I saw Bonnie and Clyde (1967) for the first time last night and, though it was a great film, it contained one of the most awkward “sex” scenes I have ever seen. The whole room was cracking up. Nothing really starts until the 2 minute mark.
I don’t know whether they were trying to insinuate whether Clyde was gay or not. The comments seem to be all over the place, and a quick google seems to have the same results. Either way, it ended up hilarious.
Well, having read the whole thread there’s still nothing that tops Sylvester Stallone/Sharon Stone in The Specialist for sheer yuckiness. It’s like watching a shaved werewolf humping one of those Japanese love dolls in the shower.
Damages with Jermey Irons and Juliette Binoche had a great bad sex scene.
Irons is sexing Binoche on the floor (she is his son’s finacee btw) and for some reason he starts banging her head against the floor. Slowly and not super hard, but knocking her head against the floor by her hair.
Its supposed to be super serious stuff, but I started cracking up, that broke the tension and the whole audience started laughing. (same thing happened to me in Bad Lt when Keitel sees the image of Christ and says “You Fuck!”)
EDIT: The sex scene in The Watchmen was enjoyably silly too.
There where was that one from that french vampire movie Vince Gallo was in with the Betty Blue girl…there was a Movie Club about it…that was pretty rough.
All these are great examples of terrible sex scenes that try to be sexy and fail.
I’m to going to add two:
The public sex scence in Crank. Starts wrongs and just gets more wrong.
Billy connely and Judy davis in the The man who sued God. If you thought connery and Zeta-jones was awkward and gross…
Honourable “Sex Scene” mentions:
Sympathy for Mr. Vengence and Old boy. They’re both surprising for very different and contextual reasons…
Also in French film A man and woman there is a final sex scene which plays out against your expectations (which may even be what Spielberg was referencing in munich). The women’s flashbacks of her memories of her “late” husband and the awkward silence that follows i thought was terrific.
You bring up a good point. Ugh. Although, you know, awesome when I was 12 just because it was the only sex scene I’d ever seen that didn’t have Red Show Diaries music over it.
Then I saw the movie again last year. Holy hell. Maybe not the worst, but certainly the most ridiculous.