For what it's worth, I no longer read the AVN reviews. I don't trust them. Too many seem to be 'bought' reviews, or reviews that have too close of an 'inside' connection to the reviewer.
Having not yet seen it, I can't comment on what it would deserve, but I overheard from someone at the Vegas '03 AEE, saying it's biased based upon how much money a studio puts into ads in their wonderful magazine. How true this is, I don't know. I've seen lots of bad tranny porn that has gotten high ratings, as well as lots of other genres/titles, that I feel didn't deserve it.
But Mike John is one of my top directors based on consistency and get off-ability, he is the only director I have reviewed who hasn't gotten below an overall 4 star rating for his projects... That's not something I can say for others who are favorites.
I don't read AVN, so I truly can't comment on how they rate how they rate...
Den I don't really understand your complaint.I looked at the review online,and avn doesn't use a piont system like you do. They gave it a 4 and a half A rating. You gave it a very high rating as well.Of all the ratings given by avn good or bad in the past,using my title to say that avn doesn't care about quality seems strange.Just wondering as you know I respect your opinion and I havent heard you bag on any other editors choice reviews in the past.On anther note #2 releases this month I hope you all enjoy it
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Posted - Feb 4 2004 : 11:35PM
Hey Mike,
I'm not sure, but I think he's bagging on AVN itself, not you, but let him respond to be 100% sure. I'm just reding into what I think I see. I also reviewed the movie as well and really liked the title, I forgot to email you a copy of the review, but now that I think about it you'll get one shortly ;)
Keep up the great work Mike, I know alot of people love it!
Sorry about that. I was complaining that they only gave the quality a 4.00. It use to be that AVN required a 9.00 for Editor's Choice and this only only got a 8.50 (4.50 + 4.00).
And, AVN does not consider picture quality. I was complaining about AVN, not Mike's very fine movie.
Remember AVN gave their Best Hi Definition DVD award to a movie that was so dark you couldn't even see it.
I was just using Mike's movie as the example, no offense intened to Mike.