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Apparently I'm the only one that likes being titillated by movies. I don't get the "it adds nothing to the plot" complaint. Tons of movies have action scenes and gratuitous violence that add nothing to the plot, yet i don't see complaints about that. 90% of John Wick is gratuitous violence that added nothing to the plot, but I still love it.
I think this says more about American prudishness and people's unhealthy attitudes towards sex than anything.
Bunch of unnecessary death? Cool and fun! An unnecessary titty? Awkward and gratuitous.
Fuck all of you. I want more nudity and sex in my movies and the comparative lack of it compared to the 80s and 90s feels like we're going out of our way to exclude a huge part of life from art because it makes the prudes out there uncomfortable. But those same people are happy to watch nameless dudes get creatively and graphically killed for half a movie's run time.
I want more gratuitous sex and less gratuitous moral pandering
Pornhub is somewhere over there ——>
Why are you booing him? He's right.
Porn is super easy to access. There are more hours of porn recorded than there are hours of my life left.
R-rated sex scenes are literally competing with a host of just better options.
Not once has a fake sex scene in a movie not trigger cringe in me. It's nice to see the actresses' titties but that is it. Fade to black, imply they fucked and move on. Pornhub literally is a click away.
The fact that you only equate sex and nudity to porn shows the problem. Sex and nudity can be fun, dramatic, scary, or funny depending on the context. It wouldn't be "competing" with porn.
I can't suspend my disbelief when media pretends sexuality just doesn't exist or isn't relevant.
It's not 100%, someone else brought up Crank which has a hilarious sex scene that I wouldn't cut and it's vital to the plot.
Most sex scenes just have this feel of "the director wanted to see actresses' naked and had the power of authority and money to make it happen". It doesn't feel fun it has an air of exploitation to it, which I'll admit lots of porn does too, but not all. The best porn is when everyone involved likes it.
I think a sex scene in an otherwise not-pornographic film needs to be second guessed. Does cutting it ruin the plot? Could it just be implied and move on?
I just think they really need to justify it more than normally do.
Why? Why can't they just have it for fun like any other type of gratuitous scene in a movie? I agree it's not usually done well, but that doesn't mean it can't or shouldn't be done.
99% of previous attempts have been, what I would call "weak shit". It's up to the writers/director/actors to bring their A game and prove themselves, because so far, I've yet to see one i wouldn't mind being cut out entirely.
In short, it's a skill issue.