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Whirling_Cloudburst, in John Carpenter on being called a "master director of horror": "That's nice; sorry, I'm eating a Popsicle"

Steven Colbert recently interviewed him: Part 1 Part 2 Its a scream.

RubberElectrons,
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That’s fucking great, I love this movie

Pantsofmagic, in [DISCUSSION] [SPOILERS] - FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S - Josh Hutcherson, Mary Stuart Masterson, Lucas Grant

I think the opinions here are valid but I thoroughly enjoyed this movie more than I thought I would. It wasn’t all that it could have been but I got into it and stayed interested and found it entertaining.

grayhaze, in Let's talk time travel
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Why does a time travel movie have to have a perfect loop to be “correct”? I’m personally a fan of time travel stories that result in branching timelines, where nothing is written in stone and everything is fair game for alteration. A loop is just boring, as nothing has any consequence.

AphoticDev, in Gen Z is turned off by onscreen sex, wants no-mance over romance, a new study finds
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That’s not just a Gen Z thing, nobody I’ve ever talked to likes sex scenes.

flumph,
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Most of them are just dumb. Like a guy finds out his mom just died in a bear attack, so he and his coworker have passionate sex for the first time.

Honytawk,

Ah, bear-grief sex.

A classic.

sagrotan,
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That’s right. If I wanna see that, there’s pornhub etc. In any other movie: skip button. One exception: “The Room”. Makes the cringe complete. Oh, never watch it sober. Of course.

Fungah,

It’s oddly the perfect Hollywood sex scene.

I mean, they try for verisimilitude. When I have sex I of course spend hours under flowing white bed sheets running my hand along my partners body and kind of grinding at them, I mean who doesn’t? But it’s always unrealistic. You never even see the dude you’re paying $5.00 an hour to undulate the sheets, not the dude holding the sheets up so you can stare lovingly into your partners eyes.

GhostlyPixel, (edited ) in [DISCUSSION] [SPOILERS] - FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S - Josh Hutcherson, Mary Stuart Masterson, Lucas Grant
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Spoilers if you don’t really know some basic but important FNAF lore.

The scream knife wipe Easter egg was fun, other than that, I was a bit disappointed overall. It felt like only two of the nights were scary, nights three and four were just thrown away. I was disappointed the most by the reveal of the suits being haunted by the kids, what could have been a scary reveal was a throw away scene where one character says “of course I know it’s this, duh” and they move on.

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

I’m gen x and find that this transition started happening earlier. Once online smut was accessible in early 90’s, what little sex shown on the silver screen became less sought after and just became something we had to sit through awkwardly with family.

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

Well no shit. Nobody wants to watch sex scenes with their parents, and when rent costs 3 used cars per month they don’t have a ton of choice.

PowerGloveSoBad,

I think you are exaggerating a bit here. Rent levels are skyrocketing past wage growth, sure, but have you considered that used cars are also getting prohibitively expensive relative to the average income? Three of them would be roughly a zillion dollars if my math is correct

PissinSelfNdriveway,

Well if you people would stop buying your Pepsis and Cosmo magazines then maybe you could afford a 2001 dodge neon … Dammit

vaultdweller013,

Ya can get a used early 2000s/late 90s saburban in my city for about $2000. Mind ya folks trade around cars here like a 1700s brothel traded the clap but still.

BeigeAgenda, in John Carpenter on being called a "master director of horror": "That's nice; sorry, I'm eating a Popsicle"
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What’s your one purpose in life? To explode, of cause.

ThatWeirdGuy1001, in Gen Z is turned off by onscreen sex, wants no-mance over romance, a new study finds
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There are three things that should never be shown in media because it’s completely unnecessary and all three can be directly implied without showing any real detail of them.

These three things are: Sex, vomiting, going to the bathroom.

All three of these can be relayed to the viewer without actually showing them but it seems like they’re shown all the time and it’s infuriating.

havokdj,

You can’t take away my poop scenes

ThatWeirdGuy1001,
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I’m sure there’s some real person out there who would argue that a particular shitting scene is necessary because it shows the authors mindset on the constipation of the world in the sense of some kind of moral ambiguity or some bs like that

SCB,

Poop can be really funny.

hansl,

Pulp fiction had a great poop scene.

Edit: and the latest Paw Patrol had a fantastic poop joke which really made the scene tie together.

ThatWeirdGuy1001,
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I was meaning more like showing the actual poop

Poop jokes can be hilarious. But I don’t need to see the actual poop.

hansl,

Rick & Morty: The old man and the seat, had a great poop scene which also showed lots of poop.

It’s all in the execution.

gentooer,

And don’t forget the great toilet scene in Trainwatching!

droans,
ThatWeirdGuy1001,
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Idk what this is supposed to be but unfortunately it won’t load

SCB,

Hey look it’s the dude the article is describing lol

ThatWeirdGuy1001,
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Lmao fair enough though I’m a millennial

SCB,

Thanks for taking it as the joke it was lol

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

Is it just Gen Z?

Most movie sex scenes are terrible. They fail as both pornography and as literary devices.

When you put a sex scene, or any other scene in a movie it has to serve some purpose. It can move the plot along, it can show the characters emotions or it can just be there for titillation. If it’s just there because someone thinks that the main characters are supposed to smash, it’s dumb.

I remember that when we rented “Basic Instinct” you knew how often people re-watched the interrogation scene because the old VHS tapes would get worn at that spot and you could see the screen artifacts.

Two things made that worth watching. The whole movie was about sex so it made sense, both in the movie and for the character. The way to get porn at the time was to walk into a store and buy a magazine. And Sharon Stone was hot, OK 3 reasons.

There absolutely are movies where the sex scenes make sense and are important. David Kronenberg’s “Crash” and Kimberly Peirce’s “Boys Don’t Cry”, would have been weird if they didn’t include the sex scenes or just left them implied.
The sex scene in, “Team America: World Police”, worked because it was a satire of sex scenes in movies.
Pornhub works because their scenes are very explicit.

When you have a boring, unironic, semi-artistic sex scene in a movie that’s not otherwise about sex, it’s just a distraction.

qyron,

You just described the average 80’s movie with your last paragraph.

nednobbins,

Some, but remember that the only way that get real porn was to go to a store and buy a physical thing. Aside from the convenience there was a stigma to buying porn and it’s illegal for kids to buy. For a horny kid in the 80’s, light on-screen T&A and a Victoria’s Secret Catalog was a pretty good substitute.

some_guy,

When you have a boring, unironic, semi-artistic sex scene in a movie that’s not otherwise about sex, it’s just a distraction.

I don’t disagree. But I do see room to expand the definition.

Recently, I’ve been introducing my partner to The Sopranos for the first time (we’re in s3). I think there are legitimate depictions of sex in the series. They only appear briefly to help illustrate what types of people the characters are. They’re quick and out of the way. Like, oh, that guy’s fucking her, now let’s move on to the dialog that happens after. It’s when we see that these are characters who have sex as opposed to seeing the sex that makes the difference, imo.

paddirn, in John Carpenter on being called a "master director of horror": "That's nice; sorry, I'm eating a Popsicle"

The Popsicle of Horror!

Evotech, in Rogue ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Intermissions at Movie Theaters Spur Studio to Intervene

Some directors are such pricks when it comes to their movies. The ego is out of control

lightnsfw, in Rogue ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Intermissions at Movie Theaters Spur Studio to Intervene

This reminded me of when I saw Lotr rotk and had to piss sooo bad for like the last 45 minutes. It was finally ending and wrapping up after the last battle and I was so happy to finally be able to go soon and then so sad when I realized there was still the whole part where they go back to the shire and have to fight Saruman. Thankfully they didn’t include that and I made it in time bit that’s always what I think of when long ass movies don’t have an intermission.

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

The Karen Generation.

MargotRobbie, in Gen Z is turned off by onscreen sex, wants no-mance over romance, a new study finds
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I feel that the title of the article is misleading, as the poll in the article shows that Gen Z are turned off by gratuitous sex scenes that are not relevant to the plot, and not Gen Z suddenly turning into evangelical prudes. What they wanted is not the unrealistic, lazy, paint-by-number relationships as commonly depicted to stir controversy to drive engagement(a very cynical approach, I might add), but a full spectrum of different types of relationships good and bad, authentic in their depiction and sincere in their on-screen expression.

Note that the sincerity of expression doesn’t mean that the relationship depicted has to be good, or even genuine. For example, the sex scenes in “The Wolf of Wall Street” (you’re welcome, by the way) are important because they highlight that between Jordan and Naomi, there is nothing between the two besides money and sex, it’s shallow, materialistic, two selfish, toxic people using the other to get what they want, without which they can’t stand each other, in stark contrast with the genuine parental love that Naomi felt for her children, and it is the resolution of said contradiction which contributed to Jordan Belfort’s downfall.

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