sign you are watching a good movie

swears

preppy-kei
Features "sex" scene where two lovers just seem to rub each other very slowly under satin sheets while saxophone music plays and the camera pans up and down the length of the bed.
 

nomadthethird

more issues than Time mag
Features "sex" scene where two lovers just seem to rub each other very slowly under satin sheets while saxophone music plays and the camera pans up and down the length of the bed.

There are those scenes, then there are the ones with the random rolling around fully clothed under sheets or uncomfortable looking positions that seem to exist only because they are conveniently filmed without showing much nudity. There are lots of them where it looks like the guy is basically doing push-ups awkwardly on top of someone, too.

Now that you mention it, I'm pretty fascinated by the choreography of movie sex. I wonder if you could get that job at a studio--sex choreographer. And what sorts of qualifications they'd expect in an applicant.
 

scottdisco

rip this joint please
they should have more films where the protagonist has their car robbed, throwing a spanner into the working of the plot.
no fucker ever locks their car doors in most mainstream movies.
 

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
Features "sex" scene where two lovers just seem to rub each other very slowly under satin sheets while saxophone music plays and the camera pans up and down the length of the bed.

You mean that's not what usually happens?

Shit. I bought all those Kenny G albums for nothing. :(
 

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
When I was a kid, movies like Back To The Future made me think everyone in America went to school until they were about 25.

We should probably have a "Childhood misconceptions due to cinematic conventions/cliches" thread.
 

padraig (u.s.)

a monkey that will go ape
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I wonder if you could get that job at a studio--sex choreographer. And what sorts of qualifications they'd expect in an applicant.

Bound

To choreograph the sex scenes, the directors employed sex educator Susie Bright

so I guess all you have to do is be a sex-positive feminist (got that one covered, right?) who writes "herotica" (swear to god I'm not making that up; also, it is an awesome neologism; also #2, tbf On Our Backs is cool if for nothing more than needling the dour anti-porn wing of feminism) under the name Susie Sexpert and knows the Wachowski Brothers. also, Gina Gershon is smoking hot in that movie.

When I was a kid, movies like Back To The Future made me think everyone in America went to school until they were about 25.

this is actually true these days if you include college. the average length for getting a B.A. or B.S. has ballooned up to 6 years & 7 months since, due to rising costs/shite economy, so many people have to take semesters off or only do school part-time in order to work.

also, in re: "-ing noun" movies, I don't want to hear any guff about Finding Forrester, which is surely one of the greatest, most moving works of art ever committed to celluloid. I will never get sick of Sean Connery teetering off into traffic on a cruiser yelling "you're the man now dog" in that fine Scottish burr. plus, Busta Rhymes! I enjoy how, you know, you think it's about Sean Connery teaching this kid to write but then it turns out to teach us lessons about life and relationships and stuff. did I mention that this was directed by Gus Van Sant?
 

swears

preppy-kei
When I was a kid, movies like Back To The Future made me think everyone in America went to school until they were about 25.

Matthew Broderick:
Born March 21, 1962

Alan Ruck:
Born July 1, 1956

Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
 

zhao

there are no accidents
We should probably have a "Childhood misconceptions due to cinematic conventions/cliches" thread.

i thought America was like a giant video game and disco 24-7. boy was i wrong when we got to Albuquerque, New Mexico.
 

grizzleb

Well-known member
When I was a kid, movies like Back To The Future made me think everyone in America went to school until they were about 25.

We should probably have a "Childhood misconceptions due to cinematic conventions/cliches" thread.
When I was young I thought Ritz crackers were really posh.
 

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
When I first heard the phrase 'prima donna' I thought it was 'pre-Madonna', and assumed it referred to singers or bands who made pop music that stylistically predated Madonna. Like the pre-Raphaelites, only...with pop music.

I must have been such an insufferable little git. :(
 

zhao

there are no accidents
When I first heard the phrase 'prima donna' I thought it was 'pre-Madonna', and assumed it referred to singers or bands who made pop music that stylistically predated Madonna. Like the pre-Raphaelites, only...with pop music.

same here.

also the beatles song on Abbey Road, "She's so heavy", i realized only a few years ago was not about an overweight woman.
 

Client Eastwood

Well-known member
When I first heard the phrase 'prima donna' I thought it was 'pre-Madonna', and assumed it referred to singers or bands who made pop music that stylistically predated Madonna. Like the pre-Raphaelites, only...with pop music.

I must have been such an insufferable little git. :(


Reminds me of a misheard lyric. I always thought this was 'Im a prima donna . . .'

'Ivory madonna dying in the dust,
Waiting for the manna coming from the west.
Barren is her bosom, empty as her eyes,
Death a certain harvest scattered from the skies'

Food for thought - UB40
 

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
same here.

also the beatles song on Abbey Road, "She's so heavy", i realized only a few years ago was not about an overweight woman.

Pffft, "Yo mama so fat, there's a song about her on Abbey Road!".

Genius. :)
 
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