Okay, here's the deal - name a film (or films) you like, and why - state format (VHS, DVD, etc), actors/actresses, and availability.

I'll start with a couple of examples:

Title: Shane's World Vol. 32 - Campus Invasion
Format: DVD (2 disc set)
Availability - shanesworld.com or other online adult DVD shops.
Released - Nov. 2002
Cast: Belladonna, Calli, Malorie, Evalyn, Mr. Marcus, Tex

This is the movie shot at IU's Bloomington, Indiana campus that made international news after the university found out and threatened lawsuits. DVD version includes a bonus disc with behind the scene interviews, a couple of lost, cut scenes, and some other stuff. Worth it for the extras alone. Plot? None really, the girls just play around on the IU campus, in dorms, frat houses, and start with an appearance at the campus radio station. Still, you can tell they had a good time. Oh and obviously the movie is filled with "extras" from around campus, but only those people who signed releases have their faces showing, everyone else is blurred out (even, and especially, restaurant staff, where they film during dinner a couple of times).

Now here's the hard part - trying to give a rating - I think it's worth owning, but not everyone may agree. If you know someplace that rents recent adult DVD releases inexpensively, go for it.

Fashionistas
DVD
my corner porn palace

contains: Anal, Busty, Cumshots, Double Penetrations, Fetish (Leather,PVC, or Rubber), Oral

Performers:
Belladonna
Caroline Pierce
Chelsea Blue
Friday
Gia
Kate Frost
Manuel Ferrara
Monique
Rocco Siffredi
Sharon Wild
Star Chandler
Taylor St. Claire
Tricia Devereaux


Director: John Stagliano

This a review I found that I agree with:

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"There is a saying "be careful what you wish for because you might just get it" Well, I am glad I am not careful. Long and often I have voiced my wish for hardcore porn that had top of the range production values, intelligent direction, decent acting performances in a plotline that neither embarrassed your intelligence nor held up the sex. Porn that was thought through, porn that got down and got very, very dirty - but for a reason - porn where women were not automatons but loved the sex, couldn't get enough of the sex, and no one pouted dead-eyed to camera. And now I have it. On my DVD player as I type. It is fabulous. It is everything I ever hoped porn might be. It is John Stagliano's flag fluttering on the very peak of the Everest of porn. It is "The Fashionistas" - a 4 hour and 40 minute epic, classily conceived and shot on 35mm film, a unique (in porn) and wonderful extravagance which you can see in every frame of every fuck. It has characters who you are interested in as well as just lust after. The script even has wit! The sex is not just sex it is serious fucking. It is dirty and animal, it gets rough and it gets incredibly inventive. Stagliano has got himself one of the most creative mixes of female physicality I have ever seen in a porn movie and most get there moment on the end of an impressive erection. Talking of which, the film stars Rocco Siffredi with the gorgeous Taylor St Clair as a designer dominatrix with a thing for smothering and the ass and tits to indulge it to the max. Stagliano fuels your dreams for months to come (and come and come) with some of the best performed and best shot fucking I have seen. Access all areas and this cast really look like they are enjoying themselves. Fans of the blowjob will enjoy some deep throat to make your jaw drop (although not as far as the charismatic and delightfully dangerous looking Belladonna's does) and boys who like girls who like girls can look forward to some of the best lesbian scenes on celluloid... seat-warmingly sexy, with an edge of violence, some brutally beautiful bondage and a scene involving a vast crystal dildo during which I do not remember breathing once. Everything about this film is good. It even has a decent soundtrack. Stagliano - who wrote, directed, and produced it - should be given a knighthood for services to a wrongly denigrated art form. In the meantime he and his film have been nominated for a record 22 Awards by the AVN. Every single one from Best Film to Best Anal Scene is richly deserved. Buy this film now... Staglioni and Siffredi spent a fortune making it, they deserve the revenue and you deserve the pleasure. In fact hold your copy of the Erotic Review in one hand and get online with the other... www.blissbox.com. Order before they sell out... and I am lending my copy to NO ONE."

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Two imports (from Germany, imported through orgazmik.com):

Both DVD, region 0, PAL video format (require PAL/NTSC capable DVD-player, or virtually any DVD-ROM drive).

Title 1: Das Mädchen-Internat (roughly - The Girls School) [Featuring Kelly Trump]
Title 2: Gina Wild - Durchgefickt - jetzt wird's schmutzig 4 (thorougly fucked - now it's getting dirty #4)

Casts - unavailable on packaging except for the two 'stars'

#1 is a straightforward story, scandal in a girl's school, lots of sex, all in German. Printed runtime of 100 minutes (or 1:40).
#2 features a branching story - you can move around through different scenes. There's also a little bit of advertising, but it can be safely skipped. Behind the scenes shows some still images with several of the sex scenes in the background. There's also a featurette featuring Gina, but mostly just going through poses and some brief interviews. Again, virtually all in German (except for the one Swedish accent who can't speak a word of German, and thus communicates to the others in English).

Ratings - #1 - okay, good for a couple of views.
#2 might be worth a couple more viewings than #1, for the featurette and to make sure you got through every branch of the feature.
Knowledge of German not really necessary for either, though it never hurts.

Title: Extreme Sex (vol. 1)
Published by Vivid DVD
(2 sided DVD, first published in 1994, still in print - side 1 is the 'feature' and side 2 is further video clips with various Vivid actresses).
Cast: Dyanna Lauren, Rebecca Bardoux, Chayse Manhattan, Tammi Ann, Bionca, Tom Byron, David Armstrong, Sean Michaels, Marc Wallice, Toni English.

Extras (on side 1): Meet the Girls, with clips and biographical data for stars Jeanteal, Janine, Racquel, Chasey, Christy, Dyanna, Heather, Kobe Tai and Lexus. "Int Tel Sex Game" with more video clips (if it's a game, it's very easy to find menu "hot spots" ). Award Winning Sex, showing clips from other movies for which Vivid has received awards. Cyber Sex shows a woman hooked up to wires, connected to a computer (I think we've got that beat just doing what we do in our chatrooms - er aHEM sorry - but come on, get naked and THEN hook up wires? I don't think so ). Previews - of 'Sex Show' and "Blonde Justice."

I think a second Extreme Sex was done, but haven't seen it. This one takes plae in a sex club, and gets the "extreme" name for featuring some spanking, some fairly serious candle wax, a shaving scene (legs and pussy), a foot fetish scene, and a black latex scene. But the real reason I got it was that a few of the sex scenes feature multi-angle cameras. An icon will appear when they are available, and you can choose from up to four different views.

Certainly worth watching a couple of times to get all the angles, and going through all the bonus material.

Lilith, Fashionistas is available at adultdvdexperts.com (the US branch of orgazmik.com). Adult Video Empire as well. $50 list price. Just FYI.

And speaking of which, my copy arrived today (Thursday). I'll let you know what I think.

Love this thread! Thanks, dadist! I haven't watched enough porn lately to judge and you guys are helping me want to rent some more.

dadist...thanks for the tip on Shane's world. Me and the wife rented it last night. Overall it was pretty entertaining...lol. And the scene w/ tex and the college girl was HOT!!! I recommend it too!

We also rented "Women seeking Women" by girlfriendfilms. that was good too. Not as hard core as Shanes World, but not soft core either. The scenses were more intimate (lots of kissing), they took their time getting to where they were going. But the women had some pretty intense orgasms which was pretty hot.

TEXAS
DILDO
MASQUERADE
(1997) Mile High Video

I saw this movie a few nights ago. It is a parody of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and follows that very well. It is very messed up at times. Lots and lots and I mean lots of dildos and vibes lots of lez scenes and one guy/girl with the girl wearing makeup that makes her look buttttt ugly....freaky but good sex scenes (well except for ron jeremy). I will watch it again.

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Got any suggestions for a first time porn viewer? Something with a little of everything, that's not too extreme?

Parents are going out of town for a few days in a couple weeks, so I'd like to spend the time productively.

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BCG~ I suggest you go with a classic..... Debbie Does Dallas or Cinderella (the one with her snapping pussy)

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<~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~>
One man's dream is another man's nightmare~~~~> §¤ Lilith ¤§
~>My Scribbles<~
==>Gone Shopping<== ~Just a Quickie~ *~A Celebration Vacation~* ~Surprises~ Sleeping With the Window Open
What Did You Do Today? Self Defense Class ~Short Sweet Snippets~ § Summer Spin § Story Challenge Submission Pajamas

I know there are a few European films that are low on dialog and not totally heavy on action - several such should be available here in the US. I can PM specific titles (nothing I've watched in a while, so I don't have a review ready ).
Maybe you should have a Pixie guy bring you some! LOL

Oh, and by the way BCG, are you looking for VHS or DVD?

Lilith, what about Deep Throat?

If you like a bit of hot 70s Porno Chic, then you must must must see Henry Paris's 'The Opening Of Misty Beethoven' which has sexy babes with real boobs and pubic hair (I'd give all my shoes to charity if I could look as foxy as Constance Money for just one day). There's excellent acting from Jamie Gillis (who comes across like a porno Cary Grant), big budget sets (Paris, Rome and New York) & an excellent script with hilarious dialogue.

The whole thing's based on Pygmalion / My Fair Lady and it's about a snooty libertine (Jamie Gillis) who decides to turn a common hooker (Constance Money) into a sexual sophisticate. They live in a surreal & funny world where on aeroplanes the air hostesses offer you head and you get the choice of "fucking or non-fucking" when you board your flight.

The only things that let it down are that there are too many blowjobs for my liking and, because it's the '70s, they don't seem to have realised that a girl needs more than a cursory tongue-waggle down below and a cock inside her to get off. (I find myself shouting things at the screen like, "Come on boys! It's not THAT difficult to find. I'll even draw you a map.")

But the performers really do look like they're having a great time rather than just holding on till the pay cheque arives (like they do in most modern pornos). This is the only porno I've ever watched more than once (I've seen it 4 times now).

By the way, Dadaist. I name that avatar in one: it's Tristan Tzara, isn't it? But just look what Hugo Ball's wearing to the Cabaret Voltaire tonight...

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A closeup of Hugo in that costume had been my previous avatar, and when larger avatar sizes became available, I switched to Tristan. You're the first person to get it without asking me

Ah, well - I'm very fond of the Dadaists & the Surrealists. I'm involved in a kind of erotic conceptual arty type of thing, called Porno-Kunst International, and I guess our main influences are the "Post-Porn Modernism" of Annie Sprinkle or Cossi Fanni Tutti but with a lot of the fun of Dada and Fluxus thrown in for good measure.

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