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Three Way (2004)
Not-bad crime flick
Some truly stupid behavior (excused, in part, by every criminal in this movie being a rank amateur) hampers an otherwise passable crime movie about sloppy blackmailing, sloppy kidnapping, and not-always-sloppy plots within plots. Despite the foolish actions, the dialogue and performances are good, especially those of Dominic Purcell and Gina Gershon. Ali Larter looks fantastic, and the locations are nice even if the time-lapse scenery jumps get a little tiresome by movie's end.
Worth a look for fans of the genre, but by no means the soft-core porn flick some posts here (and the title - I wish!) suggest. Well, one scene, and no, it features neither Gershon nor Larter.
Give Me Your Soul... (2000)
Unsettling account of the porn industry
Laconically-narrated doc about the modern porn biz; it's none too flattering and I doubt any halfways honest movie could be. A few obvious sad stories are followed, which tend to only get more dire as they go on - particularly the story of an eager young starlet whose mother supports her decision through a look of barely-suppressed worry, which piles on one saddening climax after another until I just about felt sick. Nothing even remotely erotic is featured; the making of porn is by all accounts about as sexy as watching a dishwasher in action.
Lots of interesting people are featured, very few of which could be described as likable. Of the women who are shown in any depth, one can't miss the impression that they all wish they'd stayed far away from the industry. The most powerful moments were courtesy not of a performer, but of a performer's sister, who shares some insights and disappointments.
Not ham-fistedly judgmental - there's certainly enough simpleminded propaganda about the evils of the industry, rooted in the assumption that pornography is inherently evil - but not by a long shot the kind of apologism one might expect from an attemptedly serious doc about porn.
Undergrads (2001)
Amusing, but a little troubling...
There's something fundamentally dishonest about a show that tries to portray college life, in which for its entire run nobody went to a single class or was seen studying, or had any issues with grades. I think one guy mentioned film class, and he wasn't even one of the main four. Trivia page mentions that its creator dropped out of college to work on it - why doesn't that surprise me?
Still, it made for a number of chuckle-filled evenings on Teletoon, and I'd always hoped for a second season to correct on the first season's limited scope.
Bloody hell what's with this "you must submit 10 lines for approval" crap?