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where do you think porn will go in the future?



SQUIDS !!!









Strange Days is half an awesome sci-fi flick...the other half seems to be tedious liberal hand-wringing metaphor for the whole Rodney King brouhaha.

As for 'Porn will never be mainstream', I say 'Wanna bet?'.

If it becomes financially feasible, it will be. Right now Hollywood is in a creative nosedive with nothing but pointless shitty remakes, sequels, and films which are utterly predictable...in turn this leads to decreased box office/DVD sales/etc. This what happens when you let accountants make creative decisions, unfortunately, like removing the gore from Aliens vs. Predator so it can get a lower rating and thus be available to a potentially wider audience, but all they succeeded in doing was pissing off hardcore fans and making a very weak, diluted entry into the series. That's beancounter logic at work, unfortunately...

Meanwhile, explicit actual sex is slowly creeping into 'arthouse' or 'indie' films...The Brown Bunny, Nine Songs, Baise Moi, Anatomy of Hell, The Idiots, All About Anna, etc...as well as the celebrity sex tape being almost de rigeur these days. This raises the question...where does the line get drawn?

You say Jenna will never win an Academy award, and I agree with you 100%. But neither will Pamela Anderson, and she is considered 'mainstream'. Not Cameron Diaz mainstream, but mainstream nonetheless. Pamela's fame comes from two things (no pun intended! ) her physical appearance, which got her the Playboy and Baywatch gigs, and the Tommy Lee sex tape, which really pushed her into the stratosphere.

No one in their right mind is going to offer Pamela Anderson a straight dramatic role where she keeps her clothes on...the same is true for Jenna. I don't see why one should be considered a pariah and the other not.

The recent turnaround in Hollywood, where highly priced actors are getting dumped and big budget projects are getting cancelled in favour of smaller 'franchise' flicks which have their own built in audience is indicative that Hollywood is starting to wise up and get real. It's time for the studios to start calling the shots again, and realise that they are doing actors a favour by giving them work, not the other way around. They also have to realise it is time to start giving the moviegoers what it is they want to see. Dare I say they could start by bringing a little nudity back in?

Mainstream Hollywood fare is so sanitized and asinine these days, and they need to punch it up a little. Having Jessica Alba play a stripper that keeps her clothes on in 'Sin City' (because even though the character strips off in the comic, Ms. Alba has a 'no nudity' clause, and she is a serious actress whose appeal stems only from her incredible Oscar-calibre acting ability ) is the perfect metaphor for this situation. If it was being made today, I tend to think a savvy studio exec would say 'top off or the role's going to someone else'. Ditto Jennifer Love Hewitt...couldn't 'open' a picture by herself, but if said film had her nude or topless in it, it would draw a ton of money. It's just a question of when Hollywood is going to knuckle down to the nitty gritty and start giving the audience what they want to see as opposed to what they think the audience wants to see.

Basically, Hollywood has lost its balls in a big way, and it needs to find them again fast. How far they are willing to go to do that remains to be seen.



Wow...I think I must have contracted Da Burglar syndrome?