort to understand the layout of the pens, they all scale the catwalk. After a few frustrating attempts to liberate the buffalo, they throw their flashlights, radios, and hats to encourage the buffalo in the right direction, and watch them run free.

Ecstatic about their accomplishment, the Bedwetters celebrate the buffalo's newfound freedom by sharing three bottles of airline whiskey. They soon realize, however, that more work lies ahead of them. The buffalo have remained nearby rather than dispersing out into the fields. Teft takes the wheel of the "Judas truck," and the rest of the boys feed hay to the buffalo from the back of the truck, luring them toward Mogollon Rim and contemplating the significance of their rescue of the buffalo. When Teft notices a fence barring their path, Cotton futilely attempts to break through it. Spotting a Jeep and two pick-ups in the distance, he orders Teft to use his rifle to shoot at them and takes the wheel of the truck himself, despite his inability to drive. He steps on the accelerator and succeeds in breaking the fence, laying on the horn long and loud to startle the buffalo toward the other side of the fence. Somehow unable to locate the brakes, Cotton crashes to his death. Approached by the sportsmen and officials, the five boys experience both grief and pride over Cotton's death.

ENJOY :ranger:

John

Bless the Beasts and the Children is also a 1971 movie: http://imdb.com/title/tt0068286/

Hmmmm...maybe Blockbuster has it. Just kidding, Dom.

Dom,

All the recent DVDs from Sony Pictures and its subsidiaries (like Columbia Pictures) have an evil new copy protection scheme called ARccOS. Despite all the screwy things it does with the code controlling how a DVD is handled by the player, it actually works pretty benignly most of the time. There are definitely cases of players (generally older ones) having problems handling it, though, and I imagine that's what you're seeing since Zoom has ARccOS encryption.

Sony royally pissed off millions of people with their "root kit" copy protection SW on some of their audio CDs a couple of years ago (and are still in Class Action suits over it), so you'd think they'd learn their lesson eventually.

Oh well. Where can an 800lb gorilla leave its excrement? ...

Glad you're feeling better -stay warm!

-Tim

I hate DVDs. I want videos back. They never had encryption problems.

I hate DVDs. I want videos back. They never had encryption problems.

Actually, most commercial VHS tapes have copy protection, too. The scheme is easier to work around than with DVD's, but it's still a pain in the ass. If you try to copy from VHS to VHS, the recorder will fail to sync and the copy will be unusable. My DVD recorder simply refuses to record from copy-protected tapes. There are signal conditioners on the market that will strip the copy protection off the signal and restore the proper sync pulses, but they are illegal. You can probably pick one up on eBay.

I've heard that the root kit system really messed up some computers, locking up the DVD drive and requiring that the computers be shipped back for repair - Ouch! I think that's a major part of the reason for the class action law suit.

I'm willing to bet that there are some bootleg ARccOS software decoders out on the net, but beware, some of them are probably vehicles for viruses.

One other option is to use one of the broadband download services such as Apple's iTunes - the catch is that you need to hook your computer up to your TV or watch the movie on your computer. It's often cheaper to download a movie than to rent it, if you have a fast connection.

Good luck.