Name studios you absolutely despise
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I have quite a list but here's a few:
- Helix Studios
- Fun Size Boys
- Gaycest
- Missionary Boys
- Boys Halfway House
I know that apart from BHH, all the others I named are owned by the same studio SayUncle, and although I don't have anything against the themes and tropes associated with those sites, I just find it boring, I feel like I'm jacking off to a blank wall.
What about you, is there any studio you dislike for any particular reason?
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@ianfontinell-0
Helix is also separate from SayUncle, unless something changed very recently. -
@tnar I did a bit of a confusion calling all those SayUncle, from that list only Missionary Boys and Helix Studios are owned by SayUncle. Helix is indeed separate in the sense that you subscribe to it individually, but it's still owned by SayUncle.
Fun Size Boys and Gaycest are owned by Carnal Plus, it's easy to mistake them for the same company. Gaycest and FamilyDick share the exact same visual identity despite being from different owners.
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I could wear out my keyboard naming studios or producers I don't like, but I think mainly down to the genres they represent as opposed to anything else. Men@Play, Titan Men, Missionaryboys..... each have their own main selling point, and if you don't connect with that then you're never going to like their output.
I will concede that some studios just fall flat despite perhaps ticking all the right boxes on paper. Helix, for example, used to be one of my "go to" studios back in its heyday, but over the last couple of years they've stopped making entertaining porn with at least a hint of story and seduction and chopped it back to a very formulaic format.
FratX is one of the more annoying studios for me, mainly because it's become too chaotic. It's always been choppy camerawork and editing, and that is certainly an intended MSP, but it's degraded to the point that there's no sense of continuity. By the time you realise who's fucking who, or even which way up the camera is, the shot has moved onto something else. It's become a lot noisier too. Sketchysex follows the same formula, but seems to pull it off better, though I don't doubt they both fall under the umbrella of the same producers. I suspect Face Down Ass Up and SlamRush might be related to them too. I wouldn't say I despise any of them, and occasionally I find a real gem in amongst the rubbish so I grab new stuff when it appears.
I long time ago somebody asked the same question about performers. I remember suggesting Joey Mills for being wooden in all the wrong ways, as well as Denis Reed who I would want to see watch if someone described him to me, but after seeing him on-screen ruins every scene he's in for me, and I don't know why. There's nothing wrong with him, but I can't stand him.
I tend to steer clear of Himeros too. Most of it is a little bit too tantric for me, and so many of their films have a cast without anyone I fancy in them.For me to grab one of them I need to see a particularly special screenshot that resonates at that precise moment or see someone I really like in the cast list. I admit I've grabbed stuff I know I'm going to hate 99% of simply because of a well-timed pic that makes me want to see that few seconds of video.
I've got a huge library of films, but so many of them I've only kept for a small portion of the overall movie. I keep saying to myself that I need to go through and trim the files, getting rid of the scenes I don't like, and in some cases simply keeping a short clip of one cumshot out of a 2-hour film.
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Men.com. Absolutely atrocious, flaccid dick-inducing videos. They almost seem like taunting gays. I don't know who could get off watching a gay-for-pay passively humping an elf or a clown and then the grandparents walk in and slip on a banana or their girlfriend walks in with groceries and starts eating a falafel. Just bizarre and ridiculously stupid scenes.
TIM Tales - really ugly men whose only good thing is a 12" dick. And then the whole scene is just a loop of some guy getting fucked for 30 minutes. No passion, nothing interesting, just the same rote formula.
Also agree with your choices.
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@frostycab Helix has been crippled by the loss of so many of it's stars due to terminal medical conditions and accidents. They were in porn to pay their medical bills.
FratX is the best example of a studio that can take the SAME performers that make GREAT videos, and put out garbage because of lousy directors or lack of director and terrible camera work. "Chaotic" is a nice way of saying that it looks like they have a drunken chimp as a cameraman filming images of walls, furniture, and everything else BUT the stars in the scene that people want to see. Two examples of this are Cole Church and Brandon James. There is a 40 minute video including the great Brandon James in which Brandon is in the video for about 10 seconds and is not doing anything sexual.
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dont like any of those studios either. though sometimes sayuncle and gaycest have some good stuff - I am generally not a fan of twinks (like the most stereotypical to the max ones
) and the themes are a little too much.men dot com the worst (feels AI generated) - though the guys are attractive
bait bus - not a fan of the theme
tim tales I like (some of the men are my type and tim kruger is a legend)tim fuck / treasure island - can make really good stuff from time to time but the guys are real ugly
disruptive media - dissapointed with this studio + ASGMax - used to have some good scenes but has gone down hill ever since the merger
lucas entertainment - very attractive guys but a little boring
one director I dont like tom moore - not sure why but his I find most of his stuff awful ( I like the other directors from fetish/fist central more and you can tell which ones he usually directs)
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@DreamDick I could have wrote this post lol
I find it really interesting how most of us feel the same way about those studios, this feeling that it lacks anything particularly innovative or even interesting. And despite all that, they are the most popular ones. I reckon that the people who subscribe to those sites don't consume any other type of porn, those were simply their first contact with it and they have stuck to it and don't know anything else.
I agree that disruptive has some good scenes but has since them fallen from grace. MEN scripts indeed seem to have come straight out of a lame Chat GPT prompt.
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euro porn is just so much better overall, US companies will always use the same 'parody' style as mendotcom (though there are some exceptions) - suspect many of them are run and produced by women and 'bisexuals'. nothing against that but sometimes I think you can tell
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@DreamDick i'm not familiar with the euro scene, think I only know HYB, EricVideos and Citebeur, and I like all three very much, so I'll take your word for it
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@ianfontinell-0 what are your favourite studios currently?
for me Raging Stallion, MenAtPlay, HOM, Fetish, RFC are my safe go to's for content. (hmm all naked sword owned I believe? though I think they were much better when they were independent)
Eric Videos, Crunchboy, Citebeur, Kristen Bjorn, gaysight are others that I enjoy watching -
@DreamDick recently the only studios i have been checking are Treasure Island, Eric Videos and RFC, but I also enjoy Maverick Men, HYB and Citebeur. Some names that I don't go for anymore, but still enjoy their older stuff are Corbin Fisher, Disruptive, Ment at Play and Lucas Entertainment.
