If I could only shoot one guy in every scene I shoot, for the rest of my life, it would be Michael. There is no nicer guy, no guy who cares more about giving you his all, no guy who "opens up" better, no guy who consistantly connects with the girl and brings a sense of intimacy that is so lacking in a lot of porn. And, on top of all that, he is never late and never complains. His Performer of the Year award was overdue. He is one of the best to ever play the game. Not to mention he is shooting INCREDIBLE porn for his company Platinum X Pictures. You might think that a guy who does everything so well would be arrogant and full of himself. Nothing could be further from the truth. And the girls love him!
He has nothing but contempt for the porn buying public, as proven by his posts in the past here on ADT. That's the reason I give for calling him what he is, a jackass.
I agree with M.B. After seeing his first post here on ADT I decided to avoid every movie he's in and the ones he directs because it's pretty obvious he has no respect for fans, only in making money but at least he's honest about it.
God hates us all, you know it's true, God hates this place. - Slayer 1726 Posts 10/03
Posted - Apr 27 2004 : 7:27PM
M.B. and Ramsey, have you ever said something mean to someone out of anger or being upset and yell at some one for no real reason? He is a person and he does make mistakes like the rest of us, if I remember correctly he apologized and offered some free DVDs for his offence. What more would you want him to do? Am I defending him, well kind of. I don't know him VERY personally, but I was able to chat with him in person for a bit in Vegas as well as some of the ladies in Vegas - all like Mike.
As for the rest of Mike's posts here I don't know, the only one I seen/remembered was him calling some one names. But calling him names, is no better than what he did...
SyberScott, I agree on Brandon as well, another class act!
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Firmly Embedded in Depravity 5914 Posts 7/02
Posted - Apr 27 2004 : 8:02PM
M.B., Ramsey, there were emails after Michael's post and he did come back in and post an apology. His post was out of anger and being upset as PL mentioned.
So please, be careful of your own posts. You don't like him, fine. Don't buy his stuff.
I have known Mike for nearly 7 years and in all that time he has been nothing other than a great guy. He is the first guy who will help you and the last one to leave you when you have trouble. The first year for Platinum X was very tumultuous for everyone involved, Mike included. You have to put your entire life savings into something before it even begins to turn around. Thankfully, we seem to have beaten the odds and are thriving in a highly competitive industry. There is less pressure now than in our first few months, when it seemed every bad review would sink us. Reviews come and go, but the reputation is slowly being built. Everyone at PXP is working very hard to stay competitive. Thank you, Brandon www.platinumxpictures.com www.clubpxp.com www.pxpondemand.com
Everything about this guy is amazing. I'm glad Jack Malone posted those comments about him. As a viewer, I get the same impression, that he really knows how to connect with the girl he's with and create an air of (often times wild) intimacy between himself and her. He brings more than just pounding the girl's brains out in scene after scene & gives his films more quality than any other male performer I can think of. If one chooses to boycott his movies there's nothing wrong with that but you're missing out on some terrific pornography. His scene with Mary-Kate Ashley in Malone's FUCK DOLLS (part one) is incredible! :-)
I think out of all the porn actor/directors that are mentioned on this board, Stefano gets more actresses posting here saying they want to work for him, or they really enjoyed working for him. I can see why, from watching about 20 or so of his scenes; he makes a real effort to talk to the women behind the scenes, and set them at ease. Totally unlike a lot of other directors, who you can watch trying to have a conversation with an actress and just lousing it up, or watching the director calling a woman a slut or a whore, like this is supposed to make her give a better performance.
Plus, Stefano is one of those natural performers up on the screen, better than around 90% of the other men I've watched. He can make conventional non-anal scenes so totally hot (his work with Dani Woodward, and Jamie Brooks/Corinne Taylor); how many other male performers could do the same?
Quincy, the post from Stefano is this one, where he got somewhat testy toward a fan's criticism of one of his movies. A week later, Stefano apologized about it, which certainly went a long way towards resolving the whole situation.
I just started reading ADT's message board about that time, and I thought, was this what the typical interaction was between porn directors and fans? I see now that it's not. My other question at the time, which I still don't know the answer to, was wondering if the sentiments that Stefano expressed about porn fans are widespread amongst directors, or not. Perhaps most of the time, most of them are careful not to write these sorts of things on a public message board, but does that mean they don't occasionally think the same way?