Porn Review: One Man's Obsession

First of all, hats (or should I say pants?) off to Jessica Drake for not sticking to making love to just her husband (Evan Stone, who is not just a male pornstar, he‘s the male pornstar. The guy is everywhere). It seems nowadays more and more porn starlets get married or attached, and they have on-screen (in addition to off-screen) sex with only one guy. In One Man's Obsession, Randy Spears

plays a nerd stalker guy named Simon (and really, is there a more quintessential geek name than “Simon”? ) who can‘t get enough of actress/model Celeste played by Drake. He sneaks out to the desert to watch her, he steals her underwear when she’s not around, he even spies on her while she’s banging other dudes. And these are just the tamer actions. Even though I’m not going to give it away, some of what he does is pretty extreme and it’s worth seeing the movie just to see the lengths he goes to in order to get his girl. The movie is worth a couple of laughs.

In my opinion, the simultaneous blessing and curse inherent in the movie is that it tries to provide all the production values of a mainstream Hollywood film. By production values I mean such things as, but not limited to:
1. A coherent, logical, believable plot;
2. Cinematography: the look of the film;
3. Costume design: nothing flashy, but the characters have to dress their parts; and
4. A custom trailer of adequate length.

And being that the producers of One Man's Obsession raised the stakes, I in turn raised my expectation levels and in so doing, I found the movie kind of lacking on the finer points.

Most issues I have with the movie have nothing to do with the sex. For example, there are sequences in the film where he’s following her and you start to wonder how in the world she doesn’t know that he’s that close behind her. Doesn’t she hear his footsteps or his breathing, or even see his shadow? If they were to both stop, and he were to keel forward he would make contact with her; that’s how close he is to her. It’s almost cartoon-ish how oblivious Celeste is to her immediate surroundings. Aren’t women supposed to be more intuitive than that?

And Drake, it seems, is always wearing a micro-miniskirt, which just happens to be a voyeuristic stalker‘s dream. As the old joke goes, if her skirt were any shorter, she’d have to shave. Oh wait, she is shaven...

Another thing that bugged me: there’s a diner in One Man's Obsession that has a spotless restroom. I don’t care if it is a woman’s bathroom, a public toilet should not be that clean. Also, (I promise I’ll stop soon) how can we the viewers see Spears spying on Drake from the adjacent building and she not see that?

When it comes to the sex in the movie, I have some good news and some bad news. The good news is there are about 7 or 8 sex scenes in the movie, which is more than average for a standard 2-hour adult flick. The bad news? The best way I can sum up all the sex scenes in One Man's Obsession is with the word “adequate.” It’s because the sex scenes aren’t necessarily spectacular (they’re not terrible, either) that I found myself concentrating so much on the plot and the storyline and all the other minutia that come secondary in a porn film (it should be all about the suckin’ and the fuckin’ and the bonin‘ and the groanin‘, right?).

Now, a lot of the sex scenes are good because of their locale, mood, setting, or lighting. Not necessarily because there is some position you haven’t seen before, or the woman in the scene is moaning her head off.

Take the second sex scene with Shay Sights and Joey Ray: The sight (no pun intended) of the tanned bodies juxtaposed next to the crystal blue water, the cloudless sky, and the white backdrop makes the scene hot. And by the way Sights has some of the most magnificent tan lines you’ve ever seen. She gets ridden doggy-style in some shallow water (Well, it would look kind of silly in deep water, wouldn’t it?); she does anal; and all the while you‘re not only wishing you were doing her, you wish you were doing her in that exact same setting. The scene is just great to look at.

As you might expect, Spears and Drake eventually hook-up through some plot-line write-up (I’m not going to say how). Like I’ve said on another occasion, Spears is a consummate pro, and he and Drake seem to have good chemistry. The scene is more than adequate. She pumps up and down on his lap, and he does her doggy-style under a mini-waterfall (more like a cascade). Actually, they went back to the sparkling pool water and white walls technique again for this scene. Not so hot this time around: the tan and the tan-lines just aren’t there, and it‘s just too soon after the first comparable setting (between Sights and Ray).

Drake then blows Tommy Gunn by the side of his mean-looking sports car. But, alas, oral is as far as these two go…

The spy scene in One Man's Obsession(there’s always a scene in every adult feature film where someone is watching other people have sex) is one in which Spears is cooped up in a closet peeking out at Nikki Benz and Rick Patrick as the latter two go at it. Nikki Benz is great to look at, but I thought this scene also lacks luster. I wish she had half the energy of Nikki Hunter, Benz’s namesake and someone whom Benz resembles a lot physically. (I’ve always wondered if it was a coincidence that Hunter and Benz have the same name.) And the scene didn’t have much atmosphere to save it. One would love to see Benz take it in the butt here.

In one of the oddest circumstances involved in a sexcapade, Spears’ character picks up a hooker - played by Roxanne Hall - on the street and takes her back to his digs. Remember what I said earlier about Simon doing some extreme things? Well, what he does in this scene might just take the cake. If you want some laughter along with some good hardcore and pile-driving anal action this is not a bad scene to begin with. Call this scene Drake-Spears Part 1½.

As usual, the best scene is the one with the most people in it (funny how that works in a skin flick). A threesome between Drake, Aveena Lee, and Armstrong. Yes, Armstrong pulls (no pun intended) double duty as a performer. (And how cool is that? It’s great enough, as a director, to be able to insert yourself into a non-adult flick; but to be able to cast yourself in an adult movie...) This scene is the best because - to begin with - finally there’s some passion to a scene. Aveena Lee is absolutely adorable, and she and Drake bring some gusto. I wouldn’t have minded seeing more of Lee throughout One Man's Obsession. More on that later.

This scene has anal, too. Not on Drake‘s part here, though, or anywhere else in the film. I don’t know why because she’s constantly stimulating her own anus with her hands throughout the movie during her sex scenes. I found myself wondering why she doesn’t just take a stiff one up the ass and call it a day. Maybe she only does that in her private life with her husband.

Another reason this is a good scene is because it has what I would call appropriate lighting. The scene reminds me of the porn of yesteryear when mostly every scene indoors was shot in deliberate bad light and was accompanied with cheesy background music. (To tell you the truth, I’m still not sure if modern porn was meant to be shot with floods. That’s just my personal opinion.) For whatever reason director Brad Armstrong shot this scene this way, whether he did this on purpose as a homage to retro porn or not, the look of the scene works for me.

In the end, One Man's Obsession is all about Spears’ character and Drake’s character. As far as I know, no other performer has more than one sex scene. The other people in the story whom you would have liked to see more of , like Lee and Benz, seem to be just figureheads and carnal objects. They are only for the purposes of showing different people having sex on-screen. You hardly ever see them, nor hear from them, nor hear them mentioned at any other time before and/or after their respective lone scenes.

I guess the moral of the porn flick (and yes, you heard me say the words “moral” and “porn” in the same sentence) is, fellas, don’t go doing the stuff this guy does just to get a girl. If she’s not interested in you from the start, it’s just not worth it to even try. Unless you look like Tommy Gunn and you have a wicked ride (no pun intended as far as the studio goes)...

One Man's Obsession