PORN?????

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I was watching this thing on some cable television show with my friends, and guess what was the thing that came right after this movie? Porn! This movie is crap! If you liked "Back Door Sluts 9" then you'll love teenage caveman.

If you had known who Larry Clark was then you wouldn't have been surprised. He's made a career out of making artsy sexploitation. This movie was the exeption. The artsy parts were not included, so all that was left was the explicit sex and violence. A movie not for the faint of heart, but I found it thoroughly enjoyable.

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Well hey at least the were attractive

You're right, it should. I thought it was a porn movie until I found it here on IMDB as rated R. That's pretty much all it was.

First off, I'm not an advocate of porn. But there was an interview with a pornstar name Katie Morgan on HBO not too long ago, where she briefly discussed the difference between a mainstream movie and a porn movie. The difference between the two is very noticeable. A main stream has more dialogue, a character arch, each character wants different things, characters are developed throughout plot and any sex scenes are merely incidental. A porn movie has less dialogue, more sex scenes, no character archs, all the characters don't have archs and they want the same thing: sex.

This question has been brought up many of times with other films. For example: Basic Instinct. The film probably the closest to real sex scenes that could borderline onto softcore porn, but it is a mainstream film due to the fact that the sex scenes are only incidental. They are not the main focus of the film.

"Teenage Caveman," like other Larry Clark's work, is just a typical mainstream film. From what I know, "Kids" and "Bully" has several sex scenes in that (and I've even heard how some could compare the story of "Teenage Caveman" to that of "Kids", because both, in a way, deal about sexually transmited dieases. In "Kids", it's HIV. In "Teenage Caveman", it's immortality).

So, is it porn? IMHO, no. Does it fall into mainstream film? IMHO, yes. But, of course, this is a straight-to-cable film made exclusively for Cinemax's Creature Features. So, to answer your question: No, this is not a porno and there is no need to label it as such. If anything, this is only a hard R-Rated film.



But this one's eatting my popcorn!