Nothing against the chapo hosts but this is one of the culture takes they make that you have to take with a grain of salt, male-gazey box-checking badly shot sex scenes and their accompanying shoehorned hetero relationship plots were not crucial to good movies, they were mostly just weird. They also weren't a part of movies, many many excellent movies, for a long time before they became ubiquitous during the 'especially creepy rapist producer' Hollywood era. Not that they aren't necessary and great in lots of films, just not most that they were a thing in. We also don't need a return to the stock scene where prepubescent boys peeped on undressing teen girls, as much as Will Menaker may like that, as an example. More realistic attitudes towards sexuality in movies doesn't mean more sex or nudity, my favorite sex in movies is of the embarassing and uncomfortable sort, or sexual repression and feeling being represented by a lack of sex or even masturbation (sadly underexamined in cinema).
Now, squibs and practical effects in general? Absolute must, parrot the podcast by all means on that
A Serious Man came out in 2008 and that's the best movie that's ever been made, but I take your point, there is a distinct quality dropoff, I just don't think it's attributable to sex scenes, or even "everything being PG now", because as you said there were real bangers in the Hayes code era (although often because they did everything they could to get around it). I think the problem is more to do with the demands of marketing, of which "less sex" is only a sliver, like, all those shitty Michael Bay movies everyone holds up as the height of trash are very sexy in an unappealing way
Nothing against the chapo hosts but this is one of the culture takes they make that you have to take with a grain of salt, male-gazey box-checking badly shot sex scenes and their accompanying shoehorned hetero relationship plots were not crucial to good movies, they were mostly just weird. They also weren't a part of movies, many many excellent movies, for a long time before they became ubiquitous during the 'especially creepy rapist producer' Hollywood era. Not that they aren't necessary and great in lots of films, just not most that they were a thing in. We also don't need a return to the stock scene where prepubescent boys peeped on undressing teen girls, as much as Will Menaker may like that, as an example. More realistic attitudes towards sexuality in movies doesn't mean more sex or nudity, my favorite sex in movies is of the embarassing and uncomfortable sort, or sexual repression and feeling being represented by a lack of sex or even masturbation (sadly underexamined in cinema).
Now, squibs and practical effects in general? Absolute must, parrot the podcast by all means on that
i aint parroting the podcast, if anything the idea comes more from this chick
https://bloodknife.com/everyone-beautiful-no-one-horny/
and no, its true, bring back titties, if that makes you uncomfortable you can always watch kids movies
Porn-brain
"Movies stopped being good after the 90's" brain
Fucking 60's stuff made under the hays code had more emotion and humanity than movies nowadays
A Serious Man came out in 2008 and that's the best movie that's ever been made, but I take your point, there is a distinct quality dropoff, I just don't think it's attributable to sex scenes, or even "everything being PG now", because as you said there were real bangers in the Hayes code era (although often because they did everything they could to get around it). I think the problem is more to do with the demands of marketing, of which "less sex" is only a sliver, like, all those shitty Michael Bay movies everyone holds up as the height of trash are very sexy in an unappealing way