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IT'S IN WOOLWORTHS!

posted 18 years ago by dark12
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How on earth did the distributers manage to persuade Woolworths to stock this?? They had it at #5 on their chart- it's now #24. Amazing! Hardcore porn in your local Woolies!

As for the film, Larry Clark's Impaled is far and awy the best. Its revealing both physically and mentally and engages my little head and my big head. Why he didn't go for one of the lovely nubile dark lovelies is beyond me. The older woman he picked was completely uninteresting as a sex performer.

I liked Matthew Barney's one, Hoist. Doesn't the penis look like a slug coming to life? The shagging a bulldozer thing was weirdly hypnotic and reminded me of Bjork's All Is Full Of Love video- man and machine in sexual union.

I liked Marco Brambilla's Sync, its hundreds of sex scenes from Hollywood/ Brit films mixed with hardcore porn and fast-cut together at lightning speed. No real point to it but i had great fun trying to name all the films in sl-mo mode. I caught Out of Sight, The Pillow Book, Kama Sutra and Sliver to name a few. Quite how the director of Demolition Man qualifies as an "artist" is beyond me, tho.

Marina Abramovic's Balkan Erotic Epic was educational and amusing. Learn how Balkan men make crops grow by wanking the earth!!

Gasper Noe's We F*U*C*K Alone (why can't we post swearwords when the database is full of sweary porn titles- C*U*N*T*Z was one i found) was a monotonous drone. I was amused to start with watching a woman force her teddy bear to eat her art but Gasper stays with the greasy nutter mouth-raping his doll- he looks like Fruitbat from Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine! I loved Irreversible but this was awful. If he wanted to make abnormality boring and unshocking he succeeded. At least Katsumi was in the TV scenes- gorgeous porn babe.

Richard Prince's one was piffle- a sex film on a flickering tv screen with ambient noodling on top.

Sam Taylor-Wood's Death Valley is literally Wank.

[–] Antzy88 18 years ago

It's not porn. If it was, the BBFC would have given it an R18 rating.

More explicit sexual activity that would normally be confined to R18 is allowed at 18 provided that it isn't simply there to arouse and actually has some other purpose, perhaps connected to the narrative, as that would mean that it was exceptionally justified by context. Even footage that would normally be considered obscene under the Obscene Publications Act 1959 can be permitted if it's in the public's interest and if the work, taken as a whole, is not likely to deprave and corrupt the viewer.

[–] klimov-3 18 years ago

The fact that it's in woolies with a plain black cover kind of tells you what you are getting n'est pas?

c r a p

[–] mini_newt 18 years ago

Ye, i work at woolworths and i was pretty surprised to see we were selling it. Weve recieved loadsa complaints usually from mothers with kids saying its rude and disgusting, i cant really see how considering its in a shiney packet.

[–] Antzy88 18 years ago

Ye, i work at woolworths and i was pretty surprised to see we were selling it. Weve recieved loadsa complaints usually from mothers with kids saying its rude and disgusting, i cant really see how considering its in a shiney packet

At the end of the day, those mothers have no real right to complain. The BBFC have passed it for an 18 rating, and even the wrapping shows that it contains strong scenes of real sex, so if that offends them then nobody's forcing them to watch, rent or buy it. Ever since the UK signed up to the European Convention of Human Rights in 2002, one of the stipulations that the BBFC agreed to (and this was consistent with their own surveying) was that they would not intervene at 18 unless footage was harmful or illegal.

It'd be interesting to know if those same mothers complained about the sale of 9 Songs, which had no wrapper on it and also was passed 18 without cuts despite containing frequent strong real sex.

[–] xxsweetdreamaxx 18 years ago

"Doesn't the penis look like a slug coming to life?"

No kidding.. while under the influence of alcohol whilst watching it i thought it was infact a slug.. until it well 'grew' haha.