Sex in Public Places (response)

Newsgroups: alt.sex.movies
Subject: Re: Review: Sex In Public Pla
From: [email protected] (Chopped Liver!)
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 14:21:35 GMT

[email protected] (XMASONE) wrote:

>CL>>(1) Crystal Wilder needs to take a bath
>  She took one both days of shooting.
Then she needs someone better to do her makeup.


>CL>>(2) Sin City needs to stop distributing videos made by somebody who
>CL>>bought their camera on sale at Circuit City.
>  It was a Sony Betacam SP
Then the cameraman needs to learn how to adjust the controls on it.


>CL>>(3) Sin City needs to stop duplicating their videos on tape purchased
>CL>>at a gas station for $0.99 and recording on a VCR that they bought at
>CL>>a flea market.
>  They send out for duplication but no longer use the company who did
>  that movie. A newer copy will look MUCH better.
Granted, most duplication houses suck.  That's why a lot of companies
(companies in general, that is) have a QC department...


>CL>>(4) Tera Heart, who is on the cover, doesn't have sex in the film.
>  She has sex in an elevator with Brittany O'Connell
You got me on that one.  I didn't state myself properly.  What I meant
to write was:  Tera Heart, who is on the cover in a garage with a
man's face buried between her legs, does not have sex with a man.
This was the first vid I ever rented with Tera Heart in it, and I
wanted to see how she did.  I'm not big on lesbian scenes, so I think
I fixed dinner during the elevator scene.  Just personal preference.


>CL>>(5) The sets were worse than the ones we had in acting class at
>CL>>college, and our budget was whatever we could scam out of our parents.
>CL>>Since basically all of our parental donations *actually* went to beer,
>CL>>our budget was always less than the price of a beer.
>  The only sets that were used were the elevator and Doctors office,
>  everything else was a location.
That's my point.


>CL>>(6) The lighting director needs to go to a stage supply company and
>CL>>buy a book on lighting, as well as some gels.  I would suggest a sheet
>CL>>of lavender (to reduce the skin oil glare) and some bastard amber (to
>CL>>make the complexion smoother).  Damn, why don't I just make a porno
>CL>>myself?  Oh, I forgot I am... 
>  Why don't you?
I'll get back to you on that one...   gotta wait for the weather to
warm up before I can do it.  The story (which will be converted to a
script) is about 30% completed.

Look, I don't think that Sin City is a bad company on the whole, but I
think there was a big crack that this film fell through.  By contrast,
the same night that I rented SIPP:2, I also rented Intercourse with
the Vampire 2 (review forthcoming).  I thought the production quality
of it was excellent.  The duplication still wasn't up there with the
quality of the recent VCA Platinum Plus tapes I've gotten, but then
again, I *bought* those instead of renting them.

Along the same lines of the crappy duplication...  The 9 1/2 Weeks had
two copies of "Subway" (I just *love* Tara Monroe) and I rented one
last week.  I got it home, and the audio kept fading in and out, so I
went back and swapped it for their other copy.  (Yes, their VCR in
house also did the fade out, so it wasn't either of my 3 VCR's at
home)  I took the second copy home and the image quality was so bad I
didn't even watch all of it.  Fortunately 9 1/2 Weeks is a good store
and they let me pick a different film the next night at no charge.
And yes, I cleaned the heads on my VCR before declaring the dupe
quality as bad.

If I got the video for free I wouldn't bitch.  Beggars can't be
choosers, right?  But with the rental price of this movie being a
whopping $4.50/night (Atlanta has a limited number of stores with "non
cable version" porn, so it's easy to gouge) I expect to get decent
quality.  Wouldn't you bitch the same if you rented a copy of Jurassic
Park and you took it home and the sound was screwed up and there was a
lot of snow/fuzz on the top half of the image?  If the porn industry
wants some of the respect that's given to the "legit film" industry
then a good start would be to show a little pride in what they do,
which is shown in the quality of their work.




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