People roll their eyes and shake their head in disbelief whenever I discuss my movie collection and reply negatively to their question of "where's the porn?" I just have far too many movies to view to waste my time watching someone get it on with Photocopier Repairman #2.
But Deep Throat is the stuff of legend. It's the movie that had everyone queueing round the block to see what the fuss was about. It's the movie that really got picked on by the moral crusaders (with actor Harry Reems even being convicted at one point in a highly warped use of the laws on conspiracy, or some such legal jargon).
And watching Deep Throat . . . . . . . . . I wonder why. I was expecting something that transcended the porn genre but nothing was all that different (except the central concept, I suppose, of the story being built around Linda Lovelace seeking sexual fulfilment and being told that her clitoris is in the base of her throat). Bad performances from everyone involved? Yep. Ear-damaging soundtrack? Yep. Numerous, unpleasant close-up shots of penetrative sex? Yep.
Maybe it's because, for better or worse, we've seen so much more variety and money going into adult entertainment over the last few decades but Deep Throat doesn't stand up as a classic. It does, however, stand up as something very much of it's time that really kickstarted an amazing chain of events and for that historic curio value it gets rated just above average.
But Deep Throat is the stuff of legend. It's the movie that had everyone queueing round the block to see what the fuss was about. It's the movie that really got picked on by the moral crusaders (with actor Harry Reems even being convicted at one point in a highly warped use of the laws on conspiracy, or some such legal jargon).
And watching Deep Throat . . . . . . . . . I wonder why. I was expecting something that transcended the porn genre but nothing was all that different (except the central concept, I suppose, of the story being built around Linda Lovelace seeking sexual fulfilment and being told that her clitoris is in the base of her throat). Bad performances from everyone involved? Yep. Ear-damaging soundtrack? Yep. Numerous, unpleasant close-up shots of penetrative sex? Yep.
Maybe it's because, for better or worse, we've seen so much more variety and money going into adult entertainment over the last few decades but Deep Throat doesn't stand up as a classic. It does, however, stand up as something very much of it's time that really kickstarted an amazing chain of events and for that historic curio value it gets rated just above average.