I was watching the Movie The Substance and that film was basically softcore porn with an interesting message to say, who’s to say Porn can’t be art?
Sure professional studios don’t care, They just want to show you the goods and that’s it, but even with such studios they sometimes put the effort in, I remember watching a scene of Nikki Benz with Brazzers where she popped off a champaigne and you could see it in slow mo and I thought “Wait, so y’all are capable of actually having interesting shots”
Porn can be art, It’s just most directors are lazy.
I liked a lot of Michael Ninn’s work back in the day, like Catherine and Neo Pornographia. He definitely was trying to go for a more artistic thing. Looks like it’s extremely hard to find now, and Ninn is now on an AI slop kick.
On the other side of things, Nyphomaniac was an artsy film bordering on pornography, IIRC.
I see, I mean at least there’s an artistic expression, you can argue that even in porn now people make fun of Mike Adriano but the dude at least has a style.
I would argue that even today you have options there’s even a more feminist-ish version called Bellesa, point I’m trying to say with my post is that you could even make a Horror porno if you wanted, It’s that there’s no market for it.
That’s Zombie Strippers, a movie that is far better than the premise would indicate. It has everything, Jenna Jameson, Robert Englund, and a retelling of the French play Rhinoceros.
There’s the famous Pirates porn movie; I think still the highest budget porn ever made. I remember a porn movie about a fire department that also seemed pretty high budget (Flashpoint, I think). Seems like most porn is clips now rather than full-features. I think porn with stories used to be a lot more common when you had to buy tapes or DVDs. There’s a really old one I saw called The Devil in Miss Jones, which I guess could be considered horror. And another one from I think the 2000s called New Neighbors where some demons move in next door or something.
Pirates is pretty bad. None of the actors are particularly entertaining and the female lead (Jesse Jane) is terrible. The sex does not redeem anything. Barely worth the effort of tracking it down for the novelty. The costumes and sets are kinda fun though.
All that to say: throwing lots of money at something can make it shiny but doesn’t necessarily improve it as “artistic expression.”