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[–] knexcar@lemmy.world 0 points 11 minutes ago

I wonder if it’s linked to the decline in sex in real life due to young people staying inside more and playing video games instead of socializing. I swear I saw an article about that at some point on Lemmy (or maybe Reddit).

[–] oo1@lemmings.world 14 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

"I've I've been waiting for the right time to bring this up, but I feel like we need to address the elephant in the room, no?" . . . "where's the dong?"

[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago

They saved all the dongs for The Boys.

[–] small44@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Should it say mainstream movies since they only compare the top250?

[–] wabafee@lemmy.world 7 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Watching with your family kinda makes it awkward with some random sex scene out of nowhere.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 15 points 51 minutes ago

But the kids love seeing people being stabbed and shot and torn apart, right?

We should be more comfortable with tits and ass than guns. We're not and that's a problem.

[–] angelmountain@feddit.nl 5 points 2 hours ago

This person clearly hasn't found out about pornhub yet

[–] ihatetheworld@lemmy.ml 24 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

My brain just go ..... when random awkward 30 second sex scene happens out of nowhere or they just start making out, kissing and moaning loudly then suddenly we are in the next scene and everything is back to normal. Why?

Unless the film is sexual in nature random full frontal nudity, stray tits, stray ass, visible privates always makes me so confused.

[–] TheFriar@lemm.ee 5 points 1 hour ago

Okay, but what makes it “random” to you? It’s art. Nudity in art has been around since art began—took a few years off for puritanical reasons, sure, but we’re all human, we all share having a naked body in common. And sex is the most natural thing. So to include it in art is just as natural.

Our attitudes toward it have changed. Why, though? What makes you feel awkward about seeing sex or nudity

[–] superkret@feddit.org 3 points 58 minutes ago

It's purely in the film so producers can tell young actresses to get naked for the "job interview" cause it's part of the film.
The fact that those useless sex scenes aren't in films as often anymore is a good sign.

[–] Demdaru@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Naked is okay. Sexual is unneeded. Normalize body.

I sound like some brainswashing machine from 80' movie xD Anyway, I am more rolling my eyes hard at current trend to insert romance everywhere than occassional, non-sexual nudity.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago (2 children)
[–] pedka@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 minutes ago

wdym ruined?

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 7 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

So glad it isn't us millennials ruining everything nowadays. Your turn, gen Z!

[–] oo1@lemmings.world 1 points 2 hours ago

if you believe IASIP analysis in s14 e2 "thundergun 4 : maximum cool"; a highly respected source in media studies circles. They put it down to piracy as a prominent root cause.

I think that's a resonably "millenial" thing, at least in terms or p2p internet piracy like napster, soulseek, piratebay, bittorrent.

https://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=its-always-sunny-in-philadelphia&episode=s14e02

[–] oo1@lemmings.world 1 points 2 hours ago

if you believe IASIP analysis in s14 e2 "thundergun 4 : maximum cool"; a highly respected source in media studies circles. They put it down to piracy as a prominent root cause.

I think that's a resonably "millenial" thing, at least in terms or p2p internet piracy like napster, soulseek, piratebay, bittorrent.

https://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=its-always-sunny-in-philadelphia&episode=s14e02

[–] steeznson@lemmy.world 13 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Ok I understand the comments here where people are saying they dislike sex scenes that don't advance the plot. However there are certain movies where sex scenes are essential to the plot such as Boogie Nights. I can also think of examples like The Name Of The Rose where a sex scene is thematically improving the film (in my opinion).

Sex scenes in film/tv are hard to get right but I'd prefer if directors worked harder to capture/deploy them properly rather than a large facet of human experience disappearing during script interventions by producers and studios.

[–] eran_morad@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Boogie nights was high art.

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[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 18 points 5 hours ago

Jesus tap dancing christ.

WE HAVE PORN! INFINITE PORN!! 24/7 IN OUR POCKETS!!!

We used to find sex on film exciting, now if we get turned on we pause Netflix and hit the real stuff.

[–] kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E@lemmy.world 10 points 5 hours ago

Good! it always looks "bolted on", awkward, and doesn't advance the plot

[–] angelmountain@feddit.nl 1 points 2 hours ago

Does this include Dutch movies?

[–] JoYo@lemmy.ml 26 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

Three grey value lines is stupid.

Don't be stupid.

[–] filcuk@lemmy.zip 14 points 5 hours ago

It's considered a good design practice if you want to draw attention to a particular metric

[–] ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

what, you want 47 more shades of grey? that'll kinda contradict the OP, though.

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[–] JDPoZ@lemmy.world 52 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

Because the world shifted to the right a bunch more regarding sexual content… fucking websites now want you to show your ID in some states to view porn.

I think acclaimed director Paul Verhoeven put it best when he called our country a land full of gleefully violent prudes when people freaked out about his use of sexuality, nudity and people being comfortable naked around members of the opposite sex.

[–] Entropywins@lemmy.world 16 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

When nudity/sexuality is shown artistically or actually has some depth or place in the story being told, I enjoy it, but 90% of that hollywood shit is hot garbage and I think a lot of folks feel the same.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 9 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

90% of that hollywood shit is hot garbage and I think a lot of folks feel the same.

And who HASN'T been in a situation, watching TV or movie with parents or other polite company, when a sex scene comes on (completely unnecessary to the plot), making everyone uncomfortable. I'd like to think that audience surveys have been taken into account to make Hollywood stop including sex scenes.

[–] MBM@lemmings.world 9 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

It's only uncomfortable if you make it uncomfortable, but if you're all adults it doesn't have to be. Maybe it helps to grow up in a less puritanical country than the US though.

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[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Dishonest graph, the y axis goes from 65 to around 100, rather than starting at 0

[–] kaffiene@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

Don't know why you got voted down. It's true and it's the first thing I noticed about the graph

[–] PeroBasta@lemmy.world 9 points 6 hours ago

Usually if it pass the 20 seconds I reach for the keyboard to skip ahead.

I mean, who cares about smushys , I get it you are in love, lets go ahead

[–] SiEstUbiEst@lemmy.world 35 points 9 hours ago (5 children)

Wish it was more sex and less violence

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 19 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I remember a bunch of years ago talking about This Film Is Not Yet Rated, and how I thought it was absurd a scene where someone's brains get shot out and they die is ok, but a non-graphic cunnilingus shot was unacceptable. The two people I was talking to, a woman older than me and someone my age, were both like "No that makes total sense. I'd watch a violent movie with my kid but not one with sex in it"

I was like, "You'd rather your kid run around fantasizing about murder than sex?" And they were like "yeah"

[–] dragonfucker 1 points 3 hours ago

Drag also thinks it's important for kids to know about murder. They should get to hear stories like Beowulf, the Iliad, and Star Wars. Children need to be taught that violence is a valid solution to certain types of problems. Otherwise you'll raise a society of cowards who believe in following the law and keeping negative peace.

[–] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com -3 points 2 hours ago

You do realise that every "normal" superhero or fantasy movie contains some sort of violence right?

Criticizing movies for violence is like saying people get violent because of video games.

[–] GladiusB@lemmy.world 24 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

We are all here because of sex. I think it's outrageous that violence is glorified when there isn't a single person here not made from sex. Ok maybe a few but it's a really small percentage.

[–] Ziglin@lemmy.world -1 points 2 hours ago

We never had a choice. I'm certainly not thankful for being born.

I've also been told here that I'm probably partly asexual, which I believe is unrelated. But it shows that some people just aren't interested.

I really don't see the reason for comparing it violence either. Drugs seem to be popular there too and they're probably also a common reason for conception and I also don't like seeing them.

Is there such a thing as fluff movies? (I'd probably give one of those a try.)

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