My wife unwittingly rented Zefferelli’s “Romeo and Juliet” for her middle school class one year – needless to say, she didn’t expect that in Shakespeare.
Olivia Hussey – schwing!
Had a similar experience with the Pacino/Irons “Merchant of Venice” and I believe she’s learned her lesson in regards to Shakespeare and the movie business.
Lucky kids! That particular scene was excised from the video that my English class watched in 8th grade. The editing left some snow in its place, so we knew we were missing something!
I’ll second Enemy at the Gates. There are two things worthwhile about that movie, the first fifteen or so minutes of “Welcome to Stalingrad” and the bunker sex. Perhaps historically inaccurate, but damn hot.
Back in the 80’s I took a girl I didn’t know very well to see “Ghost Story” (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082449/) and was just a wee-bit uncomfortable with the incredibly rocking sex scene in that – which I didn’t expect given the cast. Fred Astaire – I mean, c’mon Fred Astaire?!
I know I didn’t catch it until reading the book and learning who was wearing the costume. Lord that was a freaky scene! It just scared the hell out of me! Not the blowjob, just the empty dog-face.
With a poster which featured the “R” rating logo, the byline “From the creators of South Park” and the tagline “Putting the ‘F’ back in ‘Freedom?’” My God, parents are stupider than I thought.
Anyone remember the MTV show Liquid Television? It was a showcase of various animation and other little weird skits (Beavis and Butthead premiered on the show), and I always liked it. Then I was at the local grocery store renting movies one day and saw it on the shelf. I picked it up and it was labelled:
“Parents-this is NOT a cartoon for kids-it is comedy for adults!” or something like that. I wonder what happened to have the people at Giant Eagle stick that on. I hope the kids liked Stick Figure Theater, or Dog Boy.
My comment was based on the fact that I myself didn’t know what they were doing (until further viewings), but thanks for an additional reason for brain bleach
Glad to help. I’m actually thinking of marketing my own brand of Mindwash, with Bleach Alternative. The marketing campaign would be centered around a song called, “Your Parents Did That, Too.”
I was going to make the same comment, actually. It made for some rather amusing teenager comments and a red-faced World History teacher back in 10th grade, private Catholic all-boys school.
And yet, I have to assume that Brother Riley had seen the movie previously… :dubious:
Uh, you ever read the book? Plus, while I’ve never been there, my impression is that Brazilians are somewhat more open with sexual matters than Americans are.
Heh, I thought that as soon as I saw the thread title. What I really wasn’t prepared for was the full frontal nudity that (briefly) followed. They covered everything up in the two sex scenes and now we suddenly see a full frontal shot? Not as shocking as the injuries sustained by the hench men later, but a bit pointless and out of left field to say the least
I would have thought that parents going to see Team America would have looked at the rating and not the fact that it was a puppet show. Although IMDB suggests that in France it was a surprisinly low cert
Nope, but it’s irrelevant. (Heck, I didn’t even know it was based onm a book – none of the reviews mentioned that. Or the sex scene.) Unless the sex scene is essential, there’s no reason for it to show up in the movie, and even then you can get around it. I’ve seen plenty of movies based on books that had sex scenes, but they weren’t in the flick. (And it wasn’t in the play or the Americanized version, I believe).
I’m glad to hear someone say this- I really didn’t understand the point of having her walk out of the bathroom with her robe open. It wasn’t the kind of movie that you would expect a scene with pointless T&A (like a teen sex comedy, for instance), and Maria Bello seems too much of a qualified and dignified actress to throw in some nudity where none is really required. Especially considering the previous scene, and how she ended that scene, I would have expected her to have that robe tightly cinched when she next appeared. It just left me scratching my head.
My mind immediately flashed to the first time I saw “The Jerk”. I was about ten years old and my brother and I were on a trip to Washington DC with our grandparents. We were all sitting up late and watching HBO. In the movie, a woman rides up to Steve Martin on a motorcycle, points to the seat, and he gets on. (At this point, I heard my grandma say, “uh-oh” very quietly.) The lady takes Steve to her room, throws him on the bed, and you hear the sound of her pulling down his zipper. End of scene. Me and my brother were petrified with embarrassment.
Apparently we decided that watching sexy stuff in the same room with our grandparents wasn’t all that bad, because the show that came on right after The Jerk was some kind of burlesque show. I distinctly remember one naked lady with giant jahoobies who did a handstand. It was dark in the room, but I know darn well our grandparents knew we were awake because we were giggling. To this day, I wonder why they didn’t just change the channel.
I’ve forgotten the exact title, but it was a PBS show on Henry VIII and his wives. One of his wives (Anne Boylen, maybe?) was griping that of course she couldn’t produce an heir if Henry wouldn’t have sex with her, so he just pushed her over onto her knees, threw up her skirt and started going at it. She’s protesting that she wanted to pleasure him. The whole scene startled me.
I was taping the show to show a high school class, but there was no way I could show it with that scene intact.