Wicked Pictures review

Mr. Pink’s review of Wicked Pictures
Review Date - 07/23/2011

Overview:
Founded in 1993, Wicked Pictures has become one of the adult entertainment industry’s strongest producers and a dominating presence throughout porn. With some of the most acclaimed pornstars having at one time or another been a Wicked Contract Girl, Wicked’s titles have attracted audiences from around the world and brought attention to a classic style of American porn that is often neglected. High on glamor and fantasy, Wicked’s house style is an elaborate contemporizing of the look that made Jenna Jameson, Chasey Lain, and Stormy Daniels household names; at least, in fairly open households. This glossy sheen has changed in recent years, what with the advent of gonzo porn and all, but still retains a classic look that is extremely hard to ignore. Hosting a huge collection of its own fantastic DVD releases in downloadable digital formats that boast “superior quality”, as well as behind-the-scenes, live on-set video streams, 24/7 HD webcam feeds and exclusive content form the current roster of Wicked Contract Girls - Lupe Fuentes, Kirsten Price, Jessica Drake, Kaylani Lei, Alektra Blue, and Stormy Daniels - Wicked Pictures’ online presence is as formidable as its reputation. It’ll cost you $29.99 a month to access all of this exclusive  material, but, knowing Wicked’s standing within the industry, it’s bound to be money well spent.

Pros:
You’ve likely never seen a more appealing collection of pornstar babes than what Wicked Pictures offers. From the incredible present roster of Contract Girls to those who’ve done their time and gone on to other things - Julia Ann, Jenna Jameson, Chasey Lain, Mikayla Mendez, and Syndee Steele are but a few such women - the pornstars Wicked employs are without a doubt the best in the business.

Few companies put as much time, energy, and effort into making their movies look as good as Wicked does. With dynamic cinematography, glamorous costumes and makeup, and a very tangible sense of fantasy, Wicked’s hardcore content, both old and new, has a definite focus placed on looking steamy and erotic, and never, ever cheap.

Wicked’s commitment to producing visually impressive porn continues with the introduction of downloadable High Definition videos that reach resolutions of 1280x720 pixels and look utterly magnificent. Streams also come in HD formats - the maximum here also being 720p - and look fantastic.

There’s a huge collection hosted here at Wicked Pictures and almost every one of the nearly 3,000 scenes is exclusive to this site. Updates arrive once a week and add one full DVD release to the archive and if that’s not enough for your insatiable appetite for smut, the archive of live webcam shows and the behind-the-scenes scenes should keep you happy.

Thanks to the thrifty craftiness of yours truly, Mr. Pink, those readers interested in joining in on Wicked Pictures' signature classy style of erotic fun can now do so at the discounted monthly rate of just $17.95. For a site that looks like a million bucks, that's an exceedingly sweet deal!

Cons:
Although Wicked Pictures just migrated to a freshly designed, brand new website, it still doesn’t match the quality of the content it hosts. Akin to wrapping a Snickers in a soiled paper towel, the site really doesn’t serve the company, the content, or the fans very well and could use further revising.

Navigation is also problematic here: you won’t find any search functions or category keyword tags - only model names function as tags - to guide your mousing hand. Wanna watch some anal? There’s a bunch of great anal content here, but it sure as shit is hard to locate; many scenes don’t declare the action they deliver, leaving you to assume.

It took a little while, but Wicked’s photo gallery archives have now been integrated into the new site format and can be found attached to every scene. Although they’re a very welcome addition and make the site a more well-rounded porn experience, they’re far too easy to miss and should definitely be given their own catalog page.

The vast majority of Wicked’s recent productions feature condoms. While I applaud the company’s decision to actively promote safe sex, the presence of latex cock-sheaths is bound to infuriate a large portion of Wicked’s audience who, perhaps rightfully so, object to condoms being used in porn that is well and truly fantasy-based.

Of course it’s unavoidable, but Wicked Pictures’ classic content doesn’t look anywhere near as good as its newer releases. Sure, the scenes themselves are uniformly hot and feature some great fucking from porn’s greatest performers, but the A/V aspect leaves something to be desired.

Conclusion:
It’s a tough job to critique Wicked Pictures, one of porn’s outstanding production entities, but someone’s gotta do it... With a huge collection of hardcore porn more vibrant, dynamic, powerful, and memorable than what you’ll see on most other websites you go to for beat-off materials, Wicked Pictures will certainly please most of those who choose to sign up for a monthly membership. The nearly 3,000 scenes presented here offer uniformly impressive hardcore sex starring America’s greatest porn talents, both past and present, in highly glamorized and fantastic DVD releases, many of them now available in stunning HD formats. Unfortunately, Wicked’s website lacks the finesse of its movies and can be a real chore to navigate. Photo galleries accompany almost every scene and look great, if a little small, at 600x900 pixels. The videos and photos produced and presented by Wicked Pictures are almost always impressively erotic and sophisticated, and now that the galleries are well and truly in their rightful place alongside these digitized DVD releases, things are looking better than ever under the Wicked masthead.