As for gratuitous, Teri Hatcher had one in one of her movies that struck me as pointless at the time.
It was either Heaven’s Prisoners (most likely) or Cool Surface, I don’t remember which.
Yes, but that scene was damned funny. And we didn’t really see wank, did we? I was struck by how seldom we have seen naked senior people, when I saw that movie. So it hit me as not only a great scene, but also cool…because that’s what I’m gonna be looking at in 30 years when beloved spouse gets out of the shower.
If we’re including gratuitous…love, love, love Airplane (hey, I never claimed to be an icon of good taste) but the jiggling jello cups segue to jigging naked breasts always jars me a little. Not that it isn’t apt and funny in a way, but that one close-up was obviously just thrown in there for shock value.
Hell, with all the other insanity going on it would have been easy to work it into a legitimate gag, e.g. the “singing nun” doing a spit-take over the nudity, the hysterical man w/ the bad toupee calming down when’s he seated next to her, something…but it’s just thrown in gratuitiously that once.
Veb
Don’t know how many people will have seen this one, because the movie bombed, but there was a pretty bad scene at the end of Robert Altman’s Pret-a-Porter when a bunch of naked, skeletal models went down the catwalk. Altman was trying to make the too-obvious “Fashion is the Emperor’s New Clothes all over again” point, but all I could think was, “Gee, those women are starving. Get them something to eat already!”
Am I going to be the first one to mention The Crying Gamer?
Lynn Redgrave in Shine. Both uncalled for and surprising at the same time. Arragh!
Duke mentioned the runway scene at the end of Pret-a-Porter. The scene I had problems with, though, was Sally Kellerman’s nude shot. Completely uncalled for, both thematically and visually.
Veb: “…would you bring the butter?”
even sven: Rivers Edge was a great movie imho. The nude corpse was not gratuitous, but very very disturbing. The fact that it didn’t seem to have an impact on the stoned high-schoolers in the picture is even more disturbing.
Unfortunately good natural nudity is all too rare in movies. What is there shows up as unnatural because of all the censorship, and the risk of the dreaded NC-17. Sure we saw Kate Winslets glorious wonderful breasts in Titanic, but did you see them move? No. If they had moved the movie would be rated R. One shot, a still life. I cannot think of a single nude scene I could have done without. I can think of many many whole movies I can very easily live without but have a hard time picking on individual scenes.
I forget who said this, but I paraphrase:‘in American movies if you see a breast getting fondled it gets an R or NC-17. If you see a breast getting shot or cut it’s PG-13.’
Jack Nicholson said this, back in the sixties. More accurately: “If you kiss a breast, it’s X. If you cut it off, it’s R.”
Don’t think so. It was Angie. IIRC, they used a body double in the shower scene, but it was Angie’s own ass when she climbed out of bed. In fact, I seem to recall some controversy about it at the time, and I definitely recall some discussion, in print, of the noticable sagginess.
Thanks. I read it from someone obviously paraphrasing the original quote. The point is somehow violence in movies is okay, sex is not. Signals have been crossed as this is clearly wrong.
All right, some of these aren’t movies, but:
I could have done without the 432nd nude scene in “Eyes Wide Shut.” I thought showing Gwyneth Paltrow’s breasts in “Shakespeare in Love” was completely unnecessary. The video where Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley were nude was horrifying. The dude from Red Hot Chili Peppers should keep his clothes. Bouncing your flaccid dick around is akin to a 5 year old running around without his diaper. And I wholeheartedly concur with those who could have lived their whole lives in bliss without ever having been subjected to Michael Douglas’ scrawny butt.
Life of Bryan. Yuck.
Same with Ace Ventura, Pet Detective. Jim Carrey nude is not something I want to see.
Sorry - I was thinking you meant the shower scene.
Fat Bastard in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me.
Not completely nude… but nude enough to make me ill!!
I know, I know… it was Mike Meyers…but still…
I liked seeing Harvey Keitel’s craggy form in The Piano. It was poignant, dammit. And Harold & Maude…
Oh! Thank the Lord that someone besides just my mother and I have seen Harold and Maude. I absolutely adore that movie, and everyone treats me as though I have problems when I start talking about it.
Didn’t mean to interrupt your thread, I just had to interject that.
I saw Harold and Maude too!!!
Does no one remember Charlton Heston and Farrah in a science fiction piece from the late 70’s. I believe it was called “Saturn 5”. Moses got naked. No seas parted for quite a while after that. I don’t think the NRA members are using that pin-up to recruit new members.
It was Kirk Douglas, not Charleton Heston, in Saturn 3. Not the first time Douglas has shown his keister in a film. He also had a bath scene in There Was A Crooked Man. Since several people in this thread have objected to Michael Douglas, I think ugly bums may be hereditary.
Showgirls. The entire movie was a nude scene we could have done without.