Flashpoint

I had that feeling watching the 10th-anniversary edition of Flashpoint.

Flashpoint is reminiscent of the '70s Golden Age, when they made movies with plots and acting -- and sex -- in them instead of just shooting a bunch of sex scenes and calling it a movie. It involves firefighters -- people still call it "the fireman movie" -- and their lives, loves, and problems. Jenna Jameson plays the main character, a firefighter with a bad case of the yips after a colleague died nearby, and who is suspected of arson because her nametag was found at a fire scene. There is a small subplot involving Mickey G. having a drug problem, and lots of people are having sex with each other, seven scenes altogether, including a seven-person orgy on a hook-and-ladder truck. Jenna is in three of them. Jake Jacobs and Jack Remy provide luminous videography, ably assisted by the lighting expertise of Ron Vogel.

The main reason I got the "They don't make 'em like that any more" feeling is because a lot of things have changed since the video was shot 10 years ago. Whatever you may think of Jenna Jameson today, in Flashpoint she is supermodel-stunning. Many of the players -- Asia Carrera, Sindee Coxx, Missy, Johnni Black, Jill Kelly, Anthony Crane -- are no longer performing. The production values are terrific. The climactic scene at the end of the video, with the meat-packing plant gleefully in flame, was shot in one long night, with real firefighters on-site as advisers. I was taking notes for an on-the-set report, and was pressed into service as an extra -- I'm the security guard in a white shirt and tie getting rescued from the building by Jenna and Mickey G. -- before the night was over.

And all of this happened 10 years ago. Ten. The passage of that kind of time could only spark nostalgia.

Starring Jenna Jameson, Sydnee Steele, Jill Kelly, Asia Carrera, Sindee Coxx, Missy, Johnni Black, Brittany Andrews, T.T. Boy, Brad Armstrong, Mickey G., Jonathan Morgan, Mike Horner, Steve Drake, Eric Price. George Kaplan and Anthony Crane in non-sex roles. Joy King, Mike Albo and Tod Hunter in momentary in-joke walk-ons.

Directed by Brad Armstrong.

The package has three discs of extra material: one disc with 12 Jenna scenes (two extended ones from Flashpoint, 10 from other Wicked productions), a second with Flashpoint extras and Wicked trailers, and a third disc with a BTS look at the making of Jenna's year 2000 calendar. Armstrong gives an excellent director's commentary track on the movie proper. You'll never look at a green carpet the same way again.