You’ve seen David Duchovny’s movies, right?
Evolution was no prize, but I’ll still watch it over Spanglish.
Yeah. I mentioned mine because I swear to God it was somehow supposed to be erotic or titillating somehow, I’m just at a complete loss for how.
I alternately submit the love scene between Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta-Jones in Entrapment. I know CZJ digs older guys but…yuck. Connery’s just a bit too old in that one.
Ooh, I’ve never seen Entrapment, but that reminds me I’ve been meaning to Netflix it ever since I saw Breach.
BillD, your comment gives extra ickiness to the scene in Breach where Chris Cooper shows Ryan Phillipe that he’s watching Entrapment. Because in the commentary track, Eric O’Neill says that Hanssen actually, uh, had his junk out when that happened.
Netflixed!
-TomThis is actually the scene I thought of when I first saw the thread title. I love the movie, but yeah, something about that scene is strange. The intercut shots of them dressing afterward may be part of it, although I’m not sure why.
Yeah, I was expecting something a bit more lighthearted when I opened the thread myself. My nomination is Gigli. “It’s turkey time. Gobble gobble.”
Also, I haven’t seen Munich, but that scene is funny to me absent context. I know a vague outline of the plot, but that’s just so hamfisted and overwrought it looks like self-parody.
Absolutely. Winner. /end thread.
Of all the things I hated about Munich when it was released the sex scene is probably the one that has aged the best for me, because in hindsight I admire the fact that he was willing to do something that tacky and shameless because he thought that it would illustrate the idea behind it - that Israel’s political situation has corroded its humanity down to the most intimate level - in the most palpable way, even if it meant making the audience groan. I think that having spent most of his life as America’s favorite filmmaker he has started putting things his movies that are designed to irk the audience: using 9/11 imagery to make War of the Worlds more engaging, the mock ending in A.I., and using sex scenes to make political points (as in this scene and the earlier one that bookends it, where they have pregnant sex).
I think almost all sex scenes are pretty bad. Anytime an actor takes off their clothes it ceases to be a movie for me and becomes a documentary.
I would mention the sex-in-the-pool scene in Showgirls, but I secretly think the scene is genius. If I had any balls, I’d choose Showgirls for my Movie Club pick.
Talking about swimming pools, how about that scene (or any scene) in Color of Night?
Since I’m surprised by peoples reaction to Don’t Look Now and Mettas reaction to any sex scene (Who was it in another thread that objected to sex scenes in general, because is was embaressing him in front of his grandmother?) i recon we should have a Best Sex Scene-thread:
I nominate The Tall Man (Emma Thompson and Jeff Goldblum).
I don’t mind sex in movies, but have to agree with this part of your statement at least. It’s because they never seem even remotely natural, and therefore interesting. They’re either over the top absurdity, or they go in the opposite directly and are absurdly prudish and equally unnatural. Either way, they come across so artificially that they frequently disrupt the movie…should be consigned to music montages!
Best Sex Scene?
Shoot Em up.
I always found any sex scene featuring Arnie to be pretty awful, if not downright hilarious. It’s the black hole of raw embarrassment at the center of the classic that is Conan.
Generally, if I completely lose my focus in sex and start thinking about other things I lose it and the sex stops. This guy can keep going while thinking about death and killing.
Already on page two and no mention of Joe Pesci and Sharon Stone in Casino? For shame, Qt3. For shame.
I’ve searched high and low but could not for the life of me find a clip. It’s like the internet has done its best to erase the scene from existence. Perhaps that’s for the better, though.
I’m having the same problem with my nominee - Ice Pirates and that Passion Storm scene. GAH. Even as a teenage boy it sent me for the fast forward button.
What?? Did you see Isabella R.'s face in that scene? Like hell, it’s not sex!
But…uh, yeah. Pretty fitting.
One of my nominees for worst sex scene is Hanzii’s pick for best: yes, I know it’s supposed to be funny, but the sex scene in Tall Guy is wildly out of tone with the comedy through the rest of the movie to that point. Maybe if it had happened after more of the absurd musical scenes…
And Munich is so frustrating, because finally, after two fucking decades, Spielberg finally decides he’s not going to cop out to his audience in the last fifteen minutes of his film, only to realize he’s lost any ability for nuance or ability to interweave chracter, plot and theme. So fucking frustrating.
Yeah, that scene was weird. After being entranced for most of the movie my wife and I just looked at each other during this scene and broke out laughing.
Maybe it just appeals to a different audience. I found its contemporary take on war/killing related PTSD transplanted to an age before we really talked about those things beyond words like “shellshock” strangely comforting. Uncomfortable and bizarre, but not entirely unfamiliar.