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Written by mike
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Friday, 06 June 2008 08:59 |
 If Erik Rhodes starts looking a little thinner these days, don't freak out. In a sign that the once tumultuous studio is on the upswing, Falcon Studios will be taking away a major supply of protein for its models, and will no longer ask them perform or receive oral cumshots. "It wasn't right for us and it wasn't right for our brand," Troy Prickett told us this afternoon.
The studio came under heavy fire for its flirtation with the bareback market -- first, by branding its vintage product as "Falcon Bareback," and by covertly registering bareback-sounding domains like FalconRaw.com. The oral cumshot policy, initiated by recently departed Falcon president Todd Montgomery -- which began quietly on films from its Jocks line of films, then more aggressively as a marketing campaign with Fleet Week -- was seen by many in the industry as the equivalent of, uh, just putting the head in. C'mon -- just for a little bit? Baby?
The first beneficiary of the cum-free diet will be Matthew Rush, who will not be invited to eat gay-for-gray star Zeb Atlas's paycheck in their upcoming two-part marriage-themed production. The movie, the first to be shot after the departure of Montgomery, features Tony Capucci as a groom-to-be, and Matthew bottoming at a bachelor party for Zeb.
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And congrats to Falcon for "stepping back from the edge."
When oh when will Falcon find some new stars? Sorry, Zeb will never be identified with Falcon no matter how many movies he winds up doing for them. Matthew just isn't the hot property he once was, IMO. And Eric needs to find another line of work. Tony Capucci I have yet to see, but even he was poached from the web after going from site to site. WHY can't they find some hot new studs? It's FALCON, godammit!
somepeople are never happy - it's the way of these things. Kudos to Prickett for haveing the balls to acknowledge what everyboy said when this first broke a few months ago. It isn't right for them, and no one believed it was optional.
There's about a hundred pay sites out there where straight guys who are hotter and fresher than Zeb Atlas mess around with other guys.
And if oral cum shots were wrong for the Falcon brand why is Fleet Week ranked #1 on AVN's sales charts? Seems like Falcon is now pandering to a vocal minority who want the company to stick with a tired formula.
Having Zeb in a movie is a big mistake - I met her at the GayVN Expo - working the Specialty table (he was their man of the year) and was there to meet his fans - I have never met a man that so lacked a personality until I met him - boring. I have no interest in watching him have sex - he could be gangbang by 75 guys - still no interest.
And if you really want to talk about crappy movies - do we really need another movie by Titan or Raging Stallion - they all look a like. I think it is time for a passing of the guard - these old studios are just running after past fame and glory - nothing new and nothing exciting - 3 muscle hairy guys on every cover - come on you can't give us more then that ???
And if I see one more press release about how much money Raging Stallion is spending on a movie - who gives a shit if the movie is the same pile of crap like that last piece of shit
WHEN MATT & ZEB DANCE AT BROADWALK ZEB SHOW A
WOODY FOR MATT.I HEAR CHOPIN "POLOAISE"[in A
No.6] EVERY TIME I SEE Mr.Rush!
wooffffffffffff fffffffffffffff ffffffff
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And then, there's the anatomy of a two-hour feature: (a.) Enter a room and introduce the characters; (b.) Have the characters get into some sort of scuffle; (c.) Establish everyone's sexual roles; (d.) Cue the bad music and everyone make out for ten minutes; (e.) Have a slight change in scenery or position and start the dick sucking portion of the exercise, which will last another ten to fifteen minutes (at which point, I've either completely lost interest and fucked around on the internet or simply removed the DVD and put in a better studio's DVD); (f.) The obligatory ass rimming and fingering scene, which can take anywhere from five to ten minutes, and is rarely, by all appearances, really enjoy by any of the actors who eat ass with all the excitement most people exhibit for a small pox vaccination; (g.) FINALLY, after nearly a half-hour of bullshit foreplay, we get to the sex, which rarely looks ot sounds anything but forced, unenjoyed, rushed, and choreographed down to the smallest detail and moan. This portion of the video will show off how great the actors LOOK while having sex, but strangely, not how GOOD they are at having it, and will prove that, just because you can bench press a Volkswagon doesn't mean that you know how to REALLY fuck a man until he's a quivering mass of flesh who NEEDS your cock to continue living and will do anything, just so long as you keep fucking him; (h.) The obligatory cum shot (the whole subject of this blog post). This is usually less climactic than the sex itself, which is almost unthinkable, and often leaves the audience to wonder, "Wow...that's a whole lot of fuss over something that you didn't look that into doing for the last forty-five minutes. And is it really worth ALL that screaming, especially after you've pulled out of him, and ejaculated all over his back, or chest? Where's the connection? Where's the fire? Where's the passion? THIS is what I paid for? Half-assed Bukake, WITHOUT THE BUKAKE!?!?"; (i.) This part is either a cut away or fade out from the "action" as it were, or even worse, a post-coital recap of sorts, where the actors gaze druggy-eyed out into the ether, supposedly contemplating what just took three hours of start and stop filming to get through (though I imagine it's more to do with "God, I can't wait to take a shower, collect my money, get something to eat, and go home to someone who I actually ENJOY having sex with.").
I know that seems really long-winded, but honestly, if you're exhausted reading that, imagine how exhausting it must be to actually WATCH it. It's kind of embarassing, really, that after I leave the dark corner of even the best porn store where they keep "the good stuff," I don't even bother to look at the rest of the crap I see, and stroll over to the STRAIGHT porn section, where the guys are often more attractive, defintely more into what they're doing, and know how to FUCK someone (even if they actresses scream out more than I want to hear them. That's why there's MUTE.).
Overall, the state of Gay Porn has NEVER really been that great, always trying to pigeon hole itself into one category or another...always trying to please everybody, everywhere, all the time...catering to a VAST minority of people who want their sex as milky-white, anodyne, and sterilized as a hospital restroom, with all the precautions to boot...never having "normal" models (they're either fur burgers or skinned chickens; muscle boys or starving twinks; All-American Clean Cut Boys or Big City Tattooed Bad Boys)...always bland, predictable, and overhyped.
I fully understand that pornography is a fantasy, and isn't really life, but part of having a fantasy is that you believe that it could actually HAPPEN to you. With the videos that are out, today, SURE, we'd like to have sex with them, but we rarely get to see what they're like when the chemistry is there (which in our fantasies, it always is). They're untouchable. They're unattainable. They only seem to fuck other beautiful men, and unless I need to get my prescription renewed, I don't know more than a handful of men whom I'd qualify as beautiful who aren't all ready a part of the industry (but who complain about the same things as I do when it comes to porn). Normal guys like myself and most of the audience for porn wouldn't even be given a second look by most studios, and those studios who are brave enough to pair the gods with the mortals are relegated to the darkest recesses of only the most well-stocked porn stores and are usually the industry outcasts.
You guys can continue to criticize the model and the pornstars all you want. They don't care. They make their money, just the same. But, when it comes down to it, the porn studios have always been in a rut, and make films that abide by the Three B's: Bland, Boring, and Banal. Until we start demanding better porn for .95 they ask us to spend on a video, we're going to keep seeing the same shit, over and over again. And until they get with a better program and offer a better menu, I'll be buying from Treasure Island Media.
chrisclaiborne@gmaI'll.com