# Opinion - has cinema content gone too far these days **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 9, 2017, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinion-has-cinema-content-gone-too-far-these-days/798416 "2017-10-09T23:29:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Pantastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3bc359/32.png) [@Pantastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pantastic)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2017, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinion-has-cinema-content-gone-too-far-these-days/798416/61 "2017-10-12T13:43:55Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > I thought it went too far when I started seeing vomiting in almost every movie. However, I did think it was a cool effect when I saw a clay-mation figure vomiting. There was a time in the 90s when it seemed like every show needed to have a pregnancy episode, with a woman giving birth laying on a table and filmed from a ‘polite’ angle. It seemed to be a fad that passed though, especially for SF/fantasy shows. ---
**Author:** ![WildBlueYonder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ce7236/32.png) [@WildBlueYonder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildBlueYonder)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2017, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinion-has-cinema-content-gone-too-far-these-days/798416/62 "2017-10-12T16:52:19Z")
> [@Pantastic](#): > > I honestly don’t get why nudity in books and magazines would be OK but not in movies. I can see someone objecting to sexual content, but objecting to it only in movies but not other media is just confusing to me. Its called children might have less access to such stuff. Do they even know what a book is? In my circles, it’s generally women who like nudity in non-porn movies. Men tend to take more of a ‘if I want to see naked chicks, I’ll watch porn instead of wading through a plot for boobs’. I hear a lot more about Hugh Jackman’s disappearing shirt in X-men than Mystique’s sartorial lack, for example. I think among older people (maybe 50s, definitely 60s) there’s more of a tendency for men to like ‘titilation’ mixed into movies or TV, but that seems to be because they came from an era where getting pictures of naked women normally required effort and embarassment. Having a device that’s always around that can access live and recorded porn at any time from any urban location takes away the novelty. [/QUOTE] Some married ladies find husbands watching porn offensive. I get that men like to see it all but arent those boobs that same as that other lady’s boobs?? ---
**Author:** ![WildBlueYonder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ce7236/32.png) [@WildBlueYonder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildBlueYonder)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2017, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinion-has-cinema-content-gone-too-far-these-days/798416/63 "2017-10-12T16:57:57Z")
Stupid edit max added to last post What ever happened to imagination…actors can start a sex scene and then fade to black…lol then just think how it will come out…that would be cool, give us different outcomes, could be real funny. Its really the sex that shows the women in boob totality but nothing from men…bugs me! ---
**Author:** ![Pantastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3bc359/32.png) [@Pantastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pantastic)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2017, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinion-has-cinema-content-gone-too-far-these-days/798416/64 "2017-10-12T17:23:43Z")
> [@WildBlueYonder](#): > > Its called children might have less access to such stuff. Do they even know what a book is? So you’re saying that you think it’s significantly harder for children to have access to books and magazines than movies? That’s at odds with my experience, where neither is especially hard to get access to, but books and magazines are more easily traded around and hidden from adults. > [@](#): > > Some married ladies find husbands watching porn offensive. I get that men like to see it all but arent those boobs that same as that other lady’s boobs?? You probably want to read over your posts to make sure they make sense before posting. I have no idea what you’re trying to say here, at least if it’s got any relation to the stuff that you quoted from me. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2017, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinion-has-cinema-content-gone-too-far-these-days/798416/65 "2017-10-12T17:32:38Z")
> [@Pantastic](#): > > (Also, it seems to have cut the amount of nudity a lot from earlier seasons, which strikes me as a bit odd). They’ve built up such a large audience that they no longer have to do that to attract viewers. Also, the main actors now have enough clout to resist doing so if they feel it is gratuitous. But they still have some. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2017, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinion-has-cinema-content-gone-too-far-these-days/798416/66 "2017-10-13T02:16:25Z")
Of course with Westworld you can say: “Robot boobs, doesn’t count.” ---
**Author:** ![Pabitel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbce88/32.png) [@Pabitel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pabitel)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2017, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinion-has-cinema-content-gone-too-far-these-days/798416/67 "2017-10-13T15:30:25Z")
I didn’t vote because I have different opinions on the two examples you gave. I have no problem with male or female nudity. I think we are just shedding the puritan legacy that the US has suffered with for so long and catching up to where Europe was in the 80s. On the other hand I think every new movie trying to out-do the last in explosions and blood and guts probably could have peaked in the 70s and recent movies would be just as good. Most action movies are just bad cliches at this point. If I never see one more car erupt into a 30 foot fireball due to a gun shot to the fuel tank it will be too soon. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2017, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinion-has-cinema-content-gone-too-far-these-days/798416/68 "2017-10-28T18:52:12Z")
> [@Trancephalic](#): > > Bridges Well, that one with Jeff, Beau and Lloyd Bridges (somethingsomethingmandelbaum… I’ll have to look it up)… Man, when they both dropped trou, my [angry girlfriend](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=840163) yelled (in a crowded theater no less) “That’s-a britches too far!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinion-has-cinema-content-gone-too-far-these-days/798416.md?page=3)