tl;dr: capeshit/MCU/nerds/streaming killed sex in movie theaters.

  • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    2 years ago

    Firstly, This is bull. There is a ton of sex in movies. Just not in most capeshit because those are all ages superhero movies.

    Secondly, there is nothing more awkward than watching people fuck when you’re not watching porn. Especially when you’re watching a movie with your family or whatever. Plus sex scenes usually offer nothing that isn’t already implied and they grind the movie to a halt. Netflix has this problem out the ass if you want to see why this is bad. Fucking and gore for no reason other then shock the viewer for cheap maturity clout.

    • M68040 [they/them]@hexbear.net
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      2 years ago

      I feel like people confuse sex for a more ambient, lowkey sort of horniness. A sense of being lived in. The issue isn’t that movies are literally sexless, it’s that they’re figuratively sexless. Everyone’s conventionally attractive, but in a sterile, lifeless way.

    • cosecantphi [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      2 years ago

      Especially when you’re watching a movie with your family or whatever.

      When I was 15, I went to see The Wolf of Wall Street with my mom thinking it was going to be some sort of serious docudrama about shady stock brokers. Worst theater experience of my life.

        • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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          2 years ago

          The wolf of wall street was released 10 years ago, there’s a good chance the person you’re responding to is in their mid 20s/around 25 years now old lmao.

          I would know because I’m also a similar age, sorry for making you feel old

          • MolotovHalfEmpty [he/him]@hexbear.net
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            2 years ago

            It’s okay, when you’re an old like us it’s a feeling that happens a lot anyway. If it wasn’t you it would be walking into a room with no idea what you were looking for, realising an album you just bought is now playing on a retro station, or looking at the date of literally anything.

            :chomsky-yes-honey: