Sunday, August 06, 2006
I Really Like To Watch
One of my most nostalgic memories of buying a ticket and walking into a theatre and watching a porn movie (and, clandestinely pulling out my cock and jacking-off) was attending a film titled I Like To Watch. First of all, it’s a nearly perfect porn title, and the film perfectly follows suit.
I pulled out my old VHS copy of this fine film two nights ago, and re-enjoyed every second of the provocative dialogue scenes, got off to the hot, nasty sex sequences, and reveled in the memories of seeing these very images on the big screen in my youth.
The plot of this 1982 pot-boiler is somewhat forgettable (the screenplay credit goes to director Paul G. Vatelli.) It involves a young woman, played with complete lack of acting subtly by the beautiful and shapely Bridgitte Monet (who’s real name was Dana Kunath) working for her aunt (Patricia Manning), a negligee designer. That’s the set-up and after that … who cares? What makes this film so strokable is that every sex scene, whether an intimate couple fucking or a three-way orgy, features not just the sex, but someone else watching the hedonists enjoying each other, usually without their knowledge. This starts to make the very concepts of porn watching complicated. We, the audience, are watching someone on the screen watching unaware sexual participants during their most private moments. It is what pornography primarily is all about.
Monet & Cannon
Ms. Monet participates in only three sex sequences, and that’s just fine. No matter which of her films you watch, she was always extremely icy in her fucking. You never got any inkling she was in any way enjoying herself. But she was lovely to look at, had a great body, and wasn’t afraid to show it off. She was something of an anomaly in the porn industry because she limited her onscreen sexual activities to other women or to her boy friend David Cannon (here billed as David Smith.) I Like To Watch is one of only two films in which she breaks her rule (the other is Talk Dirty To Me 2 in which she fucks John Leslie.) Ms. Monet does hump Cannon here, and does a girl-girl scene with the delightful Lisa DeLeeuw, but in the final scene also sucks and fucks the indispensable Mike Horner (often billed, as he is in this movie, as Don Hart.)
Cannon Cums on Monet in I Like To Watch
Kevin James and Little Oral Annie have an unbelievably hot scene; Horner gives us a stunning three-way with Elevna Desantis and Linda Shaw; and even the usually uncompelling Manning is jackable as she gets a face full of cum from Herschel Savage.
This is outstanding classic straight porn. If I were forced to rate I Like To Watch in the list of the finest adult films ever made, I would cheerfully rank it in the top ten.
And, as I said before, watching I Like To Watch brings back terrific memories. I vividly recall sitting in that porn theatre on a weekday afternoon (I was in college at the time) loving every scene in this hot picture, and looking over and seeing a friend sitting two rows behind me, jacking-off. I didn’t freak out seeing him there as I would have had I seen almost anyone else I knew. This friend often hosted group-sex parties at his home that I regularily attended with four or five other people, so seeing him playing with his cock was no great shock. But it confirmed to me I wasn’t the only person in the world who loved this art form known as pornography.
So, I guess if nothing else, this movie taught me that I Like To Watch. That’s certainly something to be grateful for.
I pulled out my old VHS copy of this fine film two nights ago, and re-enjoyed every second of the provocative dialogue scenes, got off to the hot, nasty sex sequences, and reveled in the memories of seeing these very images on the big screen in my youth.
The plot of this 1982 pot-boiler is somewhat forgettable (the screenplay credit goes to director Paul G. Vatelli.) It involves a young woman, played with complete lack of acting subtly by the beautiful and shapely Bridgitte Monet (who’s real name was Dana Kunath) working for her aunt (Patricia Manning), a negligee designer. That’s the set-up and after that … who cares? What makes this film so strokable is that every sex scene, whether an intimate couple fucking or a three-way orgy, features not just the sex, but someone else watching the hedonists enjoying each other, usually without their knowledge. This starts to make the very concepts of porn watching complicated. We, the audience, are watching someone on the screen watching unaware sexual participants during their most private moments. It is what pornography primarily is all about.
Monet & Cannon
Ms. Monet participates in only three sex sequences, and that’s just fine. No matter which of her films you watch, she was always extremely icy in her fucking. You never got any inkling she was in any way enjoying herself. But she was lovely to look at, had a great body, and wasn’t afraid to show it off. She was something of an anomaly in the porn industry because she limited her onscreen sexual activities to other women or to her boy friend David Cannon (here billed as David Smith.) I Like To Watch is one of only two films in which she breaks her rule (the other is Talk Dirty To Me 2 in which she fucks John Leslie.) Ms. Monet does hump Cannon here, and does a girl-girl scene with the delightful Lisa DeLeeuw, but in the final scene also sucks and fucks the indispensable Mike Horner (often billed, as he is in this movie, as Don Hart.)
Cannon Cums on Monet in I Like To Watch
Kevin James and Little Oral Annie have an unbelievably hot scene; Horner gives us a stunning three-way with Elevna Desantis and Linda Shaw; and even the usually uncompelling Manning is jackable as she gets a face full of cum from Herschel Savage.
This is outstanding classic straight porn. If I were forced to rate I Like To Watch in the list of the finest adult films ever made, I would cheerfully rank it in the top ten.
And, as I said before, watching I Like To Watch brings back terrific memories. I vividly recall sitting in that porn theatre on a weekday afternoon (I was in college at the time) loving every scene in this hot picture, and looking over and seeing a friend sitting two rows behind me, jacking-off. I didn’t freak out seeing him there as I would have had I seen almost anyone else I knew. This friend often hosted group-sex parties at his home that I regularily attended with four or five other people, so seeing him playing with his cock was no great shock. But it confirmed to me I wasn’t the only person in the world who loved this art form known as pornography.
So, I guess if nothing else, this movie taught me that I Like To Watch. That’s certainly something to be grateful for.
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Ah yes! Those were the days! Sitting in those darkened porno theaters jacking off! Most of the guys did it discreetly with coats over their laps (even on the hottest day of the year, amazing how many dudes came in with jackets!) but a few just did it out in the open. You didn't want to cum too quick because it was uusally a double feature and once you shot your wad you would lose interest in the lame ass movies. Sometimes I would manage a second jack off if the movie was hot enough though. You tried to time your ejaculation with one of the ejaculation scenes on screen, pretending it was you instead of John Holmes (or whoever!) getting sucked off up there. I had some of the most powerful ejaculations in my life in those places. I usually shot my wad into a paper towel. Other guys rudely blasted off on the floor. Those sticky floors weren't from spilled Coke dude! Video quickly killed the porno theaters (now you could jerk off in private at home and didn't have to worry about being arrested like Pee Wee Herman!) but the porno went downhill fast. Yeah I am nostalgic! Somebody re-open the old Pussycat theater...please! Ah yes, those were the days!
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: 7:59 AM
: 7:59 AM
I totally sgree with Yackov, and I've written other blog posts here about classic porn theatres and their sad decline. The few that still do keep showing movies have either switched to boring and out of focus videos, or have become so scarey you wouldn't want to get near them.
By the way, Yachov, I am guilty of being one of those guys who would shoot jizz right on the floor of the theatre. It was one of my favorite activities, frankly, and I'd do it again in a heart beat. Ah, the good old days.
Anyone else have any porn theatre stories or memories to share?
By the way, Yachov, I am guilty of being one of those guys who would shoot jizz right on the floor of the theatre. It was one of my favorite activities, frankly, and I'd do it again in a heart beat. Ah, the good old days.
Anyone else have any porn theatre stories or memories to share?
I have watched "I like to watch" maybe five times. The director Paul G. Vatelli (sadly demised due to AIDS) used a technique where he had Mrs Monet at one time looking directly into the cameraand therefore into the auditorium, something which was totally against the convention but it worked fabulously as you could here the audience emote.
Bridgette Monet is known as a borderline schizophrenic in real life with a double persona. Anybody who knows more about her ?
BTW I never found her scenes icy and also loved to watch the nasty Pat Manning get juiced. Remebr the scene with her, Desiree Costeau and John Leslie in the Chinese Garden in San Francisco where Manning and Leslie put up the stem of a rose into Desiree´s cunt...
ah will never forget
Bridgette Monet is known as a borderline schizophrenic in real life with a double persona. Anybody who knows more about her ?
BTW I never found her scenes icy and also loved to watch the nasty Pat Manning get juiced. Remebr the scene with her, Desiree Costeau and John Leslie in the Chinese Garden in San Francisco where Manning and Leslie put up the stem of a rose into Desiree´s cunt...
ah will never forget
# posted by : 1:51 PM
: 1:51 PM
I don't know the three way scene you mention with Manning, Costeau and Leslie with the rose in the cunt. What movie is that from?
I also didn't know about Monet's schizophrenia. How did you learn about this, and where can we learn more? That's utterly fascinating to me.
Monet does indeed look into the camera in "I Like To Watch", and again that adds another layer I hadn't thought of; An actor watching the audience watching a character watching people fuck. How great is that?
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I also didn't know about Monet's schizophrenia. How did you learn about this, and where can we learn more? That's utterly fascinating to me.
Monet does indeed look into the camera in "I Like To Watch", and again that adds another layer I hadn't thought of; An actor watching the audience watching a character watching people fuck. How great is that?
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