I just got through looking at one of my favorite adult web sites and have made a startling discovery. Americans just cant make a decent erotic movie. We can make porn as well as anyone but their is a big difference between porno and erotic. I'm not sure that I can explain the difference and it may be different to different people, but I know what I like.
After my divorce, I rented an XXX movie. I hadn't seen one in years. The ex considered them "Disgusting." While watching, I found myself complaining about the lack of a plot and the bad acting. Here I am watching beautiful woman being taken in all openings by men and women and I'm complaining about the plot and acting. Was I getting old? Maybe, but I like to think that I'm more discriminating now. Let's face it. American porn can all have the same title-"Things That Never Happen To You in Real Life." I am as American as anyone but I'm the first to admit that the Europeans have it all over us in the area of erotica. Especially the French, Italians and the Brits. Why is that? We can do explicit as well as anyone but explicit is not especially erotic, to me. Now, I am not against explicit. But it can be done erotically. About the best movie I've seen is called "9 Songs." It gets very explicit toward the end but it is as erotic as anything I've ever seen. It has American actors but it is British made. I saw a clip from it on
motherless.com and ordered it through Amazon. Uncut version.
Why can't Americans make a movie like that? If anyone knows of some good erotic movies, let me know. Especially American movies. But I do believe that the good ones will be European.