Hey, Big Jim

[chase]

I'm rather curious as to which three FM videos you've seen that caused you to form such a negative opinion about us.
If you could, please tell me the code numbers and/or give me the titles?
Thanks.

Regards,
Chase

 

[BigJim]

I'm rather curious as to which three FM videos you've seen that caused you to form such a negative opinion about us.
If you could, please tell me the code numbers and/or give me the titles?
Thanks.

Regards,
Chase

Hello Chase, I've just be having a shunt round your site and the vids I saw were:1/ What A Scream
2/ Tickle Tales
3/ Just For Laughs

I scanned your directory and looked at the snapshots of each vid and these three look like the ones I saw. (I never actually owned a TICKLING video from FM.)

I've also seen a lot of clips from different videos that you've produced and while they were entertaining to watch, did not seem to be of as high a standard of tickling as for instance TC videos are. The laughing quite often looked forced, and it was quite frustrating watching tickling that never seemed to go far enough. It almost looked sometimes as if the ler was deliberatley holding back.

Now that the gripes are out of the way, I should perhaps mention a few positive points for the benefit of TMF members who are reading this thread.

The only thing that annoys me about FM is their "merciful" tickling and what looks like, acted hyterics.It often appears to me that the nails are barely scraping the soles at all. (One person's opinion!) However I do appreciate their foot job and foot worship videos. These ones are more than entertaining to watch. In fact they're downright testosterone producing! ***admires the six pack on his wrist*** These are genres that I'm happy to be an FM customer in.

Chase, I don't know if you're interested in any feedback from me, but if you ever wanted advice from a ticklephile, it'd be to make the tickling TRULY evil.Less of the lightly skittering nails over the surface of the skin and a bit more deep tickling; or in the case of foot tickling where deep stuff isn't practical, fast and furious tickling with plenty of contact, instead of barely scratching the soles. I've seen a couple of clips from your Tickle Hell site, but they just look like normal FM stuff, with an upped porno content. (Something that bores me a lot.)
The sort of tickle vids I go for are in the style of Last Laugh's first one. Tickling in normal clothes with perhaps oral foot tickling laced into it. Judging from the pics I just refreshed my memory with, the best looking one you have is "The Agony Of De-Feet". The girl is wearing a normal top and jeans and getting her feet tickled. I've never seen a clip of that one so I don't know how ruthless the tickling is, but the pic looks enticing. I think tickling or worshipping the feet of a clothed girl instead of a naked one, focuses the attention more on the feet and that's the whole point of the excercise for me.

Also, for God's sake, tell that bloke to drop the crappy green balaclava and the crap glasses. He doesn't look like a ruthless tickle torturer, he looks like a total numpty.

Hopefully, this has shown that I can be constructive and am not just a loud mouthed limey who likes trashing people's work. It's not your company I had a low opinion of, it's your tickling videos. As they're only a portion of the vids you release though, it's not as vital to you as it would be to say........Magic Touch.

 

[Ticklish9's]

tickling style

Big Jim, there's a market out there for the lighter tickling. Though I understand your gripes, I far prefer the lighter touch...truly evil tickling is almost a turn off (almost, I said). Not that I own a single video, as I am perenially poor and what money I do have goes to much more noble causes (beer) or to agriculture (weed). 🙂

 

[BigJim]

LOL 9'er!

As I said, I was only voicing MY opinion. Although it is an opinion that is shared with a LOT of TMF members. I've heard this particular topic discussed often.

 

[Haltickling]

IMO, the variety of different tastes and styles enriches the community vastly. Wouldn't it be boring if everyone enjoyed only one method, or one type of girls?

I own more than 400 videos, from almost all available producers. What I like best in FM videos: the vignette style, with different girls and different bondage. That way, there are always 2 or 3 very good scenes in each video, which compensate for the 2 or 3 weak scenes. And the girls belong to the most beautiful ones in the business.

As to the "faked" ticklishness: well, that's just a matter how far you allow your fantasy to wander. I can imagine that the girl's ticklish if I want it, but I could also go along with many members here who ruin their own pleasure by crying "fake!" everytime the girl doesn't react in a way the criticasters have experienced themselves.

I prefer not to obstruct my enjoyment by too many petty doubts. My fantasy can wander pretty far... 😎

 

[JoBelle]

Hal...umm....did you say 400 ?????

That's almost as many videos as I have shoes. Sick sick sick...giggle😛

Joby

 

[Deleted member 2452]

i know this question was posed to jim

but i'd like to give my unrequested opinion also.
fm had too many ladies that were poor fakes, you could tell they were, at the very least, hamming it up. the tickling that was happening could tickle a 7 year old let alone cause the reactions the ladies were giving.
most important to me, is the reason i stopped buying from fm. they were all f/f. i even called and complained, and was give rude treatment. to say i was rebuffed is an understatement!
i bought the first video from tickle hell, cause it was m/f, and had a theme i can identify with.
steve

 

[chase]

Thanks for your response, Jim. I appreciate your candor. I would hope that you can recognize the essence of what Hal said, however. The buffet of life has to offer many flavors, so that everybody gets to sample their preferred taste. Thankfully, there are other companies you can patronize to satisfy your appetite.

Also, for God's sake, tell that bloke to drop the crappy green balaclava and the crap glasses. He doesn't look like a ruthless tickle torturer, he looks like a total numpty.

Um...well, Jim...that "bloke" is Eliot Shear and he's the boss, so I really can't tell him what kind of wardrobe to pick for his screen-time. Also, I'm not quite up to speed on Brit slang...what is a "numpty"?

Regards,
Chase

 

[Strelnikov]

Chase, I have a number of FM videos and I'll echo some of Jim's complaints. That is, the tickle-free tickling and the less-than-ticklish models found in some of the segments. Elliot is a f**king blabbermouth. You could improve the product greatly by gagging him. I want to hear laughing, not some half ass "comic" dialog.

OTOH, your role as the "serial fetishist" escaped from prison was a hoot ("Why am I doing this? What else IS there?") and some of the girls are genuinely ticklish. Most anything with Sadie Atkins or Teresa Curry is worth watching. Also Tori Sinclair, the Tina Turner of tickling. The older guy at FM (don't recall his name) is OK, reasonable skill and not too much talk.

Bottom line: for me, FM is a mixed bag. Some good, some less so, but I feel that overall I got my money's worth.

Strelnikov

 

[kurchatovium]

I own a number of FM videos and while they are not perfect I think for the most part they are all pretty good. I speak as someone who has purchased many videos from Cal Star, Vid Tech, Prestige, and Platinum and has found those videos for the most part to be quite inferior to those made by FM. Certainly like I said not all of FM videos are perfect, but I think for the amount of coinage they charge you, you get in general quite a good video. Usually they have maybe eight or so scenes per video and usually for me they are usually only one are two that maybe I'm not too fond of. Thats not bad at all. I have videos from femfeet and foot paradise where there is a similar situation. I think that for the most part FM gets an undeserved bad rap. You want to see a bad video see "Mistress Jacqueline's Tickle Slave", or a video with that Kahuna Wong in it, or almost anything by Prestige, these were bad videos. FM stuff is I think at a much, much higher level in my humble opinion.

 

[Deleted member 2452]

you wanna talk about bad tickle videos?

al, and i mean all of the old vids from "sinclar blue".
god did they reak. ugly people, and poor tickling/reactions.
burn them before you watch them, they come the closest to killing the tickle fetish.
steve

 

[BigJim]

Thanks for your response, Jim. I appreciate your candor. I would hope that you can recognize the essence of what Hal said, however. The buffet of life has to offer many flavors, so that everybody gets to sample their preferred taste. Thankfully, there are other companies you can patronize to satisfy your appetite.



Um...well, Jim...that "bloke" is Eliot Shear and he's the boss, so I really can't tell him what kind of wardrobe to pick for his screen-time. Also, I'm not quite up to speed on Brit slang...what is a "numpty"?

Regards,
Chase

Indeed Chase, I do appreciate that point. That very point gives me a more than decent excuse to be a selective customer of FM's. ( If you'll have me any more, after all of this "constructivness" on my part. )

He's the boss????????? Well Chase, if you can't tell him yourself perhaps you can say that there's a thread on the TMF where a lot of people are giving FM COncepts feeback. If he's interested enough in hearing what his customer's have to say, then hopefully he'll read it. Assuming that he does read it..............

ELLIOT!!!!!! LOSE THE BALACLAVA AND THE GLASSES!!!!!! YOU LOOK LIKE MOST OF THE PAEDOPHILES I'VE EVER ARRESTED IN SCHOOL PLAYGROUNDS!!!! AND FOR GOD'S SAKE DON'T TALK SO BLOODY MUCH IN THE VIDEOS!!!!!!! NOTHING MAKES ME WANT TO PUT A BRICK THROUGH MY TV SCREEN MORE, EXCEPT FOR TONY "BLERGH" MAKING A POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENT!!!!!

Ahem............

Oh, before I forget. A "numpty" could be descriptive of any one of the following:dickhead, tosser, jerkoff, dude with bad dress sense, dude who's wardrobe makes him look like a molester, or dude who buys all his clothes from Oxfam/K-Mart. 😀

 

[BigJim]

I own a number of FM videos and while they are not perfect I think for the most part they are all pretty good. I speak as someone who has purchased many videos from Cal Star, Vid Tech, Prestige, and Platinum and has found those videos for the most part to be quite inferior to those made by FM. Certainly like I said not all of FM videos are perfect, but I think for the amount of coinage they charge you, you get in general quite a good video. Usually they have maybe eight or so scenes per video and usually for me they are usually only one are two that maybe I'm not too fond of. Thats not bad at all. I have videos from femfeet and foot paradise where there is a similar situation. I think that for the most part FM gets an undeserved bad rap. You want to see a bad video see "Mistress Jacqueline's Tickle Slave", or a video with that Kahuna Wong in it, or almost anything by Prestige, these were bad videos. FM stuff is I think at a much, much higher level in my humble opinion.

Agreed Kurch. However most of those "numpties" of companies are now defunct, so FM was the next thing. However, bear in mind that I'm only critisciing their tickling and their less than enigmatic boss. Their foot-worship and foot-job videos are entertaining as hell. I don't have any real complaint with Shear's tickling technique by the way, just the way that he makes me want to do an Elvis, and blow away the TV. The guys in FM vids seem to be decent-ish ticklers. It tends to be when the women (Chase more or less excluded here) are doing the tickling that it becomes boring.

One thing that FM deserve special credit for, is their variety. I don't mean variety between scenes. I mean the difference between videos. They have a mixture of clothed and naked, men and women, blonde and brunet etc, etc, etc. (Rex HArrison and Yul Brynner eat yer heart out! 😀 ) If there is one thing you don't like, then they'll almost certainly have something you do.

We do need to see more tickling of the ruthless standard though. Some of the women don't put any weight into it, and barely touch the ticklee. Maybe this is because they've never been serious ticklers before. If so they need briefing from Elliot and Eric before the cameras roll.

 

[kurchatovium]

Your right areenactor, Sinclair Blue videos were horrible I think they were so bad I didn't even buy them when I was desperate for tickle videos. Now thats pretty bad.

I do like my tickling in a variety of flavors. So I enjoy FM stuff for the most part but I agree BigJim more ruthless tickling would also be nice to see.

Unfortunately CalStar and Vid Tech still make videos and their standards have not really improved much. I think Bizarre video bought out Platinum and sells there old stuff yet. So many of these companies are not quite dead yet. Though I think Prestige and Sinclair Blue have finally met their demise. By the way for those that are interested my copy of "Mistress Jacqeline's Tickle Slave" is still buried in my backyard and guarded by several dwarven magical runes to keep me from ever seeing it again.

 

[NYCity]

Thanks for your response, Jim. I appreciate your candor. I would hope that you can recognize the essence of what Hal said, however. The buffet of life has to offer many flavors, so that everybody gets to sample their preferred taste. Thankfully, there are other companies you can patronize to satisfy your appetite.

Regards,
Chase

Chase, you're right, there are all sorts of varying tastes among tickling afficionados. Your videos are definitely more toward the light, playful side of tickling. I've long believed that this is because you guys were primarily foot fetishists, who by the way, also made tickling videos, rather than tickling fanatics, first and foremost, and therefore may be more clued in to foot fans than tickle fans. Based on your posts here though, it sounds like you do know that most tickle fans like intensity, you've just decided to go after a different niche in the market. If that's what you want to do, that's cool, but is that your intent, or do you see FM making more intense tickling videos going forward. You guys have some GORGEOUS models, which is very important to me. If you intend to crank it up, I'd be very interested.

Thanks and keep up the good work.

 

[chase]

The guys in FM vids seem to be decent-ish ticklers. It tends to be when the women (Chase more or less excluded here) are doing the tickling that it becomes boring.

WHAT?? "...the women..."? "Chase more or less excluded here"?? Jim, am I misreading that, or did you just give me a literary sex change? LMAO.

Regards,
(The very male, last time Artemis looked)
Chase

 

[chase]

Chase, you're right, there are all sorts of varying tastes among tickling afficionados. Your videos are definitely more toward the light, playful side of tickling. I've long believed that this is because you guys were primarily foot fetishists, who by the way, also made tickling videos, rather than tickling fanatics, first and foremost, and therefore may be more clued in to foot fans than tickle fans. Based on your posts here though, it sounds like you do know that most tickle fans like intensity, you've just decided to go after a different niche in the market. If that's what you want to do, that's cool, but is that your intent, or do you see FM making more intense tickling videos going forward. You guys have some GORGEOUS models, which is very important to me. If you intend to crank it up, I'd be very interested.

NYCity- Well, I am first and foremost a 'ler, although there are other aspects of foot "fetishism" that I find appealing. When I started with FM, there were changes I wanted to make in their tickling vids that I thought would improve them, but I didn't get much of a chance. Since I am no longer in the production end of things, I don't know which direction they want to take things. Although as I understand it, the guy doing the Tickling Hell vids has a more intense vision of things, so we'll just have to see.

Regards,
Chase

 

[BigJim]

WHAT?? "...the women..."? "Chase more or less excluded here"?? Jim, am I misreading that, or did you just give me a literary sex change? LMAO.

Regards,
(The very male, last time Artemis looked)
Chase

I did. LOL I've never heard of anyone other than a female having the name Chase, so I assumed you were female.

I excluded you from the list list of "female" ticklers, because I don't believe I've ever actually seen you in action. If you were just staff at FM, that would explain it. Anyway, given that I thought you were female, and being under the impression that you might have been in some tickling videos, I excluded you from the "fem ticklers are crap" list in the hope of avoiding offence.Of course, mistaking a bloke for a bird (Ha! Work that bit of English slang out! LOL) is probably the biggest insult you could give.

 

[P50]

Hey Chase,

Here's an idea: a non-laughing video. I mean not even mild giggling. Perhaps a little smiling here or there at the most.

During the video, have the 'ler and 'lee converse in natural conversation. Have them converse about tickling in general, and the specific tickling going on.

I am so encouraged by the many members here who have spoken up and spoken out against pornography. If I didn't join them when that was going on, then I am now. Keep some clothes on the women (!) It just looks better, and leaves a reason for the mind to think a little. If it's a big deal to management, let them wear their underwear or swimsuits or miniskirts or what-have-you. Really, anyone can get naked-pics from about 2.3 zillion other sites. You'll get by fine with one little video one time that doesn't include a poor medical show.

If you <I>are</I> using non-ticklish women who are faking it, and if they <I>are</I> really in the ultimate-babe category, why not capitalize on both factors and have a video that features a totally ceremonial and procedureal presentation of tickling techniques without faked responses. My GF (lost her; thanks to temporary stupidity) let me tickle her and I don't think she even giggled. We conversed quietly during the tickling. I think we both enjoyed it, and to tell you the truth, that may be the best way for some people (I know it didn't bother me at all !)

Enough of this. No need to clutter up the thread any more than I already have here. Like the idea ? Use it.