I agree with your point: Studios are making more and more violence movies and shying away from sex. Nudity is something that everyone is/has, whereas violence is not, yet Americans are so against nudity, and sex is something everyone should be doing, but Americans are even more against it!
Violence is okay, but sex is not? Then you have the Motion Picture Association of America that says you can have one or the other, but once you put 'em together, you get an NC-17 rating unless you do some heavy editing.
OH, and @kellycastlebridge , I have to agree with you as well. I am so sick and tired of seeing fake boobs in movies. I may as well be looking at naked mannequins in the department store: all plastic. Very few movies have female butts, and even less frontal, as you said. What I do find interesting is that though it seems porn has changed to where women are clean shaven, movies that do show women frontal nearly always show bush, which is fine by me, as it's my preference, I just find it curious that mainstream movies haven't changed, though again, I'm glad they haven't.
Whatever happened to the T&A and P movies of the 80's like Porky's, Hardbodies, My Tutor, and so many others??
Finally, I applaud the big name actresses that do drop trow for films, such as Anne Hathaway, Natalie Portman, Julianne Moore, and of course, Kate Winslet.
Respectfully,
Walt D in LV
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lmtopeka
13 years ago
Americans aren't against nudity or sex, thats the stupidest thing I have ever heard.
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WaltDinLV
13 years ago
@Imtopeka..
Your sarcasm made me laugh! You said that with such a straight face. Very funny!
In all seriousness, in case you do not live in America, there is such a huge push from the Religious Right to censor SO much of what we see and have access to, and it really has an effect on the movie studios. Travelling through many rural towns whether in Utah, where they've had billboards with a giant rattlesnake, and the words: Pornography: Just as deadly!
or down south in the "Bible Belt" numerous billboards decry everything from pornography, to fornication, advocating abstinence, and more.
Another example is Super Bowl XXXVIII in 2004, when singer Janet Jackson had a "wardrobe malfunction". That small few seconds has had such an effect on live television, to where many broadcasts, more than before, are tape delayed, so they can edit and censor. It's just unreal, and I think, uncalled for.
I say to each his own, but the influence these groups, a vocal minority, have on mainstream, in my opinion, is just too much, and has altered what I am able to see.
Walt D in LV
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midmich
13 years ago
Honestly-- who cares? So what if that is our sensibilities in this country. Has a lack in nudity in mainstream cinema really prevented you from seeing whatever crazy twisted things you can imagine anytime of the day, and now with smartphones, from anywhere? Not in the least bit.
Your rant can be compared to some spoiled teenager whose daddy only sprung for the A6 model instead of the A7. In short-- you'll live.
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WaltDinLV
13 years ago
I don't know what an A6 or an A7 is (I suppose I can look it up).
I understand your point, after re-reading my "rant".
I emphasized wrongly. My point was that Americans are too hung up on sex and nudity, and <i>not</i> what I believe they should be: violence.
Way, <i>way</i> too many parents don't care about their kids watching violence, playing violent video games, etc., while they run yelling scared when any sense of sex is mentioned or implied.
Walt D in LV
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