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astroknight All-Star Supporter
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Posted - Feb 11 2007 : 3:44PM
Just thought I'd share some feedback I got from Kurt Lockwood via e-mail on my review of L.A. Vice along with some of what I learned from the e-mail...
Things learned:
1) More sales means a better movie (I haven't seen Jenna's Provocateur yet, but will be VERY soon). So for those wondering, Titanic really is one of the best movies every made, and comparatively The Decline of Western Civilization from the early eighties pretty much sucks as it only has a cult following...

2) If you watch the first movie somebody directs and it gives you a lot of hope for their next movie due to the potential they show right away, you have a bias against them if you don't absolutely love the second movie...

3) A well done "talking heads" style movie should take twice the budget of an "action" style movie...

4) One apparently has to be paid to write a positive review of L.A. Vice ...

5) I need to get some new science books because I didn't realize that the sun rises and sets in Kurt Lockwood's ass. I guess that's how he makes it look so easy to take that many strap-ons and other things up there...

"Vegetarianism for me is about saying ‘yes’ to things - even meat." - Coupling

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Ramsey
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Posted - Feb 11 2007 : 3:54PM
Reminds me a little of the mail I once got from Louis Cypher back in 1999 when I had the guts to write on RAME that Tiffany Mynx is way hotter than Jessica Darlin.

As for this case, Lockwood in a scene is always a reason for me to not watch the scene, I don't care how hot the girl is.

TonyC
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Posted - Feb 11 2007 : 3:54PM
Does this make Kurt Lockwood the Jerry Lewis of porn?
Mike Quasar
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Posted - Feb 11 2007 : 4:13PM
Didn't Scorcese send a similar diatribe to Gene Siskel when "Last Temptation of Christ" met with less than praiseworthy prose?

The misunderstood artist. Such a pity.

 
TonyC
Comstock Films

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Posted - Feb 11 2007 : 4:27PM
Wait, I'm confused.

Watching the trailer, it looks like they were playing it for laughs, but reading review Astro makes it sound like a serious movie.

Astro, maybe you missed the joke?

astroknight All-Star Supporter
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Posted - Feb 11 2007 : 4:30PM
Maybe you have to be an artist to get the joke, and I'm not an artist and never will be...

"Vegetarianism for me is about saying ‘yes’ to things - even meat." - Coupling

TonyC
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Posted - Feb 11 2007 : 4:36PM
Upon reading less than flattering reviews, I've written letters similar to Kurt's. Fortunately I have a level-headed wife who stops me from sending them. It's not easy being an artist. It takes a peculiar sort of temperament, which isn't for everybody.
Bob All-Star Supporter
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Posted - Feb 11 2007 : 4:41PM
Yours isn't for me, that's for sure!
TonyC
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Posted - Feb 11 2007 : 4:44PM
My wife can barely stand me either. But she's addicted to the sex.
Bill All-Star Supporter
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Posted - Feb 11 2007 : 4:58PM
or...
6) Kurt Lockwood is incapable of actually reading the words written in a review and just looks at the pictures, in ths case, the number of stars it received.

If that's how he is going to react to, what was essentially a pretty good review, where every bit of criticism was spelled out in a constructive manner, he's going to have a hard time finding time to direct, with all of those e-mails that he will be sending out (unless, that that e-mail is just a cut & paste of the e-mail that he sends to every reviewer).

Also, I have to believe that Sex-Z Video will be "thrilled" with Kurt's outbursts to reviewers, especially when compared the professional manner in which one of their other directors, Eli Cross, has responded to a negative review of one of his movies.

Edited by - Bill on 2/11/2007 5:04:24 PM

skronker
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Posted - Feb 11 2007 : 5:02PM
Uh huh.
Harri Patel
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Posted - Feb 11 2007 : 5:27PM
Is this guy so deluded that he actually thinks he's going to the Cannes Film Festival? The real one?
TonyC
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Posted - Feb 11 2007 : 5:28PM
I'm pretty sure Kurt meant the film is going to be entered out of competition. You know, like SHORTBUS.
Bill All-Star Supporter
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Posted - Feb 11 2007 : 5:37PM
Maybe he misunderstood. He's going to the "Cans Film Festival". It a film festival devoted to movies featuring large breasted women. The major award given at this festival is the "Russ Meyers Memorial Cups" which is essentially a gold plated bra (D cup of course).
 
astroknight All-Star Supporter
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Posted - Feb 11 2007 : 5:40PM
Just to give Kurt the benefit of the doubt, there may be red carpet in the bathrooms at Cannes. "Hey Dude, as long as you're sitting down in there reach down and I'm going to pass you a personal DVD player with my movie in it for you to check out..."

"Vegetarianism for me is about saying ‘yes’ to things - even meat." - Coupling

picman
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Posted - Feb 11 2007 : 9:12PM
Pretty easy to see why Kurt's reputed to be not really well liked in the industry. What an overreaction. The review was fair and informative. In fact, except for blighting the screen with Ron Jeremy, I'd venture to guess that I'd like this a lot more than Astronight did just from the body of the review. Too bad for Kurt that he just doesn't get it.
Bob All-Star Supporter
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Posted - Feb 11 2007 : 11:15PM
Most people would say, "Your review is colored by your personal bias against me."

Only a megalomaniac refers to himself in the third person.

ma meeshka
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Posted - Feb 12 2007 : 12:36AM
astro, your review is excellent. you were fair and honest, and, hell, i still want to see the movie based on what you wrote.

kurt needs to lay down the crackpipe before he gets on the computer. what is he thinking? his work will be around long after we're dead? dude, porn has the shelf-life of a few months, tops.

i wish i had an anti-Lockwood bias, but i'm not a homophobe.

Den
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Posted - Feb 12 2007 : 12:50AM
Very good right on review.

Sure hope Sex Z reads Kurt's email.

Would you want Kurt representing your Studio?

100,000 copies must be another example of porno math.

Keep up the good work.

Den


BillyDee
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Posted - Feb 12 2007 : 1:24AM
I don't find Kurt or his company arousing by any means.
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Posted - Feb 12 2007 : 1:57AM
Up until now, I was always giving Lockwood the benefit of the doubt. You know, some sort of porn vendetta aginst guys who take strap-ons. Now there is written evidence that he really is dumb. Or that there's more coke up his nose than in the first season of "Miami Vice". But even on coke, I'm not that dumb.
the unknown pervert
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Posted - Feb 12 2007 : 2:03AM
If I were in your shoes I would send him a review of his reply. He is not living up to his potential, most of his nonsensical rants have far more entertainment value than this one. Tell him to quit saving the good stuff for the shit he gets at XPT. Tell him his ramblings need to be posted in all caps in order to receive the proper amount of ridicule and lambasting. Damn it he should know this, after all he is an 'art-eest'.


BTW I don't suppose it would be possible for the people at Cannes to put that red carpet he is going to walk down on the end of a pier.

Lorraine Sisco
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Posted - Feb 12 2007 : 2:03AM
Hey Astro,
just ignore him. His statement about his work being around long after he's dead, or we're dead, or whatever, shows clearly he's not worth bothering with.
What a bunch of nonsense.
Anyway, you're a great and very thorough reviewer and porn directors/companies should be glad that there's people out there willing to make the effort of looking at the movies and subsequently writing detailed reviews about them. Reviews which help raise the profile of these movies...which are otherwise just short-lived and disposable products.
Keep doing what you're doing and thank you for doing it.
LS
Dean Wormer
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Posted - Feb 12 2007 : 3:08AM
I think all the dildos he's taken up the ass must have been slamming into his brain.
 
lilacwine
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Posted - Feb 12 2007 : 3:31AM
Back in my theater days, one of my directors told me that if you're going to believe your good reviews, you also have to believe your bad ones as well. Ah, the fragile, insecure artist.
Anime Nut
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Posted - Feb 12 2007 : 3:49AM
At AEE last month, I found it more than a little upsetting that the one "star" I saw most often, more than anybody else, was probably Kurt Lockwood. No matter where I was, that dude was always around, always shirtless, always repulsive.

Take this moment for example. As thrilled as I was to be in the presence of the great Hillary Scott, that thrill was somewhat tempered by the fact that a shirtless Kurt Lockwood was seated just a few feet away. If my camera had been aimed a couple degrees to the left, you'd see the goofy bastard leering at us while waiting for another misguided fan to approach him for an autograph.

So please, Sex-Z Pictures or whoever else is featuring Kurt Lockwood at AEE 2008: give the guy a fucking shirt.

TonyC
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Posted - Feb 12 2007 : 6:19AM
We would never refered to ourselves in the third person.
Pagoda
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Posted - Feb 12 2007 : 6:39AM
This is the funniest thread I've read in a long time. I'm crying here.
Loraine
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Posted - Feb 12 2007 : 6:43AM
Is that the Royal "we"?

Edited by - Loraine on 2/12/2007 6:43:56 AM

TonyC
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Posted - Feb 12 2007 : 6:45AM
We are not amused.
ma meeshka
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Posted - Feb 12 2007 : 7:25AM
classic opener: haha.

what's he laughing at? does he think he's nelson muntz?

Eat shit and die you jealous asshole.

stop right there. that's all you need to say. that's the point where you've lost all credibility. you've told someone to eat shit and die... over a review... and it's not even a bad one...

astroknight All-Star Supporter
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Posted - Feb 12 2007 : 9:03AM
astroknight hates it when people talk about themselves in the third person...

Yeah, one would hope that Sex Z wouldn't be too happy with Kurt and his ego, but on the other hand Kurt seems to have worked for it. I really doubt that this would come as a surprise to them and think it's probably more a case of when something like this would happen rather than if it would for Sex Z. I just hope their publicists are paid well because Kurt sure doesn't seem like he'd make their job easy.

I will say that it's nice that Kurt knows that he's not going anywhere. If he'd learn a little decency and realize that he doesn't know it all he could go somewhere because his movies do show potential and I think they are highly marketable. Then again, You, Me, and Dupree seemed highly marketable too...

"Vegetarianism for me is about saying ‘yes’ to things - even meat." - Coupling

dandaman
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Posted - Feb 12 2007 : 10:58AM
That's true.


I believe that people over Sexy Z, know the importance of feedback on their product.

And I also doubt Kurt, appreciate or know a lot about marketing.

No review from me for L.A. Vice that's for sure.....

BillyDee
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Posted - Feb 12 2007 : 11:57AM
"You are not an artist. You will never be an artist."

Steven has never really been an artist either. Sweeping the stage after Dee Dee Ramone is done does not count as being a rock star. Neither does banging a girl and giving her a few more STDs that you picked up cruising the "other side of the fence."

 
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Short for wee-wee.
Dirty Bob
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Posted - Feb 12 2007 : 1:26PM
Kurt Lockwood wrote:
100,000 copies to be distributed thru France

Dirty Bob asks:
Assuming that the population of France is still much less than the United States (it was estimated in 2006 at 60 million vs 300 million the the USA)...and assuming that the average DVD these days usually has an initial production run of around 1000...using double super-secret reverse Porn Logic, if France has 1/5 of our population...wouldn't their initial DVD run be more like 200 copies instead of 100,000?

Hardware All-Star Supporter
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Posted - Feb 12 2007 : 1:32PM
I wasn't aware that Hot Video was a distributor. Perhaps they intend to include the DVD in the next issue of their magazine. I can't see any other reason that they would be interested in getting 100,000 copies of Lockwood's DVD, or anybody else's, for that matter.

Walter Burns would probably know.

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Posted - Feb 12 2007 : 2:39PM
And I would never take this opportunity to plug my website, www.KurtLockwood.com Nope never would consider it
Bill All-Star Supporter
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Posted - Feb 12 2007 : 6:45PM
Yesterday I would have agreed with this statement (hell, yesterday, I wrote a similar statement in this thread). But given the conversation that I had today with someone from SexZ (at the instructions of Bo Kenney, who Eli Cross said I should contact), I really don't think that they care.
rogrtipe
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11/99
Posted - Feb 13 2007 : 1:42AM
Astro thank you.

I've been sick in bed for two days and this was good for such a great laugh that I just might recover.

I actually wanted to see the movie before XRCO noms, but Kurt's email to you kind of kills my desire to even sit through it.

Chin up, I've had plenty of emails like this over the years. None from Kurt, but plenty of others.

Keep it for your scrapbook. It's classic.

Rog Reviews

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Posted - Feb 13 2007 : 2:09AM
I don't understand. It sounds like HotVideo has a circ of 100,000 and are including the DVD in its issue as a promo.
astroknight All-Star Supporter
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Posted - Feb 13 2007 : 8:55AM
Glad I could help, Rog. That was one of the main reasons I checked it out as well. It'd been on my desk for a little bit and I might have a chance at a couple different categories. Yes, it's in my reviewer hate mail scrapbook.

Just to clarify, I didn't start this because it got me down or anything. It was just so unbelievably egotistical that I was having trouble trying to decide if it was horribly funny or horribly sad. I think I've come to the conclusion that it's both!

"Vegetarianism for me is about saying ‘yes’ to things - even meat." - Coupling

K
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Posted - Feb 13 2007 : 5:11PM
Makes me want to write some reviews again, so I can get funny emails like that.
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Posted - Feb 13 2007 : 6:03PM
Kongrats, Astro. You got Fleshbotted!
astroknight All-Star Supporter
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Posted - Feb 13 2007 : 10:08PM
Is that some kind of high tech blow-up doll??????

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Posted - Feb 14 2007 : 2:19AM
I never liked Kurt as a male proformer and i have no desire to see him an a film again! Could not stand him in the films i did see him in!

There certainly is some issues going on with this guy if he sends a email like that on a review of one of his movies!

lilacwine
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Posted - Feb 14 2007 : 3:20AM
Too bad his porn name isn't Kurt Lockjaw.
satchman23
Studios - do not send screeners to this person.

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Posted - Feb 14 2007 : 4:19AM
Also I wanted to say Astronight i like your reviews and read them all the time! You are in my list of reviewers i like to read!
ma meeshka
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why'd he name himself after a door?
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