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Roads To Moscow
Dianic


Wicked Pictures,Vouyer Media, Axel Braun Productions, Marc Dorcel, JoyBear Pictures, abbywinters.com
1390 Posts
7/05
Posted - Aug 13 2006 : 12:23PM
What are Eon McKai, Vivid Alt, Joanna Angel, and the rest NOT currently doing that you'd really like to see?

What do you think can be improved upon?

What do you think is needed to turn this trend into a movement with legs?

What "traditional" aspects of porn are being carried over into the "alt" product that you'd like to see dispensed with altogether?

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juha
Senior Member

2752 Posts
3/05
Posted - Aug 14 2006 : 7:45PM
What's "alt" porn?
Please explain.

"Alt" is the German word for "old". But I guess that's not what you mean.

Joey Starr
Senior Member

Still wanking after all these years.
8082 Posts
10/00
Posted - Aug 14 2006 : 7:50PM
Alternative? Like in music...
Drop a load
Senior Member

My leg hurts
1098 Posts
11/05
Posted - Aug 14 2006 : 8:10PM
The dark brothers stuff from the mid 80's

I like Joanna's stuff because of Joanna and Kylee Kross

Van Styles
Member

Starr Power
306 Posts
1/04
Posted - Aug 14 2006 : 9:16PM
Alt Tima
 
mrdngm
Member

754 Posts
11/04
Posted - Aug 16 2006 : 5:12PM
I'm also wondering what is alt porn and why are some stars alt stars? For those of us who are clueless, an explanation, please....
MASAMUNE
Senior Member

1452 Posts
12/04
Posted - Aug 16 2006 : 6:07PM
Alternative porn

It's somewhat hard to define, but an "alt" girl deviates from the normal porn look. An "alt" girl has a tendency to have dark hair and tattoos, piercings, and in general, an unconventional look.

It's all very subjective in the end though.

I equate alt porn as the punk rock of porn.... rebellious and unconventional. But it means different things to different people of course. Like, for some it can be seen as the avant-guarde movement in porn.

Edited by - masamune on 8/16/2006 6:10:49 PM

Gabriel Nine
Senior Member

Firecracker
1273 Posts
8/01
Posted - Aug 16 2006 : 6:19PM
Let's try...making movies worth buying.

Joking aside, and let me indicate that with a big f'n sarcastic smiley face , let's just see people making the kind of movies that they would like to watch themselves. Enough of the focus group. Enough of labels. Enough of movements. You should know that in any scene it's - usually - the originators that are worth bothering about, not those riding the coat-tails.

Good movies of any description come from a personal vision and if enough people share that vision then you've got a hit. If you really want something genuinely "alternative" to most porn, then let's stop people just jumping on the treadmill and start demanding that they get involved in producing movies that actually means something to them.

Edited by - Gabriel Nine on 8/16/2006 6:27:45 PM

S.Black
New Member

5 Posts
8/06
Posted - Aug 16 2006 : 9:26PM
Aman
mrdngm
Member

754 Posts
11/04
Posted - Aug 17 2006 : 1:53AM
I see how this could mean many things, but I think I get it. The disc I'm viewing now, from Redlight Interactive is "alt", I think.
Tristram
Member

80 Posts
2/06
Posted - Aug 17 2006 : 3:57AM
Personally I think there is a big difference between Joanna Angel and Eon McKai (or Jack the Zipper). Joanna has a light-hearted take on sex, trying to make sex look like fun, whereas Eon's take on sex is much more angst-ridden, often it seems that he is trying to make people aroused and slightly troubled by their arousal at the same time. Unfortunately it is McKai that is usually seen as the example to follow, but what would be intersting to see is more people exploring the kind of stuff that Joanna is doing: porn that looks different without being depressing.
There is delicate balance to be struck between porn looking cool and porn being arousing. Although I usually like alt-porn stuff, sometimes I get the feeling that the director's chief concern is with being cool. So the obvious answer is that while the alt-porn style is hot it has to be used with the objective of making the sex hotter, not just as a way of showing off with respect to your myspace buddies.
This touches on the biggest problem with alt-porn, that the sex featured in it is usually the same-old routine that we get in other flicks, just with different clothes, make-up, sets, and lighting. We get the atms, the dps, the gagging, and so on, the same stuff usually served the hard-core gonzo crowd (although they certainly prefer it to be presented in a more straightforward way). Many people that are once-in-a-while consumers of porn find these things gross and I think only a few of them find alt-porn to really be that much of an alternative.
So I think there is a potential market for what might be called alt-porn light, namely all those people who don't think sex has to be extreme in order to be hot, but who also dislike the look of standard porn (i.e., women as either barbie dolls or petit teens, men as looking like they're on steroids and far too often old enough to be dads of the girls they fuck). And this is a marekt that current alt-porn providers do not cater for at all. Traditional porn companies try to cater for it with "couples porn", but I really doubt that they capture the entire relevant demographic with that.


Zartyr
Member

700 Posts
7/04
Posted - Aug 19 2006 : 8:48AM
Overrated.

Go to your local goth&industrial club and you will see better sex than in so-called alt-porn.

Alt porn = regular porn - (fishnet whore clown costume) + (goth clown costume)




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