X-Rated: The Greatest Adult Movies of All Time

X-rated: The Greatest Adult Movies of All Time. This was such a fun little documentary! I've seen (and sold) many of these over the years when i worked in adult shops. But the HISTORY of them is fascinating! How many played in BIG SCREEN theaters...for ten years! And what a huge thing it was for VHS! Absolutely fascinating and often hysterical look at the Straight Porn Industry. (The one complaint I have is that they interviewed Men and Women of Porn, and showed Dozens and Dozens of sex scenes, Tits, Pussy and more, yet never even showed a glimpse of a *. Sad that even when doing a documentary about * you can't show a *.) But this was a great documentary. I REALLY loved the beginning history, of the old tyme * flicks of the 1800's to the early big hits and some of their secrets. I laughed a LOT. Very enjoyable.

I saw this last week, and didn't review it until now due to the fact I forgot the name- probably because it's so generic-?? LOL Not sure if this was a Showtime original or what-not, but this doc. goes through what are supposedly the greatest adult movies of all time, starting with the "golden age of *" in the early '70s, and going all the way to the recent years of big-budget extravaganzas. Of course it goes into the early classics like "Deep Throat", "Behind the Green Door", "The Devil In Miss Jones", etc.. But I think once you get past a certain point in the "video age", the market was flooded with so many titles, it's hard to pin point so few-?? A couple I was very disappointed they left out were 1997's "Bad Wives", which was penned by a TV writer who always wanted to write a big-budget porno, and "Zazel: The Scent of Love" (I think released the same year- ??), which is one of the most amazing, beautiful and glorious pieces of filmmaking, adult or mainstream, I think I've ever seen-?? Lots of interviews are also conducted with those from earlier works, as well as present-day performers discussing the classics. Overall, an interesting documentary, and definitely worth watching for * enthusiasts and just general movie-goers...

I recently watched the documentary film "X-Rated: The Greatest Adult Movies of All Time" released in 2015, featuring the likes of Chanel Preston, Riley Reid, and many others. The narration was weak, the interviews lacked depth and the pacing was off. However, the documentary did explore societal taboos, which made me question my own beliefs about the industry. The interviews with adult film actors and directors, the exploration of the societal stigma surrounding adult films, the examination of the artistic merit of adult films, and the analysis of the audience's role in perpetuating the adult film industry all helped to make me question my own views and opinions. While this exploration of societal taboos did not have a huge impact on me, it did make me think about the subject matter in a different way. The film could have been truly controversial and provocative if there was more thought and effort put into it. It could have been so much better but proved to be rather disappointing given what was possible. I felt that the documentary didn't explore these aspects deeply enough and that its overall impact was minimal. The watching experience was average and it did not live up to its potential. While it was interesting to explore the societal taboos surrounding adult films, I felt that the documentary needed more depth in order to truly make an impact. I'm still giving it a 9 because it's filthy enough to draw people in.

X-Rated: The Greatest Adult Movies of All Time is a pamphlet's look at some of the most profoundly important and affecting pornographic films ever made, devoting enough information to classics like Deep Throat, The Devil in Miss Jones, and The Opening of Misty Beethoven that would barely fill the films' "trivia" sections on a Wikipedia page. Hosted by * star Chanel Preston, X-Rated chronicles a plethora of adult films from the 1970's to the 2010's, showing industry innovations, a barrage of elements shown in older pornographic films versus newer ones, an examination of the different actors and actresses involved, and stating their impact in the way of how many Adult Video Awards (AVNs) they garnered. The film discusses the importance of the aforementioned classics, but doesn't hesitate to get more current with its analysis, looking at films like Jenna Jameson's Masseuse from the 1990's and even Pirates from the 2000's, one of the most expensive and famous pornographic films ever released. X-Rated doesn't confine itself to the significance of * chic nor the respective Golden Age, but branches out and shows how the different decades changed. Contemporary * stars like Riley Reid, Casey Calvert, and Capri Cavanni discuss their favorite * films, stating elements from older films that stood out to them and made them personally significant rather than simply culturally significant. Some of the most amusing stuff within the film comes from the actors of the classic films. Shannon Mitchell of Barbara Broadcast fame talks about how she was called on set one day from the film's director Radley Metzger who implored her to come down to the shoot immediately. All Shannon could hear in the background while on the phone was the sound of a flushing toilet. When she arrived, she saw that a sex scene that involved a female's head in the toilet resulted in her necklace getting caught in the toilet and the only way for her to be able to get any kind of air was to flush the toilet. When the toilet was flushed and momentary air was received, the woman looked at Mitchell and ask, "want to join?" Preston occasionally interrupts the look at the films to talk about how the different decades effected *, with the end of the 1970's bringing in more zoning laws for adult theaters and actors, actresses, and directors routinely being arrested on obscenity charges and arrests. This allowed for the home video circuit to emerge, where VHS tapes, albeit expensive ones, were sold boasting pornographic content at various adult video stores. Christy Canyon states that the films consisted of the same basic sex acts (fellatio, cunnilingus, and missionary), though it didn't matter because people were so excited to watch * in their home that anything would satisfy them. The home video market allowed for directors like Ren Savant and Paul Thomas to rise from the ashes of adult theaters in order to churn out their own breed of *. X-Rated: The Greatest Adult Movies of All Time is a momentarily entertaining, back-slapping affair for the adult industry, as many within the industry (no social critics or pornographic critiques/proponents) voice their opinions on their own work and what impact it had on audiences. It chronicles these films and their significance with the shallowness none of these films deserve, and limiting analysis of these films to those who worked on is a huge mistake, as few documentaries on * have gotten away with not offering critical or social analysis from outside activists or social critics. The documentary is marginally entertaining, yet disappointing because all of these films prove to have some sort of significant statement, yet that significant statement cannot be echoed due to the limited number of people speaking on the specific film. Directed by: Bryn Pryor.