Can probably extend that a bit. I’ve very rarely seen a sex scene in a movie and found it to actually be relevant.
I mainly find that if I want to watch sex I will watch sex, if I want to watch a movie I want to watch a movie.
Recenty: Oppenheimer.
People remember the imagined sex scene during the inquisition, but often forget it was imagined from the wife’s point of view. That moment was pivotal to the plot, but honestly - it’s every husband’s worst nightmare about cheating. You can imagine all the crazy Basic Instict stuff you want since you know its generally unrealistic, but if you care about your partner, you never want to have her to have that moment in her head because it’s too real.
Yeah. I feel like things like fight and sex scenes are often filler. They’re like black boxes that only matter to the story at either end. Why are these characters having sex/fighting? What’s the outcome? Has this confirmed their romance or made them rethink things? Who won the fight and what does that mean going forward?
The actual details of either kind of scene are essentially suspensions of any narrative or thematic development in favor of pure spectacle. Now sometimes spectacle can be good. But while I’ve seen good action scenes that are exciting to watch, what would even make for a good sex scene as far as spectacle goes? People aren’t exactly looking to get a boner in the middle of a 2hr movie. Are there people who are just really appreciative of some kind of abstracted eroticism separated from stimulation?
Film only has itself to blame really. With the death of midbudget movies, you don’t get enjoyable eroticism or romance centric movies anymore. Indie and foreign cinema used to also be good sources for erotic drama, especially queer stories. Sex and sensuality are languages, and they can be used to tell a good story.
But we don’t tell good stories in film anymore, not with sensuality or action or suspense or anything else. We get sold “marketable” stories now. Bland CGI action disconnected from any character scenes. Bland heterosexual relationships culminating with boring sex. Flat framed characters standing in front of a greenscreen “acting” at a tennis ball that will be replaced with the villain later.
Most of the time, unless it’s a film about love or sex, romance is just shoehorned in there for no reason. I think the only genre of film that should be allowed to do that is comedy. Otherwise it seems like lazy story telling, especially in action movies.
If we want porn, we have the Internet in our hands. So random sex scenes make no sense.
Why would we want barely formed romance sub plots?
Film should be used as a tool to gain insight into these experiences, of which some of the more profound might be seduction, companionship, and loss.
Yeah, because it adds nothing to the story. “Here to proof they are in love not like the past hour has already made it clear”