38 What is all this I keep hearing about "The Golden Age?"
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This article is from the Sex Movies FAQ, by director@gti.net (The Director) with numerous contributions by others.
38 What is all this I keep hearing about "The Golden Age?"
The following comes from Peter van Aarle's excellent web page (mirrored
at http://www.io.com/~rwilhelm/aarle/golden_age.html) regarding the
"Golden Age" of porn films.
Ah, the good old days, when the words "shot on video" were unheard of,
and they actually had budgets to shoot an adult movie <sigh>
When the plot of a porno movie wasn't limited to "Gee, I don't seem to
have the money to pay for the pizza! Now what do we do?" and the talent
actually were sent the script in advance to learn their lines. Heck
they even were known to have occasional rehearsals :-)
Oh well, no use crying over things that once were. With the present glut
of cheap product (over 2500 pornos were released in the US in 1994!) a
good movie is difficult to make. That is to say, you can still make a
good movie if you invest time and money in it, but a 4 times higher
budget is unfortunately no guarantee for a 4 times higher return.
In fact, the only people who can change things are we the consumers. If
we make sure that cheap one-day-wonders don't make their producers much
money then (and only then) is the general quality likely to improve.
After all, why should Joe Producer invest a lot of time and effort in
making a good product when producing crap lets him rake in the bucks
anyway...
So we have the choice: either scour the shelves for hours to try and
find the few pearls among today's dreck or go back to those classics of
yesteryear.
If you want to try your luck with today's product (which isn't all bad,
really), I would suggest reading some of the reviews posted to the
alt.sex.movies newsgroup to help distinguish between the good and the
bad. Many of these reviews are archived at several sites. (Check out
http://w3.gti.net/director/revindex.html for a jumping off point)
"Ok", you say "but what if I want some of those classics? How do I know
what to look for?" Well fear no more, here for your browsing pleasure is
a list of many of the best porno movies ever made. Many of them are
from the so-called Golden Age which is generally considered to have been
from about 1977 to 1982.
Which isn't to say that there have not been some good movies made before
or since that time, nor that there weren't some awful ones produced
during the period, it's just that so many of the classics were made
during that period...
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