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i_simp_4_tedcruz, to movies in Gen Z is turned off by onscreen sex, wants no-mance over romance, a new study finds

I just hate the wet noises that accompany it. Same thing with kissing scenes where they have a shotgun mic basically inside their mouths. It drives my sensory issues up a wall.

DessertStorms, (edited )
@DessertStorms@kbin.social avatar

Sensory processing disorder gang represent lol
(no-mance ftw for other reasons too, but that's the biggest)

DAMunzy,

Macaroni and cheese time!

Smoogs,

It’s the same sound track they use for the walking dead when they are walking through the guts of zombies.

Queue the giant slurp at the end as the last noodle gets sucked in. And then the ‘ah’ gasp.

WuTang, to movies in Gen Z is turned off by onscreen sex, wants no-mance over romance, a new study finds
@WuTang@lemmy.ninja avatar

strange, I thought it was aimed at them, hence the shitty Netflix billboard that I am impossible to scroll with my kids around and tbh, I feel also this shit as an aggression, like ads.

masquenox, to movies in Gen Z is turned off by onscreen sex, wants no-mance over romance, a new study finds

Generation Xer here… I, too, find the enforced “made-by-numbers” romance and sex cringy, superfluous and utterly banal.

Smoogs,

Same. 100% on the nose.

lightnsfw, to movies in Gen Z is turned off by onscreen sex, wants no-mance over romance, a new study finds

It’s not the sex. It’s the cringy romantic bullshit typically surrounding it where everyone treats each other like shit for the sake of drama.

Neil,
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    I suspect that is true as well. Most of the really dramatic girls I’ve known have been super into romcoms and reality TV. If not causing the behavior they are at least reinforcing it.

    LaunchesKayaks, to movies in Gen Z is turned off by onscreen sex, wants no-mance over romance, a new study finds
    @LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world avatar

    I hate sex scenes in movies. By far the worst sex scene I’ve seen was sthe end of Sausage Party. I felt physically ill from it. I watched the movie with my parents and they thought my disgust was hilarious. Now I rarely watch movies other than superhero movies with them.

    DrMango,

    That whole movie was just absolute dog water. There’s are good ways to do lowbrow comedy and then there’s Sausage Party.

    LaunchesKayaks,
    @LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world avatar

    It’s one of two movies that I actually regret watching.

    SlowNoPoPo,

    I watched a few movies from the 80s and 90s recently, and there are so many cringy and unnecessary sex scenes in those movies it’s absolutely insane

    then the boomers try to act like the youth have a sex problem

    LaunchesKayaks,
    @LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world avatar

    I can’t watch many movies from the 80s and 90s because of the cringe sex scenes. My parents think that time was the best time for movies and they’re just wrong lol

    Dkarma,

    I mean idt they’re talking about cartoon hot dog sex in the article, but fair…

    LaunchesKayaks,
    @LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world avatar

    It’s still absolutely disgusting tho

    Evotech, to movies in Gen Z is turned off by onscreen sex, wants no-mance over romance, a new study finds

    Meanwhile, one of the most popular show recently was euphoria

    riskable,
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    That show wasn’t popular with Gen Z though. How do I know this? Gen Z doesn’t watch HBO (they can’t afford yet another streaming service and they’re too lazy to pirate anything that isn’t anime because it’s too inconvenient).

    nave,

    I would say HBO’s core demographic is probably about 25 to 54, but ‘Euphoria’s’ target is probably 12 to 29,” Edgerton said. “HBO shows are this sort of high-end, exclusive programming, but they’re going to have to appeal to more viewers than they ever did before, and they’ve done a pretty good job so far.”

    thebutlercollegian.com/…/euphoria-is-back-and-wit…

    Th4tGuyII, to movies in Gen Z is turned off by onscreen sex, wants no-mance over romance, a new study finds
    @Th4tGuyII@kbin.social avatar

    I can get behind this. I can't even remember the last time I saw a sex scene in a movie that needed to be there - it just makes for an awkward moment.

    If I wanted to see a sex scene, I'd just watch porn, not a movie where other stuff is meant to be happening.

    Skua,

    I think the one in Blade Runner 2049 did a lot for the character of Joi in particular. But it's about the only example I can think of just now

    bus_factor,

    Don Jon (2013) is about a porn addict, so having some sex scenes made sense there.

    A Somewhat Gentle Man (2010) has a few sex scenes which are hilarious, and they really fit the vibe of the movie.

    lightnsfw,

    Alternatively some of the porns that have other shit happening are pretty decent.

    chemical_cutthroat, to movies in Gen Z is turned off by onscreen sex, wants no-mance over romance, a new study finds
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    I have a standing wager with my friends that there has never been a filmed or written sex scene that needed to be included in the media. Talk about it, allude to it, show the ramifications of it, but there has never been one that needed to be there. Sex scenes are there to sell TnA, not to move the plot forward.

    For an example of a close call. In A History of Violence, Viggo rapes his wife. This is about as close as you could come to a needed scene because it shows a wild character development, but if you were to cut the scene out entirely, you’d still get all of the character development that he gets from the scene, anyway, rendering it useless.

    koberulz,

    By this logic there has never been a scene of any kind in any movie that needed to be there.

    chemical_cutthroat,
    @chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world avatar

    Have you seen Biodome?

    brewbellyblueberry,

    That’s the point, like, read a book, dork!

    Zoboomafoo,
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    The only scenes that matter are the load bearing ones, apparently

    captain_aggravated,
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    I’m trying to imagine Zach and Miri Make A Porno without any sex scenes in it.

    dumptruckdan, to movies in Gen Z is turned off by onscreen sex, wants no-mance over romance, a new study finds
    @dumptruckdan@kbin.social avatar

    Sounds good to me and I'm a couple letters behind Gen Z. Either the scenes don't do anything for me, in which case they're boring, or they do something for me, in which case...what do I do when it's over? Do I pause and go take care of it, or sit there all hot and bothered while somebody talks about business stuff or getting the bad guys or whatever? Either way it's annoying. And I'm no prude, it's just, if I want to see sex I'll just watch porn. But I'm not watching porn, I'm trying to watch a story. IDK. It's like if the mall decided every store needed a stripper pole.

    Teon,
    @Teon@kbin.social avatar

    I see you have been visiting the mall I work at. :)

    Send_me_nude_girls,

    I like your example. I agree, even as a pretty perverted person.

    TigrisMorte, to movies in Gen Z is turned off by onscreen sex, wants no-mance over romance, a new study finds

    I think it more likely that they are sick of the idiot love triangle crutch which so many productions desperately wedge into films it has no place in.

    NoSleep, to movies in Gen Z is turned off by onscreen sex, wants no-mance over romance, a new study finds

    This article tells us nothing as it isn’t comparing the results to other age groups. The study it cites might though.

    Kolanaki, to movies in Gen Z is turned off by onscreen sex, wants no-mance over romance, a new study finds
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    I’m a horny af millennial and I also don’t really care for sex scenes. They add nothing to the story itself, and they don’t show enough to be sexy. If you’re not going to show full penetration then don’t even bother.

    sir_pronoun, to movies in Gen Z is turned off by onscreen sex, wants no-mance over romance, a new study finds

    I think none of you have seen Irreversible.

    Veraxus, (edited ) to movies in Gen Z is turned off by onscreen sex, wants no-mance over romance, a new study finds
    @Veraxus@kbin.social avatar

    I'm with Gen Z on this. Hell, I've have been complaining about this since I was a kid in the 80s. You do not need every damn relationship to be a romance. People can be friends and acquaintances and frienemies and enemies and everything in-between without there being romance or sex.

    Hole,

    Or they can be in love without it being explored when it’s of no value to the story. Movies seldom ever include established couples just treating them normally.

    Hole, to movies in Gen Z is turned off by onscreen sex, wants no-mance over romance, a new study finds

    Ripe gen Z elder at 25 here. Glad to know others from my generation feel the same. I hate romance. Well done romance is fine, but it’s a unicorn. Sex scenes are also cringe. I’m very much not a prude, merely film makers either fail to make a good one and/or it adds nothing of value or straight up subtracts.

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