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colinr0380 wrote: Sat Mar 23, 2024 11:19 am Quick Gary, they're onto you. You have at the most a day or two to scrub all the NSFW images off the site! Don't forget the Caligula page, which will take at least an hour of specifically concentrated attention!

No Gary, don't listen to them. Double down! More Caligula. More He Got Game. Don't let your art be silenced.

"Right that's Birth done. And Caligula. What next? Oh God, not Nyph()maniac!"
Insistent and growing louder knocking on the door
"Just a minute! I'm not decent!" Deletes the In The Realm of the Senses page
"Phew! Did I forget anything?" Scrolling and gets to the "G" section. Eyes alight on Peter Greenaway's name.
"NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!"

As the limelight grows brighter, Gary starts gently sobbing when he realizes he reviewed Blier's Beau-pere

To be fair to Gary, it would be tricky to do a thorough review of Santo vs The Riders of Terror without covering the alternative Lepers and Sex cut, and since the additional material is all nudity...

Looks like I have missed a news cycle : where is the joke/fuss coming from ?

MichaelB wrote:To be fair to Gary, it would be tricky to do a thorough review of Santo vs The Riders of Terror without covering the alternative Lepers and Sex cut, and since the additional material is all nudity...

There are, IIRC, enough close ups or fitting shots that'd cover these without capturing nudity. That's what I'll do anyway.

tenia wrote: Sun Mar 24, 2024 11:09 am Looks like I have missed a news cycle : where is the joke/fuss coming from ?

If you go up a couple posts, there was an interview shared about actress Carrie Coon owning 10,000 Blu Rays and during it she quips that she thought DVDBeaver was porn when she saw her husband browsing through it and then the joke started that Gary would now need to take out all of his naughty reviews because of that initial joke.

The actress is Carrie Coon, Tracy Letts (himself an actor and a screen- and playwriter) is her husband.

Ah yes thanks for that, it’s fixed now.

TechnicolorAcid wrote: Sun Mar 24, 2024 1:21 pm

tenia wrote: Sun Mar 24, 2024 11:09 am Looks like I have missed a news cycle : where is the joke/fuss coming from ?

If you go up a couple posts, there was an interview shared about actress Carrie Coon owning 10,000 Blu Rays and during it she quips that she thought DVDBeaver was porn when she saw her husband browsing through it and then the joke started that Gary would now need to take out all of his naughty reviews because of that initial joke.

I got the first bit of news, but wondered if people actually looked over DVD Beaver, realised how many screenshots made the site look like it's handled by Mr Skin and made Gary having to clean the site !

Just to be clear, did Gary end up avoiding more explicit screenshots after a certain point? I think I found DVDBeaver too late in the game (either that or maybe I haven't checked out the titles that would give Gary the opportunity to do this) because it honestly hasn't came across as anything that graphic when I've looked through it.

It's not so much that they're graphic, but that if a movie has a single frame of a naked butt or some boobs, you can be sure Gary will find it, and screencapture it.

There was a point about maybe two or three years (?) ago where he started hiding the NSFW pictures from plain view and you had to hover over to see them so I'm assuming either it occurred to him that the site should be a bit more NSFW-friendly or someone requested it. But I don't recall him ever posting actual hardcore images (say, the penetration inserts from The Idiots), even after the switchover to hiding the softcore stuff. The extra publicity from the Coon interview has got to be welcome because he's been begging for financial support for some time now, and he keeps posting the T&A stuff because it's had to have generated some traffic. It's still called DVDBeaver after all, and he knows full well that even before the Fallon interview, there was probably more people not associating it with the 50s show but the softcore smut instead. The Fallon audience probably didn't find it funny because it (only) made them think of Leave It To Beaver.

I'm playing for the other team so I was never the target audience for that kind of beaver in the first place, but his screen capturing method and that of some of his co-writers was controversial even in the DVD heyday (to the point that when Nick Wrigley justifiably complained about the MoC La Vie De Jesus screen caps, Gary seemed happy to throw Per-Olof Strandberg under the bus because if I recall correctly, Strandberg ceased contributing to the site shortly thereafter), and his reviews are the same cut and paste jobs as Atanasov's, so it really ceased to be useful for me quite some time ago. But I'll say this in defense of Gary: at least he doesn't seem to feel the need to troll his readers or pursue an agenda against boutique labels that appear to have disappointed Atanasov in some way.

tenia wrote: Sun Mar 24, 2024 8:44 pm It's not so much that they're graphic, but that if a movie has a single frame of a naked butt or some boobs, you can be sure Gary will find it, and screencapture it.

Including in Peter Mullan's Orphans!

For all the joshing, I'm sympathetic to Gary and would like to believe that he chose the title of "DVD Beaver" because it conjures up the sense of the titular animal bringing individual reviews of discs together in order to build a larger structural resource of information, and was blithely unaware of the implications of the name in the same way that Jane Fonda needed the full implication of the title of one of her films explained to her by Graham Norton. Or at least that's the fence-sitting line I'll probably have to take when called to the witness stand just after domino is up there brandishing the printout of that damning Bertrand Blier film review.

Finch wrote:But I'll say this in defense of Gary: at least he doesn't seem to feel the need to troll his readers or pursue an agenda against boutique labels that appear to have disappointed Atanasov in some way.

Credit where it’s due, he also corrects factual errors, and he does it gratifyingly quickly. In fact, I genuinely don’t recall any exceptions - although the kind of things I flag up are such obvious and evidence-backed mistakes that they shouldn’t really be up for discussion.

colinr0380 wrote:

tenia wrote: Sun Mar 24, 2024 8:44 pm It's not so much that they're graphic, but that if a movie has a single frame of a naked butt or some boobs, you can be sure Gary will find it, and screencapture it.

Including in Peter Mullan's Orphans!

For all the joshing, I'm sympathetic to Gary and would like to believe that he chose the title of "DVD Beaver" because it conjures up the sense of the titular animal bringing individual reviews of discs together in order to build a larger structural resource of information

I always thought it was simply because Gary’s Canadian, and the beaver is their national mascot.

There I go overthinking things again!

He roots through all the DVDs to find the best ones, just like a beaver does with logs or whatever

Yes, it's worth bearing in mind that not everyone immediately starts doing Beavis and Butt-Head impersonations when they hear the word "beaver" - as my wife (formerly Mrs Beaver, courtesy of her first marriage) found out the hard way when telling an elderly relative of mine the entirely truthful story about how she had to change her name by deed poll after beginning midwifery training because too many people in the classroom were audibly giggling. She then realised to her visible horror that the relative in question simply didn't get why this was meant to be amusing.

Similarly, while there's a decent chance that Colin will find the name of this Swedish economist as hilarious as I did, this almost certainly won't be true of most other people posting here.

In 1922, "Beaver" was merely British slang for a bearded man when that had become unfashionable enough to form the subject of a comic song. There was a game at the time in which points were scored for sighting bearded men and shouting, "Beaver!" (Harry Champion did perform ribald songs but they tended to be phallic, e.g. A Little Bit of Cucumber, The End of My Old Cigar).

That sounds brilliant - who’s for a revival?

MichaelB wrote: Tue Mar 26, 2024 11:41 am Similarly, while there's a decent chance that Colin will find the name of this Swedish economist as hilarious as I did, this almost certainly won't be true of most other people posting here.

I badly needed a laugh this morning, so thank you.

Let’s pause to enjoy this hymn to wildlife conservation. https://youtu.be/eFHbq_IRMWU?si=iQklxNE2DMiLqgTP

I guess, given the title, it isn't that surprising, but Carrie Coon's suspicions come to full fruition with Gary's new review of Erotic Ghost Story (http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film12/blu-ray ... lu-ray.htm). Engage private browsing mode, Tracy!

Orlac wrote: Sat Mar 23, 2024 12:09 pm

colinr0380 wrote: Sat Mar 23, 2024 11:19 am Quick Gary, they're onto you. You have at the most a day or two to scrub all the NSFW images off the site! Don't forget the Caligula page, which will take at least an hour of specifically concentrated attention!

All those children in the bathtub pictures for a start...

And lo and behold, he went straight for the dodgiest shot possible in Arrow's new release of Fukusaku's THE THREAT. The second that scene appeared in the movie I knew Beaver would include it.

jazzo wrote: Mon Apr 15, 2024 8:33 pm I guess, given the title, it isn't that surprising, but Carrie Coon's suspicions come to full fruition with Gary's new review of Erotic Ghost Story (http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film12/blu-ray ... lu-ray.htm). Engage private browsing mode, Tracy!

Very funny bit to scatter a couple bloody faces among the mouse-over NSFW shots, real strong Odorama card vibe