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[–] [email protected] 52 points 3 weeks ago (14 children)

I can't think of a single sex scene in a movie that added value to it. They're pointless and akward to both the audience and actors.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 weeks ago

Other poster had a ~~good~~ only example.

Team America world police

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago

Any art house film trying to portray reality.

Basic instinct interview

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Off the top of my head, scenes in:

Poor Things

Nymphomaniac

Antichrist

Requiem for a Dream

Saltburn

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

Blue is the warmest color.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

Disagree, if it's in a romance movie it's sometimes a necessary addition

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

Sounds like someone has never seen MacGruber! Pointless and awkward absolutely but the value added was immeasurable.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Debbie does Dallas would've been a rather mediocre high school drama without the sex scenes.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Euro trip

Black Swan

Brokeback Mountain

Eyes Wide Shut

Poor Things (which even makes it an important plot about finding your own power through sexuality while it also being a tool that can be used to take advantage of you)

Oh forgot TEETH very different movie if there was no sex

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Lars van Trier's Nymphomaniac would be very confusing without sex.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah a lot of people proclaimimg from their own soapbox of limited perspective that sex is pointless and gratuitous when there are so many stories that don't work.

We literally have stories that revolve around sex as its own topic like Nymphomaniac Last Tango in Paris that don't work without sex. But someone got the ick watching Titanic so now apparently all sex scenes are derivative.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Eurotrip is excellent

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

The McGruber movie had a good one

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Team America World Police

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago
[–] JackbyDev 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That's a pretty blanket statement on it being awkward for actors when We Live in Time is in theaters right now and this is a story about a sex scene in it. https://www.bustle.com/entertainment/andrew-garfield-florence-pugh-we-live-in-time-sex-scene,

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

LOL I love the camera man hiding in the corner cause he can't leave but wants to give them some privacy if they are having a moment.