Best movie ever!

A Major Disappointment

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Entertaining if not super deep exploration of the 70s social and sexual phenomenon that was 'Deep Throat' -- the first hard core porn film to cross-over from the men in raincoats crowd, to huge success and long lines full of (then) 'hip' men and women, movie stars and even film critics.Frequently funny, occasionally sad and pathetic, sometimes infuriating (as in the aggressive criminal prosecution of poor Harry Reems simply for acting in the film).I don't know that there are any really deep insights here, and the film skirts a lot of more interesting elements it could have explored (e.g. the mob's involvement with porn at the time) but it's fun and fast moving.BTW - for those of you looking for a porn film turn on, move along there's nothing to see here. Yes, there are a few seconds of Ms. Lovelace performing the title feat, but the film really is a documentary, not porn masquerading as one. Interesting yes, hot, no.

Yes. As titillating and naughty as the subject of "hard-core" porn may be - I found "Inside Deep Throat" to be a decidedly "soft-core" documentary, on all counts.Instead of being all wet'n'juicy - This was a very dry and sanitized presentation. And, all that it did was lifelessly chronicle "Deep Throat" from its production, to its popularity, to its cult-status, to its inevitable battle with the self-righteous censors.You know, I've actually seen 1972's "Deep Throat" some years ago - And, if you ask me - It was, pretty much, just tiresome, z-grade garbage that didn't deserve (even one iota) all the attention that it got (and still gets).The only reason why this laughable film (about a woman whose clitoris was in her throat) has garnered so much undo attention for itself all comes down to the negative publicity that it's generated.You can be sure - Without all of this negative backlash, "Deep Throat" would have remained just another piffle-of-porn that would have quickly faded away into obscurity faster than an average ejaculation.Anyway - I don't completely write off this documentary as being a waste of time. It does contain some worthwhile moments. But, if you're expecting "Inside Deep Throat" to be a real hard-core production, then you are in for a big disappointment - 'Cause it's, pretty much, 90% talk-talk-talk, and, perhaps, 10% action.

I have seen two other films by documentarian (well, he is not exactly in the Frederick Wiseman mode) Fenton Bailey_ "Monica in Black and White" and "The Eyes of Tammy Faye." All of his film that I've seen focus on sex and scandal, and "Inside Deep Throat" proves to be no exception. This film is a fairly solid period piece_ taking place in the 1970s, and there are very startling interview clips with those involved with the original adult film, including 'actor' Harry Reems, and from celebrities, like John Waters and Hugh Hefner, who comment on the film's cultural impact. The doc also shows how both feminists and right-wingers attacked "Deep Throat." Ultimately, it seems that the controversy and the actual banning of the film in the United States made it more of a commodity with the public. There is actual footage from the original adult film, and while I seriously doubt that it has any artistic merit at all (have not seen "Deep Throat"), the political debate it stirred still seems relevant today and the film illustrates this well. Bailey is no serious documentary filmmaker, like Barbara Kopple, at all- he's even used sock puppets in his films_ but this material is a perfect for this formula. "Inside Deep Throat" also shows America's psychological hangups about sexuality though it does not examine why we are collectively more uptight about sex than most Europeans. This film would also make a great companion piece to Caveh Zahedi's surreal, narrative doc "I'm a Sex Addict." I have personal reservations about adult films. A PBS documentary "American Porn" revealed how abusive the industry is towards its 'actresses,' in a very brutal, shocking manner. But, one also realizes that ultra-conservatives' efforts to use the issue to legislate morality has dire consequences which lead to political/creative censorship in more legitimate documentary forms. For this reason alone, Bailey's latest film is quite a thought-provoking one.

The documentary "Inside deep throat" analyzes the facts involving the premiere and the distribution of the most famous porn movie ever and gives us each and every detail about the big controversy that generated. We can hear opinions from the protagonists and from those that fought against the screening of the movie.Everything in "Inside deep throat" is so dynamic and direct, they made a huge work of editing, and because of all that it's a pretty entertaining documentary and so educational. Otherwise, this is a magnificent radiography of that disgusting double standards in the more puritan sections of the USA.*My rate: 8/10