A classic pairing that *should* deliver, assuming the horrible directing and production that's poisoned GFF doesn't ruin it. Fingers crossed.
Just a handful of years ago GFF was by far my favorite adult studio.
Now when I go to look at upcoming scenes and movies, all I see the same old crappy tropes that gave lesbian porn a bad name and ironically GFF spearheaded in breaking... fake girls that obviously aren't very much into other girls, fake tribbing whenever they don't know what to do next (while robotically going through the motions), strange sets/attire/toys/etc. that make a scene feel completely artificial.
Wish there was an alternative but all the good directors seem to be out of the picture.
All these movies are garbage. Only 1 good scene in all of them - Febby Twigs & Macy Meadows
Other scenes lack passion and long, hot kissing! Bad casting & pairings, awful directing.
I hope they pick it up with future releases. I miss Dan and his visual style. There was nothing better. Scenes were long with deep, passionate kissing when Dan directed.
I am a new member at Girlfriend Films, coming there from Adult Time. Enjoying myself so far, the first scene that I watched was from Women Seeking Women #177, 2020-11-21, starring Alex Coal and MIa Taylor. What I had to say about the scene:
"This is the first scene I've ever watched from Girlfriends Films - sublime. Highly enjoyable, both girls are a delight. Love the kissing, the neck kissing, the looking in each others eyes and all the compliments and flirting with one another. Alex was superb with her dialogue, she seemed very natural, really enjoyed the way she was seducing Mia, and then asking her, knowing it's her first time with a girl, every so often if it was all right, if she could go on. Great touches throughout. Also, lastly, let me say this - big foot fetishist here, love female feet, I simply adore them: this scene is a delight for us foot fans, from start to finish, as they're both barefoot and we get lots and lots (as much as we'd like really, the scene long) full views of them. And without there needing to be any focused foot fetish at all it winds up being a hit for us, often it's like that. Regardless, big fan, Thumbs Up, happy to be here (now I'm off to continue exploring)."
Long time fans and members, what should I be on the lookout for in the Archive? What overall title would you consider essential and/or your favorites? Looking to up my Girlfriends Films knowledge, history and overall immersion here.
Also, are the Forums still closed? If so that's a real bummer though I'm happy to direct my energy to this thread until they ever open back up. With the Adult Time forums closing at the end of the year, Evil Angel's pretty much a ghost town, I was really hoping Girlfriend's Films would be slightly more "popping" so to speak, I very much want to be part of a vibrant, active and engaging community.
So I'm looking around the website and I am noticing oddly placed gaps in the titles. For example, the have Women Seeking Women #174 & #176, but didn't put up Women Seeking Women #175. Or Lesbian Psychodramas #28-36 but omitting #33 & #34. Is there any rhyme or reason to this practice or is it just something they do? Up and skip installments?
^Things that you need to understand about GFF and their site.
1-I think the movies made from 2012 and before are usually far superior than most of what came after that.
2-I suspect that many scenes shot without an actual series attached to them are later incorporated in a series.
3-A percentage of videos were shot years before they got released.
4-The updating schedule on their site doesn't make a lot of sense since they will keep specific movies in a series in the vault while releasing more recent ones instead.
5-The heat level was far superior in the older movies.
The GFF forum, last time it was alive, was not very active at all. I can't imagine them bringing it back.
As for scenes, I would suggest delving into some of the best doms GFF had to offer throughout their history and see which ones you like. Examples: - Prinzzess - Magdalene - Samantha Ryan - Mellanie Monroe - Cindy - Julia Ann - Rayveness - Elexis Monroe - Syren De Mer - Darryl Hanah - Sinn Sage - Mindi Mink - August Moon
The one constant in scenes with these women is that they seemed to genuinely enjoy the seduction aspect, and it very quickly appeared that both actresses forgot a camera was in the room and just started making love. IMO that's pretty much what separates a good lesbian scene from a bad one; you'll see in majority of the scenes in recent years that the performances are so sterile, completely devoid of any sort of real passion... the girls just make the typical noises and actions you'd expect from a stereotypical porno scene. It's rare that in any recent scenes you can be convinced that the girls are actually turned on and enjoying themselves instead of just going through the motions to collect the pay check.
Here's another list of girls that aren't usually doms but always seemed to have a great scene: - Shyla Jennings - Taylor Vixen - Allie Haze - Bree Daniels - Georgia Jones - Jelena Jensen - Avy Scott - Dani Daniels - Lily Labeau - Veruca James - Brea Bennett - Scarlett Sage - Kristen Scott
Pick a scene that includes any of the women in either list and chances are it's good if not great. It's a pretty varied list (when it comes to physical appearance) so you're bound to discover some favorites.
Does anyone know the reason why some scenes are not included when archive films are added? The most recent one I have noticed is WSW #35, scenes 1,2 & 3 are added or will be, but scene 4 featuring Ariel X & Bree Olson (a personal fav of mine, btw). There are comments under the dvd info with the final one saying GFF does this when an actress does something wrong like Mercedes Carrera. Does anyone know what is going on at GFF?
^ from the brief time I've been there, it's hard to say - many of the decisions and choices are shrouded in mystery. Ariel X was recently featured on the site, you might check if Bree was too, if so, then the whole thing about either having something done wrong is moot (or you can search them up).
Another thing I've found odd, some things showing as being an Archive upload and others sometimes showing as a regular upload but still clearly being from Archived content despite that.
Nor do I know how they choose the titles to release for the Archive, for example:
- Road Queen 22 was put in the Archive, as per their movie details, 10/17/20. - Road Queen 10 was put in the Archive after that on 12/2/20.
- Women Seeking Women 35 was put up in the Archive 12/8/20 - Women Seeking Women 44 was put up 11/12/20, before #35.
Perhaps some of the old time GFF vets can answer some of these ruminations, anything I guess would be just that, a rank guess, a shot in the dark.
^^gf25 - Thank you kindly for the recommendations and information.
Double Edit - The Remix Edition: Say, was going through some scenes today and thought I'd run a new school scene from GFF past the members and see how y'all felt about it. Wonder if it lives up to the old timers (so to speak, no negative connatation there, talking about the folks that's been with GFF for years and years) expectations regarding the scenes of yore from GFF past, as well as the newbies like myself. I was watching it and quite enjoyed it, especially the beginning parts:
Lesbian Seductions #71 starring Silvia Saige and Kayley Gunner https://girlfriendsfilms.com/en/video/girlfriendsfilms/Lesbian-Seductions-71/180818
^ I enjoyed the scene as well. It just seems to me that GFF nowadays is hot or miss. Classic or archive material may have the aura of greatness, but like everything else they had their misses. I usually watch the classic stuff over the newer stuff, unless a model I enjoy is in the scene. I have been waiting quite some time for the Ariel X/Bree scene. I am also still waiting for the WSW 69 scene with Celeste Star and Shyla Jennings. It is just frustrating not knowing how they add (as well as "censor"). Luckily, I have purchased both scenes through HotMovies.com.
After I fully finished it I will say this much - a bit more tribbing than I care for (I can take it or leave it with tribbing, generally preferring to leave it, lol). But the lead-up, especially Silvia Sage's performance, I thought was nice. There were high spots and low spots during the sex (the tribbing bit, personally). But yeah, ideally it is serviceable if nothing else, and it doesn't turn out I've terrible taste in lesbian porn. lol
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Lesbian Obsessions 5 is one of the worst movies of the year next to Cheer Squad Sleepovers 34.
Everyone has different tastes, but I agree with the post above me, I think a lot of these recent performers suck balls.
Hard to believe only a few short years ago, we would get movies with Mindi Mink, Prinzzess, Reagan Foxx, Scarlett Sage, Violet Starr, Karlee Grey, etc. ALL IN THE SAME MOVIE.
Also, this new, uh, cinematography I guess you'd call it, hasn't helped either. I guess we also have BSuck...err...BSkow to thank for that?
I see I'm not the only one who wondered what happened to GF Films. Their content used to be quite good. Soft lighting, lots of sensual foreplay and an organic feel to the scenes. Now the videos look like every other studio, with the bright lights, sex on couches and little heat between the performers. I watched an older video recently and it was like a different company. Hope they go back to their old ways.
Anyone know why they've stopped putting up archive movies in high definition, and why the AV quality of the standard definition videos they put up is so poor? I loved this site until last summer. They used to put up around 2 archive movies a week plus one recent one. I understand there might be a reason for them putting up less content during Covid but I don't understand how they could have suddenly lost the ability to transfer older movies in HD. They have no problem putting up the newer stuff in 4K. There are a lot of HD movies from GFF still not on the site, or only on it in low definition.
any recent stepmom scenes shot?, gff did some classic scenes years but then stopped. There is a stepmom tag on the site but there is a lof scenes i found on there that don't have the stepmom tag so just wondering if i missed any newish ones. (last 5 years or so)
Get this shit. In the new scene on GFF's Bad Lesbian #13, scene three, starring Katie Kush and Diana Grace, there is a man on Girlfriends Films getting a massage. Members can watch the scene HERE
- From 01:32 to 02:13
Then he gets to speak even and he talks about her being supposed to milk his prostrate.
At 2:05 we see man ass and bare male feet. I am repulsed by bare male feet and it is the very very last thing I want to see on GFF.
Screenshots for proof. I apologize for bringing the man ass and bare feet in this thread, however; please, don't voice your outrage with me, voice your concerns with GFF if you have them. I sure as hell did. You can find those HERE on the Members Forums.
Unequivocally more men on GFF will mean the cancellation of my membership.
^ LOL! That's fair, you've got me there. The longer I'm there the further my expectations dwindle. I give in depth reviews on each New Release and they follow a poor formula, with little to no buildup, heat, seduction or romance, a touch of good kissing/making out/pillow talk/sweet nothings and then the rest of the scene, the remaining 2/3rds or so is pure porno-drivel over the top nonsense that is the exact opposite of what they claim on the back of the box: "Simply The Most Realistic Sex In Lesbian Adult Video".
^ I had the somewhat farfetched hope that by spelling things out to them in their comment and forum section (they got me to join for the one time fee around Black Friday last year, tacked onto Adult Time, didn't know it was one time then at that) in excruciating detail that things may happen to change ... I know, the hubris, right? It's a pipe-dream to be sure.
^ If it's just one person, then why would they change their formula? If 30 people don't like a scene, but 250 liked it, and 300,000 viewed it, there is no reason to change. (Figures plucked out of my arse, not based on the scene mentioned above). Although I must say I don't have an issue with male arses and feet. They don't turn me on, but they don't repulse me either. Girlfriends Films have been doing scenes for decades, I can't blame them for freshening things up every now and then. Maybe you could request they tag these scenes with 'naked male ass/feet' so that you could avoid them?
So because I disagree with you, I'm a white knight? Interesting. I'm just pointing out to you why they're not changing. This thread may not like the recent scenes, but this thread isn't every member of the site. I have no problem with men being involved, so long as the main sex part is lesbian, but whatever.
^ Not in the micro but the macro - across these forums you routinely post in an attempt to come off as the voice of reason and in the process do so inevitably siding with the companies in question. I'm pro-consumer first and foremost, I don't buy into any of the sort of stuff we see so often here "you're so arrogant/how dare you ask them that, you're nobody in the big scheme of things, etc." If I order a burger and they mess it up, do I have a right to ask for them to make me a better burger, one that is up to industry standards at a minimum? Or am I supposed to eat it anyway, never say anything, leave, and never say anything, or even speak highly of them for offering me a burger in the first place? Nah - pro-consumer here. Or if I go to a burger shop that is known for making their burgers one way, just the way you like it (male free lesbian films) and you get there, place your order (male free lesbian films, as it's been and their well known for) and when they bring it to you? They've changed the recipe, the one you thought you were buying, the one the had a reputation for making. Now what they've brought before you is entirely unpalatable. According to Feet N Ass here, that's on me, I'm the one who's in the wrong for daring to speak up. Nah, pro-consumer here.
Lastly, I mentioned in my reply above your chiming in, in a self-depreciating tone, about the "hubris" of my attempt, that it was "far-fetched" to think anything would change at all, that it was a "pipe-dream".
Do you think your addition, the comment, was adding anything that I hadn't already acknowledged and admitted within that post, in those key areas? I get it, no doubt about it. Just the same, I'm pro-consumer here, hence the attempt must be made. (Even if it's for only this consumers tastes, one that I'd argue isn't the case at all - producers of adult content are routinely disconnected from their paying fan-base and instead makes content that pops the the non-paying for porn crowd, thinking that's the key to getting more of them to join up ... meanwhile giving the shaft to the desires of the folks whom should actually take precedence and matter - the ones funding the production in the first place with their membership dues, the members. )
^ Please start regarding my posts as informative advice rather than personal attacks. I never said you were wrong. However, (and I worked in retail for 5 years) the customer is NOT always right.
An uncooked burger can kill you. A naked male arse won't. Food company's can change their recipe's from time to time, losing some customers and gaining others. But as you are aware of this all, I will leave it for now.
^ An uncooked burger can kill you. A naked male arse won't.
Careful, you are tempting your creator. Occasionally a man must fall out the window of a male sauna and land on someone below. I pity the priest or rabbi who has to keep a straight face at the funeral.
Meanwhile GFF is currently offering roughly 8 new HD scenes a month and 15 old scenes not in HD (including ones that were filmed in HD). This can't be viable for a $30 a month paysite. I wonder if they've been bought out and they are keeping the site going with whatever they are allowed to upload. Hard to see how else the site could have gone so downhill.
^ Very much agree about Tristan - she is a pure delight, that would be great!
So I load up the first scene of Women Seeking Women #180, starring Aften Opal and Jaimie Jett and members can find it HERE
Intro begins and Aften and Jamie are sitting in a class room and listening to a man talking, and they show him on screen. Foul play, last thing I want to see on GFF, no matter how brief. That's me. That's my preferences. I can only speak for them and nobody else's.
I've asked for a tag - "Male", "Man", "Dude Alert" (one of the big time lesbian sites does use Dude Alert, that's how I first heard about it, someone suggested Adult Time snag it and start using it themselves) - no dice. Will not do it.
Now, I understand there's no way they'll alter production for one, or even a handful of people that don't like this practice. I well understand that. Just the same, it costs them next to nothing, a second or two of payroll, whatever that actually is if you want to get pedantic here, to add that tag. Without the tag it's an immediate thumbs down.
And the kicker? We have to listen to a man drone on about sexuality for close to a minute and half in the intro to the flagship title for Girlfriends Films - Women Seeking Women.
"Pornography: That which excites, whether from approval or disapproval." ~ Leonard Rossite 2345 Posts 12/17
Posted - Mar 11 2021 : 11:57PM
You do realize that Girlfriends Films is pretty much OWNED by Gamma right? Much like Burning Angel, why worry about quality when you can just buy out the competition and monopolize everything so viewers have fewer options with a handful of companies saturating the market.
^Yes they are but to me it's irrelevant because they stopped producing great lesbian content years before they were bought by Gamma. I find that the vast majority of the content they shot after 2012 is so similar to what Girlsway produces that I'm not sure I could tell the difference and that's not a compliment. I will even argue that it as nothing to do with the women in front of the camera and everything to do with the people behind it because many of the women who appeared on pre-2012 GFF movies had far better performances than when they appeared in post-2012 videos.
That's not to say that they haven't produced the odd great lesbian videos after 2012 but they are rare.
"Pornography: That which excites, whether from approval or disapproval." ~ Leonard Rossite 2345 Posts 12/17
Posted - Mar 18 2021 : 11:37AM
^
I think there is an unhealthy inclination within the industry to imitate others rather than refining your own niche. Which explains why the VMG and even Jules Jordan get more rave reviews than complaints because they stick to what they do best.
Shyla mentioned on the Holly Randall podcast about about her first g/g scene. It was for Girlfriends Films. She didnt remember the name of the movie but she talked about the details from the scene. The storyline was similar to the Tiger Woods big scandal when he cheated on his wife with all those women. She said Dan did the scene with all women of course and T.J Woods was the character woman and India Summer was the lawyer. Shyla was one of T.J Woods mistresses. She said she was wearing a leather jacket and a blue shirt. Does anyone know the movie of which Shyla talked about? Again it was her first g/g scene. Thanks!
Also cool to see that Skylar Vox is going to be in a Girlfriends movie. Didn't expect her because she barley does G/G, but happy to see. Hopefully she comes back.
In the meantime, would love to see the following women for Girlfriends;