Do It My Way
- 1971
- 1h 2m
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Soporific early hardcore
A standard axiom of porn studies is that the move to narrative sound features from silent 8- and 16mm loops and stags enabled the genre to "come out of the shadows" as it were, the guise of redeeming social content serving as pretext for the artistic legitimacy of the hardcore action. If that's the case, DO IT MY WAY must've been one of the vice squad's most-busted, as there's not a shred of redeeming content anywhere!
Bridging the world between loops and features, the extremely simple not-even-a-story for MY WAY finds early porn stalwart Orrin North (in a rare appearance without usual scene partner Judy Angel) paired up with some French dude in a nondescript motel. They're planning on having a bunch of people over to have sex while they shoot loops; unfortunately, they have a bad habit of getting sucked into the action.
And that's all she wrote. The film regurgitates this same context four times, first with a solo black guest; then a pair of women for a lesbian loop (North and his Gallic counterpart can't help but jump in anyway); then a hippie chick and her handsome, bearded boyfriend (the only segment where the pair are able to keep their hands to themselves); and finally another solo girl. Each time, the two complain about how they're not getting any work done, but they never seem to correct themselves! The single-location motel room suggests almost a NO EXIT-style infinite time loop, albeit with a rotating cast of thirds and fourths to keep our protagonists company in their sexual hell.
It's hardly worth saying anything about production values, as they're laughably primitive: scenes begin and end with in-camera fades, and the film is slapped together crudely in terms of its scene transitions, despite the scenes themselves being edited fluidly enough. Acting is everyone just playing themselves. Despite all this, most of the cast is attractive and pleasant enough - we're at least spared the misery of real bottom-of-the-barrel grinders, which often seem slapped together solely so a bunch of ugly guys could get laid. Instead, DO IT MY WAY is merely soporific rather than agonizing, apt to lull you into an sexual stupor with an hour of moderately attractive rutting bodies. Amazingly, you could do worse, but in terms of establishing the nascent XXX genre's legitimacy, it's certainly a poor example.
Bridging the world between loops and features, the extremely simple not-even-a-story for MY WAY finds early porn stalwart Orrin North (in a rare appearance without usual scene partner Judy Angel) paired up with some French dude in a nondescript motel. They're planning on having a bunch of people over to have sex while they shoot loops; unfortunately, they have a bad habit of getting sucked into the action.
And that's all she wrote. The film regurgitates this same context four times, first with a solo black guest; then a pair of women for a lesbian loop (North and his Gallic counterpart can't help but jump in anyway); then a hippie chick and her handsome, bearded boyfriend (the only segment where the pair are able to keep their hands to themselves); and finally another solo girl. Each time, the two complain about how they're not getting any work done, but they never seem to correct themselves! The single-location motel room suggests almost a NO EXIT-style infinite time loop, albeit with a rotating cast of thirds and fourths to keep our protagonists company in their sexual hell.
It's hardly worth saying anything about production values, as they're laughably primitive: scenes begin and end with in-camera fades, and the film is slapped together crudely in terms of its scene transitions, despite the scenes themselves being edited fluidly enough. Acting is everyone just playing themselves. Despite all this, most of the cast is attractive and pleasant enough - we're at least spared the misery of real bottom-of-the-barrel grinders, which often seem slapped together solely so a bunch of ugly guys could get laid. Instead, DO IT MY WAY is merely soporific rather than agonizing, apt to lull you into an sexual stupor with an hour of moderately attractive rutting bodies. Amazingly, you could do worse, but in terms of establishing the nascent XXX genre's legitimacy, it's certainly a poor example.
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- Davian_X
- Mar 21, 2023
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