True Blue

John T. Bone has made many gonzo features, as well as an excellent softcore mainstream movie ("Hindsight" starring Kathy Shower and Cyndi Pass). But this bucolic romance shot in Australia with a mixed Chatsworth/Aussie cast wastes the opportunity to make a quality Adult movie.

Worthless script is the main problem, but it seems like Bone/Bowen can't handle romance -perhaps grinding out porn made him too jaded.

The minimal story has Randy West working a farm in the outback, with women as his "station hands". His two brothers, Jon Dough and Joey Silvera, visit from America, and are taken with the local women. The rest of the movie is all of them f*cking each other, quite boring.

The running gag is truly awful, I couldn't spoil it but let's just say it revolves around the fact that Dough's nickname is "Shrimp". No surprise that one of the ladies is named "Barbie".

When I see a movie like this, I usually imagine the filmmakers, perhaps in the editing room or just at a conference in post-production, discussing the central issue: "What are we going to do with this meaningless footage?". In the case of a mainstream movie, especially indie productions, it translates to an unfinished, unreleased movie. But in the world of porn, that mainly sex footage gets slapped together and released, in this case, titled "True Blue" in honor of star Kelly Blue.