Sandy Insatiable

FROM: [email protected] (GS)
SUBJECT: Sandy Insatiable: Review and Counterpoint
DATE: 3 Jan 1997 20:25:18 GMT
ORGANIZATION: Erol's Internet Services
FOLLOWUP-TO: rec.arts.movies.erotica

I just rented Rocco Sifredi's "Sandy Insatiable" and my reaction was
what a piece of shit.  The recent posting of the ass to mouth list got
me thinking about some very erotic scenes that end with unedited a2m. 
This led via the reviews (http://home.eznet.net/~rwilhelm/asm/reviews)
to Sandy.  In all fairness to both reviewers they provided enough
information that I suspected I might not like Sandy but I was not
prepared for really disliking it.

I will set the scenes but not go into detailed descriptions which both
posted reviews already have.  Joel Mathias gives a more concise and
slightly more accurate scene by scene description.  Pat Kelly provides
a significant amount of thoroughly positive commentary.

1. Sandy with four to seven guys: BJ's, vaginal & anal, 4 facials.

2. Sidony with seven guys: BJ's, anals, dp, 2 facials, 2 a2m's.

3. Sandy with four men in their 50's and 60's (BJ's and rimming) and
Sidony with two somewhat younger guys (BJ and facial).

4. Sidony with Rocco (the toilet scene), 2 facial dick whippings, BJ,
anal, facial.

5. Sandy with Rocco, body licking, toe sucking, BJ, and rimming
transitions to 6.

6. Sandy with four black men with BJ's, rimming, RC, anal, 2 facials.

7. Rocco, Sandy and Sidony in leather, studs and chains: rimming, anal,
multiple a2m's, spitting, toe sucking, RAC, oral cum shot and transfer.

8. Three sub scenes (Hi8 clips from first Prague trip): Rocco and
blonde: BJ and missionary; Rocco with brunette: BJ, pussy & anal: Rocco
and new blond: pussy & anal, brunette joins in pussy & anal, a2m,
facial and transfer.

9. Sandy and Sidony and 42 or 43, plus or minus 4, guys (full sized
tour bus with one empty seat, 3 or 4 on back seat).  BJ's, anals & dp
(Sidony only) and lots of facials.

10. Sandy and Rocco: pussy & anal, facial, facial dick whipping.

What did I like about this video?  Most scenes were well lit and shot
with a full range of color.  The Prague clips weren't too bad but I'll
come back to that.  That's it.

This video is BORING.  The emphasis is all on quantity.  There's no
heat or involvement.  The sex is simply mechanical.  During the sex
scenes I don't remember a smile, laugh or giggle from either Sandy or
Sidony.  There were of course the obligatory moans but in the toilet
scene the sound track was blatantly over dubbed and totally out of sync
with the action.  

Nothing is ever sustained.  Except for the Prague clips I do not think
there was any position or action that lasted much more than 15 seconds. 
Keep in mind the whole toilet scene that has attracted multiple
comments, not just in the two posted reviews, was 2 minutes and 15
seconds long.  Much of the time there is 3 to 5 seconds of action then
switch to the next guy in line or something else.

Reviews frequently make negative comments on the unerotic qualities of
a guy standing over the woman and masturbating until he gets off.  Well
this video has about an hour of this.  Neither posted review mentions
that the big gang bang lasts a full 40 minutes.  While there is a
pretty steady succession of brief blow jobs and some anal and a dp in
the Sidony segment, this is 40 minutes of a *lot* of guys standing
around and jerking off.  Not all the participants are too excited
either.  Every group sex scene has at least one guy, captured on camera
that simply can't get it up.  All the old guys have a hard time.

Which brings us to: What is erotic about a bunch of old guys hairy
flabby asses?  Or the row of black men?  I'm not the one who has made
an issue of race.  Its Rocco.  Why are the only black guys grouped
together in a single scene and lined up in row?  The way its staged, it
reminds me of a slave auction scene.  And the old guys too.  I think
one or two of them are in the big gang bang but Rocco is clearly making
a issue of both age and race in these two scenes.  What's the point? 
To be different?  To push some limits?  Just to do something new in sex
regardless of whether its erotic or not?  I don't get it.

Then there's the facials.  There are a lot and some are pretty good but
a facial by itself is nothing special.  I don't know and am not sure
that I want to know why I find facials appealing but I think I can
explain part of it.  First in all cases, regardless of where its
delivered the orgasm is the climax or culmination of the scene.  You
need to build to it.  When its delivered in the face it suggests a
level of acceptance by the woman that other locations do not,
especially if its done with obvious enjoyment.  The facial is visually
more dramatic than a breast, pussy, ass or belly cum shot.  The bigger
the facial the more dramatic.

In Sandy Insatiable the facial becomes totally routine.  Its not the
climax of anything except for one individual guy who is just as much an
object as the women are here.  Repeatedly you get a facial and then cut
to more BJ's and other sex, sometimes the face being cleaned or
partially cleaned and occasionally not.  Then another facial and repeat
cycle.  This is not like some other videos with gang bangs where all
the facials are coordinated to come close together at the end for one
very dramatic result.  Its just business as usual.  For facials, why
not just get a compilation tape.  I have not scene one of these but
would think a really good one would eliminate just about everything
else but the facials.  Or maybe minute or two of a preceding BJ
followed by the facial.  Anything would be better than all these guys
standing around jerking off combined with five strokes and move on to
the next guy BJ's that Sandy gives us.

This video also has lots of talking, in Italian over dubbed with
English narration.  Personally I have no use for plot in adult videos
and none for dialogue unless it directly contributes to the erotic
content of the scene.  This video has no plot so why give us all the
talking and scene interruptions.  Just to tell us these are going to be
new sexual experiences for the participants I suppose.  The first
scene, Sandy with 4 to 7 guys, is interrupted by Rocco and Sidony
talking and watching.  The scene with the blacks is interrupted by
Sidony watching as she fondles herself and masturbates and then Rocco
comes along to fondle her too.  Actually these are welcome
interruptions because these are the best full body shots in the video. 
Too bad this isn't the lead into to something worthwhile.

The only scenes that begin to have any sustained action or interaction
between the participants, the Prague clips, are interrupted by both
Sidony masturbating and bus segments.  I understand that Sidony is
watching the video clips and getting excited while the bus is driving
to the villa where she is waiting for the big gang bang.  This kind of
device makes sense in a video with plot but Sandy Insatiable has none
so why the device?  

Actually the Prague clips have some continuity problems of there own. 
They start with Rocco and voluptuous blonde.  Shortly after they really
get going the brunette walks in, takes Rocco's hand and leads him away
to another room where they start what I think is the best segment in
the video simply because its adequately shot, fairly good full figure
shots and pretty good close ups and the action lasts longer than 15
seconds.  She is also the most attractive woman in the video. 
Following one of several cuts to Sidony and bus, the scene resumes with
a new blonde, and following vaginal and anal spoon, the brunette comes
in to make it a threesome.

On the subject of the women, in my opinion there are almost no
unattractive women in mainstream adult videos today.  That being said,
obviously of the many women to choose from some will be more attractive
than others though with tremendous variability as to which women appeal
to which audience.  Sandy has a nice trim figure with small perky tits
but I can't honestly call her pretty.  Sidony is definitely pretty and
has a nice figure with not bad enhanced breasts but nasty scars under
her arm pits.  She also has a nasty rash on her ass and pussy that
shows quite plainly in the first group sex scene.  Yuch.  Given their
mechanical performances I see no reason to seek out either of these
women again.

The three Prague women are more promising.  The first is pretty with a
figure that reminds me of Buffy Davis but her breasts aren't as large
as Buffy's.  No really good shots of the brunette's face but it looks
quite pretty, triangular with high wide and full cheeks.  Figure is
trim with medium size natural breasts, very small waist and very wide
hips.  White skin and flawless complexion; not a pimple, rash or other
marking that I noticed.  This one I would definitely like to see more
of and BTW she was really throwing herself into Rocco doing as much
work has he particularly in the doggie anal.  The other blonde is also
a full soft figure but I didn't see enough to make any real judgements.

I didn't much care for the camera work either.  There were a scattering
of nice full figure shots but not many considering the length of this
video, 2 hrs. 17 min.  While there was a plentitude of explicit close
ups there weren't many I thought good.  What's good?  First of course
well lit and focused but also showing an appreciation of the female
body, both its larger curves in long shots and its more intimate curves
in close ups.  Actually the guy's bodies have their appeal too so some
similar considerations apply.

Some examples will help.  The most boring shot in adult videos (after
the total wastes such as the close up of the back of a head giving a BJ
that shows nothing but hair and a bit of torso) is missionary anal shot
low and close from behind.  What you see is the crack of a guy's ass
(often hairy) his balls and part of his shaft.  The woman's ass is on
a surface so you see no curves here and the guy blocks everything else. 
All this shot does is establish penetration.  From a distance and from
a variety of angles from above and the side this action has
immeasurably more interesting possibilities.  

Doggie style vaginal or anal shot close in from above presents some of
the same problems.  Pull back a bit and you get the curves of the
woman's ass but low and from the rear and side present many more
possibilities.  Actually side front close-up of doggie anything is
worse than above - you don't see curve of the woman's ass, you don't
see penetration, you don't see breasts swinging - all you get is thighs
slapping ass.

Then there are many jumble of body parts shots.  These are any medium
close-ups where following a cut it takes more than a second to figure
out what you are looking at.  These are all poor.  In Sandy, the three
way scene with leather and chains has jumble of body parts shots more
than any other scene.

Generally Sandy Insatiable has few bad shots but it doesn't have a lot
of good ones either.  Some of the best are in the second scene with
Sidony and seven guys.  Definitely some good RAC here and some nice
position transitions.  Too bad nothing is sustained and there is no
real involvement with the participants.  There are some nice shots of
Sandy's clothed ass as she approaches and then blows and rims Rocco
prior to the blacks scene.  There's a very nice pussy penetration shot
in the final bathroom scene with Sandy but again quite brief.  A few
dozen good shots in more than 2 hours.  Not enough.  This is a few
percent - a good video will get thirty to perhaps fifty percent.

The two scenes that really bothered me, as opposed to just bored were
the toilet scene and the final bathroom scene.  In the cut I saw
neither women's head was ever on the toilet seat nor was hair in the
toilet.  Actually their faces and heads never even got close to the
toilet seat.  I don't know if my version is cut or there was some
active imagination on the part of the other reviewers.  I definitely do
not feel that I missed anything that I wish to see.  The toilette scene
has a vigorous dick whipping of Sidony's face near the beginning and at
the end and the final scene bathroom scene Sandy takes another at the
end.  Whether the toilette action is explicit or implied these scenes
graphically demonstrate women as objects to be used and manipulated. 
I saw no evidence that either woman enjoyed any part of these scenes. 
I've seen a good bit of Max Hardcore and compared to these two scenes,
Max looks like a nice guy.

So what does Sandy Insatiable have that has generated the positive
comment.  Lots of explicit unedited and implied a2m, lots and lots of
rimming, spitting, and some dilation shots including one really extreme
shot.  I've learned from this video, that at least for me there is
nothing erotic in the simple fact of an unedited a2m.  If these things
appeal to you then you will like this video because I can't think where
you will find more of them in one video.

As for me, I dislike this video because its taken a lot of things that
I have found very erotic in the past and turned them into something
boring at best and quite sordid at worst.  Do I think this should be
available?  Yes, along with fisting, non consensual sex, bondage and
sex, yellow and brown showers and everything else between consenting
adults that might be banned or not available because of legal dangers. 
But I don't like it and will never rent or buy another Rocco directed
video unless I know he has taken a fundamentally different direction
than Sandy Insatiable.

I watched this video twice, with fast forwarding, a lot of fast
forwarding on the second viewing.  Afterwards, I needed to reaffirm
that I still liked raw sex, anal action and serious facials so I pulled
out some Private videos.  I watched the Inna (petite figure with tiny
breasts and a huge smile and blue eyes) scene with three guys from #22
and then the Ilduco (trim brunette with great ass) scene from #20 with
four guys and found these to be as erotic as ever.  These scenes show
great appreciation of the female body, have anal and multiple
penetrations and end in big well coordinated facials.  Most important
perhaps is that both women really enjoy doing these scenes.  Besides
vigorous participation there are lots of spontaneous smiles and laughs.