They say that ‘sex sells’, but if that’s true, why has it practically disappeared from modern Hollywood filmmaking? It wasn’t always this way: romantic scene...
tl;dr: capeshit/MCU/nerds/streaming killed sex in movie theaters.
The OT was pretty nice in this field to me honestly, I dont really want like a sex scene or anything, just romance! I want the characters to be fully realized, and that means romantic intentions and gestures, Luke and Han have great tension with Leia right at the beginning of Episode 5. I guess I'm also the odd one out when I say that the Anakin and Padme scenes are probably the best or at least the most stand out thing from Episode 2, even with all the stilted performances and dialogue, I think it does a pretty good job portraying 2 emotionally stunted individuals finding some commonality with each other.
The OT was pretty nice in this field to me honestly, I dont really want like a sex scene or anything, just romance! I want the characters to be fully realized, and that means romantic intentions and gestures, Luke and Han have great tension with Leia right at the beginning of Episode 5. I guess I'm also the odd one out when I say that the Anakin and Padme scenes are probably the best or at least the most stand out thing from Episode 2, even with all the stilted performances and dialogue, I think it does a pretty good job portraying 2 emotionally stunted individuals finding some commonality with each other.