adriana chechik and kissa sins in “sapphic curse of the crystal skull”
scene title: sapphic curse of the crystal skull
performers: adriana chechik, kissa sins
site: girlsway (gamma)
production credits: stills by alan (dir.)
trailer
i have complained so much about stills by alan's day-to-day girlsway work that i may have given the impression that i don't think he could be a competent director. but that's not true; it's just that on the usual schedule he maintained of two scenes per day over the past couple of years, he took a lot of shortcuts and attempted very little quality control. when he was working on more ambitious projects, like the features that first made girlsway a name to be reckoned with in the industry, but which had more recently slowed to a trickle as the engagement metrics failed to support them, he could produce work at least as good as the average shitty tv show.
here, he uses a combination of drone footage over desert landscapes, shots of his stars hiking in the l.a. area, and relatively expensive post-production to suggest an extensive location shoot in support of a surprisingly detailed, if straightforward in incident, story of archaeology grad student (adriana chechik) and her ex-marine colleague and gun-toting protector (kissa sins, dressed exactly like lara croft) attempting to explore a cave that had been sealed for centuries but which recent forest fires made accessible. they find some supposedly mayan artifacts, including a crystal skull that, uh, turns chechik into a nymphomaniac lesbian instead of one who deflects kissa's advances by mentioning her wife.
the genre material is very much a reprise of alan's previous greatest girlsway hits, from the brand-defining 2015 feature the turning (which also starred chechik) to more comedic series like 2016's going bonkers, both of which used similarly cheap special effects to indicate out-of-control lesbian desire that sweeps through various cast members in order to facilitate multiple sex scenes. it's a fairly ridiculous genre of porn (if a popular one in written erotica form), and one criticism frequently leveled against alan and girlsway in general has long been that his high-concept genre pastiches are rarely as satisfying as the more down-to-earth scenarios that girlsway also used to be known for. (but stylish, non-fantastic features like the business of women and sharing the bed are long in the rearview.) it seems likely that this was perhaps originally meant to be the first scene in a new feature, but on the heels of alan's suspension and girlsway's drastic production shift over the course of the first few months of 2019, it's been released as a one-off.
although i'm a girl/girl consumer and so have paid plenty of attention to girlsway over the last half-decade, i'm not sorry to see gamma putting more money, energy and effort into other brands and concepts recently. the exhaustion of the girlsway formula has been apparent for a while, and although they still produce quality scenes from time to time, that often seems more due to the law of averages than to the high standard that they started out with. or maybe the rest of porn has caught up to where girlsway was in 2015, and they don't look so impressive anymore.
but anyway, how were chechik and kissa? they were good, of course, as you'd know if you've seen either of them before: much better actors would have had just as much trouble getting those undigestible slabs of exposition out in a convincing manner, and the sex was intense, athletic, and so over-the-top that chechik being possessed by some kind of sex demon didn't seem too farfetched (but also, well, that's adriana chechik for you). it was a profoundly stupid premise, poorly written although impressively stitched together in post-production, and they did a valiant job with it. (the ending, though, makes no sense, and feels like the product of some missing footage.)
the sex was filmed in a much more dynamic and fluid way than the average girlsway scene, especially given the conceit that it's all taking place with a camping tent: the moody lighting and high-quality post-production gave it a glossy sheen that never got boring, even if it went on far past the point when my interest and curiosity about such a high-energy pairing had been sated. that's not a euphemism.
fuck stills by alan, may he never return.
performances: 24
cinematography: 23
editing: 18
script: 10
sjw points: 0
total score:
performers: adriana chechik, kissa sins
site: girlsway (gamma)
production credits: stills by alan (dir.)
trailer
 |
| l: adriana chechik, r: kissa sins |
i have complained so much about stills by alan's day-to-day girlsway work that i may have given the impression that i don't think he could be a competent director. but that's not true; it's just that on the usual schedule he maintained of two scenes per day over the past couple of years, he took a lot of shortcuts and attempted very little quality control. when he was working on more ambitious projects, like the features that first made girlsway a name to be reckoned with in the industry, but which had more recently slowed to a trickle as the engagement metrics failed to support them, he could produce work at least as good as the average shitty tv show.
here, he uses a combination of drone footage over desert landscapes, shots of his stars hiking in the l.a. area, and relatively expensive post-production to suggest an extensive location shoot in support of a surprisingly detailed, if straightforward in incident, story of archaeology grad student (adriana chechik) and her ex-marine colleague and gun-toting protector (kissa sins, dressed exactly like lara croft) attempting to explore a cave that had been sealed for centuries but which recent forest fires made accessible. they find some supposedly mayan artifacts, including a crystal skull that, uh, turns chechik into a nymphomaniac lesbian instead of one who deflects kissa's advances by mentioning her wife.
the genre material is very much a reprise of alan's previous greatest girlsway hits, from the brand-defining 2015 feature the turning (which also starred chechik) to more comedic series like 2016's going bonkers, both of which used similarly cheap special effects to indicate out-of-control lesbian desire that sweeps through various cast members in order to facilitate multiple sex scenes. it's a fairly ridiculous genre of porn (if a popular one in written erotica form), and one criticism frequently leveled against alan and girlsway in general has long been that his high-concept genre pastiches are rarely as satisfying as the more down-to-earth scenarios that girlsway also used to be known for. (but stylish, non-fantastic features like the business of women and sharing the bed are long in the rearview.) it seems likely that this was perhaps originally meant to be the first scene in a new feature, but on the heels of alan's suspension and girlsway's drastic production shift over the course of the first few months of 2019, it's been released as a one-off.
although i'm a girl/girl consumer and so have paid plenty of attention to girlsway over the last half-decade, i'm not sorry to see gamma putting more money, energy and effort into other brands and concepts recently. the exhaustion of the girlsway formula has been apparent for a while, and although they still produce quality scenes from time to time, that often seems more due to the law of averages than to the high standard that they started out with. or maybe the rest of porn has caught up to where girlsway was in 2015, and they don't look so impressive anymore.
but anyway, how were chechik and kissa? they were good, of course, as you'd know if you've seen either of them before: much better actors would have had just as much trouble getting those undigestible slabs of exposition out in a convincing manner, and the sex was intense, athletic, and so over-the-top that chechik being possessed by some kind of sex demon didn't seem too farfetched (but also, well, that's adriana chechik for you). it was a profoundly stupid premise, poorly written although impressively stitched together in post-production, and they did a valiant job with it. (the ending, though, makes no sense, and feels like the product of some missing footage.)
the sex was filmed in a much more dynamic and fluid way than the average girlsway scene, especially given the conceit that it's all taking place with a camping tent: the moody lighting and high-quality post-production gave it a glossy sheen that never got boring, even if it went on far past the point when my interest and curiosity about such a high-energy pairing had been sated. that's not a euphemism.
fuck stills by alan, may he never return.
performances: 24
cinematography: 23
editing: 18
script: 10
sjw points: 0
total score:
Comments
Post a Comment