My vote (the first that jumps to mind): Sharon Stone and Michael Douglas in Basic Instinct. IMHO Sharon Stone was hotter than liquid fuck in that movie.
I haven’t seen it, but a couple co-workers say that a scene that Halle Berry is on the receiving end of 'ol Billy Bob in Monsters Ball is pretty good.
The first one that came to mind when I read the post was the scene between Dennis Quaid and Ellen Barkin in The Big Easy. Watching her cold exterior melt…hmmmm Ellen Barkin.
And, IMHO, the scene in Monster’s Ball is NOT sexy. True watching Halle Berry’s body go through a number of positions is sexy in and of itself, but the scene is not intended to be sexy, nor does it come across that way to me.
Embarrassingly enough, I have a large, expansive Jean Claude Van Damme video collection. His movies are great because they include a lot of gratuitous, anonymous and pointless sex.
Maximum Risk has a lovely lovely sex scene between JCVD and Natasha Henstridge. You can see their tongues. And that’s what it’s all about. And also Double Impact.
They sure don’t make sex scenes like they used to.
I’d have to say “Enemy at the Gates”. Something about being all surreptitous about it in a crowded barracks does it for me. Besides, I’ve liked Rachel Weisz ever since “The Mummy”
Hmmm…I guess I don’t watch the same movies as some of you, or I just don’t remember them well, because I’m drawing a blank on the best sex scene.
However, the most emotionally charged love scene (in my opinion) is between Harrison Ford and Kelly McGillis in Witness. It was just kissing, but very emotional and dramatic—and with that great Maurice Jarre score in the background. (What a great movie.)
For some reason I like the one in Meet Joe Black between Brad Pitt and Claire Forlani. It’s not nasty or anything and has no nudity (if I recall) but it’s good nonetheless.
Young Mr Grace beat me to it. That scene in Enemy At The Gates was so very sexy and there’s no way it should have been (with the exception of Rachel Weiss was in it.) But the two of them among a crouwd of others, just trying to make love before they may never see each other again. It was just a realistic scene and I think that’s what may make it all the sexier.
A bit of a contest-- with another Almodovar film-- High Heels. The protagonist has a frantic, over-the-edge shag while helping her friend change out of his drag outfit, suspended from one of those rolling wardrobes. (He performs in a club doing an impersonation of her estranged mother, an ex-patriot actress.) :eek:
More recently, the scene in Unfaithful, when Diane Lane is “cleaning up” in the bathroom of a moving train after her tryst with Booklover guy. Quick cuts between the rocking of the train, water sloshing in the sink, and flashes of them back in his loft. Yow! Sexiest bit of homodiagetic analepsis I’ve ever seen. (Golly, that sounds positively dirty in this context, doesn’t it?)