If You Like That Sort of Thing Award
Wicked Pictures delivers slick, well-edited, beautifully packaged porn movies time after time. Their use of voiceover to drive plots and decrease acting snafus is smart and effective. Their stable of contract performers and directors, including jessica drake, Stormy Daniels, Kaylani Lei, Randy Spears, Michael Raven, and Brad Armstrong, make couples’ films with better and more consistent attempts at plot, character, and message than any other Porn Valley studio, period.
And yet their movies are often so relentlessly earnest, formulaic, and aimed at skittish transitional audiences (people who will buy a Wicked movie because it is presented to look like a similar mainstream movie) that the sloppiness that often makes porn so appealing is whitewashed away in the soft lighting.
Vivid, Hustler, and Digital Playground can’t come close to Wicked in making a Wicked movie. And would they want to? That is why Wicked, best at what it does if you like that sort of thing, deserves its own category.
My favorite Wicked movie this year is Fallen, in which jessica drake plays an angel who has lost her faith but not her sex drive (well, if you look like drake and you’ve got to choose one…). Shot by Brad Armstrong against a beautiful downtown Los Angeles backdrop, “Fallen” is to smelly, raunchy, clinical, and gapey porn what “City of Angels” was to “Wings of Desire.” And who wants to see Peter Falk in a porn movie anyway?
See the Fallen review here.
Previously on Porn Valley Observed: Kissing Girls, The Accidental Hooker, The Wicked; Carpool; Today in porn swag
See also: Wicked
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