Reviewers Recommend Sweat Equity 5 - review by Captain Jack Director: Laurent Sky, Julia Grandi Starring: April Snow, Sawyer Cassidy, Serenity Cox, Eva Generosi. Read review
Briefly, it's good, but not as good as HC1. It's all fullscreen anamorphic, but several of the scenes have problems with how they look on a big screen - almost as if something got screwed up in the digital mastering. The resulting images look out of focus - not crisp and clear. Next time through, I'll try to write down which scenes are problematic.
(I don't know what's going on with Zero Tolerance. I've noticed this same problem in a couple other movies. Maybe it's the camera, although ADT's own Mike "Quasarman" Quasar is the camera guy on this project, and usually, his images are impeccable. Hope they notice this and correct it soon.)
The opening tease for each scene is still there, and the same suck-and-jerk-to-pop theme present in HC1 prevails.
The standout scene for me is the Sasha Grey scene. Man, that girl sucks cock as if her life depends on it! The Maya Hills, Gwen Diamond, and Christina Aguchi scenes were also very good. Although the Gwen and Maya scenes both suffer from the aforementioned image problems.
Overall - still worth checking out, but I'm not as "blown" away as I'd hoped.
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Posted - May 16 2007 : 9:09AM
Actually, I think its better than #1 -- but that may be because I enjoy the shape of Chris Charming's & Trent Soulari's dicks a lot more (they appear in most of the scenes in this one)!
There's just nothing like a set of thick, lipstick paitned lips sucking on Mr. Charming's fat scholong.
Standouts for me were Riley Shy, Gwen Diamond, Tiffany Price, Cassie Ray, & Christina Aguchi.
I didn't notice any glaring problems with the image quality or the 16:9 anamorphic framing.
Yes, all BJs & cumshots take place with they guy sitting/lying down. A good number of the shots are in the mouth -- notably Marie Luv and Sasha Grey.
I think I like the first one better, but only because I liked the cast slightly better. But who knows, a couple of the girls in 2 might grow on me like Chloe Morgan did in the original.
The answer to both your questions is yes. In the first one, there was one performer who had to stand up to cum (he was in the Jenevieve Jolie and Joey Valentine scenes), but everyone in 2 is sitting down. A few girls do jerk the guy off right into their mouths, and the rest take the cumshot in and around the mouth. And there's plenty of great post-cumshot sucking.
My favorite scenes right now are Gwen Diamond, Tiffany Price, Mikayla and Harmony. And of course Sasha -- once she gets those saliva glands working, she just keeps spitting on that cock and keeping it nice and wet. I hope she had a drink of water after the shoot, I was afraid she was going to get dehydrated.
Thanks Quase. It's very hard to describe, but it looks like the image was artificially expanded or zoomed in slightly to fill the screen. The result is a certain fuzziness or graininess to the image. Some scenes have it and others do not. Very weird. Maybe I'm just hypersensitive to this kind of thing - probably from watching WAY too much porn! LOL
Upon watching this for the second time through, I think I have some more relevant feedback for Quasarman.
My first viewing was on my widescreen TV. The second was on my PC. On my PC, it actually displays as letterbox. Really weird, since it seems to be anamorphic widescreen on my widescreen TV. I don't pretend to understand all the possible combinations of camera settings, mastering, etc. that make a picture look good on one TV and not another, but I will say that the images looked much crisper and cleaner on my PC. I will say that there are a few scenes on the disc that practically justify a purchase on their own - namely Gwen diamond, Sasha Grey, Christina Aguchi, Riley Shy (wow, our little cocksucker is all grown up now - great eye-contact, dirty talk and general nastiness - Bravo!), and Cassie Young (she's still hot as fuck after all this time).
All that having been said, I think I've figured out what was really bugging me about almost all of the scenes. They're all shot from above with the guy sitting back on the couch. The angle doesn't work for lots of the views, since what you end up seeing is less of the girl's face and more of her forehead. Also, since her head is not at quite the right angle, you get less light shining directly on her face, which also detracts from the view.
I much prefer to have the guy lying all the way down, and the camera shooting at a right angle directly into the girl's face. This allows for much more "face time" for each girls, and enhances eye-contact that much more, since she doesn't have to strain to look up at the camera - she's just looking forward. (Has anyone else noticed this? Does anyone care?)
A recent POV blowjob release that really gets this angle thing perfectly is "I Cum for U, You Cum For Me". In that movie, the guys are lying down on the floor, and all the BJs are shot with the camera almost all the way down at floor level. Tons of great eye-contact-with-camera and close-ups galore as well.
In general I think I'm still happy with having purchased HC2. There's enough on the disc to keep me happy. I just hope Quase takes some of my attempts at constructive criticism to heart for future releases of Head Case. I have VEY high hopes for the series overall - love that the girls do all the work and the guys are reduced to nothing but stunt cocks. It's one of my favorite elements in porn.
I really enjoyed this one. Gwen Diamond's cock sucking was superb and a must watch in the BTS. They almost had to pull her off of the guys cock to shoot the scene. Riley Shy, Cassie Young suck them while they cum and the little moans of pleasure with each squirt was really hot. Marie Luv's oral skills were again superb.
