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Date: Sun, 18 Dec 1994 06:47:06 UTC
Subject: Review: Michael Ninn's Sex
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# Michael Ninn's Sex
c 35 1994 VCA, Michael Ninn
. Sunset Thmoas, Gerry Pike
. Tiffany Million, Ritchie Razor
. Chasey Lain, Jon Dough
. Debi Diamond, Gerry Pike, Jane A, Jane B
. Asia Carerra, Misty Rain
* Diedre Holland, Jon Dough
. Tiffany Million, Gerry Pike
Plot: Pike works at a gas station in the desert. He leaves his girlfriend
to seek fame and fortune in the big city. He finds it, but it eats
him up.
The cinematography is great. The images are crisp, the color and lighting
virtually flawless. But this film really doesn't live up to the hype. In
many respects, it looks like it belongs on a softcore cable channel--It's
very slick and has some plot. It also works as a couple's video, I think.
In some ways this film is as good or better than a lot of Andrew Blake's
more recent work (Hidden Obsessions, Sensual Exposure, etc). For one thing
it not quite as soft. There's more hardcore footage, and more male/female
intercourse. There are a number of beautiful women: Sunset Thomas, Chasey
Lain, and Diedra Holland, for example. The sound and music is also very
good. The sound is far superior to Blake. You can actually hear the
performers during the sex scenes. But overall the erotic impact is not as
great, I think.
One major flaw I think is the plot. It's overly-ambitious. With a title
like "Sex", I thought that's what it would be about.
>From the previews I thought it would be a collection of stylish vinnettes
(sp) The previews for this film looked great. (Don't they always?). They
should have made a video that was all previews.
There really isn't enough time in a porn video for both plot and sex.
Unless you have a really talented write who can advance the plot during the
sex scenes, but what would a writer with that kind of talent being doing
making these kinds of films? To get around the time constraints, they use
a voice-over for the plot exposition, but the narration is annoyingly
pretentious at times (although are a few good lines). That's one thing
Blake has over this film. He doesn't really bother with the pretense of a
plot. He usually just has a basic theme or premise around which the sex
scenes are organized. I think they should concentrated on the sex, but
that probably doesn't sell well on cable.
Another thing, a more ambitious story requires better acting from the
performers, and Gerry Pike wasn't always up to the task, although at times
he reminded of the guy from the Highlander series. Dough and Million gave
credible performances in their roles as the evil modeling agency execs.
The most serious flaw is the editting. The editting really sucked a lot the
eroticism out of the sex scenes. There was prodigious use of looping, and
they tried to cover this up with clever editting techniques. Many shots
simply weren't held long enough to have their full erotic impact, and there
was an annoying overuse of slow cross-fade edits.
One editting technique I did like was used in the final scene with
Million and Pike. Between each cut an extremely rapid montages of
sexually images was insert, done in synch with the music (a staccato
drum beat).
As I mentioned before the sound is very good, and well synched with the
action and edits. The music is two cuts above the usually porn dreck, but
it still doesn't merit a soundtrack CD (which they are actually offering).
The lyrics are highly repetitive, often a single phrase sung over and over
with variations over a pseudo-jazzy instrumentation.
Scene by Scene:
. Sunset Thmoas, Gerry Pike
My favorite scene in video. Sunset and Pike make love on the
rear deck of a huge (Cadillac) convertible in the middle of the
desert. Spoiled somewhat by the editing.
. Tiffany Million, Ritchie Razor
Tiffany and Ritchie get it on in the back of a cab driven by Pike.
Tiffany is not my cup of tea (fast foward).
Afterward, Tiffany asks Pike to call her at her modeling agency.
Tiffany brings Pike to Dough, the head of her agency. It's sort of
implied that Pike is forced to give Dough a blowjob.
. Chasey Lain, Jon Dough
Tiffany brings another prospect to Dough's office. This time we get to see
him fuck her. Chasey is gorgeous, but the scenes not that well done.
. Debi Diamond, Gerry Pike, Jane A, Jane B
Pike becomes famous. Learns that his old girlfriend (Sunset) was raped by
three cowboys (now that's a scene I would have liked to see), and is now a
basket case. He feels guilty and starts to drink. In a drunken stupor he
dreams about his current girlfriend (Debi) and two anonymous models.
Weird dream sequence with lot of video monitors in the background and
computer generated special effects.
. Asia Carerra, Misty Rain
Lesbian kink.
* Diedre Holland, Jon Dough
Dough does Holland, while Asia and Misty continue to masturbate in the
background. Nice facial shown twice. Otherwise, a pretty ordinary scene.
. Tiffany Million, Gerry Pike
Interesting editing technique. See above. Pike fucks his manager and
leaves the business. He goes back to the desert and becomes an old man
working at a gas station.
She said, "Think of me from time to time."
And now he thinks of nothing else.
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