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Content
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| Quality : |
17.0 / 20 |
| Quantity : |
15.0 / 15 |
| Entertain : |
14.0 / 15 |
| Updates : |
9.5 / 10 |
| Exclusive : |
5.0 / 05 |
| Download : |
4.0 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
64.5 / 70 |
| Navigation |
| Easy : |
8.0 / 10 |
| Features : |
3.5 / 05 |
| Design : |
3.5 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
15.0 / 20 |
| Other |
| Originality : |
4.0 / 05 |
| Hard Facts : |
4.0 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
8.0 / 10 |
Scoring Criteria New
New Update!
As of Aug 15th, 07, price of a site is no longer factored into the overall score/rank. |
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1. Updates still coming to this day.
2. Great bargain price for you!!
3. Tons of content to see here.
4. New blog is a nice touch.
1. Video quality could be a little better.
2. Some info/extras are lacking at times.
3. Server was a little slow responding for me.
"One of the few must-see destinations for exclusive amateur photography." |
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Upon entering Matt's site, you're presented with a plethora of good-looking, everyday beauties to get you going. He is the self-professed "king of anti-glam," and it seems he lives up to his word. The models you see here aren't made up with crazy costumes, or layers of makeup. They're definitely amateur in most senses of the word. That's not to say that these girls are ugly, not by any means. He just presents them as everyday women, which is a real turn-on when you get to see what they've got goin' on underneath it all.
I guess the thing that hit me first was the sheer number of pics and models he has here. Over 400 models and 90,000+ pics in just a few short years. He's really been a busy guy ;-) Anyhow, I was off now to find some naked chicks. The first menu choice is "Matt's Gallery," so I went there not knowing what to expect. I'm not 100% sure, but this looks like it's just his most recent updates. I thought this may have been a favorites gallery of his or something, but I don't think so. A better bet would be his top 30 (which is really a top 90) models page, which lists other member's favorites. The A-Z list of all the girls is great too, as there's so many to choose from.
Once you find a girl you like, you're brought to a page with thumbnails of her galleries, as well as what other users of the site rated her. Ok, two quick gripes. First, I would like to see a better score breakdown. I'm sure there's a ton of chicks here with a 3.5 or 4 and what's really to distinguish between them all? Second, some gallery thumbnails are just the same image repeated over and over. How do we know what's inside if he uses the same pic for each one? That didn't happen often, but when it did it looked like someone ran outta time to make the gallery or something :) Along that note, a few girls were missing any type of bio too, which makes the site look a little rushed at times. But who wouldn't be rushed when you have 400 ladies waiting at your door for you to watch them strip?
Picture quality varies greatly. It looks like he's slowly improved with time, and upgraded every year or so with a new camera. Each jump is definitely a nice suprise from the last one. The oldest pics definitely look *really* amateur, bad lighting included, and come in at 683x546. I guess back in 1999-2000 though that wasn't too horrible. The newer galleries bring jumps in image sizes to 800x600, and most recently 1067x800. His photography skills have definitely improved over time as well, with the newest pics looks really nice!
It deserves to be mentioned again that the girls here are not overly made-up, at all! The are shot in everyday clothes, in everyday apartments, made to look like an actual girl-next-door. There were some recognizable faces here, including Aria Giovanni among others (some people from Dean Capture's old content site, and Bisexual Britni who has her own site now, etc), that you'll have seen on quite a few sites before. While some of the girls aren't exclusive, all the pics are. This is the only thing that kept him from getting a perfect exclusivity score.
The video section is of an ok size, about 50 videos with an average 10 minutes each. The quality of these is pretty good, and there's usually two options per video of how to view them. Some have Real Video and MPGs, while others offer Windows Media and Quicktime. The clips generally feature solo girls stripping and playing a bit, keeping with the theme of the site for sure. The videos generally start streaming right away, and you can download most of them to your hard drive as well if you like. Kudos for a job well done with options here. Once he's built up a bigger video archive it'll be even better!
Ok, my last few gripes :) Why not bring back models more often for some more shoots? A majority of the girls only have 2-3 (good-sized) sets, but I'd love to see more come back for updates, especially the more popular ones. Also, as most sites do, Matt does what he does very well, without much else. The photo sets are all pretty similar to each other, with the exception that it's always a new girl in front of the camera. If you like it, then it'll be great for you. If you get bored easy, you might very well get bored after a while here too. Next, the search feature is all but useless. I searched for "blonde" and "blond" and didn't really find anything. Unless you know the model's name (which you could just browse to very easily anyway), it doesn't do a whole lot of good. Lastly, what's up with the dates of the video updates? LOL, the last videos were added on 8-17-34, 1-11-32, and 10-11-31 respectively. I couldn't make rhyme or reason of it.
Other than those, I really like the site. Matt finds some really good-looking girls, and gets them to mess around for him. The sheer volume of models is the most attractive thing to me here. The price won't break the bank, and you know in a few days you'll have another model or three to gawk at. I like the newer pictures a lot, and if his video section grows over time, so will his review scores. I don't think you can go wrong with Matt's site, so its definitely one to add to your list of sites to do!
| 1st Follow-Up Review |
Review: 03-26-04 |
Well, browsing around a bit, it doesn't appear that Matt's Models is a whole lot different than when we left it last time. A lot of my gripes are still around, but I think a lot of them were minor (and just personal opinions). I'm glad to have this chance to re-score the site, as overall I definitely enjoy it.
While only two new models a week come out on average, each girl already has like 3-4 sets up which is almost a new set each day. Plus he's been around so long that there's just a ton to see. The photos look pretty damn good overall, especially since he's been pumping out much nicer ones since we last looked. The video section is an ok size, although the dates are still completely messed up in there which I really don't get.
The one new thing I noticed was a hardcore section, although it's in its infancy. Only three videos are up now, but it's a definite change. I'm not sure how much he plans on doing this in the future, but it's nice to see some variety for sure.
He deserves a lot more credit than I gave before. $25 is a great price considering all you get here. His quantity, quality, entertaining, updates, download, and price score will all go up. My editor's curve will go down a bit, but overall the score will jump.
Score increased from 85.8 to 88.7.
| 2nd Follow-Up Review |
Review: 04-18-05 |
Things look good around these parts, as they did before I guess. Matt's been busy adding new girls, more sets, and more of everything in general. His content counts are up quite a bit, and when you consider his content is all exclusive, they're even more impressive.
One thing that gets me every time here are the update dates in the video section. Exactly what month and day are "11-4-17," "7-23-17," and "5-3-17" representing here? They all have 17's on the end, which is very perplexing.
The content looks good still, and his newer stuff has had a chance to grow in numbers now so there are a lot more sets in the 1000+ pixel range which is good to see. I think if you know Matt's site, you don't need my review for anything as you already know what to expect from there. If you haven't checked it out, it's definitely a great stop for some exclusive amateur content and is worth a look.
Score increased from 88.7 to 89.8.
| 3rd Follow-Up Review |
Review: 03-03-06 |
Man, it's been a long time since we first looked at Matt's Models, and things just keep steadily improving here and there. This time there's a slight new look and feel to the site thanks to a makeover. I wouldn't call it a redesign as it still has the same overll design, but everything was cleaned up quite a bit for sure. Also new are a ton more models of course, a blog from Matt (called his photo blog), and a lot of video options.
Honestly browsing through the galleries really got to me this time. There's only four thumbs per page, and then once you click one you have to click a second time to see the full-size picture. It just took a lot more effort than I wanted to give to view them.
Otherwise, the content is of course as good as exected. The pictures look nice, and are good-sized at the 1000x700 range, but still keep that familiar amateur feel to them. Videos come in about six formats (kinda), though I wouldn't mind a slightly quality bump here and quicker downloads (not sure where the slowdown was).
Still, besides my few gripes, it's actually an awesome site of course There's a ton of content, all exclusive, and it grows by the minute it seems. Definitely some great stuff here for amateur fans.
** UPDATE ** Matt hooked you guys up dude!! Instead of $25 a month, if you're reading this you can join at $15 which is an insane bargain. His site was already in the top ten before he did this, and now it's going to move even higher. If you like amateur content at all, you'd be an idiot not to join at this price if you ask me. Most definitely worth a look, especially now with this new news.
Score increased from 89.8 to 91.0.
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