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Featured Movie: Debbie Does Dallas … Again

You see it in Hollywood all the time: remakes of classic films that reduce iconic moments to regurgitated mush. Whether it’s money, a lack of originality, the cyclical nature of pop culture or the public appetite for nostalgia that drives movie houses to revisit these films doesn’t matter. The end result is, more times than not, unspectacular if not ignominious, an exercise in imitation that smacks of mockery, not flattery. So when former porn actor-turned-porn director, Paul Thomas, decided the time was right to remake Debbie Does Dallas the natural question that rushes to the lips is: why?

By any standard, the original Debbie Does Dallas is perhaps the most endearing classic porn film of all time. Whether you measure its success by box office receipts; the subject matter; the lasting imagery the film implanted in impressionable young minds; the seemingly universal familiarity of its title in public circles; or its near-mythological status on the basis of star Bambi Woods’ mysterious (and as yet unsolved) disappearance, the film resonates like no other in adult film history. Why risk public rebuke and your directorial reputation trying to recapture the zeitgeist of a film that simply cannot be duplicated?

The answer is: you don’t.

Paul Thomas has been around the XXX block a few times. To that end he is smart enough not to try to redo a classic. What he has done with Debbie Does Dallas … Again is to pay homage to one of the all-timers, to capture the spirit of the original (albeit more updated and more cynical) without treading too far into sacred porn ground. While he should be commended for his decision, the trade-off is pretty substantial. In fact, the only obvious similarities between his film and the original are a protagonist by the name of Debbie and some cheerleading outfits.

But while the plot is noticibly different, so too is the sex. Porn has come a long way since the 70s (pardon the pun) and Thomas’ feature places requisite upgrades in the fucking department, which should appeal to fans of the genre. Interestingly enough, however, the tame-by-comparison trysts in the original probably had a far greater impact on viewers considering the world had just emerged from the Sexploitation and soft-core eras and hardcore pornography had not quite the acceptance it has today. And though it’s tough to shake the image of Christy Ford (a.k.a. Misty Winters) penetrating her vag with a candle or Bambi Woods doing her boss, Mr. Greenfield, in a sporting goods store, Thomas offers up some memorable moments of his own. There’s Derrick Pierce and Monique Alexander fucking in a casket. There’s Penny Flame as a guardian angel getting it on with Stefani Morgan (Debbie) and Evan Stone as a second angel in a Cadillac convertible. And there’s Savanna Samson in a “hell”-acious orgy with Monique, Stefani, Evan, Christian XXX and Jay Huntington, among others.

DDDA was an AVN award winner for 2007 and features the full roster of Vivid Girls in various leading and supporting roles. The film also fueled a publicity storm when cable network Showtime developed a reality show about its creation. While it can never supplant the original, it is not meant to. And if you go into this film thinking it a full-on tribute to one of the most enduring adult films of all-time as opposed to a half-cocked retread, you will find yourself truly entertained.

 

Stars:   Savanna Samson   Monique Alexander   Lacie Heart   Sunny Leone   Stefani Morgan   Erika Jordan   Jennifer Lee   Angie Savage   Evan Stone   Marty Romano   Penny Flame   Christian XXX   Jay Huntington   Derrick Pierce   Kayla Paige   Cassidey   Staci Thorn   Samantha Ryan   Hillary Scott   Lisa Daniels   Courtney Simpson   Kina Kai

Categories: Feature   Cheerleader   Schoolgirls   High Definition

Running Time:   122 minutes

Released:   07/2007

Studio Name:   Vivid Entertainment

Series:   Debbie Does Dallas – Vivid

Director:   Paul Thomas

 

Shane’s World: College Invasion 10

Porn, guns, and booze are the cause of nearly all societal ills. At least that’s what the establishment wants you to think. Seriously, pay attention to the news sometime and see how often those three things are cited as the reason person X did activity Y to person Z.

The secret nobody tells you is that for the establishment to remain established it is necessary to lay blame at the feet of someone or something when the best-laid plans go wrong. Without a convenient boogie man to take the fall, the power structure is powerless to exert control over the masses in the form of draconian rules and regulations. Needless to say, personal responsibility is the enemy of the establishment.

Why does all this matter? Well, for lovers of porn, Shane’s World has found itself at the center of the struggle between laying blame and personal responsibility for almost a decade. Formerly owned by the former wife of the infamous Seymour Butts, the company has been in business since 1996. Though they were one of the first companies to do reality style porn, it was their infiltration of college campuses that raised the ire of those in charge of higher education and simultaneously rocketed the company to super-stardom.

Inevitably, when word spread that porn stars were crashing frat parties and fucking drunk, rowdy boys while the cameras rolled, the shit storm soon followed.

First, parents were up in arms. According to one account, the family of one student broke down when they found out she was partying with the crew and forced her to watch her performance with them as sort of an aversion therapy.

Second, participating students at various campuses were threatened with suspension, expulsion or worse. For instance, an Arizona State University student who appeared in Shane’s World 29: Frat Row Scavenger Hunt 3, was kicked out of his Sigma Nu frat house. According to a Rolling Stone magazine article:

The university barred him from living on ASU property, prohibited him from university employment and put him on permanent probation. They also made him write four apology letters, do 100 hours of community service and write a twenty-page paper with the somber title: “Reflections on Integrity.”

As Vice President of the student body, he then resigned his post, only after weeks of stress, legal hell and physical threats from students and strangers. The same thing took place Indiana University, site of the first official College Invasion film.

At Chico State University, site of the College Invasion 6 movie, the antics of some resulted in more suspensions and expulsions, while the offending fraternity house had their charter suspended for a year.

Third, administrators decried the company in the media, claiming they were exploiting the university and its students for profit. The story was featured on CNN, MTV, Dateline NBC, The O’Reilly Factor, The Tyra Banks Show, and in USA Today and Time Magazine. Meanwhile, Shane’s World maintained its innocence, suggesting that the university had its head buried in the sand when it came to the perception that teenage and early twenty-somethings didn’t engage in this kind of behavior anyway. The company claimed it was legally within its rights and merely creating documentaries of what really goes on at college campuses.

Whatever your personal beliefs about the issue, Shane’s World continues to push out real porn, starring real college kids fucking real porn stars. Campus Invasion 10, the film covered here, was filmed at Plattsburg State in NY and is one of the most-viewed titles in our VOD. Ringleader Delilah Strong and an all-star cast which includes Isis Love, Lacie Heart and Naomi, capture the non-stop sex with real college guys as it happens. Lacie and Delilah give a couple of frat boys hand jobs. One lucky stud gets his first taste of pussy. And noobie Naomi finds herself a naïve, pornstar virgin to fuck in a side bedroom.

Be sure to check out all the controversy right here. Just don’t blame us for any of the fallout you might get for viewing it.

Stars:   Isis Love Delilah Strong Lacie Heart Naomi Mr. Pete

Categories: Teen Gonzo Party Girls Reality Based Schoolgirls

Running Time:   151 minutes

Released:   12/2006

Studio Name:   Shane’s World

Series:   Shane’s World: College Invasion