tl;dr: capeshit/MCU/nerds/streaming killed sex in movie theaters.

  • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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    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.

    • M68040 [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      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.

        • M68040 [they/them]
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          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

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        • Blep [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Troopers is doing it on purpose tho

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            • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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              2 years ago

              I don't think anyone got it in 1997. I think it was like 2006 when i first saw people being like "holy shit the dumb action movie was actually really smart!"

      • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        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.

    • cosecantphi [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      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.

      • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        When I was 15, I went to see The Wolf of Wall Street with my mom

        Holy shit I'm so fucking old

        • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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          2 years ago

          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

          • MolotovHalfEmpty [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            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:

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    • CarmineCatboy [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      watching people fuck

      I mean, selling sex is about much more than just people literally fucking. These movies are just not interested in that. It's enough for most audiences that the actors stand there dehydrated, looking pretty.

    • Socialcreditscorr [they/them,she/her]
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      2 years ago

      I think I heard someone once describe it as "Sex doesn't sell, porn sells." Which seems to track well with your comment. The MCU being popular despite not being completely focused on being horny doesn't mean the public is completely done with horny.

    • SteamedHamberder [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Yeah nothing quite like watching Gomez Addams have prison sex in “Kiss of the Spider Woman” with your parents.

    • space_wizard [any]
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      2 years ago

      Secondly, there is nothing more awkward than watching people fuck when you’re not watching porn.

      american moment