Great idea Bob, however I think it's telling that nearly 7 months after the launch of
Broke Straight Boys 2.0, we still find ourselves constantly talking about
Broke Straight Boys 1.0. There are frequent posts from newbies asking "Whatever happened to [insert
Broke Straight Boys 1.0 model name]", or "Can you bring back [insert
Broke Straight Boys 1.0 model name]" type threads.
Looking at the member favorites, currently only 2 out of the 12 are
Broke Straight Boys 2.0 scenes. After nearly 7 months, only 16.66% of the "new
Broke Straight Boys" are represented.
What does this mean?
Are we as the scene voters full of crap and don't know what we like to watch?
Are only members who like the old scenes better doing the voting?
Or, as a membership do we generally seem to like the old
Broke Straight Boys better than the new
Broke Straight Boys
While there are some really hot
Broke Straight Boys 2.0 scenes in my opinion, some of which I've voted 5/5 on, I'm wondering again if
Broke Straight Boys has lost its magic and appeal and has lost its way.
I wonder if it's time to make some major changes. And I don't mean paint the walls a different color, change the bedspread and God forbid more models and staff posting questions to the forum asking if they like popcorn.
Bob, as much as I think you had a great idea asking who from 1.0 and 2.0 we'd like to see paired with whom, here is what I'd like to see:
- A scene that begins in the shower and ends on the bed. Wash each other up as an ice breaker, and see what happens next!
- Borrow from the premise of College Dudes, and introduce new scenarios such as offering the boys to do some odd jobs with a bonus if they have sex with each other.
- Stage a fake photo shoot, where the director wants the boys to pose for some really generic type photos. But as the photo session progresses, consistently get more and more racy (i.e. "get close to each other, act like you're about to kiss, put your arms around each other and look seductively at the camera. Take all your clothes off except your underwear. Ok, put your arms around each other and look each other in the eyes like you're about to kiss. Ok both of you take your underwear off. Hmmmm, looks like you boys aren't minding this too much. That looks hot. Just do what comes natural!"
- Have a locker room scene, where 10 guys come in sweaty after playing basketball. Give us plenty of eye candy to watch, and make sure at least 2 of the guys are at least semi hard from the get go, and whatever you do, show us plenty of ass shots and communal shower shots and do not hide the semi hard cocks from the view of the camera!
- Do an outdoor sex scene, and be sure to get the lighting right so the guys aren't washed out from too much natural sunlight (hard to do I know...many outdoor sex scenes are horrendous because the lighting is so bad and the camera and lighting people don't seem to know what they're doing).
- Do a public sex scene similar to what's being done on outinpublic.com , however not as cheesy. Outinpublic has the potential to be hot, but it's so obviously staged you'd swear it was complete amateurs doing the scene planning and filming. I mean they did one scene in a laundromat where the guys were fucking in full view of the "customers" who were folding and washing their clothes as if they didn't even notice the fucking going on 2 feet away from them. Come on, I know they were extras they hired to pretend to be laundromat patrons, but you can't be so obvious about it that people literally walk by while you're fucking as though you're completely invisible...there has to be an element of believability to it. The hottness of public sex is the possibility of getting caught without actually getting caught...not fucking in full view of everyone as though you're invisible.
My list could go on and on and on but these are just a few ideas that come to mind.
I love Jimmy and love how believably straight he is, you know without a doubt that he is genuinely straight. Which is really hot, but I think Jimmy's shelf life has expired (this is way more noticeable because of how many scenes he's been in lately...I'm not saying it wouldn't always be a pleasure to see Jimmy if he was spaced out way more).
Genuinely straight guys doing gay porn should be the exception, not the rule...and should be used in careful moderation.
Too much of a good thing can become disastrous after awhile. It gets boring quickly as there are only so many times you can relive the same fantasy over and over again due to the "seen one seen em all" effect.
AJ is also totally believable as being straight, and I'm really looking forward to seeing much more of him. But I sincerely hope that AJ progresses, and eventually begins to do more than fuck and get sucked. I have high hopes for him, and hope he is not ruined by refusing to progress. If he does, he needs to only be used in moderation before his shelf life quickly expires and peoples' interest in him quickly wanes if he only fucks and gets sucked from this point forward.
Rocco is a gold mine in my opinion, because he is believable as a straight guy (even though personally I highly doubt that he is straight...but he is
believable as being straight which is better suited for gay porn than truly straight guys like Jimmy who literally hate doing gay sex).
Anthony is well suited for
Broke Straight Boys because he wants to please his partner, yet he doesn't seem overly gay which is a good thing.
Seth is also somewhat well suited, because he wants to please his partner but to me he seems too gay to be in too many scenes so I hope he doesn't become over used. He moves like a gay boy, just the way he was taking off his clothes in his last scene with AJ was too flowery and effeminate for my tastes. But, that's just my opinion as is everything written in this post.
Colin, perfect match. Whoever recruited him knocked it out of the ballpark. While I agree with some who have mentioned this before, he talks about his wife too much on the forum to the point it's overkill and to that I would only comment "less is more". But other than that, Colin is a joy to watch and he is so loveable on the forum it's almost impossible not to like the guy.
Chad - PERFECT find. Whoever recruited him should be paid a bonus, and he is amazing in everything he does. I love his looks, he is so handsome. He's got a hot body, and a HUGE cock! He seems to enjoy himself, and while I wouldn't say he's as believably straight as others, he's not in your face gay acting either so he could become a really versatile and mega hot performer for a long time to come.
Mick - Great guy, amazing performer, incredibly sexy and hot. And, in spite of the fact Mick has done a lot of gay porn work elsewhere prior to coming to
Broke Straight Boys, he is likeable enough and believably straight enough that he is one of the few professional porn stars who people don't seem to tire of watching...myself included. And he seems to be such a humble and genuinely nice guy, that you find yourself rooting for him every time you see him. BUT, I fear that Mick's reputation precedes him, and he's simply worked for far too many studios prior to coming to
Broke Straight Boys that his days of filming on here have come to an end. Which, I applaud
Broke Straight Boys's efforts to keep the models fresh, and not recycled models from other studios.
Jason - Great guy, very versatile, very hot, very fun, very loveable. But, Jason has worked in porn for quite some time...originally as a
Broke Straight Boys 1.0 model and then he went on to film some
College Dudes scenes prior to Blu Media's acquistion of
College Dudes, then came back to
Broke Straight Boys as a 2.0 model. His days on
Broke Straight Boys may be over simply because of his exposure elsewhere.
Vinnie - Hot guy, but his "foot scene" with Jimmy may have killed his porn career forever. That scene, I believe, is the lowest rated scene in the history of
Broke Straight Boys Which is in no way the fault of neither Jimmy, nor Vinnie. That was probably an experiment gone bad, and I fault the extincts (or lack there-of) of whoever the brainiac was that came up with such a ridiculous idea. For which Vinnie appears to have paid the price.
Jack - Personally, I think he's better suited to
College Dudes. I really liked him a lot at first, however in his first
Broke Straight Boys scene where he was told to kiss, I immediately realized he is a TERRIBLE kisser! Ever since then, I completely lost interest in him. He has a hot body and he is good looking, but even though he's a terrible kisser to me he's not believably straight. And a guy who isn't believably straight but is also a terrible kisser is a really bad combination and thus renders his shelf life expired in my opinion.
Bobby - His glory days are over unfortunately. And it has nothing to do with the loss of his adorable curls nor the opinion of others that he had "become fat" (which I never once even remotely believed nor agreed with). I think he's just a bad performer in front of a camera, he is visibly being directed and following a script. He is not natural in front of the camera, he knows he's being filmed and it's become obvious in his most recent scenes. While I'm glad his mouth wasn't visibly moving while others were reciting their lines, he looks to the production crew for direction too often thus rendering him unbelievable as having "unscripted sex" in my opinion. While this is as much the director's fault as the performer's, other performers can easily overcome bad directing on their own. I'm definitely willing to give Bobby another chance, but I was disappointed in his last couple scenes after we the forumites begged for more of him. Mark himself told us he wasn't pleased with Bobby's performances prior to Slimmie's poll asking if we'd like to see more Bobby, and this speaks to Mark's instincts as well as his willingness to listen to our feedback and make adjustments against his better judgment to make his customers happy.
I do hope Bobby does at least one more scene, and is able to redeem himself as a performer.
But in my mind this whole exercise with Bobby seems to cement my much earlier opinion that
Broke Straight Boys doesn't have a performer problem, it has a production crew problem.
Ok I have rambled on far too long, and I'll shut up with my thoughts...for now.
