Not a movie, but I was completely flabbergasted by the animal/human/dwarf swingers’ club scene in Wicked. I likes me some sex scenes but was just… abrupt. And oddly timed. And just weird.
I went to see The Cider House Rules with my then-future-mother-in-law. I’d read the book, and I think I knew from the previews that there was some general Charlize Theron nudity, but I didn’t expect the sex scene in the woods to be so… well, maybe not graphic, technically, but you could, um, tell exactly what was happening when. In terms of climaxes, I mean. And that was a little awkward.
Ditto except for it was in a movie theatre and I was with my parents. I was probably 10-12 years old.
Ah, that’s too bad. You missed the naked lady standing on her head!
I remember being taken by surprise when Ken Russell’s Women in Love included a lengthy nude-wrestling scene with Alan Bates and Oliver Reed. Nekkid men were rare in serious films in 1969. On the big screen, those sweaty male bodies looked mighty fine, and the frontal nudity was a pleasant shock!
Not exactly a sex scene per se, but one of my friends tried to watch The Aristocrats with her parents thinking it was a documentary about comedians.
Oops. I think they lasted 7 minutes.
She’s half right.
Munich, with the pregnant sex scene at the beginning and the naked assassin in Holland later. Unxpected.
OH MY GOD! I forgot all about that. How creepy was THAT
I knew there was going to be some sex but I was NOT prepared for that first ass slappin trist. I thought the movie was going to be more lovey dovey than that.
When I was in high school the A/V geeks club (of which I was kinda/sorta a member) settled in one afternoon to watch John Boorman’s Excalibur. Some had never seen it before and were surprised - and pleased - with all the sex scenes. Of course, when would the Dean choose to walk in but during…? Major embarassment ensued.
But at least he didn’t ask us to turn it off. 
What really surprised me was… no pudding. Not even a spoonful.
Not a movie, but a book. It was my turn to buy the new Ben Elton, which was Past Mortem. So it was me who got to add the warning about Fisting and corophagia scenes … to my deeply religious friends … and my dad.
My grandparents took us to see The Blue Lagoon in the theater. Eeeeeeewwwwww… It wasn’t even that graphic, just gross under the circumstances.
How about Top Secret!? Did anybody else see that cow coming? Nigel sure didn’t…
You mean Animal not animal. I don’t think it’s abrupt either. By that point, it’s clear that the Philosophy Club is a place to go to have sex. The actual arangement is a bit odd, but the college has a proffessor who is a Goat.
OK, I’ll admit to being more than a bit naive, but I’ll admit to being somewhat blindsided at the drive-in (this was many years ago) when rampant humping broke out on-screen between William Shatner(!!) and Angie Dickinson in the low-budget gangster flick Big Bad Mama.
I suppose I could also mention the scene where Candy Clark decides she’ll try a little alien strange with David Bowie in [IThe Man Who Fell to Earth*.
I went to see King Arthur with my pastor’s wife. I was not expecting the sex scene when Guinevere goes to King Arthur’s room. I died a thousand deaths.
Anyway, remember the scene in City of Angels. Where the female lead (forgot her name) keeps asking Nicholas Cage’s character to describe the sex to her. Then she moves a little and says “How’s that?” “What about that?” Yep, went to see that with my mother.
I would hardly call that “pointless T&A.” She’s a married woman in her own bedroom. The fact that she doesn’t cinch it closed is a clue that she’s beginning to accept that Viggo is her husband, they have a history together, and thus why would she bother to cinch up? It’s not like he hasn’t seen it all before. It’s similar to the Julianne Moore scene in Short Cuts, actually - don’t married people walk around each other naked once in a while? It feels real to me.
I saw Love, Actually with my mom, thinking it would be a fairly innocuous romantic comedy. I was surprised that one of the stories centered on two movie stand-ins who did all the sex scenes. How embarrassing.
I don’t understand. Are you saying that sex scenes should be avoided whenever possible?