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skronker
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Posted - Mar 5 2008 : 2:02AM
So ... for no reason I can think of, I ordered a recent Ed Powers title .. Dirty Debs ... uh, whatever ... the babes were Maya Hills and one of Brandon's recent discoveries, and the set up was the same as recent Ed, all condom, and weird soft focus ... He apologizes in a long preamble about the shoddy quaLITY AND HOW he;s a schmuck and forgive him, but come fucking on! Ed's movies have gotten worse as his video gear has improved! He's AMAZING. He's GENIUS. In that awful fucked up Ed Wood way. Stunningly, Ed is editing like it's a weird YouTube video, with sudden fast jumps between mid shot and close up ... totally ruins every scene. Not that there is much to ruin. And the rudimentary DVD menus and authoring leaves little to do but watch the schtick. This is a guy who wants to project a sense of himself as a kindly pornographic pioneer but can;t muster the least enthusiasm for actually lensing a decent POV+ scene. Surely it is time for an intervention.
ma meeshka
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Posted - Mar 5 2008 : 2:05AM
my dyslexia struggles with this.
Edited by - ma meeshka on 3/5/2008 2:06:11 AM
skronker
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9780 Posts
9/02
Posted - Mar 5 2008 : 2:09AM
thak you and im sorry
ma meeshka
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4/06
Posted - Mar 5 2008 : 2:12AM
i see it as kiddie pornographic.
apt?
Walter All-Star Supporter
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1445 Posts
3/05
Posted - Mar 5 2008 : 3:24AM
His continued existence surprises me. Darwin's laws apparently don't apply to porn. The stuff he has made in recent years (which is all I've seen from him) wouldn't qualify as strokeable porn 15 years ago. Randy West did it better. Video Virgins did it better. Who doesn't do it better?
I received a couple of his relatively recent DVDs as unadvertised extra gifts with a porn mail order from one of the ADM sellers. (It's not uncommon for sellers to throw in a couple Leisure Time - like 4 hour comps just for the hell of it). Otherwise, I wouldn't even know that he is still in the business. I'm not even sure that his movies qualify as pornography. The whole interaction just seemed like a weird science experiment where no one in the movie (including Ed) know that their reality has been totally contrived by the experimenter.
I didn't stroke to the movie. However, I watched much of it, entertaining myself by being the experimenter.
I haven't seen his videos in stores in recent years. Around seven years ago,there were hundreds (literally)
of his VHS videos in the local stores.
Kiki Daire says that he is a very nice man.
 
Bandit One
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No Place That Far
612 Posts
9/02
Posted - Mar 5 2008 : 4:20AM
+1 ...Much better.
Ramsey
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10/02
Posted - Mar 5 2008 : 1:38PM
When will he release Bus Stop Tales on DVD?
prillo
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31 Posts
11/05
Posted - Mar 5 2008 : 4:00PM
I agree that his dvd has been worse,but i insist that many of his videos from 1993-1997 was very good.
cocacoladdict
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359 Posts
1/08
Posted - Mar 5 2008 : 4:57PM
I never miss a chance to sound off on the agony and the ecstasy of Dirty Debutantes
First there was the phase of 'look how I get girls to fuck me even though I'm ugly' which lasted thru somewhere in the DD 80 range. You have to admit it paved the way for things like Midnight Prowl
Then there was the 'wow never mind Ed's appearance that chick is new and hot' which lasted a while and included the Cherry Rain age...the Jay Ashley age...right up thru perhaps the low DD200 range.
Then sadly came the 'who needs a camera-person or a shave or a diet or any thought process' age where Ed started shooting the exact same scene over and over and over including the following carved-in-stone sequences
Girl intro on bed..removes clothes...rubs herself...gets into doggy and gets rimmed by Ed...is handed a pocket rocket with a floppy condom on it to play with a cpl mins...slides to one side of bed where Ed explains 'the combo' his secret martial arts sexual technique...girl gets fingered and eaten out with Ed making noises like a dog chewing its foot...followed by condom bj from a cameraa range of 2 inches...followed by the 2 mins of cowboy position from 1 inch camera range intermised with distant footage which only shows Ed's closeup cam blocking the view...followed by a min of reverse cowgirl..1 min of spoon..1 min of doggy 1/2 of which is a close up of the girls face mushed into the pillow from the side...follwoed by the final mish for a couple of mins with the condom cum dump finale
this for 3-4 girls a movie from DD 200-ish up thru 360-ish
amazing consistancy....blech
so why didnt everyone stop buying it 300 dvd's ago?
because you keep hoping you will see the next Melody Sweet or Stacy Carpenter or Charlie Laine or Mary Anne..etc etc etc
Dave_K99
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497 Posts
12/07
Posted - Mar 5 2008 : 5:49PM
I don't really care what the male performer looks like. The general crappiness of the scenes is more annoying, but even that's a lot less important to me than the female performers featured.
I can think of a few insanely hot models (Monika Hajkova for example) who did their hardest scenes in Dirty Debutantes, mainly doing softcore stills afterwards. I like how a lot of the performers aren't as glammed-up as they are in airbrushed magazine shoots. I like the natural way that many of them act in his films, there's just a different feel compared with most porn.
Not that I'd buy any of the Dirty Debutantes series without wanting to see a particular performer's scene. Out of all the films he's made there are about half a dozen that interest me.
skronker
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9780 Posts
9/02
Posted - Mar 5 2008 : 6:38PM
I wanna see Jack Black as Ed in the Michel Gondry bio pic knockoff.
Gabriel Nine
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8/01
Posted - Mar 5 2008 : 7:02PM
Um, perhaps something lost in the transatlantic translation, but poor Ed! Is it really that bad? Where I'm from this phrase means the vet turns up, whips out a massive syringe and a vial of something fatal, and everyone looks sombre and mumbles about how "it's for the best" and "it's cruel to let them suffer"... is that what you're proposing?
Clam Digger
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2268 Posts
1/05
Posted - Mar 5 2008 : 9:01PM
.......he could be.
RandomPrecision
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Enjoy!
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3/06
Posted - Mar 5 2008 : 9:37PM
I remember when I first started renting porn and I (somehow) got duped into renting some of his stuff. No wonder, when I think of that era, I think of Randy West as a pro. I probably have some old Ed and Randy tapes around here somewhere. I should watch them. All I remember, really, was that the girls were the only thing that made his stuff even halfway strokable. I'd really not like to think what his stuff has degenerated into by now, considering I haven't seen one of his videos since the mid 90s. Even then, it had some sort of weird feeling to it. Like I was watching a sadistic gynecologist fuck his "patients" while they were anesthetized or something. Sadly, pretending that was so in my mind was about the only way I could get off on it.
Edited by - randomprecision on 3/5/2008 9:38:27 PM
Harri Patel
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3/03
Posted - Mar 5 2008 : 9:54PM
"Intervention" in the US generally refers to the friends and family members of an alcoholic or drug addict getting together and ambushing him, basically trying to shock him into understanding that he's such an out of control fuck-up that he needs to go into rehab. (If you're a fan of The Sopranos, you might remember the episode in which this was done to Christopher -- an intervention performed by horribly dysfunctional people; one of the most darkly funny things ever done on that show.)
As far as Ed goes, your massive syringe would clearly be the better way to go.
 
RandomPrecision
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Enjoy!
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3/06
Posted - Mar 5 2008 : 10:19PM
Yes. As Harri pointed out, "intervention" is one of the delightful Stepford-ish ideas that has popped up in the collective conscious in recent years. Perhaps in this case, it's a good idea. Do you think we can get Dr. Phil to lead the charge?
Leyden
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8757 Posts
1/04
Posted - Mar 5 2008 : 10:58PM
"majesty" & "Ed Powers" are two things I never thought I'd see together.
LubeNLuv
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Posted - Mar 5 2008 : 11:21PM
LMMFAO....that's comedy gold.
Clam Digger
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Posted - Mar 5 2008 : 11:43PM
I always thought of him being pretty straight up, after I heard that he paid more for the talent, then the other shooters, so that he could get more porn cherries busted then them. I thought this was an example his pride and dedication to the art form.
Lust rears its fantasy head in my loins just thinking of the 30+ year old MILF, bathed in low light, being devoured and fucked on the same burgundy diamond pattern bed spread, that was the back drop of hundreds of scenes, by a guy who looked like he had just crawled off the set of Gilligan's Island 3, over and over again. His stick, could have very been the inspiration for the film Ground Hog Day.
Dirty, cheap, sinful motel 6, and closing time sex, was Ed Power's thing and I must admit, mine too for very long time.
Got to give the guy his props.
mapofhawaii
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Posted - Mar 6 2008 : 1:57AM
EP actually had some interesting stuff when he first started. The Bus Stop Tales, Dirty Debs, Virgin Tales, etc. He got Jamie Gillis and Randy West involved, then later it was Jake Steed. There was actually some innovation and he mixed up the settings, positions, etc. Over the years, he stopped even trying to stay in shape and got rid of any variety in his shoots. I stopped watching probably 200 volumes ago, but checked one out here and there if there was a girl I liked, and it is always incredibly disappointing. I have no idea who his regular customers are. They must have really low standards. The thing is just by virtue of volume alone, one could make quite a few compilations that are quite good. As long as you cut out his howlingly awful monologues and interviews.
MFD
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97 Posts
4/03
Posted - Mar 6 2008 : 1:10PM
I was heavy in to Ed early on. I really dug Bonita. That chick is one of my all time favorites.
However, I think that personal issues with your camera person is easily eliminated by a tripod.
Also, while i haven't watched his stuff in a long time, I think that he's kind of experimenting. While companies like Digital Playground are adding in CGI and higher production values, Ed is headed in the opposite direction. How cheap can he be and still profit?
I don't think anyone even pirates his work. Sheer genius. Make your product so 'anti-marketable' that if anyone wants it, they have to go to you.
So if you seek out Ed, you know what you're getting. I remember a long time ago, a friend came over and I had a porno on. He saw the white ass and black sock and asked, "Is that Ed?"
My friends, Ed is like Coca-Cola. It's a formula that you don't fuck with.
flukeon
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9 Posts
3/08
Posted - Mar 6 2008 : 2:37PM
his older stuff from 10 - 15 years ago was top notch stroke material.there is something to be said watching a beer gutted guy banging hot younger women
warrenwest67
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1/07
Posted - Mar 6 2008 : 4:23PM
I think it was the use of his black socks in every scene that put him over the top! No?
MFD
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97 Posts
4/03
Posted - Mar 6 2008 : 5:13PM
He would have been far more popular if he had worn red socks or striped socks. Alas, he is now a niche player. He could have been mainstream, but he missed his window.
cocacoladdict
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359 Posts
1/08
Posted - Mar 7 2008 : 12:30PM
oh my god that is genius
lest anyone misconstrue my previous long-winded sarcasm..I feel a huge debt to Ed for the girls he brought to my attention. Even if some of them were one-hit wonders....there were a lot of daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn look at her moments over the years. I mean Lilly Lovely in MDD 93/DDD 16...a hotter version of Jenaveve Joli doing anal..never to be seen again.
Or MDD 305/315 Jordan Lee a cute dark Norwegian girl blows into town...visibly loses her virginity on camera...discusses how maybe this wasnt the best next step in her life...never to be seen again. Aurora Snow's first onscreen anal and first g/g and also Briana Bank's first ever g/g
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