Basic romance vid #82343984739

Arigatomina · Post by **Arigatomina** » Sun Aug 17, 2003 9:27 pm

SarahtheBoring wrote: Anyhow, thanks for downloading, anyone and everyone, and I hope you like it. (And even if not, hey, that's fine too. Let me know what you thought anyway.)

Um...I want to watch it, but I have a question first. ^_^;; You probably know what it is, but I'll ask anyway. Is the vid explicit? I mean, does it show them making out without clothing? I hate to spoil it for people, so if you'd rather PM me, that's fine. But I really want to watch this, and if it's explicit, I probably shouldn't. ^_^;

ithaqua · Post by **ithaqua** » Sun Aug 17, 2003 10:42 pm

That was very sweet. Not too sold on the Duran Duran, but it worked beautifully.

SarahtheBoring · Post by **SarahtheBoring** » Sun Aug 17, 2003 10:54 pm

ithaqua wrote:That was very sweet. Not too sold on the Duran Duran, but it worked beautifully.

Thank you. And it's not as Duran Duran-ey as, say, New Moon on Monday, so it could be worse.

Thanks for giving it a shot.

Arigatomyna wrote: Um...I want to watch it, but I have a question first. ^_^;; You probably know what it is, but I'll ask anyway. Is the vid explicit? I mean, does it show them making out without clothing? I hate to spoil it for people, so if you'd rather PM me, that's fine. But I really want to watch this, and if it's explicit, I probably shouldn't. ^_^;

No prob. The short answer is "I don't think so." If anyone else has this concern, I may as well post here:

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If it were explicit I wouldn't even risk putting it on local. I don't think it is.

Probably the "worst" is a scene where both undress to pose for art-class sketches, and one is shown in art-nude style. There's suggestion that more is going on, but it's all clothed. The infamous naked luge scene is not in this video at all.

(aside, just randomly - the rough draft had a shot from that, but in the second draft I thought, "You know, I intend to make an Utena Movie video without that shot of them kissing on the naked mecha-luge that EVERYONE uses." So I did.)

But then I'm relatively impervious to this kind of thing, so if anyone wants to chime in - is it too much or nearly so? It's really a matter of opinion.

Arigatomina · Post by **Arigatomina** » Sun Aug 17, 2003 11:35 pm

Thank you *very* much for explaining. ^_^ I really do like what I've seen of the anime (though it has been years since then), I just get squicked a bit by the explicit stuff - I think particularly that scene you mentioned. ^_^; If I'm thinking of the same one, I've seen it *way* too much for comfort. Anyway, I'm downloading, and thanks again for explaining. Most Utena vids don't have any sort of warning whether they use that scene or not, so it's hard going in blind. ^_^

SarahtheBoring · Post by **SarahtheBoring** » Sun Aug 17, 2003 11:41 pm

True, they don't often label. I think most people assume that if you know the source, then it's within your comfort level. Not a bad thing to remember, really.

ithaqua · Post by **ithaqua** » Mon Aug 18, 2003 10:18 pm

True, but assuming people know your source can be dangerous. I'm pretty ignorant about these things, for example, so I just download and hope it doesn't suck.

Although it's pretty messed how you need to warn for "overt sexuality", but violence is universally accepted. Frankly, I'd rather see people having fun instead of huring each other.

Maybe I really am a limp wristed pansy
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Vesser · Post by **Vesser** » Mon Aug 18, 2003 11:35 pm

I look forward to seeing this, but since I'm very new here I can't dl from LOCAL right away...I'll have to suffer and wait the two weeks or so. Love Duran....this isn't one of my fav songs, although it's certainly elegant and more grown-up for them. Still look forward to seeing it.

Vesser · Post by **Vesser** » Mon Aug 18, 2003 11:52 pm

I look forward to seeing this, but since I'm very new here I can't dl from LOCAL right away...I'll have to suffer and wait the two weeks or so. Love Duran....this isn't one of my fav songs, although it's certainly elegant and more grown-up for them. Still look forward to seeing it.

Vesser · Post by **Vesser** » Tue Aug 19, 2003 1:31 pm

Strange, don't know why above message got posted twice....

SarahtheBoring · Post by **SarahtheBoring** » Tue Aug 19, 2003 5:55 pm

You have a point, ithaqua, although I still don't know why people randomly download lame videos from series they don't know. O_o I mean, I watch stuff like Engel and whatnot even though I don't know the source, but there's a reason to watch those.

Anyway, it's probably not a bad idea to self-rate videos by content, like movie ratings. I might start doing that.

And Vesser, when you can download, if you decide to DL this, I hope you like it.

(run-on sentence of doom!)