On Friday night we departed a bit from the war movies we were scheduled to watch because we wanted to crank through some stuff. Casey challenged me to try to get us to watch eight movies this weekend, so we hunkered down and tossed off a couple easy, short ones.
Normally I enjoy documentary style movies, but The Girlfriend Experience was pretty boring. The basic premise is about a high end escort who specializes in "the girlfriend experience" which is just what it sounds like: men pay her to pretend she's their girlfriend. Their dates are often quite mundane, and the connecting thread between all of them is that her clients are preoccupied with the current financial crisis and want to talk about their situations with her. Titillating stuff. Obviously we were drawn to the movie because of sensationalistic nature of putting an actual porn star in the lead role of a studio film, but I think we were hoping for a bit more bite. Not even necessarily graphic sex scenes or raunchy dialogue, just more meat to the story. I do applaud it for going against the grain and not really glamorizing prostitution the way Diary of a Call Girl type shows do. It was also really impressive that rather than making Chelsea some kind of hero or hooker with a heart of gold and huge IQ, she is a bit of a dullard and an idiot. Her obsession with "Personology" and inability to hold up her end of a normal conversation were not what I was expecting. This movie might have been more interesting in the hands of a better actress, even another porn star. We're in the midst of Sasha Grey guesting on Entourage right now, and she's slightly better playing herself, but overall she's very bland and stilted. That may just be her normal personality, which is fine; however, on film it's pretty much the equivalent of watching paint dry.
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