Friday, December 12, 2008

Pink towel

There's something about Mark Aubrey that I like. It's nothing unusual for the boys of Bel Ami to be pretty or well shaped, but it's pretty damned rare for the to actually be sexy in any enduring manner. In the main, all the Bel Ami models/actors have that sort of talent that is like a bad stripper. They ruin the effect by too much affect. Honestly, I'd probably smack the piss out of most of them for doing sex so badly. And don't get me started on the way they kiss... I think ten year olds playing spin the bottle probably do kissing better service than the Bel Ami stable.

But then there's Mark Aubrey. He sticks out like Clint Eastwood in Rawhide, probably the only one of them with any acting talent whatsoever. He seems to actually know how to play to the camera. And in porn or not, an actor has to know how to work for the camera. I like him best in the non-sex scenes, because the sex is always formulaic in Bel Ami tripe: Kiss badly, suck badly with simpering looks, fuck badly while making faces like a howler monkey, then some indifferent money shot that is obviously put to film at a different time than the obligatory and poorly affected "orgasm face" shot.

At least Aubrey looks like he's enjoying the sex, the rest of their talentless wogs ... well, at least they're air-brushed to perfection.