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Some studios and directors have taken me off screener lists because the reviews have not been good enough. Who? Well let's not name names, but a really big V company did, so did a director who wears a cowboy hat, another named Stoney and a few others. (TT)




Stoney Curtis.
TT Boy.
Max Hardcore.
Vivid.

These people don't send screeners to Rog. Got it!

Okay, nobody wants to see their work maligned and why should they? Rog, I read your reviews and in some cases they are positively brutal. Some of your Extreme Associates reviews come to mind. Back in 2000, if you hated an EA movie then I just knew I was probably going to love it.

If an artist puts forth a harder-edged product and knows beforehand that a certain reviewer is 9 times out of 10 going to evaluate it badly, then seriously, what's the point?

A guy like Max, for example, whose product is appreciated elsewhere, is not going to continue to pay to send a guy his movies when he knows full well that the reviewer doesn't 'get it' and is going to trash it. Honest reviews are one thing and personal tastes are another. If your personal tastes runs against watching Max do his thing, then how possibly can give an honest review of one of his movies. Honestly, you'll never enjoy his product and the review is fucked going in and its gonna come out fucked in the end.

Whenever some reviewer bitches about stuff like screeners, I just want to fuck-slap them and tell them to get their ass out to a video store and rent the shit at four bucks a pop like the rest of us have to.

No hard feelings Rog.

Remember... honesty.
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