Comments on: Modern Movies, Sex as Performance, and the Fassdong

By: Joan

Joan — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 17:08:57 +0000

Truth. *nods*

By: Jenny Lyn

Jenny Lyn — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 00:38:17 +0000

Also, Viggo-spanking would cause women the world over to lose their minds, me included.

By: Joan

Joan — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 18:07:02 +0000

I find him lizard-like and creepy, but that’s an entirely personal reaction.

Also, omg, I dunno if I can take the 50 Shades movie, either. I mean… I will have to see it. And, I will probably lose hair.

By: Joan

Joan — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 18:05:21 +0000

Oh, but for one good flick that doesn’t mention marriage even once and assumes that a representative sample of the characters are kinky. Oh, but for a love story where the women has to chose between two men and just decides to take both of them, and live happily ever after.

I think these could probably be accomplished in comedic form, but not as something to be take seriously, in the current cultural climate.

I still need to watch Blue Valentine, but it’s all about a divorce, I think?

By: Jenny Lyn

Jenny Lyn — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 17:46:47 +0000

I really can’t explain the appeal of Fassbender, other than there’s just something very sexual about him. Does that make sense? I’ve met guys like that before. Not necessarily drop-dead gorgeous but they ooze sex. It sometimes went there too, and I wasn’t disappointed. I get the impression he enjoys women and their bodies. But it wouldn’t surprise me at all if he was bisexual.

The Fifty Shades movie will probably make your head explode. That’s IF they ever get it made, and IF you even have the stomach to watch it. I threw up in my mouth a little just now thinking about it.

By: Rich

Rich — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 05:31:56 +0000

Totally. I almost never find mainstream (or borderline mainstream) entertainment satisfying because it inevitably has the bias that sex has to have some kind of monogamous element OR it’s somehow pathological. I’m not pathological, but I don’t find the exclusivity of monogamy to be normal or satisfying. Sex at Dawn, has it right.

If someone has a monogamous relationship and they like it, that’s great for them. If they can get along without hanky panky, okay. No problem. Just don’t label the alternatives some kind of neurosis.

Oh, but for one good flick that doesn’t mention marriage even once and assumes that a representative sample of the characters are kinky. Oh, but for a love story where the women has to chose between two men and just decides to take both of them, and live happily ever after.

Now that would be an art film worth its weight in Picassos.