The one real asset of this video is the appearance of Chad Douglas, 1987's Big Discovery, who's still running hot. Douglas' performance in Pounder isn't his most memorable by far, but this is one gayporn star who's always interesting to watch. Here he just seems to be hanging out (no pun intended). He lounges around someone's roof-top pool. He sips a cool drink. Eventually he heads into the cabana to do his thing with a fellow guest. Splash splash, sip sip, bang bang. Then he disappears. So should you.

Because Pounder is tired stuff. It starts with our whiskey-throated, rodent-faced young narrator (not all gayporn stars have to be pretty) intoning the standard line about glamour and sleaze in legendary West Hollywood. He fumbles over the word "statistics," but never mind, this is one-take stuff. On to the pool. On to the sex. No story, no particularly memorable scenes. No stars except Douglas, unless you count two minor stars, Chaz Holderman and Matt Forrest.

Credit should go to the cameraman and lighting designer; some of the indoor scenes are quite sumptuous, drenched in alluring reds and sculpted with shadows. And the cast is professionally up, even if their hearts don't seem to be in it. Pounder begins on a note of fashionable ennui, and keeps it up to the end. Erotica isn't much fun when it looks like that and sex should never look like a job.