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I'd rather have seen Prokofy Neva!

posted 14 years ago by bhobnine
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I've been a resident of Secondlife since 2004. Never met any of the people in this movie, but met plenty like them. Guess there ar'nt that many denizens of Secondlife out there to support a wide release since I only saw this movie playing in one dinky art theater for maybe a week. I look forward to seeing it on a pay for view or DVD release, at which point I will be happy to discuss the film as a film. For now, I can only speak of SL the experience. Secondlife is such an interesting, screwed up place to hang around. And since its underpinning is the social aspect, there is plenty of soap opera going around. I'd like to see a documentary on some of the old timers in SL who have become celebrities as such in game. Like Stroker, Anshe, or Prok. Prokofy was one of the first people I met in SL ( he sold me my first large fake property)and I've always admired his outspoken, wont suck up to the man, attitude. ( Yes, I know Prok is really a woman, but in SL you are what you want to be. So if Prok wants to show up as a dapper gent in a suit, then Prok is a dapper gent in a suit).
So get this thing released on DVD already so I can check it out.

"Pffft, my suspension of disbelief has higher standards than that"

[–] Diskothek 13 years ago

I used that program for a couple weeks to see what it was all about. Mostly just people whoring themselves out for virtual money and weird groups of furries and vampire wannabes. Some very... odd characters, overall.

Recent movies:

The Town - 8/10
A Perfect World - 9/10
My Left Foot - 9/10

[–] jufjo 13 years ago

Of course showing the extremes of this virtual online world is more interesting to the average viewer who has not yet been to Second Life.
But personally I find these people that support the cliche image people may have of the online community, rather boring and predictable.
When I first went and checked SL out I too thought it was all about people doing digital hanky panky, furries and vampires.
Not at all my cup of tea.

But if you bother to look a bit further you find entire communities dedicated to much more interesting stuff.
It is not just brothels and chat rooms.

In Second Life you can create whatever you want, so yes many people may care about the naughty things, but there are also people who recreate historical cities, cinemas, airships, sims dedicated to movies, etc, etc.

I have been to a sim dedicated to Stanley Kubrick, something movie fans here on IMDB will find interesting.
Fantastic recreations of the hallway from the 'Shining', the war room from 'Dr. Strangelove', the milkbar from 'A clockwork Orange', etc.

Yes SL has a steep learning curve, yes there are lots of perverts and shallow people who only care about dressing their avatar up and chatting.

But SL is what YOU make it.
So I recreated a neighbourhood in 1920s Berlin, just to experience a bit of "Berlin Alexanderplatz".
Using SL to "travel back in time", explore the past, educate visitors and have some fun.
It is pretty interesting to spend some time in a 1920s night club listening to the latest hits of 1929 while people dance the charleston.

In a way it is a game where you build everything and make the rules.

There is something for everyone.
So even though I've not yet seen this documentary, its trailer shows some of the extremes, the kind of people I rarely meet in SL.
So yes, it may be interesting, but don't think this is what the whole of SL is like.

I hope we get to see it sometime.

[–] lambiepie-2 13 years ago

There is something for everyone.

That is the understatement of the year.

My name is Talky-Tina, and you'd better be nice to me.

[–] hrhppg 11 years ago

I belong to a 3D world too - not SL - so I was expecting 90% of what this movie showed but I was shocked and disturbed to see an elementary school and people as children. I know that would attract freaks in the world I reside in and I'm not going to pretend SL has some magic bubble that protects it from creepy.