I feel like you had your way for a while. Seemingly every movie targeted at vaguely adult audiences needed to have a sex scene in it. For some it was fitting (Anora is the last one that comes to mind), but for the vast majority it just felt so forced. You could almost see that everyone involved in making the movie, from actors to camera operators to the director, didn’t really want a sex scene and just had to add it because it would boost movie ticket sales (or more likely blu-ray sales, hopefully people wouldn’t be wackin’ it in the theaters). Some of those scenes were so out-of-tune and out-of-pallet from the rest of the movie, it completely shattered the suspension of disbelief, reminding me that it is really just a bunch of scenes spliced together rather than a believable story or a self-contained experience.
In this case, since it’s literally a movie about fucking, a few explicit sex scenes are in order. But overall I think it’s good, at least for the art of moviemaking, that the pendulum is swinging the other way.
That’s a reasonable position. The movie industry has definitely been weird about sex in a lot of ways, especially with regard to the women in front of the camera.
But I’m really not advocating that we need some particular quota of sex scenes in our media, I’m more disturbed by the reason that number is decreasing. It’s not because the creatives making these movies are pushing for it. In this case the director was forced to cut out his sex scenes because the test audiences immediately started squirming in their seats like a bunch of school kids. To me that seems like an extremely unhealthy relationship with sex. And that’s in line with a general trend I’m sensing of the world getting increasingly prudish and puritanical.
Doesn’t help that the other two responses I got here are acting like I should be self flagellating for enjoying Pillion last week.
I feel like you had your way for a while. Seemingly every movie targeted at vaguely adult audiences needed to have a sex scene in it. For some it was fitting (Anora is the last one that comes to mind), but for the vast majority it just felt so forced. You could almost see that everyone involved in making the movie, from actors to camera operators to the director, didn’t really want a sex scene and just had to add it because it would boost movie ticket sales (or more likely blu-ray sales, hopefully people wouldn’t be wackin’ it in the theaters). Some of those scenes were so out-of-tune and out-of-pallet from the rest of the movie, it completely shattered the suspension of disbelief, reminding me that it is really just a bunch of scenes spliced together rather than a believable story or a self-contained experience.
In this case, since it’s literally a movie about fucking, a few explicit sex scenes are in order. But overall I think it’s good, at least for the art of moviemaking, that the pendulum is swinging the other way.
That’s a reasonable position. The movie industry has definitely been weird about sex in a lot of ways, especially with regard to the women in front of the camera.
But I’m really not advocating that we need some particular quota of sex scenes in our media, I’m more disturbed by the reason that number is decreasing. It’s not because the creatives making these movies are pushing for it. In this case the director was forced to cut out his sex scenes because the test audiences immediately started squirming in their seats like a bunch of school kids. To me that seems like an extremely unhealthy relationship with sex. And that’s in line with a general trend I’m sensing of the world getting increasingly prudish and puritanical.
Doesn’t help that the other two responses I got here are acting like I should be self flagellating for enjoying Pillion last week.