tl;dr: capeshit/MCU/nerds/streaming killed sex in movie theaters.
american puritanism is truly baffling, decapitating someone and then saying a one-liner is well-adjusted shit but god forbid someone see a breast
edit: remember that anything queer also gets put, meritlessly, into the “sexual” category
I liked the brutal decapitation scene and the following “this brought us no satisfaction or closure” scenes, the first 10 minutes of endgame were great, right until Ant-Man appeared and ruined the movie
:geordi-no: Gratuitous sex scenes to put asses in seats
:geordi-yes: Wholesome romance where the mute lady boning a fish dude is the entire point of the movie
Firstly, This is bull. There is a ton of sex in movies. Just not in most capeshit because those are all ages superhero movies.
Secondly, there is nothing more awkward than watching people fuck when you’re not watching porn. Especially when you’re watching a movie with your family or whatever. Plus sex scenes usually offer nothing that isn’t already implied and they grind the movie to a halt. Netflix has this problem out the ass if you want to see why this is bad. Fucking and gore for no reason other then shock the viewer for cheap maturity clout.
Especially when you’re watching a movie with your family or whatever.
When I was 15, I went to see The Wolf of Wall Street with my mom thinking it was going to be some sort of serious docudrama about shady stock brokers. Worst theater experience of my life.
When I was 15, I went to see The Wolf of Wall Street with my mom
Holy shit I’m so fucking old
The wolf of wall street was released 10 years ago, there’s a good chance the person you’re responding to is in their mid 20s/around 25 years now old lmao.
I would know because I’m also a similar age, sorry for making you feel old
It’s okay, when you’re an old like us it’s a feeling that happens a lot anyway. If it wasn’t you it would be walking into a room with no idea what you were looking for, realising an album you just bought is now playing on a retro station, or looking at the date of literally anything.
:chomsky-yes-honey:
:deeper-sadness: :assad-pogger:
I feel like people confuse sex for a more ambient, lowkey sort of horniness. A sense of being lived in. The issue isn’t that movies are literally sexless, it’s that they’re figuratively sexless. Everyone’s conventionally attractive, but in a sterile, lifeless way.
Yeah, people don’t need to fuck but it can be appropriate for a character to avoid making it seem like they don’t know what sex even is and frankly aren’t interested in finding out.
Americans are simultaneously very horny and very prudish
This is the source of many, many, MANY of our cultural neuroses. I blame the fact that a lot of old school American doctors and social leaders thought any sort of excitement was either physically bad or spiritually bad
should’ve pushed the puritans back into the sea
Because a whole generation of people including myself all accidentally watched Ninja Scroll with their mom. Collectively we decided to try to spare the rest of you any similar awkward embarrassment of abrupt graphic sexual content while you’re just trying to watch a movie with your friends or family.
Part of why I hate visiting my parents is that they always have netflix on, and for some reason netflix shows love to jump-cut to graphic fuck scenes, so I’ll be there with my elderly mom and dad, and suddenly the characters on TV are rimming each other really loudly or whatever. It’s just uncomfortable, y’know?
yeah people want to watch movies and tv with their family. I don’t miss sex scenes
I don’t miss sex scenes, but I do miss romantic subplots. I think the latest generation of Hollywood reexamining all of the bad “romantic” tropes in movies fell short because while they did finally learn that damsels in distress and trophy characters were bad, they failed to come up with something to replace them with, and now every male-female dynamic in pop films is either a preestablished relationship or something seemingly completely platonic (and in some cases it’s both, like in Iron Man where he has no sexual tension with his assistant outside of a couple snarky asides but then they apparently get married and have a daughter in between films).
