Save your pick-up lines for the club, buddy.

Yeah, I’ll agree that porn actually tried to do acting and storytelling back in the 70’s. I miss it, kinda, but I think the pacing of having to watch 100 minutes of film for 5-6 7-minute sex scenes probably wouldn’t fly today. In fact, I really agree with your whole comment.

My point (if I had one, it was more of a quip) was that singling out the 70’s for particularly bad porn acting isn’t necessary.

I do find it humorous there was such a reaction to my comment, but I like when posts lead to interaction and not just silent up-/down-votes.

Also, I think Pirates! is considered to be the most expensive porn with a budget of $1 million. As MnemonicBump said, that’s probably due to changing definitions.

I’d love to see a limited return of high-brow porn, though.

Exactly my point. Any period of porn acting is at that level. It certainly hasn’t improved from the 70’s.

70’s grade?

“Help us, step-wizard! There’s a 40’ circle drawn on the ground and we can’t get out!”

ETA: My idea, poorly expressed, is that you don’t have to single out 70’s porn for bad acting. There is plenty of bad porn acting yet today.

It draws from a lot of fantasy mythologies and needs a variety of monsters to populate encounters of all levels with lots of variety, plus intelligent species often have cultures which require more subtypes.

I just started a game of Thirsty Sword Lesbians for a bunch of 13-16 year olds.

… Wait, officer, just let me explain…