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RE: Movie - The Pet - 12/7/2006 7:55:32 PM

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I bought the Pet and I really don't think it was remotely worth the money. The acting is not very good (its around the level of acting you'd see in a high budget porn), the quality of filming and cinematography is pretty poor, and the plot literally does not make sense (why do they need to train women to be human animals if they just want someones kidneys? why would someone hang around people who sell body parts from slaves if you have a slave, wouldn't you be just a little concerned about your own slaves safety?).

And I could handle all of that if there were some good sex or BDSM scenes but there is none of that. Just a lot of nudity with a not terribly appealing body (in my personal tastes if I'm going to pay money for nudity) and some crawling which really gets boring after a while. And the branding scene was downright hilarious (I've been branded and seen multiple brandings so I have a pretty good idea what a strike branding is like).. I think they used the sound of eggs hitting a hot pan for the sound of the iron hitting the skin.

Personally I wouldn't have bothered with the movie if I knew all this beforehand.

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RE: Movie - The Pet - 12/7/2006 11:49:42 PM

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Hello everyone,

I felt the need to post this message because of some confusion between me and another poster on this thread. I saw the Pet at the screening in Santa Monica last weekend. I agree with some of the things stated here, and disagree with others. What I will say is this...I met the director/producer D Stevens at the screening, and again at a fundraising community social. Whatever you may gleen from the movie, positive or negative, I will say that having met the man, I believe his intentions were and are pure. He made an effort to come out into the lifestyle community to gain insight for his film. The film was not intended to be a D/s lifestyle film, but rather the story of some specific characters. He is trying to show the contrast between a caring, loving, and consensual D/s relationship, and the true slavery that goes on in the world today. He obviously felt passionate enough about these issues to dedicate a huge chunk of his life to. There are always critics and opinions....in all areas of life and art. I say see the movie and decide for yourself.

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RE: Movie - The Pet - 12/8/2006 6:37:03 AM

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-fast response-

I believe we are seeing a first here on CM - I think we are seeing shills for the movie posting positive comments and arguing with the negative comments because that's their job. Plenty of the sort has happened in other venues, but given that the consensus of most of the local BDSM community seems to be "Whatever" to negative, I'm not suprised to see those involved with the movie attempting to cast light the other way.

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RE: Movie - The Pet - 12/9/2006 12:13:17 AM

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I just saw "The Pet" with my slave who just posted. We obtained it through a merchant who really does consider himself a contributing member of the BDSM community. I hope he never hears about our reaction to this thing. But having spent my money, buying this DVD I am going to share my two cents worth.
NO, I do not believe it was created with any integrity. It had some interesting images, but you could find a more professional soundtrack and acting in a B grade Porn. Moreover it had wildly conflicting and inappropriate story lines. It mishmashed lifestyle bdsm'ers with slave traders selling workers for mines and threw in trafficers in body parts just to prove they were really evil. I mean cartoon "DR EVIL" evil. There is no sense to searching for a person with a pleasing form and personality or to training or developing a relationship with someone who is going to end up in a meat locker. And conversely tissue donors, don't have to be pretty.
When an Angelina Jolie, or even a Steven Segal, goes off on a tangent preaching about the worlds ills.you can usually forgive them for stealing a part of your life and jumping on a soapbox because A, they might believe it or B, they have entertained you in the past and you just forgive them. But this movie is unforgivable.
This movie has the stink of a guy putting all the moralistic crap he could load onto a kitchen table and using a scale to find a nice balance between the "anti slavery soap box" and the kinky payload to make possible a wide release. Having heard good reviews, and knowing there are "alternate scenes" "available" on the website (they wouldn't load for me); I find it hard to believe that the dvd release was the same version seen by the reviewers.

This films producers not only owe an apology to the BDSM lifestylers, but to pet owners in general. I know several people who have spent thousands of dollars in vet bills preserving a free animal shelter cat which has become part of the family, while this character cries and leaves his wallet in his pocket. It just doesn't make any sense.

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RE: Movie - The Pet - 12/9/2006 9:52:31 AM

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Hello,

My copy of The Pet arrieved Friday morning (Amazon.com has it available); Sid, barb and I watched it last night. My take was that it was a lovely photographed movie (very professional), with fairly good acting. I very much enjoyed the connection shown between the two main characters, and can identify strongly with the girl.

I imagine most discussion will be around the idea of consent…and <again…thinking of the movie Secretary> how some come to discover the D/s lifestyle and decide they are, in fact, submissive.

Finally, for me…parts of the movie seemed a bit superfluous; just too many sub-plots. Still, all in all, I liked it and found some of the scenes very well done.

In my mind, saying more than that would just ruin it for those who haven't seen it yet...

bearlee

Edited to add.... HOW did I end up here as Sid??????????

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RE: Movie - The Pet - 12/10/2006 5:02:38 AM

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The Pet touched me - it is funny to see the comments and the reference to The Pet as a movie because I saw it as touching me - my life - I guess I identified with it -- the games the manipulations of so many people taking advantage of others and someone finding a person that feel who cares. Maybe that may sound stupid and unsophiticated for the smart and critical people who make up - oh whateve. I just want to thank the people who helped me understand that I am not alone.--- thanks

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RE: Movie - The Pet - 12/10/2006 11:31:23 AM

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When I saw the trailer to this film it seemed as if they run out of storyline half way through and had to incorporate a government conspiracy to create mindless slaves that would kill for the government. I did find the triangular cage aesthetically pleasing although being a prop it was probably cardboard spray painted silver. I also didn’t like the stereotype of some rich foreign Master. I think it’s about time the lifestyle was able to get past this image and show the world at large it involves real people.

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RE: Movie - The Pet - 12/12/2006 4:28:07 AM

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---crossposted from another post on another forum--- ****Warning - there is spoiler commentary in this post****

Well, my owner ordered the movie and we just watched it.

In all honestly I thought it was horrible. Seriously.

First off, the screenwriting was very poor... The movie had very little flow and was terribly unrealistic. The acting was as bad in my opinion as the screenplay. The way that the film portrayed the process of enslavement was about as far from the mark (in my opinion) as it could be. If someone is going to write about a lifestyle as profound and serious as one of master and slave, they should have actually made a movie that was a realistic look - not some cliche, badly written (and acted), film where they mix what it is that we do with the ugly and horrible slave trafficking business. Why blur the lines like that? They are not the same thing - not even remotely. In my opinion, those who see this movie who don't know anything about the lifestyle will seriously get the wrong impression about it.   If someone wants to make a film that shows the atrocities that are committed in the slave trafficking business, than they should write a movie about that. I find it irresponsible to mix the two as if our lifestyle is so closely tied to something so despicable.

I wouldn't recommend that anyone spend the money to buy this movie. My owner and I were so completely let down by its utter ridiculousness at times that he almost turned it off during the middle.

*****Here's the serious spoiler so please don't read any further if you don't want to know.

If the man in the movie had been poor or even middle class, would she have so willingly (and in such an instant) jumped at the chance to be this man's pet? And the process of her enslavement seemed like it happened overnight. The movie didn't show two even remotely emotionally healthy people entering a relationship that involved the long, beautiful, process of internal enslavement. To the contrary, it showed a guy who was friends with slave traffickers (nice friends, dude) who meets a woman (who was scouted, photographed, hand-picked, and pointed out to him by said slave traffickers) and decides to pay her huge amounts of money to be his dog.

Considering this man is pretty much an absolute stranger, I was floored that she barely gave it any serious thought, jumped right in and bam! Instant, perfect slave! She went from California girl to stepford puppy in the blink of an eye. Now I can see that they were trying to show (after the money exchange) that this woman fit so well and felt so good as his pet and that he truly cared for her (like a man would for his Irish Setter), however, the potential for character and story line development there was enormous and they completely missed the mark.  And another thing -  As far as the slave traffickers are concerned, who would take months to train beautiful females to be well-trained, obedient pets and then sell them off to be slaughtered for their organs? Isn't that like spending years training an extraordinary thoroughbred for the Kentucky Derby and then selling it when it is prime and perfect to the glue factory before it ever ran a race?

Oh... and as for the branding. What the heck? A cattle iron pressed to human flesh as it sizzles and pops for like 20 seconds? That iron would have gone straight through to the bone. Did this guy do any research at all? Is it responsible to show people that lifestyle folks brand their slaves this way?

Anyway, I thought the story-line was weak and there were several areas where I just thought, 'Huh?"

Three thumbs down in my opinion.

I just wish that someone would write a good, decent, realistic screenplay about M/s and then follow through with hiring actors that can truly portray the roles they were hired for.   So far, "Secretary" is the only one that has even come close to the mark in my opinion.

Now my owner wishes he hadn't spent the money. hehe

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RE: Movie - The Pet - 12/12/2006 1:07:06 PM

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bummer i'd hoped it would be a decent movie

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RE: Movie - The Pet - 12/12/2006 2:02:01 PM

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well I loved the movie - it made me think a lot and it was beautiful it was tender in many ways but it showed me a relationship in a bad world - Master has watched it three times so far - it was best movie that I have seen in years -
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RE: Movie - The Pet - 12/12/2006 5:42:21 PM

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I have bought the movie and was gonna watch it with Master......after reading the comments......i am afraid he will be disappointed.......but i surely want to see it.

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RE: Movie - The Pet - 12/13/2006 1:00:56 AM

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I bought the Pet and I really don't think it was remotely worth the money. The acting is not very good (its around the level of acting you'd see in a high budget porn), the quality of filming and cinematography is pretty poor, and the plot literally does not make sense (why do they need to train women to be human animals if they just want someones kidneys? why would someone hang around people who sell body parts from slaves if you have a slave, wouldn't you be just a little concerned about your own slaves safety?).

And I could handle all of that if there were some good sex or BDSM scenes but there is none of that. Just a lot of nudity with a not terribly appealing body (in my personal tastes if I'm going to pay money for nudity) and some crawling which really gets boring after a while. And the branding scene was downright hilarious (I've been branded and seen multiple brandings so I have a pretty good idea what a strike branding is like).. I think they used the sound of eggs hitting a hot pan for the sound of the iron hitting the skin.

Personally I wouldn't have bothered with the movie if I knew all this beforehand.

C~

WOW! Now I actually WANT to see it, lol. Maybe we could do an MST3K rendition? Anyone? You bring the movie, I'll bring the biting sarcasm.

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