Urban Friction: A Modern Romance

The opening scene of the movie is  a visit to "Mistress Marilyn," was a little  harsh. It wasn't that the scene itself was harsh, as what was depicted was pretty damned mild for BD/SM. But I wasn't expecting BDSM, so I wasn't keyed into it.

Our protagonist guy, "Poochie," was grinning through most of this part, and he's got these obscenely enormous dimples.  Between his seeming comfort and silliness at the idea, and his lack of an erection ... it just didn't do much for me on any count.

Urban Friction: A Modern Romance
Libido Films
Directed by Marianna Beck and Jack Hafferkamp
Starring Mika and Poochie

Next, a bar scene with the girl with the tattooed sleeves .. that's a *lot* of ink, and again, not really my thing. Okay. Not a turn -off, and a scene to show what a Dog this Poochie is.

Okay. Next scene, the beginning of the vampire masturbation concept. Again, this isn't really my fetish, so I hit fast-forward.

Finally we get to straight male/female fucking. With a condom, which I prefer (since when there *isn't* one, part of my mind always gets distracted by the idea of how many sex partners these people have and how dangerous that seems to me these days).

It's pretty good. Although the dimples guy... I guess I've never known a grownup man to have such incredible dimples, so I keep thinking of him as still a kid, still a teenager at best... which sorta blows my concentration. Still, it might be wayy hott for you, so, whatever.

Then we get to Mika's longer vampire dream/masturbatory scene. Ehh.

Then Poochie's predictable fucking-the-bar-girl scene.

Next scene  Mika goes to visit her girlfriend and complains about Poochie cheating. It  was filled with strangeness! How many of you actually bathe and masturbate with your friends when you go over for a visit?! How is this not cheating? The dialogue here had a bunch of zingers for me— "I want him to stop trolling for ugly chicks" and "I always get off before a date because it 'takes the edge off.'" These sent my eyes rolling.

When Mika finally tells Poochie what she wants, his first reply is so damned predictable: "I know just the girl," and then, "Whoa, wait a minute, I'm not sleeping with some guy." But then she snares him with her comeback, "You just have to watch me."

Finally we get to the best scene of the movie,  the MMF scene. Poochie gives me the sense that he's not a happy camper: he's not thinking, "This is hot,"— he's thinking, "She's a slut—" and not in a good way.

Mika and Marc are pretty hot, notwithstanding his shaved head and bits of German dialogue(although I suppose some of you may be into that sort of thing, which would make it doubly hot for you).

I kept wanting *more* from this scene. It toys with the idea of some hot MM sex, but the most you get, and not 'til nearly the end, is a kiss, a bit of nipple-tweaking, and a bit of sticky-fingers-in-the-mouth. Not. Nearly. Enough.

If you're into just the bare imagining of what *could* be, then maybe it'd do you just fine, that wee temptation.

Oh, and then the morning-after scene, where Mika said, "I love that you let me do that." God, He LET her do that?! Is she a feminist or not, huh?

I wish the penetration would have been shown more clearly. I prefer to think it did exist, but maybe that's just because I'd hate to feel cheated that it didn't actually happen.

And oh yeah, the MFF scene on the extras. You saw clips of it throughout the movie (handy little device: fantasies and dreams repeating clips from other parts of the movie that you haven't seen yet). Yeah, okay. I think by that point I decided I didn't really *like* Poochie, so two girls getting him off didn't really impress me.

I didn't realize until the second watching of this film (and the viewing of previews) that it came from the Libido: The Journal of Sex and Sensability magazine people. I'd seen that pub when they were a print magazine, and was impressed.Then I forgot about it now that it's no longer on the shelves. Rediscovering it as an online resource— that's cool!

--- review by Luci, who lives near the Kinsey Institute, and yet not near enough

Comments

[bifemmefatale]

I actually know Mika and Poochie personally, though I've never actually seen this movie. Let me assure you Mika is feminist, and Poochie is a lot more comfortable with guy-guy action than the film seems to imply.

I know what you mean about Poochie's dimples. He always looks more like a mischievous boy than a Dom.