LOTR is about to be subverted
(www.thecut.com)
You're viewing a single comment thread. View all comments, or full comment thread.
Comments (32)
sorted by:
I've always wondered if others really wanted the sex scenes that are shoved into way too many things. Others meaning young adult to middle aged men like myself. Clearly my very religious grandma does not want them. It's never been of any value to me to see some boobs or buttcheeks in a show I'm trying to watch for a story. I mean if you want that stuff, it's available by itself.
There are stories where it fits. WestWorld, for example, included them sensibly in season 1 for the most part. But almost always, it's out of place.
Dunno bro. That shit with Maeve having sex like every episode was getting old.
Maybe if she were in her prime like in MI:2 but not like 20 years later.
On the other hand, for someone that supposed to have been fucked so many times she became sentient, Dolores didnt show shit other than crappy chair scene in EP1.
I personally don't care for watching people bump uglies in film. It's not explicit enough to arouse and I just don't see what the point is otherwise. I've always thought sex scenes in movies were just a way for the filmmaker to see a bitch naked, since their inclusion more often than not just pads out the runtime and serves no purpose to the narrative.
There are a million ways to tell the audience that two characters got down to business. Actually showing it is probably the least creative of them all.
I always find it very awkward when shows have 30+ second sex scenes. It seems like it's trying to portray the relationship the characters have, but it just leads to me feeling like I'm having an uncomfortable portrait into the character's life. Also uncomfortable to watch with other people, am I supposed to be getting turned on in front of my parents? What is my brother thinking? etc. The information about a character's relationship can be delivered without bordering on pornography. And no, nudity isn't required for this issue, showing people aggressively making out displayed in an erotic fashion also seems too much.