Exhausted: John C. Holmes, the Real Story

i confess: i am a fan of the golden age of porn. and out here, it's hard to get any such films. all that is available is the latest fodder, which usually is a mechanized, by-the-numbers effort. so it was a treat to see some footage from superior films, and to get some info about John Holmes. watch this as a companion to 'boogie nights', if u r a fan.

I saw Exhausted in the movie theater when it was released in the 1980's.Video really hadn't made the inroads that came later.I remember reading about John C. Holmes being on the run.In fact there was a large poster with an enlarged newspaper article which had people of all walks of life stopping and reading the article.So John C. Holmes was definitely mainstream already.Who was to know that two different mainstream Hollywood movies would come out based on his life.

Anyway, the documentary still holds up all these years later.the director of Boogie Nights definitely studied this film.i agree with another reviewer about the superior quality of the explicit sex shown in this film and others of the era.That is to say it was and is far superior to anything put out today.i don't even bother with the new releases because the sex scenes are so absolutely boring and by-the-numbers.

Exhausted is an excellent expose of the legendary John C. Holmes.Definitely worth a look for John C. Holmes fans!

This is really a faux documentary on porn star John Holmes. No background info on John Holmes life. A lot of what John himself says in this film he completely fabricated.

One line from this film that has played in many other documentaries on porn, is where Holmes says he graduated from University of Southern California. In fact he was a high school dropout & had no schooling afterwards. He also states he had sex with over 14,000 women which of course is impossible. A line in this film that was reused in "Boogie Nights", a film loosely based on Holmes' career is where Holmes is with director Bob Chinn and says he is allowed to block his own sex scenes, & immediately Bob Chinn says no he doesn't. Recreated with Mark Wahlberg & Burt Reynolds verbatim in the 1997 movie. I'm not sure John Holmes spoke a single word of truth in this entire film.

Other than John Holmes being interviewed & giving his philosophy of life, sex & women, we get some sex scenes from his movies. Also are interviews with Seka, a few other porn actresses & director Bob Chinn plus some interviews of people on the street. Much of it kind of bored me.

This really was to boost the career of John Holmes & his films. We don't learn anything real about the man. But it was at times entertaining.

I am a big fan of John Holmes and this movie is a must see for those who want to see what he was like in action. Not only in scenes with famous porn actresses but just in his everyday life. This film has numerous interviews with John and you really get a feel for who he was, how he behaved and how he rambled. You'll totally see the comparison to Boogie Nights as this film was the inspiration for that movie, and going down the line to Wonderland. None of them have the real John Holmes interview footage, and I've heard that all of it comes from this little ditty. Sure it's an old movie, but it's a must see for those who have an appetite for reality porn.