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Via Gawker, the Telegraph informs us that the race is on to make the first 3D porn movie:
Hong Kong director Christopher Sun is currently filming his $3.2 million ‘3-D Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy’, which is due for release in May, but Italian director Tinto Brass has already announced he will produce a 3D remake of his 1979 erotic film Caligula…
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Producer Stephen Shiu said: “This is the future of the movie business — it’s human nature to want to see things in 3D.”
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Adding to the pressure, the American company Hustler is making a pornographic spoof of 3D science fiction blockbuster Avatar…
The (possibly NSFW) Gawker comments are… interesting. My favorite: “I’m a huge 3-D porn enthusiast. I call it ‘sex.'”
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chaseyourtail
I have the headphones on (yeah, headphones not buds) listening to “The Very Best of Ray Charles”. Seriously, the best album ever.
Georgia…Ohh, Georgia!
patrick II
Crystal Bowersox, gimme a reason
American idol or not, I liked this kids takes’ on many of the old rock songs.
chaseyourtail
@patrick II: Are you a patrick jr?
TrishB
I found out earlier tonight how unnerving the call of a pissed-off great horned owl can be when you’re letting the dogs out late at night. Yikes. The doggies weren’t thrilled, either. Looks like they’ll be holding it for a while.
patrick II
@chaseyourtail: No. There is a nother patric who comments here and we got mixed up a coupole of times, so i added the II. I am named after my grandfather.
chaseyourtail
@TrishB: That sucks. I know when I let my little girl (chihuahua mix) out at night, I’m like, “Go, go, go, are we done yet?
chaseyourtail
Hello, is there anybody out there?
JenJen
Apropos of nothing, really, just checked in over at Malkin’s place to see what she’s been outraged about lately, and had a good laugh… it seems the wingnuts are claiming the President didn’t go swimming in the Gulf today at all, instead swimming in St. Andrew Bay in Panama City. Which is NOT the Gulf of Mexico. It’s just NOT, OK? So the President is a big cowardly liar, and since his lying liberal media enablers reported that he went for a swim in the actual Gulf, that just proves that they’re all on Journolist, or something.
It just never freaking ends with these people.
JGabriel
I could be wrong, but I doubt 3D Sex & Zen will actually be “porn”. The Sex & Zen series is more soft core (Hong Kong Category 3), with plots, and little male frontal nudity – think a very hard R, instead of X.
(And no, I’m not a connoisseur of HK pr0n. I’m familiar with the Sex & Zen series because the original film was based on a book I like: The Carnal Prayer Mat, an erotic comic novel by Li Yu, from 17th C. China.)
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asiangrrlMN
@chaseyourtail: Moved on to Floyd, did you?
Given how gross most of the guys in porn are and given how plasticky and fake the women are, I’ll pass.
@Joseph Nobles: Goddamn it. I really have to start watching that show. However, I am a huge fan of the books, so I am strangely reluctant to watch.
Joseph Nobles
Holy Mother of God, True Blood was epic tonight.
“And now, time for the weather. Tiffany?”
That sound you just heard was Denis O’Hare winning a gotdam Emmy.
NobodySpecial
I can just see the blurb quotes for the ads.
“So real, I could smell the silicone!”
Joseph Nobles
@asiangrrlMN: I’m reading the books now — I’m on Definitely Dead. I am really enjoying them both. However, certain plot lines are accelerated in the TV show (to the point where I spoiled a friend only halfway through the books on a certain subject about to be revealed in the series – I was SURE she’d have known what I said!).
It’s also the expansion of story lines. That’s my only tiny, minor complaint about the books. They are all from Sookie’s POV. The series lets us follow Jason, Tara, Lafayette, Bill… And they’re doing a fine job with it. I’d give the first couple of episodes of the first season a try. You can always quit! :D
asiangrrlMN
@Joseph Nobles: Not when you have OCD! I actually like that the books are from Sookie’s viewpoint, but it would be interesting to follow the other characters around, too. I will give the first season a shot.
@chaseyourtail: This is oh so good and right.
chaseyourtail
@asiangrrlMN:
and this is wrong because? and I agree, I haven’t watched porn in years…the new stuff is weird.
roshan
Something to read:
5 Stupid, Unfair and Sexist Things Expected of Men
5 Things Society Unfairly Expects of Men
asiangrrlMN
@roshan: Is it just me, or are these really obvious points?
@chaseyourtail: In case you didn’t see my answer, there is everything right about Floyd.
snorfbat
First 3D porn? Not hardly. Check out the trailer for The Stewardesses (1969).
roshan
@asiangrrlMN:
Well, it seems obvious, but only a woman can put it on paper for men. Coz, you see, men are not supposed to express themselves that way, they are supposed to be strong and have a winning attitude all the time, otherwise it might sound girly and gossipy coming from a man.
Another one she didn’t cover was “crying”, how men are never supposed to cry and be mentally strong in any situation and fix a flat tire on the go.
asiangrrlMN
@roshan: Hm. I can kinda see that, I guess. Yeah, crying seems to be another big no-no. Oh, another one, on a lesser scale–love sports.
stuckinred
@asiangrrlMN: Not true! Men cry, Boehner cries all the time and he’s orange.
roshan
@asiangrrlMN:
These kind of expectations do tend to produce many twisted fucks in public life, just look at the conservative side of the aisle, look at their leaders, they are the most mentally repressed mind-fucks ever to grace politics. The democrats OTOH seem to produce likeable characters who then are made to look like sissies by the republican propaganda.
stuckinred
@roshan: They are sissies.
asiangrrlMN
@stuckinred: Heh. So maybe he’s not a real man since he’s orange?
@roshan: Yes. It’s like the male stereotype on crack, sad to say. Out of the list, the only one I really care about is fixing things since I am not great in that department. However, since I am not very stereotypically feminine, I don’t particularly want an uber-masculine male.
asiangrrlMN
@stuckinred: The gentlewoman from Minnesota is right in disagreeing with the gentleman stuck in red! The gentleman from New York is pretty strong–except on certain subjects, sad to say.
stuckinred
@asiangrrlMN: Boo Hoo!
asiangrrlMN
@stuckinred: You are out of order! I will not yield the floor! The gentleman stuck in red is correct in sitting down! And, the gentleman from Minnesota has got some guts, too.
stuckinred
@asiangrrlMN: Sorry, must walk the dogs to the coffee shop.
asiangrrlMN
@stuckinred: Boo hoo! I’m not male, so I can cry. Have fun with those gawjus pups.
stuckinred
Send him back to the penitentiary where his family awaits him with open arms!
asiangrrlMN
@stuckinred: Huh? Don’t get it. Oh well. Bedtime for me!
stuckinred
@asiangrrlMN: It’s the trial scene from Duck Soup.
Comrade Mary
Sorry, old news: “3-D! It’s Back! It’s Bigger! It’s Better! And it’s… Comin’ At Ya! “
mclaren
This is America’s future.
After hollowing out our country, we’ll be good for nothing but sex tourism and drug tourism and showcasing the exotic arts and crafts of the strange natives (hootenannies, rodeos, gun shows, waterboarding displays).
We can confidently look forward to a vibrant future in which our children run alongside the elegant cars of foreign tourists shouting, “Hey, mister, wanna buy a date with my sister?”
Graeme
There’s already an old 3D John Holmes movie. It was pretty funny. I saw it at a packed out movie theater in Denver about 10 years ago. I forget the name of the film, but whatever…
Comrade Mary
@Graeme: Was it “My eye! MY EYE!”
JenJen
@Joseph Nobles:
I’m still laughing from last night’s ep!! Best last scene of the entire series so far.
David Brooks (not that one)
But will he coax Helen Mirren(*) to reprise her Caligula role. Even at 65 her, um, assets, in 3D, will still be worth watching.
(*)who went to my wife’s Catholic convent high school