Speaking of Showgirls
what the hell is with Naomi’s hips? God damned squarest hips I ever seen on a woman. It was like she was born out of a box?
That movie need a few kneecapping scenes for most of the main cast. Hell it needed it for the whole cast, crew, producers, and everyone who gave money to finance that shite.
Another Harold and Maude fan checking in. I truly wondered what I’d let myself in for in that first scene, with Harold hanging from a noose and his mother bored/impatient with it. But it’s wonderful, just a perfect little gem of a movie. Trying to describe it to people haven’t seen it is tough, especially the genuine love between a suicidal youth and an 80 year old woman.
Sigh. Thanks for the good memories, SallyS.
Veb
Saw “Harold and Maude”, too. Darling little movie.
Yes, another Harold & Maude fan checking in (and made certain that my son saw it, too)
BTW - the nude scene in the Crying Game was (IMHO) central to the plot. I suppose they could have just told us instead of showing, (as my SO did in a ‘country western song’ that he wrote “He’s a pointer, not a setter…”), but I don’t think it would have been as effective.
I commented in the other thread about gratuitous nudity in film that, in general, moviedom has no difficulty showing a woman’s body, nor the back side of a mans, however, I’m really troubled by all the scenes where you have the male character in bed, having just had some sexual encounter, phone rings, up he leaps, wearing his boxers. Sigh.
Just an equal opportunity observation: It’s also quite silly to have the same woman, immediately post-coitus, lying there with the blanket pulled up to her chin. Not that I really need more titty shots in movies, but it is one of those odd film conventions that doesn’t have anything to do with real-life behavior.
Or you could do what Marisa Tomei does in What Women Want, and wear a Victoria’s Secret Suit of Lingerie Armor on your top half…
Au contraire - let me 'splain from my female perspective. I’ve just been all nice and warm and tingly etc, and then the human body keeping me all warm and tingly rolls off for a post coital nap, I get a little chilled. The covering is for warmth, not to avoid the R rating (or at least in my case) 
Wheeee! Back from a long weekend with some more thoughts on naked people!
wring- I totally agree about the “girls show it all, men show nothing” deal that most films have going. A couple of notable exceptions-
The Thomas Crown Affair- I was disappointed to admit that Pierce Brosnan naked wasn’t that great. But having Rene Russo naked at her age was GREAT! I was proud of her!
NYPD Blue- The most recent love scene with Rick Schroeder and the actress who plays Diane- we saw damn near all that Ricky had to offer, but only saw her elbow and shoulder! Good for ABC!
Also, Waking Ned Devine was mentioned earlier. I loved that scene! I thought it was great, and he looked pretty good for being 80-something! But didn’t we see his weenie, or did I just insert that mentally (so to speak)?
The Crying Game- I totally agree that the scene was absolutely essential to the integrity of the film. Having said that, most people were rather unprepared for seeing that cock, and I know my husband felt like doing the same thing Stephen Rea did when he saw it. Now, if you ask them, most if not all guys will say, “oh, I knew she was a he, I didn’t fall for it, blah blah blah” but I think that’s crap. They just don’t want to admit that the girl they found so sexy had a penis.
I noticed Harold and Maude came up a few times on this thread, but no one ever went into any detail about its nude scene. Me, I’ve seen Harold and Maude, and it really is a sweet movie, but I’ve never seen the nude scene. It’s my understanding that the director originally intended a long scene of Bud Cort and Ruth Gordon making love, and that he actually shot the scene. The studio balked at this, however, and it was cut. I’ve never seen this scene, and I’m unaware of any version of the movie with the nude scene in it. It might exist, but I don’t know.
Does anyone have any idea?
I am completely sick of nude scenes. I can’t even watch a movie with my boyfriend without seeing tits, like damn why aren’t I seeing a guy’s dick too?? And this is how I’m a feminist, and only in this way. There are to many movies that are just meant for men’s eyes. Like damn if I want to watch a porno with my man I will watch porn, I don’t want to see it in my movies!
Beware the zombie tits!!
Okay, how could it be that nobody in this old thread said Robin Williams in The Fisher King?
I’d think the equivalent of seeing breasts would be seeing some guy topless. Or maybe with man-boobs. Be careful what you wish for.
Kathy Bates in About Schmidt was… unexpected.
At Play In The Fields Of The Lord
I absolutely could have done without the hotel room scene in Walk Hard. I know it was for laughs, but I don’t need to see that.
It’s The Crying Game, and that nude scene is the whole point of the freaking movie.
For gratuitous, I give you full frontal Robert De Niro in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. No, just no
And for inappropriate, topless 16 year old Thora Birch in American Beauty. That’s kiddie porn.
My first thought reading the thread title.
Except it was clearly a body double which made it weird.
This immediately came to mind. No idea it was going to happen. Once again, only fit young women should be naked, everyone else keep your clothes on, in real life and the movies.
All the complaining about Harvey Keitel’s full frontal onslaught in The Bad Lieutenant misses the fact that the scene really hammers home how fucked up his life has become at that point. Everyone remembers the scene, everyone.