In a previous life I think I was a fluff girl so I’m kind of sensitive about behind the scenes porno shows. While most of you were laughing it up watching Trey Parker shave his balls in Orgazmo I was strapped into a 94-minute emotional roller coaster ride of painful memories.
So what can be expected from Blue Movies, a new web series from creator/director Scott Brown? Well if you don’t have painful and repressed memories of pleasuring the leading man off camera while trying to support three children all under the age of four I think you’ll be getting some pretty fantastically good awesomeness out of this one.
Episode 1 (above), “The First Time,” opens with a “pivotal scene” from a special Batman adaptation, “The Dark Night: Full of Hot Freakin’ Orgies,” where an actually well costumed and acted Joker Zack Gold reenacts the famous disappearing pencil scene. Here though, instead of using someone’s forehead they cleverly use a mammoth purple dildo surrounded by various orifice filling jokes – nice! When it works it works.
The show follows an idealistic film school student, Tom, played by Back Bennet, as he interns for Pornamount Studios, (you guessed it) an adult film company. Only Tom isn’t clued in on the whole porn aspect of the company until a topless starlet complains about having to do a “thing” with three guys and a little guy that used to be a chick. Overworked assistant Anna Sascha Alexander, who seems to be the glue that holds everything together, reassures her that “nobody is going to be putting 3 ½ anythings anywhere.”
Of course Tom, being the film school type who is all into film as art, has a bit of a meltdown about the whole thing and demands some face time with sexual renaissant director, Max Chapman, played by Jareb Dauplaise. Max is able to quickly defuse the whole situation by educating Tom in regards to all things grand and universal and yes, artistic, about porn. At one point he quips, “Every minute more people are watching porn than live in Rome.” Well, I’m sold.
The writing and dialogue here is great. I can’t believe how many excellent lines are packed into such a short segment and yet it never feels rushed. Everything flows naturally keeping the pace right for a web short. It is full of the overplayed and over joked porn show names taken from actual movie titles but instead of being groaners they are actually witty and original. My two favorites are “Men in Black Men,” and “Lawrence of a Labia.” And the best line so far has to be when director Max is arguing with one of his actors: “You want to get paid or not Brando? I can pick up a whole family of Mexicans that will do this sh!t for free AND mow my lawn.” You have to respect a show that isn’t afraid of a little racial insensitivity in this day and age.
So, for all you boys and girls out there who aren’t living the American dream by fluffing all the cool kids to ensure their success at your own expense, you owe it to yourselves to strap-on er…in and watch Blue Movies at KoldCast TV. It will not disappoint.
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Oh, yeah! I’m an instant Blue Movies fan. Well done!
WELL DONE CHAPS. WE KOLDCAST CONTENT PROVIDERS MUST STICK TOGETHER!!
Doesn’t it strike you as bad casting in this show where the “seasoned” director is about 22 years old? (in that biz what 4 years tops before not being able to drive??) and worse the intern seems the same age if not OLDER than the director and staff he is working for?
Shouldn’t either an older actor or at least some attempt at aging the director the minimum to get you into this story? If 30 Rock is your guide, its Tina Fey interning for Shia LeBeuf instead of Alec Baldwin in this world. The wrong casting takes any of the believability or weight of the comedy away.
I realize its probably the guy playing the directs show and he wants to be front and center as well he should want to be but if you cast yourself as the seasoned boss and you look 22 the intern and the bluster lose credibility. Couldnt he have been a blowhard young porn star and get a older gruff guy for the head of the studio? Casting is important
While the director does look a bit young, I do not see where it necessarily says he is “seasoned.” Nor do I think it is bad that the director is on the younger side. On the contrary, what I get out of watching the first two episodes is that Max is sort of the “new wave” of porn directors. While directors of old might only care about getting the sex on screen and getting a paycheck, Max actually sees the art (at least in his eyes) of the pornography world. This is apparent when asking the Joker about his motivation for the scene.
Max may not look “seasoned,” but he sure does act the part by the way he treats his actors, his crew, and investors. It is clear he wants his work to be taken seriously (which ultimately makes his character more likable).
I think the writing of this show is brilliant and the actors do a wonderful job of selling their roll.
Keep it up guys! I can’t wait to see more!
Yeah, I’m with Jay. I like Jareb Dauplaise as Max. His being on the young side doesn’t bother me at all. And Jareb is not the show’s director or creator. Scott Brown is.
Ah Jay on the contrary its quite the reverse it is the old guard from the 1970’s when porn was on film that did have artistic aspirations which would play well against the “new wave” which more and more does sex only compilations and has little regard for craft or filming as the easy of video and equipment requires none of the discipline of a film shoot with real film and a film crew as in porn of old Misty Beethoven, Devil in Miss Jones etc…
The point is YOU might not have been bothered but the rest of us (or at least more than a few) are taken out of the very nugget of the idea of the show by the casting of the young fish out of water plunged into a world with a younger mentor (director/producer) because it makes Blue Movies play like the kids from American Pie do porn set humor 30 Rock style.
And what of the issue of the cheap free availability of porn on the internet literally killing any “new wave” of director making a real feature because there isn’t any money in it for “movies” they want clips, websites, and web cam action? Porn Parody versions of movies are not clever enough, and thats the other hook in this show, heck look at the REAL funny titles in porn parody films they are just as funny. Thats not enough. Porn without the sex is only going to cut it so long.
Is this porn company going out of business very very soon in this show? Because it seems not to acknowledge the very internet that gives it birth as an internet that kills the full length porn “films” with aspirations of anything other than clips online, cheap pay for porn performances, more bizarre extreme niche markets, directed by older men and women in their 40’s to 60’s who used to be porn stars and populated with people closer to Magnolia than 30 Rock.
I am talking about the casting of the thing, yes it is well made and written blah blah blah, but its delivered by people who we do not for ONE second believe have this job, this status, with this attitude or position which renders all that moot.
Why doesn’t he just leave? We discover his key decision to stay was off camera, making the turning point diffuse and unseen and it’s for “art” they suggest or that a valid point was made by the director played by the VERY talented Jareb Dauplaise who reads 22 even if he’s 30, is this enough to make the intern say “Sure I believe this young man will make art. I’ll stay here with this guy my age ordering me around a porn set instead of going to the internship I was interested in doing.” Okay, yes? Fine, run with that as the foundation for a whole season.
This series is great!
And Ronald, I’m pretty sure the intern stayed for the girl. In any case the age thing didn’t even occur to me until I read the comments, and then it still doesn’t bother me. Max was so intense I didn’t think twice about it.
Fine Ronald he’s young…. we get that. But it doesn’t take away from the show. In episode one his age is explained anyway in the Anna V.O. montage. He went from film school, to AVN nominated director. It happens sometimes… young people get successful.
Jay thank you for finally acknowledging he’s too young and the show had to “explain it away” as you put it in a voice over in ep 1. Now that we agree on the facts, we are merely left with opinion which is incorrectly in your case, “it doesnt take away from the show”
Ronald no thanks is necessary because I never said he was “too young.” I DID acknowledged that he looks young. But again, I do not believe that makes his part unbelievable. Also, I never said that the show had to “explain it away,” I said that the first episode explained it “ANYWAY.” Please use the correct quotes if you are going to maintain that we now “agree on the facts.”
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