Post by K-Box on May 4, 2010 18:17:37 GMT -8
About half a dozen years ago, with the help of some friends, I started up the original version of this forum, whose original purpose was to discuss what I saw as the growing intersection between superhero comic book characters and hardcore pornography.
News items such as the following make me feel like my pioneering work in this area has become both prophetic and, perhaps, obsolete:
Michael berated me for not posting about this subject sooner, but the fact of the matter is that the entire comics blogosphere came late to this particular party, since Vivid Video, the producers of Batman XXX: A Porn Parody, have been promoting this film for close to TWO MONTHS now.
Points to the producers for taking advantage of the fact that Evan Stone and Randy Spears are among the ugliest men ever to work in porn - which is really saying something, in a field in which Ron Jeremy is an esteemed industry veteran - by casting them in roles that actually lend themselves well to their semi-freakish facial features. Bonus points to Spears for being so committed to recreating Cesar Romero's look as the Joker that he actually grew a moustache just so it could be painted over (badly) with white makeup in exactly the same way that Romero's was.
Tori Black would not have been my first choice for a '60s Catwoman - YES I KNOW I ALREADY WANT TO SEE LISA ANN IN EVERYTHING BUT SHE'D STILL BE AWESOME AS A JULIE NEWMAR CATWOMAN SO SHUT UP - but she's giving off a decent Lee Meriwether vibe here, so I'm willing to give her a shot. On the other hand, I would be very happy never to see Alexis Texas' blandly plastic visage in my porn again, thank you very much.
What strikes me most about this trailer, though - aside from the fact that it continues the trend of modern porn being ever more blatant in its use of the names and distinctive likenesses of the characters that it's parodying - is the sheer degree of DETAIL (and the attendant amount of MONEY) that obviously went into this film. There are NON-porn films that have had more modest budgets than what was clearly spent here, which is ironic when you consider that the '60s Batman TV show was itself actually a relatively low-budget affair.
News items such as the following make me feel like my pioneering work in this area has become both prophetic and, perhaps, obsolete:
Michael berated me for not posting about this subject sooner, but the fact of the matter is that the entire comics blogosphere came late to this particular party, since Vivid Video, the producers of Batman XXX: A Porn Parody, have been promoting this film for close to TWO MONTHS now.
Points to the producers for taking advantage of the fact that Evan Stone and Randy Spears are among the ugliest men ever to work in porn - which is really saying something, in a field in which Ron Jeremy is an esteemed industry veteran - by casting them in roles that actually lend themselves well to their semi-freakish facial features. Bonus points to Spears for being so committed to recreating Cesar Romero's look as the Joker that he actually grew a moustache just so it could be painted over (badly) with white makeup in exactly the same way that Romero's was.
Tori Black would not have been my first choice for a '60s Catwoman - YES I KNOW I ALREADY WANT TO SEE LISA ANN IN EVERYTHING BUT SHE'D STILL BE AWESOME AS A JULIE NEWMAR CATWOMAN SO SHUT UP - but she's giving off a decent Lee Meriwether vibe here, so I'm willing to give her a shot. On the other hand, I would be very happy never to see Alexis Texas' blandly plastic visage in my porn again, thank you very much.
What strikes me most about this trailer, though - aside from the fact that it continues the trend of modern porn being ever more blatant in its use of the names and distinctive likenesses of the characters that it's parodying - is the sheer degree of DETAIL (and the attendant amount of MONEY) that obviously went into this film. There are NON-porn films that have had more modest budgets than what was clearly spent here, which is ironic when you consider that the '60s Batman TV show was itself actually a relatively low-budget affair.
I am surprised that they can use the trademarked name "Batman" in the title, even with the disclaimer "A Parody" added.
