I recently bought my first movie ever by Xplor (Homegrown?) - Amateur Anal Attempts #4. It bills itself as an amateur studio, and some of the girls did look like amateurs, but one of them was Serena South, who I've seen in a lot of other movies by other studios as well. She's certainly not an amateur. So whats up with this studio? Are the girl's really amateurs? (and how do they define amateur's?) Also, one of the girl's in Amateur Anal Attempts #4 I had never seen before and she was REALLY hot. On the box cover she's titled "Little Lexis." Anyone know anything else about her? Was she ever in any other movies?
That's not unusual with Homegrown, and I noted a few of the same things you did in my review of Amateur Anal Attempts 9. Although they do have some new girls, it's next to impossible of me to think of them as an amateur studio as many of the scenes have the same guy in it and every movie I've seen from them has had several recognizable girls. They seem to think they're amateur due to their style, but with how many movies they've done they've come off more as sloppy or uncaring than anything else. After watching some of the movies from Shot at Home, Janet Exposed, and Home Sex Tapes, Homegrown seems almost like a joke. "I do not as a rule seek advice about food from thin people..." - Jeffrey Steingarten
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Posted - Sep 14 2007 : 12:41PM
I happened to rent AAA #4 myself. I, too, liked Little Lexis but couldn't find (from IAFD, etc.) if she's appearing in anything else. I'd sure like to see her again, though. I can't disagree with astroknight's appraisal of Homegrown's efforts, generally, but this one had some real cuties in it (Lexis, Cindy, and Evelyn Lin).
To be fair, you have to check the production dates for these flicks. At some point in time, even the most seasoned porn veteran WAS an amateur. For example, I've seen some vids of Mia Rose from back when she first started. She's very well known now, but at the time the vids were taken, she was brand-new to the business. Serena hit the scene in about 2003 IIRC. The date of release of AAA4 was September of 2006. But the date of release of a DVD doesn't always equal the date of production for the individual scenes. I've seen footage that was released months if not years after it was originally shot, typically because it was in some guys editing bin as "stock" stuff forever before they got to it. Brandon Iron recently released a video scene with Ava Miller that was shot almost a year prior.
Wasn't a criticism Brandon...just wanted to make the point that there's a lot of porn out there waiting for editing. So it's not necessarily a fake when someone is listed as an amateur and they are well-known. It could just be editing delays or really old footage. I'm thankful you released it when you did. There's lots of footage I'm sure of others thats still waiting to be seen.
Yes, there is always a lot of good stuff that people haven't seen. There have never been as many great girls in the industry as there is now. Good times!
Yes, everybody was new at some point, but that's far different from what I think of as "amateur porn". Homegrown's stuff appears to be shot by the same people most of the time and often features the same guys. I don't really consider them "amateur porn" just like I don't consider Ed Powers' movies or Randy West's movies to be amateur porn because there's plenty of professionals involved who feel like they don't care enough to do things at the same level as other porn companies and just excuse it by calling it "amateur porn". Along that line of thought there's also the amateur stuff Shot at Home distributes. Kris Knight (obvious pro) is in many of them with Terry (shoot, can't remember his last name) behind the camera. I still consider them amateur as the scenes never look to be shot in a studio (often they're in apartments, on the roof, in a car, in the great outdoors, or in other places that just don't yield good consistent results like a studio should), the girls often only appear in a very few releases (and sometimes never for another company AFAIK), and there's a chemistry there that's common to amateur porn that the others I mentioned before rarely come close to. "I do not as a rule seek advice about food from thin people..." - Jeffrey Steingarten
For anything amateur I always recommend people check out the shotathome site as Andy does a great job listing what types of sex acts are in each of his videos (although the creampie descriptions are normally lacking). You can find a list of Shot at Home reviews here. "I do not as a rule seek advice about food from thin people..." - Jeffrey Steingarten
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Posted - Oct 9 2015 : 6:25PM
Lexis and Cindy are from [link inactive]Sinnistar Cindy Gomez and Little Lexis. We made the mistake of selling watered down versions to homegrown but the extreme versions are on sinnistar and lexis has two painful anal scenes with deepthroat and ass to mouth while Cindy Gomez has 5 scenes, most with first time everything including anal and ass to other girls mouth.