• TwistedTurtle@monero.town
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    1 year ago

    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

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      1 year ago

      Personally, my problem with sex in shows and movies is that it’s blatantly not titillating. Hollywood sex scenes are just awfully done/acted/shot.

    • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net
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      1 year ago

      With all due respect, have you read the article? Attributing this to prudishness misses a lot of what’s actually being said: that shoe-horning in romance or sex for no reason is the problem, as well as lack of attention being given to developing platonic relationships. Exploring non-romantic or sexual relationships better doesn’t necessarily mean cutting out sex and romance, and imo, would likely lead to better sex and romance in TV and movies.

      But I agree with you also, that gratuitous sex and nudity can be used to great effect. Another user https://lemmy.world/comment/4888355 (don’t know how to link comments, hopefully this will work) posted a link to the article “Everyone is beautiful, no-one is horny” above, and this really highlights the problem on this side of things, in my view