I can definitely say that I am not an old prudish man who goes around trying to find things to complain about but one thing that gets me going is sex scenes in movies. Are they really necessary? A kiss or a hug is fine and appropriate to me, but when I am watching a good movie and all of a sudden the two stars are in bed making love, panting and exposing more of themselves then necessary, it ruins the movie for me. I am at the show to watch a good drama or mystery and not a porn scene. Once in a while, a little rant is fun! Grrrrrrrrr!
I think it is over the top with the sex stuff in the movies. I have also gotten tired of all of the sex in the movies, I don't need to see all of the parts of the body that it is now ok to show on tv and in the movies.
I totally agree about the movies going beyond what is necessary. I remember back in the 1950's, if it was a western, and the actress was bathing in the river, you just saw a pinkish reflection in the water, and we all undertood that she was going to take a bath, just fine. If a couple are acting romantic, and then we see them walk into the bedroom; we can all figure out what happened next, we don't need to watch it happen. This is not only just with love/sex scenes. It used to be that someone got shot, you would see them grab their chest or shoulder and fall over. Now, we see them mangled and bleeding to death. This kind of graphic realism is not necessary, and like Richard says; it actually spoils a lot of movies that could be much better if some of the scenes were left to our imaginations.
@Pat Baker @Yvonne Smith @Ken Anderson People like Edward G. Robinson, James Cagney and others from the old days did not need to enhance their movies with sexual scenes!
Blood, sweat and sex sells tickets and boost ratings but I agree with the extremity that has saturated today's movies. I have noticed though that some actors/actresses haven't appeared in some of these sex scenes, like Clint Eastwood, Denzel Washington, Sandra Bullock, Vin Diesel but correct me if I'm wrong and share with me the movie.
I hate that, and have always hated it. Especially when you watch a movie with your family/relatives/friends which none of you have seen before, and suddenly there is a sex scene. It makes the mood so awkward I want to die. This trend won't stop, however. The sad truth is that sex sells, and producers know it.
I have to agree with the majority here. I know that sometimes the plot calls for two people to sleep together, but you don't have to show it so graphically. There are other ways to let us know that they are having a sexual relationship. I especially hate it in books - where your reading a interesting story and then there's a 5 page "love" scene. I hate to skip over it because some bit of the plot may be exposed in those pages, but I just hate it. There have been times when I've just put the book down and taken it back to the library. That's one reason I've gotten to really like young adult fiction and movies. Yes, they have violence and sex, but it's usually done in a very cursory, undefined way - not the graphic "two nudes in bed, grunting" style of adult movies. It's unfortunate that consumers of entertainment today only want to see violence, obscenity and sex. What happened to a good storyline, plot twists and character development??
In all fairness we are forewarned of these things, nudity, violence, etc. at the beginning of the movie though not the extent entailed. If we are more conscientious we can avoid these offenses.
True enough, Von, but then the final sentence usually reads something like, Not to be viewed by those under the age of 14!
Yes, I agree. Once my grandson (8) was sitting next to me as I was watching a movie then unbeknown to me a saucy sex scene came on. I couldn't get the remote fast enough to prevent him from seeing it and he said to me, 'Why are you watching this, Grandma?' . I sat speechless.
When I adopted my son, I would sometimes get movies that I thought would be good, including some that I had watched before, but when I am watching a movie alone, I don't always notice the things that are all too obvious when you're watching it with a child.
I agree with what you are saying , Ken, and I think that when we are watching a movie by ourselves, we just mentally "turn off" the parts we don't want to see; but when someone is there with us, like a child, then we are acutely aware of those scenes. When Titanic came out, Robin and I went to watch it in the theater, and we both totally loved the movie. We were drawn into the whole story, as well as enjoyed looking at the opulance of the Titanic. In fact, I enjoyed it so much that Robin later gifted me with the movie to watch at home on the VCR. After I met Bobby, (many years later) and we were talking about his work at rescue missions, and he was mentioning that one of the "forbidden" movies there was Titanic, and I was shocked ! For the life of me, I could not think of anything wrong with that movie that it might not be okay for the guys at the mission to watch. It was a great piece of history, and a touching love story as well. When Bobby reminded me that there were bare bodies in the love scene, I realized that I totally didn't remember that part of the movie at all. Obviously, the parts that I was interested in were very different from what the men at the rescue mission would be paying attention to. It is still one of my all-time favorite movies though, even if it is on the "forbidden" list .
That is what society nowadays is sex, drugs and partying. Sex scenes in movies are something normal to teenagers so is porn. We the older generation don't have any influence on that.
We certainly DO have an influence on these things. Maybe we can't stop the filmakers from exploiting nudity and violence in movies; but if people do not spend money to watch or purchase these kinds of movies, then they will lose some of their profits. There are a whole lot of Seniors; so together, we can have an effect. It is only when we say that we can't make a difference that we don't make a difference. It is not society's job to teach young people about morality; that is the parent's responsibility. If the parents are just allowing their children to watch any kind of content online, then the children will not learn any different.