From: Sean Matthews ([email protected]) Subject: Review: The Player (and Sheldon's List) Date: Sun, 13 Apr 97 11:23:40 The Player Dir: Ben Cameron Asia Carrera, Janine, Jessica James, Yvonne, Colt Steel, Marc Davis, Steve Drake I got this out as a test of Sheldon Ranz's list of superior, even PC (at least PC by Good Vibrations, if not Catherine MacKinnon, standards), g/g scenes listed at the RAME archive. This is *in spite* of the fact that it is listed at Excalibur (in Germany it often doesn't say on the box who the director is - I wonder why?) as a Bud Lee movie. Unless Ben Cameron is a pseudonym for Bud Lee, Excalibur is wrong. We get five (six, seven?) scenes: Jessica + Colt [short interlude with Janine + Asia] Asia + Steve/Janine solo (in parallel) Janine + Asia Yvonne + Marc Janine + Yvonne Both g/g scenes are on Sheldon's list. What we get is what we usually get with a Vivid movie plus what we are usually promised from a Vivid movie by the box, but don't get (i.e., respectively, beautiful women and high production values, and some decent scenes) I'll ignore the `plot'. Scene 1: Colt sits around doing an impersonation of a condom stuffed with walnuts doing an impersonation of a dork, while Jessica, who looks very pretty, fawns over his dick. Must be said that Colt's dick seems to be in reasonable condition, considering the quantity of steroids he looks to have consumed. Interlude: Asia and Janine necking in a shower. Pretty, though not much happens. Decent plausible intimacy (really a prelude to scene 3). Scene 2a: Asia and Steve Steve arrives on the scene, distubing A. and J. in the shower, so A. shoves J. in a walk-in closet and gets together with S. S. tries hard to look like he is really interested in A., but, while due credit should be allocated, he looks like a bad actor trying honestly to earn his money. I suppose the fact that he tries is what makes Vivid a `couples' label, and I can appreciate, if only on `ideological' (not meant as an insult) grounds, the effort, but I'm afraid it doesn't work, though it is certainly better than most. The absence of gratuitous dick fawning by Asia deserves all available praise in any case. The attempt to add dramatic tension by having Asia worry, while fucking Steve, about what Janine is doing in the closet pretty much fails. Scene 2b: We, privileged over Asia, do get to see what Janine is up to. She is poking around, and naturally finds enough toys to stock a sex shop stashed in the drawers. She equally naturally puts some of her finds to use on herself with reasonable, if not earth-moving, enthusiasm (she's earning her money, but she can have much more fun in this movie - see below - right?). She looks really very nice though, not so much in as falling out of a dark green silk bathrobe for the first part of this. I just wish she wouldn't `slink'. Scene 3. Janine and Asia in a sauna. This is the easily the best thing on the tape, and one of the sexiest things I have seen. Sheldon's recommendation is earned. The extent of Janine Lindemulder's taste for boys is a matter of regular speculation, but it's pretty clear from this that her taste for girls in entirely sincere. She practically assaults A. (in the nicest possible way). Her hands are all over her, and the two of them several times get nicely tangled up in each other in frantic attempts to rearrange themselves. This is miles away from your standard fetishistic g/g scene: it made me think of a couple arriving home too frantic to make it to the bedroom and, having practically fallen though the front door with barely enough presence of mind left to close it behind them, fucking each others' brains out in the middle of the hallway. Note the girls have fingernails trimed neatly back, rather than the standard, and unnerving, boss's secretary's claws: women with claws *do not* in real life have sex with other women, for pretty much the same reason that boss's secretaries can't type. Theoretically, of course, J. could be acting, but I doubt it, since in every other way she is totally incompetent in this direction. I find her constant attempts at foxiness (is that a word) cringe-inducing. She `slinks' around Asia's closet, and just before their main scene together we get to see them walking together in a park. This is a mistake: I would rather have kept my illusions about the ability of a woman who is (presumably) one of the highest paid `exotic' dancers in the world to at least walk gracefully. Let's just say that Sylvie Guillem doesn't need to watch her back. Scene 4. Marc and Yvonne Yvonne looks very pretty in this; Marc is a dork. Why are the boys almost always dorks? Yvonne is exhibitionistic, and plays with herself in front of Marc, then Marc joins her. In general it's OK. Yvonne shows enthusiasm, and an enthusiastic pretty woman is always worth something. Scene 5. Janine and Yvonne [Before this, we see everyone round a table. Jessica looks gorgeous in a black dress which is a small treat all by itself. Janine's wardrobe consultant, on the other hand, should seriously consider investigating an alternative career] Another nice scene, though nothing in comparision with Scene 3. Lots of enthusiasm, esp from J. They eventually end up doing each other with a strapon. The scene maybe could have been a bit longer, but one shouldn't complain. Conclusion: This is Janine's tape. Clearly she was horny as hell when this was shot, since she goes at her partners like an affectionate version of Hanibal Lector. The g/g scenes are thus the highpoint, with the J.&A. scene in particular an object lesson in what a good sex scene of any sort (not just g/g but b/g, orgy, w. toys, w/o. toys, etc.) might look like: good-looking enthusiastic horny exhibitionists being enthusiastically and exhibitionistically horny with each other. What more is there to say: The girls are very pretty, sometimes even when they have cloths on, and not too plastic, the boys are not physically repulsive, sometimes try, and don't behave obnoxiously, while the sex varies from reasonable to wildly enthusiastic. Sheldon's list and the tape thus both get a thumbs up. Sean
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