BurtReynolds wrote:What's a sexy movie anyways? I don't think I know what that is, outside of a porno, which Nymphomaniac definitely is at times.
Some of my favorite sex scenes of all time:
- Clooney + Lopez in Out of Sight (probably ripped from some FNW film, but I don't know which one)
- The 69 scene in Blue Is the Warmest Color is really well done
- Jason Schwartzmann and the random girl on the train at the beginning of Darjeeling Limited
- Most of the stuff in Secretary. James Spader kind of has a knack for that stuff actually
-All the stuff in Y tu Mama Tambien
-All the stuff in Wolf of Wall Street was fun
I've not seen enough foreign films, so I'm sure I'm missing some classics. But generally speaking, I find sex in non-porno films to be overwrought crap.
Third time seeing this. Feels like it should be the best movie of the 2010s, but it falls a little short of that. The beginning is near perfect, and the end is what we’ve all been waiting for. It’s not that the running time is excessive compared to other great movies, but I do feel that the middle part could have been trimmed somewhat. Some scenes are essential, the struggle, the journey, nature in all its beauty, but there is something that feels a little drawn out and slow here. Perhaps the dream sequences could have been cut.
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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