David Brown
One of Surrender's good, early efforts. This is from the same director as Femalien and the two films are pretty comparable in quality. There are several sex scenes all tied around the concept of the main character's trip to a "virtual reality" studio. If the technology shown really existed, the company's profits would exceed those of GM, IBM, Coca Cola and Exxon-Mobil combined. :)A couple of real highlights in the film were the strip club scene and the wet lesbian/three way. But all of the scenes were good.Given the low price and high quality of the video, this is an easy recommendation.
Robert Morgan
Unlike many other soft-core movies I've seen over the years, this one is definitely not meant to be enjoyed as a story. Other than the framing device of a woman using VR to "get in touch" with her sexuality, almost none of the vignettes have anything to do with each other. In fact, I'm willing to bet that some of these scenes weren't shot for the movie, but were edited in to pad the thing out. The framing device itself is pretty laughable. I don't think there's very many "executive-pleasures" type establishments, especially ones with beyond-state-of-the-art VR gear, located in industrial warehouse complexes. Yes, that's right, the world's greatest VR is located in a warehouse, and the classy entrance is a back door, right next to a bunch of electrical transformers. The voice, "Rob" is pretty funny, although that's not the effect they seem to have been trying for.But, the whole point of these films isn't the story- it's the sex scenes. They're... okay. All of the actresses are great looking; much better than Euro soft-core. There is very little spirit, however, to any of the proceedings... the actors and actresses for the most part don't seem to be having much fun. Some of the scenes are still pretty fun to watch, though, if not actually being erotic.Recommended if you can find it on the cheap.
Mangler
...but this isn't one of them, although this wasn't a total waste.I've seen most of them and, like other guys, F-Fwd to the sex scenes (for those of you looking for celluloid with class, aka plot, you won't find it in any of Surrender's stuff - that'd be akin to me expecting my employer to give raises, hahahaha...). But I don't drool over them (ran out of drool), rather I look for some level of realism in the sex scenes, the "eloquence of their efforts" (reality of their faking). I guess I've grown bored with the ho-hum 'undress and caress w/o impress' scenes. Any Shannon Tweed flick has at least 3 of these scenes - all of her films were meant for insomniacs!I look for the usual giveaway positions such as the way over-used 'girl riding the guy's thigh' scene, both standing upright with him behind her, either of them grinning as though the camera operator just farted (look like Ken & Barbie dolls with their super-plastic 'ain't I beautiful?' smile), any tell-tale sign of the G-cover (not the G-string, this is a white stickem patch meant for guy's genitals), etc. - you get the picture. After a few of these rentals you'll start thinking of better uses for your money, like firestarters.Even though this flick was thin based on my earlier mentioned expectations in realism it had a couple of semi-believable moments, thus I dub it a 'watchable' status for the rest of the testosteroned-Thogs out there, but as I said earlier there are better ones!
Netty-2
When I saw Virtual Encounters... the whole movie, it was on a tremendously bad dubbing I made from my friend's tape... unfortunately, when HE taped it, it was kinda without audio for the majority of it.But let me tell you something: Without the audio, it makes little or no difference. You could tell exactly what Elizabeth Kaitan was saying (most of the time it was "This is very very strange"), and frankly, what the computer was saying made no difference to me.But something I want to know: are they really having sex? Granted I'm not necessarily the biggest aficionado of the Surrender Cinema/Soft-porn industry, but it really, really looks almost genuine to me. Ah well... it's probably that all the guys aren't rising fully to the occasion (but if I'M in the shower with two beautiful busty women, I probably would, regardless of the big chunky camera zooming in on my butt).Ah well... maybe the sequel's better. Now to find it.
AD
