News & Politics - Entertainment News #8 ~ Everything Has Beauty, But Not Everyone Sees It - Page 10

_vega_ · 08-04-2014, 09:10 PM

I was a fan as a kid, so obsessed that my cake was Michelangelo's face when I turned seven.

I'd watch it just for the nostalgia but I feel like Michael Bay will just ruin the experience. I got a terrible feeling the moment he chose Megan Fox over Anna Kendrick for the role of April O'Neal, Kendrick would have been perfect.

**canflam** · 08-05-2014, 12:33 PM

Well there have been films about them in the past that at least you'll be able to compare to if you do watch this 1.

_vega_ · 08-05-2014, 03:17 PM

Yeah, I watched the old ones all the time when I was a kid and I actually prefer the look of the suits made by Jim Henson to the new CGI turtles but they obviously look a little more realistic today, although the fight scenes back then were great, even looking back on them now.

**canflam** · 08-05-2014, 04:25 PM

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Originally Posted by ky02121 (View Post)

I think Guardians of the Galaxy stole its thunder. They're going after the same audience.

I'm unsure about that, unless you mean they're trying to get as many people possible to watch this film. Almost half the audience from ''Guardians of the Galaxy are women according to a story from The Guardian about why women love the ''Guardians of the Galaxy'' film which is written by a woman & has made over $90,000,000 at the box office thus far. Guardians of the Galaxy comics have been around since the late 1960's, but I didn't even know about them as a child.

**sunnykerr** · 08-05-2014, 07:04 PM

If I may just add my two cents.

I have zero interesting the the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, but the previews to Guardians of the Galaxy made it look hilarious.

**canflam** · 08-06-2014, 12:53 PM

Hilarious in a good way?

**sunnykerr** · 08-06-2014, 05:59 PM

Hilarious in both ways, which is sometime pretty much the same thing, no?

**canflam** · 08-07-2014, 02:30 PM

I guess it depends if this ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' movie was meant to be funny, which Michelangelo was the only character of the cartoon show I remember being that way.

**sunnykerr** · 08-08-2014, 05:37 PM

^ Well, I did hear that this is more of a "blow-them-up" movie than a comedy.

Like, apparently Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was meant to be a parody on '80s action movies? And this one has basically become the thing they were meant to parody.

Anyway, that's what the movie critic said on TV this morning.

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LA porn production plummets in wake of mandatory condom law

Number of permits issued for adult films plunges as industry says producers have moved to Las Vegas and eastern Europe

Pornography production in Los Angeles appears to have plunged in the wake of a law which compels performers to use condoms.

The number of permits issued for adult films fell 90% last year to just 40 permits compared with 2012, when the law was introduced, the Los Angeles Times reported on Wednesday.

“We’ve seen a dramatic drop in permits,” Paul Audley, president of FilmLA, told the paper. “It is a cause for concern that people who are manning the cameras, lights and other things on those sets are not working anymore.”

Voters in LA County backed the ban after the Aids Healthcare Foundation, an advocacy group, argued that unsafe sex on sets spread HIV and other diseases.

The industry protested in vain that it conducted regular health screenings and that audiences and performers tended to prefer porn without condoms.

The state senate is due to vote this month on whether to widen the ban to all of California.

Most porn production takes place without permits – a film can be shot in a few days in a private house – so it was unclear to what extent the 90% fall in permits represented a wider flight.

Several porn producers said they had moved production to other parts of southern California, as well as Nevada, Florida and eastern Europe, where there is less regulation.

Penthouse Entertainment, which produces up to 80 movies a year, has halted local shoots. “This month we’re shooting 10 movies in Brazil,” said Kelly Holland, managing director for Penthouse Entertainment. “Last month, we shot five movies in Europe. It’s just too complex to shoot here.”

The exodus follows the migration of mainstream Hollywood feature films and TV dramas to states and countries with lower costs and generous tax breaks. The “runaway production”, as it has been dubbed, has left LA’s once formidable army of grips, electricians, camera operators, set decorators and caterers struggling for work.

“It’s not helpful to have another segment of the industry leave the region,” said Audley.

A decade ago San Fernando Valley’s porn hub was estimated to have produced more than 5,000 films annually, generating 10,000 to 20,000 jobs and $4bn in revenue, according to the LA Times. “Losing an industry like that is going to have hugely negative consequences,” said Stuart Waldman, president of the Valley Industry and Commerce Association.

Free internet porn has also wrought a toll on the industry.

The adult entertainment industry’s advocacy group, the Free Speech Coalition, has attributed occasional HIV infections among performers to off-set behaviour.

It said condoms were unnecessary – because of regular health screenings – and unpopular.

With bright lights and prolonged periods of penetration condoms aggravate friction, causing discomfort and making it more difficult to maintain erections, Diane Duke, the group’s CEO, told the Guardian last year. “And yes, consumers seem to prefer non-condom movies.”

For one thing, I'm sure we're all just broken-hearted at these hard times hitting the L.A. porn industry.

For another, I'm sure this has way more to do with internet porn (which I think may be based on more "amateur" stuff) than the so-called imposition of condoms.

And, if that's not the internet thing, then it'll be a tax-break thing or a salary thing.

Because, let's be honest, the condom? They're really trying to convince us that condoms are the issue? In this day and age? Yeah, right.


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