Except for the first group of his releases, I notice that there are very few reviews for the movies coming from his company. I'm sure there's no conspiracy. From what I've seen, his movies look very professional and the sex is good. What gives?
Nothing says I love you so much as a tongue in the ass. 2884 Posts 1/03
Posted - Dec 19 2006 : 9:36PM
Speaking for myself, Mercenary hasn't been making screeners available lately. It's not that I haven't seen some of the fairly recent stuff, but I don't feel obligated to review it. I'll tell you straight up that I enjoyed Jimmy Scaffinetti's White Man's Revenge . Sydnee Capri was smokin' in that one.
Those two answers were pretty much what I figured. I wonder why so skimpy on the screeners for a website so influential. Maybe Lex takes bad reviews personal.
I think Lex's own stuff is great. I especially like his casting -- very sexy women with a variety of body types and ethnic backgrounds. I also like his costume choices -- fetishy and flattering. He has a nice vibe and seems to have good rapport with his female performers. People in his shoots appear be having a genuinely good time.
I haven't watched any of the stuff that other Mercenary directors have shot. So much porn, so little time.
I've reviewed a couple of Lex's DVDs and enjoyed them very much. Amongst the top titles I've reviewed, in fact.
I'm a reviewer who uses the whole scale, not a 75%+ or 9+ - I know a number of other ADT reviewers also do this (though not all), as opposed to other websites who I won't name which can be obvious when they havent even watched the movie in question but still give a movie a top mark or reviewers who seem to love pretty much everything they review.
Having said that, I can't afford to buy tons of discs just to review them and my review time gets committed to screeners as opposed to titles I've bought.
Manhammer 1 - 4 stars (that's 80%, or a distinction)
Manhammer 3 - 4 stars (that's 80%, or a distinction, again)
Superwhores 2 - 3.5 stars (that's 70%, or a credit.)
Having said that, if I see something I don't like (from any producer), the mark will be accordingly lower, so the producers have to be prepared for honesty from most ADT reviewers even when it's not glowing praise or blind fanboi-ism.
There's a lot of review sites on the net, but I'd say this is one of the most honest, and so it can perhaps be more harsh.
The only movies I have seen from Mercenary is the blowjob series Iron Head.
I was really disappointed with that series, and ended up throwing them all away. The most recent one showed slight improvement, but with so many good blowjob movies out there, I dont see any reason to watch the Iron Head series.
I dont think so. I believe he uses LexSteeleXXX or something. It's not updated on the regular thuogh, and there have been times when I've see movies from Mercenary in stories weeks before I see them posted somewhere online.
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Posted - Dec 22 2006 : 9:31AM
What, no love for Snoop Dogg and Death Row? Lex was top shelf, but just like Prince, he violated most of his fan base while he beefed over rights and distribution.
I Think its the Justin factor. Slayer has overtaken him in performance. Rerun lost the plot when he started to hire dodgers like Nadia Hilton,Vickey Vette and Tory Lane in his films.He also started his new gay line and that left his fanbase disilusioned coz they are strictly IR straight. The disilusioned fans have since gone to Slayer,and thus why he's doing well lately.
You nailed it right on the head picman. Mercenary rarely updates the consumer with trailers and screenshots. In fact, I can only go with what's on the cover and on several occassions the cover doesn't equate to what's actually displayed in the film. So, the only way for me to really review the titles is to either buy or rent them. I enjoy some of the titles Lex has put out lately, but it's hard for me to know what's up when there isn't any updated info for me to review. I still have over 30 of his Mercenary titles though.
"Two Shades above the rest", - The Secluded Paradyme.