Reviewed 2008-07-01 l Last update on 2020-09-26
Gay Movie Action has a great collection of gay DVDs (and image galleries) from some of the better hard-core entertainment producers. There is a fully searchable database of titles that is arranged according to genre, there are good download and stream options to suit all connections and there are regular updates. You can keep what you download too so you get great value for money. There is something for everyone here and it is not to be overlooked.
Starting with the video content, which is the main dive of the site of course, you have 16 categories of titles to choose from. When I called in to the site the emphasis seemed to be on the Anal category with over 230 DVDs, but other genres were represented too, such as Ebony, Amateurs and Teens. If you have recently been looking at Absolutely Male or the Gay DVD Shack then you will have seen this site and its content before. Actually at first glance it looks to be exactly the same as the DVD Shack, another example of a company selling the same content under a different name. Never mind, you may not have seen them so here's the low down on what Gay Movie Action has to offer.
Each of the movies, and there are 782 hours worth of them, gets its own details page. You can select by genre and there is even a collection of DVDs that are in High Definition so you can list only these. Each page has a set of front covers to browse through and you simply click one to find a little more information about the movie. I have to say that there isn't too much info on each one. Mainly the legal information, the title which you already know and a short description of the action to come. Scrolling down the page will show you some thumbnails from each scene and you can click these for a larger screen shot. Beneath these you will find the technical details of each download or stream option. Basically you have four qualities to choose from:
240 x 180 @ 56k for dial up connections
320 x 240 @ 300k for DSL
560 x 420 @ 700k for Broadband users
There is also, when available, an HD version which comes up at 720 x 480 @ 2MBps.
Just make sure you connect to whichever best suits your set up and you will be fine. All the movies were in Windows Media Player format (there is a page about what to do if you don't have this or if you have any problems viewing the content) and there are no restrictions on downloads.
The site has a long list of contributing studios and producers so don't expect anything exclusive here. But you can expect good quality. I had no complaints about the quality of any of the scenes I viewed. The casts are varied and you have all kinds of guys from younger to older with plenty of muscles and studs and masses of hard-core action. All in all it's a good collection of titles and the fact that you can keep as many as you want gives you great value for money.
As for the pictures area - which is really the only other collection of content as the Web Cams links go to an external site - here you will find 25 categories to choose from. Again, non-exclusive content but good quality, in the main. Images are arranged in thumbnail galleries as is standard and clicking one brings up a new window with forward and back buttons. Some of the pics came up at 900 x 1200 which is a decent enough size if the pics are digital and meant to be so large but a few I found didn't work well at this size and became a little pixilated. You can't complain though as each gallery has a decent number of images and there is so much variety in the kind of guys and the action that you can see. I can't give you exact numbers for the galleries as the site doesn't list how many there are per genre (and I aint counting them all!) and each gallery has a different amount of images in it. Suffice to say there was a large collection of good looking guys and depictions of hot gay sex. What more could you ask for?
So there you go with you content; hundreds of DVDs, thousands of images and hours of viewing to be had. It's an eclectic mix (with nothing too fetishistic) that will entertain you for days to come.
As for navigation: well, the site is surprisingly easy to navigate considering how well stocked it is. The drop down category lists help this a great deal and the pages load up nice and quickly so it's easy enough to move around the site. You have a top menu with the main parts of the site listed and over on the right you will always see a more expansive list of pages. Here you will find a model index where over 100 guys are ordered by name. Click one to get a list of his appearances, though there is a lack of other information, like his stats for example. Also on the right you will find links to the help pages that will guide you through any media player problems you may have and there are FAQs about the site generally too.
You can search the site by keyword where results that come back are for the videos rather than the galleries. You can look through the list of studios to see who has contributed and there are some well known names in there. To the right you will find images of the most viewed DVDs so you can see what's popular at the moment and to the left there are Featured DVDs; suggestions by the site as to what you might want to see. You will also find featured photo galleries when you are in the Pictures area
When you hover your mouse over an image on the index pages you will see a floating message box that gives you the description of that DVD. This can be annoying if you don't use it - but if you do use it you will find it saves you a lot of time and back and forward button use. Rather than click to a new page to see a DVDs details, just read the hover-message and decide if it sounds right for you, if it does you simply click to go there and if it doesn't then you only have to movie over to another title to read the next description. If you don't want these messages then keep your pointer away from the covers.
There isn't any site news, as such, so it is hard to judge when updates may occur but there are dates attached to some of the featured photo galleries which kind of gives you the feeling that someone is updating the site from time to time.
As for other features that I almost forgot to mention! There is an add to favorites function and a list favorites so you can bring up a new window listing what you liked last time you visited. But better than that for impatient and over excited folk like me there is a Queue function. As you are browsing around you will probably see several titles that you want to check out. Rather than thinking I'll come back to them later and then forgetting what they were, you can add them to your Queue and save the links. Then, when you've seen one and want to go back to that one that looked interesting but which can't remember the name of - simply open your queue list and there you will find them. Neat.
OK so this site appears under three names (that I have found so far) but it's still a good one. You have a wide choice of genres and titles, hundreds of hours of viewing and everything is fully downloadable in three or four qualities - though only in one kind of media player. There is great variety, the site is easy to use, there are some neat features and you get image galleries to collect too. As long as it's kept updated you should have no trouble enjoying this site for many months to come.
