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Liar Lyre posted:I say get Let My Puppets Come. How could anyone say no to a puppet porno!? I had my eye on that one, but I found another: https://vinegarsyndrome.com/products/sex-in-the-comics (NSFW, obviously)
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King Vidiot posted:I had my eye on that one, but I found another: https://vinegarsyndrome.com/products/sex-in-the-comics (NSFW, obviously) I always wonder if stuff like this was actually meant to be erotic.
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CPL593H posted:I always wonder if stuff like this was actually meant to be erotic.
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King Vidiot posted:Are there any must-have Erotic Feature Films For Discerning Adults that I should pick up from VS? I'm buying the hell out of that Tammy and the T-Rex shirt but I feel like I need to at least buy one DVD or blu while I'm at it. If you're just getting one, Hot and Saucy Pizza Girls! Otherwise, it depends on your interests.
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CPL593H posted:I always wonder if stuff like this was actually meant to be erotic. I don't think early porn was produced with the same goal in mind as modern porn. Before home video, it was probably more like a circus sideshow or a burlesque or something, and the more sensational the movie the more likely people would take a date out to see it and the more money it made. Like, why watch average-looking people loving when you could watch average-looking people loving puppets?
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My understanding is that early "stag films" were just that—a weird and raunchy thing to screen with your buddies at a bachelor party or similar situations. Later ones were something you'd probably go watch in a gritty porno theater in the bad part of town with some strangers and probably not jerk off. It's why they're so much more gonzo: they're distinct from porn in that they need to work for more than a few minutes and need to be memorable after your audience gets home. Unless you're talking about Tijuana Bibles, in which case... you may never have been 13 without access to the internet. If it's between trying to find something vaguely erotic in your Encyclopedia Brittanica or flipping through a little booklet with cartoon genitals, well... feedmyleg fucked around with this message at 14:16 on Feb 15, 2020 |
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https://vinegarsyndrome.com/products/china-girl This one is actually a pretty decent movie.
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ultraviolence123 posted:https://vinegarsyndrome.com/products/china-girl Well it does have James Hong in it, so it's got my interest. I think I'm good with my weird Tijuana Bible movie though, it even has a bonus compilation of weird adult cartoons.
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I hope whoever wrote "driven to the brink of sexual insanity" got a bonus.
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King Vidiot posted:Are there any must-have Erotic Feature Films For Discerning Adults that I should pick up from VS? I'm buying the hell out of that Tammy and the T-Rex shirt but I feel like I need to at least buy one DVD or blu while I'm at it. As someone who honestly watches porn movies for the plot: https://vinegarsyndrome.com/products/blue-ice https://vinegarsyndrome.com/products/dracula-sucks https://vinegarsyndrome.com/products/memories-within-miss-aggie https://vinegarsyndrome.com/products/dixie-ray-hollywood-star https://vinegarsyndrome.com/products/corruption https://vinegarsyndrome.com/products/both-ways (just because bisexual porn is still quite rare) https://vinegarsyndrome.com/products/a-climax-of-blue-power And I'll back up the China Girl recommendation.
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ultraviolence123 posted:https://vinegarsyndrome.com/products/china-girl drat, I thought VS released this movie and got really excited for a second. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRYJXZiFwVE
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King Vidiot posted:I don't think early porn was produced with the same goal in mind as modern porn. Before home video, it was probably more like a circus sideshow or a burlesque or something, and the more sensational the movie the more likely people would take a date out to see it and the more money it made. Like, why watch average-looking people loving when you could watch average-looking people loving puppets? I have a friend who collects VHS tapes and he has a lot of weird old porn. Occasionally a few of us would get together and watch some of the more interesting ones. That era of porn is really kooky. A lot of 70s era porn is just sex comedies where people actually gently caress. A lot of them are weird genre films. Some of them are even kind of artsy. It's pretty clear what the intentions of the movies are generally, I've just always wondered if they were also meant to be erotic or just a sideshow as you describe. Because they do really succeed at being sideshows. Of the handful of 70s/80s era porn videos I've seen I would call them many things but erotic is not one. MachineryNoise posted:As someone who honestly watches porn movies for the plot: Memories Within Miss Aggie is one I've seen and that's definitely worth checking out.
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CPL593H posted:I have a friend who collects VHS tapes and he has a lot of weird old porn. Occasionally a few of us would get together and watch some of the more interesting ones. That era of porn is really kooky. A lot of 70s era porn is just sex comedies where people actually gently caress. A lot of them are weird genre films. Some of them are even kind of artsy. It's pretty clear what the intentions of the movies are generally, I've just always wondered if they were also meant to be erotic or just a sideshow as you describe. Because they do really succeed at being sideshows. Of the handful of 70s/80s era porn videos I've seen I would call them many things but erotic is not one. There’s still poo poo like Batman xxx and that star trek tng porn that has a full episode of plot with a professional Patrick Stewart impersonator. I guess there’s something to be said for the internet introducing new pressures on the porn market.
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Feels like the old tittilation flicks just adapted and became teen grossout comedies.
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FilthyImp posted:Feels like the old tittilation flicks just adapted and became teen grossout comedies. Well yeah, even as theatrical porn was still chugging along in the late 70's we were getting stuff like Porky's, which was just a porn movie premise without the onscreen penetration. And gory Grand Guignol-style Herschell Gordon Lewis movies gradually evolved into the slashers of the late 70's and 80's. In both instances you just make the writing marginally better and focus less on the money shots.
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The 4K Steelbook deals at BestBuy.com just went a little nutso. I got the Iron Man movies for $9.99 each.
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FilthyImp posted:Feels like the old tittilation flicks just adapted and became teen grossout comedies. Which is a massive downgrade.
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Boywhiz88 posted:The 4K Steelbook deals at BestBuy.com just went a little nutso. I got the Iron Man movies for $9.99 each. Same. I was just going to get the first one but then realized I'd have 1 and 3 but not 2. So I add #2 and realized the regular blu-ray of 3 will look off next to the first two, and I'd want the digital copies of all of them. So here we are. Side note, Iron Man 3 is now the first time I've ever upgraded from a blu-ray to a 4k disc.
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CPL593H posted:I have a friend who collects VHS tapes and he has a lot of weird old porn. Occasionally a few of us would get together and watch some of the more interesting ones. That era of porn is really kooky. A lot of 70s era porn is just sex comedies where people actually gently caress. A lot of them are weird genre films. Some of them are even kind of artsy. It's pretty clear what the intentions of the movies are generally, I've just always wondered if they were also meant to be erotic or just a sideshow as you describe. Because they do really succeed at being sideshows. Of the handful of 70s/80s era porn videos I've seen I would call them many things but erotic is not one. That's Sexploitation, available from Severin, is pretty interesting and covers what came before porn. The Rialto Report is a podcast about "the golden age of porn." I highly recommend it, the most recent episode is about how Deep Sleep (1972) got made, and the legal battle that ensued, so that's actually probably a really good episode to give it a test run. Teenage Fansub posted:They should just put a stand-alone bluray of Pizza Girls out. I'm hoping for a 4k UHD 
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Because I'm still a bluray buyer, I prepaid for a couple of movies for cheap online via Walmart and went to the store to get them. I hadn't been inside a Walmart in at least half a decade, and the online pickup is now this giant orange and black tower with touchscreens and sliding glass panels that materializes my poo poo in like 30 seconds.
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Origami Dali posted:Because I'm still a bluray buyer, I prepaid for a couple of movies for cheap online via Walmart and went to the store to get them. I hadn't been inside a Walmart in at least half a decade, and the online pickup is now this giant orange and black tower with touchscreens and sliding glass panels that materializes my poo poo in like 30 seconds. Your Walmart sounds like something out of Minority Report, mine just converted the layaway cove in the back (replaced the blue and white sign with an orange and black sign).
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Mine has the giant tower and I hate it, it’s just bizarre. They also condensed the movie section again and now it’s just a single aisle. Death of physical media etc etc, but there’s something to be said for actually walking through a selection. I used to find so much new poo poo I’d never heard of just from seeing the cover in a rental place.
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Eh, anything that minimizes the amount of time I spend inside a Walmart can't be that bad. The big revelation of the experience, though, was that they're probably on the cusp of a total transition into an automated Amazon style warehouse that you can also pick poo poo up from. That monolith looming over the workers is a monument to the end of most of their jobs.
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Origami Dali posted:Eh, anything that minimizes the amount of time I spend inside a Walmart can't be that bad. The big revelation of the experience, though, was that they're probably on the cusp of a total transition into an automated Amazon style warehouse that you can also pick poo poo up from. That monolith looming over the workers is a monument to the end of most of their jobs. I know a guy who works with WalMart on their automated delivery stuff and I can assure you they're plagued by so many problems that it's not likely.
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Walmart IT is kind of a mess. When I bought my tv from them a year ago the website decided there was something wrong with my card even after they told me that they'd cleared up the issue. Two weeks later and a 5% discount applied to the already sales price, and it finally went through.
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Origami Dali posted:Eh, anything that minimizes the amount of time I spend inside a Walmart can't be that bad. The big revelation of the experience, though, was that they're probably on the cusp of a total transition into an automated Amazon style warehouse that you can also pick poo poo up from. That monolith looming over the workers is a monument to the end of most of their jobs. Someone still has to load up that tower. Also, those towers only work for small things, so if you have anything bigger, someone still has to go to the back room and hunt it down for you. I'm guessing that someone figured out that the majority of in store pick up items are smallish, and putting them in an automated tower reduces the wait time and effort, thus increasing customer happiness, and making them more likely to do it again. It also allows you to pick it up after-hours, and eliminates someone manning that counter during the work day (I'm sure there was a lot of downtime, during the standard work days.) I don't know about you guys, but I had to pick something up at that counter before they installed a tower, and it involved waiting in line, showing the barcode and ID, then the attendant had to go in the back and get it back out.
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Iron Crowned posted:Someone still has to load up that tower. Also, those towers only work for small things, so if you have anything bigger, someone still has to go to the back room and hunt it down for you. If you're buying something online why not just have it shipped to your house?
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CPL593H posted:If you're buying something online why not just have it shipped to your house? Sometimes shipping isn’t free and USPS isn’t known for being careful with packages 
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Sometimes shipping isn’t free and USPS isn’t known for being careful with packages Also, you can avoid having to go find something in store and taking it to the cashier, because you just have to go to the tower and scan your confirmation barcode.
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Forgive me if this was covered earlier in the thread but how well do the Warner Bros. Archive print on demand DVDs hold up over time? And how serious is the warning on the back that it may not play nice on PCs? (I am a lazy gently caress who's in front of the computer anyways, might as well slam a disc in.)
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Turbinosamente posted:Forgive me if this was covered earlier in the thread but how well do the Warner Bros. Archive print on demand DVDs hold up over time? And how serious is the warning on the back that it may not play nice on PCs? (I am a lazy gently caress who's in front of the computer anyways, might as well slam a disc in.) I haven't had any issues with them. Also, worth noting that all their Blu-rays are regular pressed (and almost always BD-50s with maxed out bitrate) discs.
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Egbert Souse posted:I haven't had any issues with them. Well, this helps me feel better about ordering one, now if only you could solve my shame in having purchased a copy of Lisztomania.
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Iron Crowned posted:For some dumb reason I kept the packaging for the Office Space Extra Flair Edition DVD until I was forced to move in 2012. Who knows where that refrigerator magnet and red stapler are now. This is worth quoting because (gently caress that magnet and weird-shaped "filing cabinet" box) you can take my red stapler from my cold dead corpse. I don't know when that thing came out, but that stapler has been my daily driver for that long.
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Blue Underground are releasing Zombie in 4K. No date. Everyone is doing 4K now.
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In a truly just world it would be Jonathan Demme’ Stop Making Sense with all extra footage from the other shows the final film was culled from, band interviews, any behind the scene footage on stage setup, original plans for the stage show, remastered audio and new that the Talking Heads we’re getting back together 
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There's a good chance Criterion's first UHD will be Spartacus since Universal let Shout! Factory have The Deer Hunter. While there's plenty of titles that could have been worthy, it's the sort of title with crossover appeal and it's a large format (Technirama) epic with a stunning 4K restoration.
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The Criterion Spartacus DVD was really really good. I never owned it, just rented it from Blockbuster. That's actually how I found out what Criterion was.
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Casimir Radon posted:The Criterion Spartacus DVD was really really good. I never owned it, just rented it from Blockbuster. That's actually how I found out what Criterion was. I think it's been on my wishlist longer than anything else, but I have the 4K remastered Blu-ray from Universal and it's absolutely stunning. They were able to finally utilize the faded camera negative for the 4K restoration by using "Alien Color Recovery" which basically involves merging the faded negative image with the applicable color separation. The Blu-rays of North by Northwest and One-Eyed Jacks use restorations that used the same technique, though NxNW and Spartacus had about a reel's worth of footage with no surviving color separations and a special algorithm was developed to artificially bring back the color.
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