Type of Site: Performer
Address: www.brunob.com 
Price: 
$29.95/month* (package deal for a group of sites) 
Date of Review:
April, 2005  
Pornreports Rating: 

    

Review:

(Note: In 2007 all of Bruno's stuff, including a lot of new material he was filming, was also licensed to the BrainPass network for a site named Bruno B. Reloaded.-Eds.) 

Bruno B. is a long-running amateur porn site out of Montreal that is part of a group of four sites that you get for one membership. The others are Hardcore Training, Lesbo101, and some gay site we, um, never got around to checking out. Since all these sites are laid out the exact same way, we'll try and go over the nuts and bolts here and offer a kind of overview. Here's the least that you should know:

(1) Don't get the "trial rate." It only provides limited access to the video for one site.

(2) All of these sites are put out by Gamma Entertainment, which is an adult studio based in Montreal, Quebec. They speak French in Quebec, and while these sites are all produced for an English audience, you can expect to hear the talent break into French quite a bit. On the plus side, if you're French you should love it. Each site also comes with a "francaise" version as well.

(3) The layout and technical specs are the same for all of the sites (and, not coincidentally, the same as all of the BrainPass sites as well, since Brain Entertainment is another Montreal-based outfit). Here's what you get:

Essentially these are movies sites, with each weekly update being a movie that is usually divided into three or four clips. There are three choices of low-speed video available for download (56 wmv, 128 wmv, and 350 mpeg), and three choices of high-speed (228 wmv, 650 mpeg and 700 wmv). The same complaints we have with the BrainPass layout go for these sites as well: there aren't enough thumbnails, the files are split up really unevenly (for example: one scene that is broken down into three parts might have a 2 meg first part, a 37 meg second part, and then a 5 meg third part), and you can't download full movies (except, for some reason, with the latest updates to Hardcore Training).

We also question the number of low-quality video selections. Yes, these sites have been going for a while, and yes it's nice to have some options for people who don't have fast connections, but do they really need three (actually four, because the 228 kb/s "high-speed" option is anything but) low-speed formats? And while the top level video is solid enough now, there is always room for improvement. At some point we'd like to see all these sites take the next step to the proverbial (if not always literally accurate) "DVD-quality" downloads.

(4) The pics are all just vidcaps, and not really great vidcaps at that (i.e., blurry when there's any kind of motion). They're really only worth browsing through as a video preview.

(5) If there's a theme to the sites in this group it seems to be the idea of breaking in fresh talent, and training young women to be pornstars. We weren't really buying this, and it's not like they make that much out of it anyway, but there is often some "coaching" coming from Bruno, Yvon, Gabriella as they direct the fun.

(6) The action is quite studio-bound, with most of the sex appearing to take place in the same room. Also typical is the handheld, POV camerawork (or a camera set up in a stationary position). Things like lighting, sound, and editing are competently done, but it's still a pretty stripped-down production.

(7) Each site comes with a lot of feeds and extra bonus content.

That's it for general comments. Now on to Bruno B.

In some ways this is a unique site. There aren't a lot of solo male performer sites out there, and what ones there are tend to feature established pornstars (Peter North, Lex Steele) with their own line of studio titles. But this Bruno B. guy ("taxi driver by day, pornstar by night") is a real amateur. And he doesn't even speak very good English! So fuck, you've gotta think if this guy can do it . . . 

Actually Bruno is pretty good. This could probably be a really funny site if they let him work the camera a bit more (he introduces each segment by filming himself talking into a mirror). The main problem here is how repetitive it gets. Bruno talks into the mirror, we meet the girl, she strips, Bruno gets his cock sucked (but rarely returns the oral favours), they fuck (often with some anal thrown in), girl gets a facial. That's it. Very rarely he works with a couple of girls. Considering how studio-bound so much of it is (though it looks like more recent sets are trying to get away from this), there just isn't enough variation.

What you are getting is a lot of good quality amateur content. There were 180 movies up when we visited, with a new one being added weekly. Considering that each movie is around 30 minutes, that's really a lot of exclusive content. 

Overall we thought this site offered quite a bit, but we wanted to see it break out of its routine. Maybe its personal bias, but we can't understand shooting POV/handheld unless you really have to. Bruno does it well, but there are just too many limitations on the kind of shots you can get when you film everything this way.

This is a bit pricey, but it's not a bad value when you consider the amount of stuff they have and the other sites you get with your membership. We just wished that with all this content there was a bit more variety, but that's something it looks like they're at least working on.

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