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allyzay
07/08/09

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isn't it sadder to sit around for like 2 hours watching a plot punctuated with five minutes jerking off every ten, twenty minutes? i mean...read a book instead?
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badasscat
07/08/09

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Man, some of you guys espousing how great modern porn is sound like those 11 year old girls who claim Britney Spears is better than the Beatles.

Just can't appreciate the finer things in life, I guess.
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depardoo
07/08/09

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The Discharge of the Tight Brigade was a great anti-war period piece with tons of action.
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BookishLookish
07/08/09

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I blame reality TV. I blame digital. I blame jump-cut culture. I blame cheap, bad plastic surgery. I blame our shitty school system. I blame Dave Navarro. I blame you.
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Kid Twist
07/08/09

@BookishLookish: Video games. Don't forget to blame video games.
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BookishLookish
07/08/09

@Kid Twist: Too much fluoride, no not enough saltpeter in the water.
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depardoo
07/08/09

@BookishLookish:

Fluoridated water is a Commie plot to sap our vital fluids.
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skahammer
07/08/09

@BookishLookish: Leave Dave Navarro out of this.
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Mo MoDo
07/08/09

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I blame Michael Bay. You can't watch a movie more than three minutes without something exploding.
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Kid Twist
07/08/09

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Someone explain to me again why it would be a loss to serious journalism if the Times folded.
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raincoaster
07/08/09

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How can that one woman have a tattoo so great and makeup so bad? She shoulda gotten the tat artist to do her face too.

Anyway, I'm just pointing out that the porn industry is ignoring a potentially huge market: women. Harlequin books produced a whack of porn for women with elaborate sets and plots and everything. If they could have found a way to mail the videos in Sarah Brightman DVD boxes, they would have made billions.
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dumanue
07/08/09

@raincoaster: See, the problem with porn and women is that sex is easier for women to get than it is for guys, hence why guys turn to porn mostly for immediate and quick release, while women would use porn as an added stimulation for an already easy to get sex life...not saying that there isn't a market for this, but the porn industry is run as any other industry, which is the easy buck, and guys sitting online all day either in a cubicle somewhere or at home and can't waste the time or money trying to entice a woman to sleep with them, they just go online for a quick masturbatory fix...that what brings the big and quick bucks...

My jaded self would most likely think that women would rather spend their money on alcohol than porn any day of the week...sad but true in my opinion...
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skahammer
07/08/09

@dumanue: can't waste the time or money trying to entice a woman to sleep with them

Well, some of us still think of it as "spending" time and money. But really, "waste"?
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snugbug
07/08/09

@raincoaster: There used to be a mag specializing in hipster porn for women. Strictly cute skinny guys with floppy haircuts and emo tattoos. No idea what it was called. As to your theory, we'd have to test it by finding out if said pub is still in business and raking it big.
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Kid Twist
07/08/09

@snugbug: It was called Look at That Fucking Hipster.
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dumanue
07/11/09

@skahammer: Yes, waste, because it is the same as paying for a prostitute, exchange of equivalent goods so to speak...

You can try and rationalize your "spending" as a good thing, but at the end of the day, said "spending" was a waste as you could've been with someone who doesn't expects or wants anything from you but you...
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RollsRoyceRevenge
07/08/09

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I have never had a great thing for pornographic films. Still photography a la Herb Ritts has always been more of a turn-on. But there is something extra depressing about a film that is nothing but sex. In art as in life, without anticipation, there is no realization.

I am up too late. Also, I went to college too long.
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skahammer
07/08/09

@RollsRoyceRevenge: I am up too late. Also, I went to college too long.

Please write a film script based on this apothegm. That's like the bull's-eye of the zeitgeist right now.

Also be prepared to have all the gay stuff changed to "bromance" in preproduction. But I'm sure I don't have to tell you that.
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CountFosco
07/08/09

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I don't think it's the "attention span" that lasts three to five minutes...
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Uncle_Billy_Slumming
07/08/09

@CountFosco:

A span of tension.
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