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Dong
Member

136 Posts
8/06
Posted - Aug 24 2006 : 7:36AM
Have you ever bought or rented a DVD after seeing an incredible image on the cover of it, only to get it home and find that the scene/girl/angle depicted on the cover isn't in the film at all? I have, plenty of times. I guess others have too, because I've since seen descriptions on some DVDs stating that "all images on cover are actual screenshots from this DVD". Must've been in response to some complaints.

Anyway, I find this infuriating. After all, the only thing we have to go on are the images presented on the box, so we should be able to trust them. It runs the gamut from, say, shots of girls looking right into the camera while in doggie or while giving a blowjob, when in fact they never look right at you in the film - it was just for the cover shots --- to some of the more brazen offenders, in my opinion, which are the box covers for old 70's or 80's films which have a post-70's or post-80's model/couple dressed up to look 70's or 80's, but aren't in the actual film... Or shots from scenes which may be in a particular video series , but aren't on this particular episode of the series... Of course I'm wiser to it now, but when I was younger I spent good money on some of these fraudulent pieces of shit, and I'm sure there are young people being duped by it today too. Just like the printed word, images on movie covers have a sort of implied legitimacy for most people, I would think.

Another outrageous fraud are these digitally altered images on some of these "huge cock" compilations. Making [what are actually] average dicks look four or five inches thick . There it sits on the store shelf, seriously offered as a "huge dick" movie, with a legit pricetag, knowing full well that some putz is going to buy it under those pretenses , and then discover later that he's been had. That's pretty rotten. Isn't there a law against this kind of thing, or at least some sort of stigma against it in the industry?

Anyway, just wanted to vent a little about it. Thanks for reading.

- Dong

ma meeshka
Iconoclastic Member

3939 Posts
4/06
Posted - Aug 24 2006 : 7:42AM
there's ten million threads on this board about this. i think everyone just wants to vent, because it really does blow. never happened to me because i research each title before i get it. reviews are quite helpful
Ramsey
Senior Member

Trina Michaels fan
10332 Posts
10/02
Posted - Aug 24 2006 : 8:30AM
I'm afraid I also have been a victim of this, most of the time when the boxcover listed something like '4 hours' or 'Leisure Entertainment'.

Now I've learned my lesson and stick with companies and/or series I know.

James Jameson
Member

114 Posts
5/06
Posted - Aug 24 2006 : 12:19PM
Back in the time it happened to me a lot, most of the time on rent thx to the hasard... You see a particular girl looking so hot on the cover and in the movie, she look way less attractive...
Kakihara2005
Member

Celeste
849 Posts
10/05
Posted - Aug 25 2006 : 3:04PM
Happend to me very often in the past. Now I know where to get my infos before I buy a DVD. And the fine people at ADT always help me !!
 
phatbasey
Senior Member

1390 Posts
1/05
Posted - Aug 25 2006 : 6:06PM
True it used to happen to me alot the best thing to do is stay away from anything that says 4 hrs or more on it.

Edited by - phatbasey on 8/26/2006 11:05:14 AM

Endless Loop
Senior Member

Tomatometer
1129 Posts
8/04
Posted - Aug 26 2006 : 3:16AM
Actually what used to pull my chain, were the incredibly filthy scenes, depicted on covers that "were" infact in the movie, and when it came time for the cumshot,
there wasn't one.
Because, THAT was the filthy part they clipped out, to make the fucken cover with!
p_ramezap
Senior Member

1549 Posts
5/03
Posted - Aug 26 2006 : 12:04PM
I think everyone here has had this kind of exprience. What do I do about it? I boycott the companies that do this.

Right now "Mayhem" is on top of that list. With them, it's not pthe ictures that are faulty, it's the actual description of their film which they put on their web site and their movies. Claiming the cast to do things that they don't do in the film, like anal, DP, etc. And they do it so frequently.
New Sinsation has been another one that I started boycotting 2 years ago, though they are not as bad as Mayhem.




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