zenintrude posted:

Please don't log stand up specials on LB... you are a terrible person if you do.

Spatulater bro! posted:

Why?

K. Waste posted:

It leads to situations where you can log Deep Throat 2 and Deep Throat in Tokyo, but not Deep Throat. It's fuckin' stupid, just let people add porn, who gives a gently caress?

zenintrude posted:

They aren't movies. HTH

Spatulater bro! posted:

It's a camera filming a subject at feature length. Close enough for me.

zenintrude posted:

Really excited to see hour+ Best of the Worst videos come up in my LB feed

K. Waste posted:

I actually ended up adding the two oldest surviving porn films to TMDB just so I could log them on Letterboxd, but then the fucktards at TMDB went ahead and specified that it was an 'adult movie,' so it no longer shows up on Letterboxd.

There's this weird situation where a lot of films on TMDB are clearly registered as adult movies, so they don't show up on Letterboxd - but some just aren't, and the admins apparently don't look into them very carefully, so they show up just fine. It leads to situations where you can log Deep Throat 2 and Deep Throat in Tokyo, but not Deep Throat. It's fuckin' stupid, just let people add porn, who gives a gently caress?

DC Murderverse posted:

also it could open the website up to a whole new world of hilarity: people who review porn. Like, actually review it, not just 'good stuff i came'

DC Murderverse posted:

also it could open the website up to a whole new world of hilarity: people who review porn. Like, actually review it, not just 'good stuff i came'

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Richard Mailer's "Classical Romance" is Porno Chic, shot on the film at the end of the theatrical era and all the better for it. It has exactly the same theme as the horribly overrated clunker "La La Land", but was far more entertaining for me.

That's because "La La", touted by sycophantic critics as "for people who love movies" was phony as a 3 dollar bill. I sat through at least a thousand movie musicals, mostly in theaters (revival houses) and appreciated the artistry of the form when directed by the likes of Busby Berkeley, Mark Sandrich, Minnelli and Donen, but that latest pastiche from the "jazz for dummies" creep who made "Whiplash" (in whose universe the giants of jazz are white guys) severely bungled the durable theme pitting selling out vs. sticking true to one's artistic goals.

Yet a lifelong pornographer, Mailer, handled that theme of a pianist sticking to his guns with aplomb, and no hokey John Legend character to tempt him to commercialism. That alone is quite a feat, given that commercialism is God in the Adult Cinema world.

Paul Thomas, soon to become perhaps Adult's finest director of all, is well-cast as the classically trained pianist stuck playing organ music of the Roller Rink style (no Jimmy McGriff or Jimmy Smith he) at an outdoor bar, while studying for a possible audition to get into a top conservatory. He lacks self-confidence, and when the invitation to try out comes his way, he's too chicken to take the opportunity.

Instead, his beautiful girlfriend Desiree Lane submits her pipe dream of their becoming big stars with a record contract by bringing their rock band to play at a new club. She is later forced to face reality, as when she meets with the sleazeball owner of that new enterprise he demands sex with her in return for a booking.

But by that time PT is tired of Desiree (the least convincing aspect of the production, as Lane fans can attest to) and has pledged his troth to married lady Jacqueline Lorians. Plenty of soap operatics flow under the bridge en route to a happy ending, with Herschel Savage rather one-note this outing as Jacky's workaholic, unfaithful and mean hubby.

This is quality Couples Romance, low impact but clearly designed to appeal to the fairer sex out there in a porn consumer universe always dominated by men (to whom product is clearly aimed). No feminist streak here, as the Lane character does not get her point-of-view in edgewise. But it still is far more truthful and clearly more erotic than the Ryan/Emma clunker that had fans of pastiche so mesmerized last year.

zenintrude posted:

Please don't log stand up specials on LB... you are a terrible person if you do.

Egbert Souse posted:

They have MST3K episodes on there, too. "I'll allow it."

try the new taco place posted:

Those, even on Netflix, have specially designed exact commercial breaks based on television conventions.

K. Waste posted:

my old banned account posted:

This movie has footage of the Family at the Spahn Ranch (where they were living when the murders took place), interviews with them, music from them and their associates, and is generally really weird to the point where when Squeaky Frohm tried to shoot Gerald Ford they temporarily banned it from being shown to not influence potential jurors. It was nominated for a Best Documentary Oscar the year it came out, but the directors of the film never went to make anything else.

Probably because said director, Bob Hendrickson, was loving crazy-pants.

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I guess you could say that for some time I led a double life. In public I was just another kid out of high school, not old enough to buy a beer, but in the early 1960's I was also a member of Area 51's technical team. For most involved, the "Article" seemed to be an advanced replacement for the U2 spy plane, but it didn't take me long to realize that a supersonic delivery system was being developed. But to deliver what? Because "the need to know" governed everything that was said, heard and witnessed, I relied upon my own reasoning for many answers. Like when President Carter cancelled the "stealth bomber" project, I was sure that a system for delivering nuclear devices was already flying in the skies above the earth.

So what does all that have to do with the Charles Manson Family and the Crime of the 20th Century and, more importantly, my new book "Death to Pigs"? Like so many things emerging after World War II “the area,” as we called it then, would cause the birth of a bizarre belief amongst many that alien beings were somehow connected to such a top secret program. Of course, looking back now, all that secrecy was bound to create at least some imaginary tales, but alien spaceships? So what caused such a belief? Or better yet, what causes any story concerning an unordinary incident to become the law of the case. Like the intrigue surrounding Area 51, it is usually what is not said, combined with what is first imagined, that eventually makes for the “truth” in the minds of the public. Thus, if we venture back in time to discover when, where and how the Prosecution came up with the Helter Skelter motive for the Tate / LaBianca massacres, a whole new perspective on the Crime of the 20th Century may be realized.

In 1963, an “Article” crashed in Utah. The military was quick to reach the scene, keep everyone at a distance, and the news media was told that an airplane went down. Had the top secret “truth” been realized then, the public’s perception of aliens visiting earth would likely have ended up completely different than it became for decades. Likewise, had the Prosecution not dwelled on the words Healter Skelter so much, but instead put more emphasis on the meaning of “Death to Pigs,” written in blood on a living room wall, the “true” story of the so-called Manson murders would have turned out different.

Of course, this can be said about almost any noteworthy historical event. If more emphasis was put on the “grassy knoll” versus the “book depository,” it could have led to the discovery that Oswald was not alone in causing the death of President Kennedy. If the public actually understood just how easy it was for a government agency like the CIA to hide or convolute the truth surrounding any important event, maybe the “truth” could have been more easily realized. If the public knew that Kennedy visited Area 51 shortly before he was assassinated, would anyone at least think that other clues may have also been kept secret. Like, what did he see and what was his reaction to what he witnessed? Bare in mind, he could not even discuss his findings with the vice president or any member of Congress. That’s how secret the Area 51 project(s) were and maybe still are.

So, are you the kind of person who thinks and questions outside of the box? Like, how come the Navy Seals (specially trained to extract persons alive) killed Osama Bin Laden, instead of saving him for his valuable “intelligence” information? Have you ever wondered why the U.S. government set aside the sacred Constitution in order to keep Charles Manson from representing himself at trial? Have you ever questioned the Prosecution’s Helter Skelter race war motive for the Sharon Tate massacre? And why did the defense team “rest” without even calling a witness? Have you questioned why President Bush lied about the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq? Did you ever stop to think about why the bank would lend you $400,000 to buy a $300,000 house, especially when you could really only afford a $200,000 one?

Unfortunately, we are all played like strings on a fiddle, most of the time. To best illustrate my point, just look at the recent civil uprising in Egypt. The establishment’s “police” literally beat down the protestors, who only wanted to be free from a corrupt dictator. Then the dictator stepped down and the “people” welcomed the same “police” force that fought against them, to then rule over them. How do you figure that one out?

Because everything is related and relevant, I have prepared a book entitled “Death to Pigs” about my experience of filming the Charles Manson Family, from late 1969 through the summer of 1972. More specifically, the book reads like a textbook, a movie script and a novel. It contains the never before published word for word transcriptions of the interviews and conversations with actual key Manson Family members and significant others involved with the Crime / Trial of the 20th Century.

Maybe, just maybe, this is the book for you, and you are ready to start thinking outside of the box.

I got this off of his website, ExclusiveFilms.com How did it get it's name, you ask? Well, let crazy Bob explain his interweb genius to you.

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The Exclusive Film Network (EFN) is building an actual web of Exclusive Things that intelligent people want most. Right now, most of the above domain names act as "pointers" to The Exclusive Film Network, but one by one each will break off into its own Exclusive Website while remaining interconnected to the central hub.

As some of you already know, computer programs are being written that allow you to drop the .com. In other words after the turn of the century, if you desire to see exclusive photos of a particular news story all you will need to do is enter exclusivephotos under search and you will automatically be connected to http://www.exclusivephotos.com. Likewise, if you wish to read an exclusive story on an important issue, you will need only to type in exclusivestories. ExclusiveWebsites (a directory) is already up and running.

In the near future, the entire internet must become compartmentalized or specialized in order to survive in a highly organized world. As you can see The Exclusive Film Network has chosen to specialize in Exclusive Things that stimulate.

There's an entire website of crazy poo poo here, it's amazing. Apparently ol' Charlie Manson was actually an angel sent to warn us of our coming war with Islam, Vincent Bugliosi's painting Charlie as someone waiting for a "race war" was unfair, and he had a giant cache of Manson Family footage that he was trying to turn into another documentary, a miniseries, a book, really anything to let people know that Charlie Manson was actually not as bad a guy as the media and judicial system would have you think. Unfortunately, this story has a sad ending, because Robert Hendrickson died on October 1, 2016, which means that he will not get to see us repay the Black Muslims for teaching Charlie Manson about the upcoming Race War. Happy Halloween, y'all.

Hat Thoughts posted:

Any opportunity to post this link, I'll post it
http://www.imdb.com/user/ur1287548/comments

e: lmao I hadn't seen this new one

DC Murderverse posted:

oh man, I'm super jealous that you watched that Manson doc/movie/thing. Where did you find it? I went looking once and I found the filmmakers' website but never found the actual movie.

fadam posted:

Hey all, I'm hoping obsessively logging and reviewing everything I watch will help motivate me into watching more movies. https://letterboxd.com/amalenczak/ is my account, and I followed everyone in the OP.

TrixRabbi posted:

Given that they're audio-visual productions made with cameras and presented in a feature-length format, I'll do whatever the hell I

[quote="TrixRabbi" post="473493158"]
Given that they're audio-visual productions made with cameras and presented in a feature-length format, I'll do whatever the hell I drat well please.

zenintrude posted:

Please don't log stand up specials on LB... you are a terrible person if you do.

Ingmar terdman posted:

Awhile back we were playing the game of "find your least-seen movie" and I just noticed I have one watched by "just you!"

https://letterboxd.com/film/stand-up-reagan/

oops!