dleedlee wrote:Let's face it, we are understaffed and our content is driven by any given editor's specific area of interest. We aren't exactly overwhelmed with conscientious volunteers as far as I can tell.
We also don't try to recruit any, either. Look at our boring front page!
Agreed that a there's bound to be a lot of AV titles if we dig too deep. Many's the time I picked up a dollar VCD that looked like a potential Category III erotic drama or some such, only to have it be something much closer to a softcore skin flick. Of course, some of those actually had plots and production values (and no hardcore), so it's a tricky thing . . .
I have no objection to their inclusion but figuring out names,titles,actors, country of origin, year and whether some of these are legit films or videos - previous threads pointed to a lot of a/v titles, while scholastically worthy, is time and energy consuming to research. We barely keep up with legit releases of the latest HK teen idol films (even at current meagre output levels), much less the 200-400 films that the Mainland has put out for the past few decades, much less the pre-1949 era. And then there's TV series!
Nontheless, if the info
can be posted in a forum, an
absolutely basic listing shouldn't take long to create. Leave it to future generations, if there are any, to update further if we must, but at least the framework is there.
Maybe, we should apply for some stimulus funds and stock up on Red Bull!
As I mentioned recently in the Digital Chivvy thread, I provided some (admittedly meager) stimulus funding. So did you and many other generous souls. Then the updates stopped. Imagine if Jerry Lewis did that midway through a telethon!
I'd contribute monthly if there was a monthly tally to know if I was making a difference. I might contribute even more if I knew the Chinese side was paying some dues, as was promised but seemingly not delivered.
After 2012, will it even matter?
Hong Kong will survive. They'll start another reclamation project and go back to making movies for
local audiences because the rest of us will be gone and they'll have no choice. I'm telling you, it's gonna happen.
Random thought, we should adopt Prometheus as our mascot.
Yes.
Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 7:38 pm
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