# The worst nude scene in a movie. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 14, 2003, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-nude-scene-in-a-movie/161210 "2003-03-14T00:24:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-nude-scene-in-a-movie/161210/21 "2003-03-14T03:20:13Z")
Not “bad”, but not all that good: Jennifer Jason Leigh in _Fast Times at Ridgemont High_ when she gets boffed by Mike “Speedy” Damone. ---
**Author:** ![Shadez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90ced4/32.png) [@Shadez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shadez)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-nude-scene-in-a-movie/161210/22 "2003-03-14T03:22:03Z")
Romeo in one of the older versions of _Romeo and Juliet_ … saw it in English class, all we saw was his naked derriere. That was enough – scarred for life! ---
**Author:** ![scablet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@scablet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scablet)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-nude-scene-in-a-movie/161210/23 "2003-03-14T03:38:06Z")
The unrated version of **The War Zone** was chock full of creepy nudity. The daughter had a marvelous body, but I didn’t even realise this until _after_ the movie because all nudity was in the context of horrendously disturbing depictions of incest. :shudder: ---
**Author:** ![Steel\_Wheels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Steel\_Wheels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steel_Wheels)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-nude-scene-in-a-movie/161210/24 "2003-03-14T03:43:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by NoClueBoy \* > \*\*Harvey Keitel in _The Piano_ \*\* Don’t forget _Bad Lieutenant_. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Tarantara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a4c791/32.png) [@Tarantara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tarantara)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-nude-scene-in-a-movie/161210/25 "2003-03-14T03:51:15Z")
\>The hot tub scene in About Schmidt . . . it involved a nude Kathy Bates.\< The horror…the horror. I’m blind! Blind! ---
**Author:** ![Pollo\_Boyo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a4c791/32.png) [@Pollo\_Boyo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pollo_Boyo)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-nude-scene-in-a-movie/161210/26 "2003-03-14T03:51:26Z")
[Catherine Sutherland](http://us.imdb.com/Name?Sutherland,+Catherine+(I)) in “The Cell”. Wow. A naked corpse covered in bugs and dirt. Who’s for dinner? ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-nude-scene-in-a-movie/161210/27 "2003-03-14T04:01:16Z")
The pool sex scene in “Showgirls.” Never seen anyone orgasm like they’d bee electrocuted before. Never want to see it again. ---
**Author:** ![Giselle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e495f1/32.png) [@Giselle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giselle)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-nude-scene-in-a-movie/161210/28 "2003-03-14T04:01:46Z")
I watched _Wilde_ the other weekend and while I must say that Jude Law’s butt is in no way unattractive, did it have to be in _every other freaking shot_??? Also, nude/semi-nude Stephen Rea. _shudder_ ---
**Author:** ![Albert\_Rose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@Albert\_Rose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Albert_Rose)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-nude-scene-in-a-movie/161210/29 "2003-03-14T04:33:18Z")
_Something About Mary_’s old-lady nudie shot. Yeck. Charlton Heston’s bare-naked byu-tocks in _Planet of the Apes_ turned me away from the NRA forever and ever. ---
**Author:** ![I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-nude-scene-in-a-movie/161210/30 "2003-03-14T04:47:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Shadez \* > \*\*Romeo in one of the older versions of _Romeo and Juliet_ … saw it in English class, all we saw was his naked derriere. That was enough – scarred for life! \*\* At the risk of sounding like a pervert (I’m not), if you look quickly you can see Olivia Hussey’s (haw haw) breast as he jumps out from under the covers. Certainly a worthy antidote for your poisoned mind. At my school, even the butt scene was cut off of the tape. ---
**Author:** ![FaerieBeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e95f7d/32.png) [@FaerieBeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FaerieBeth)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-nude-scene-in-a-movie/161210/31 "2003-03-14T04:58:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ultrafilter \* > \*\*Geoffrey Rush in _Quills_. No good reason for it. \*\* I’m goning to have to vote with **ultrafilter** , here. We were sitting on the couch, all set to be titillated, and _bam_…my husband says ‘that was entirely unnecessary’. Eww. Just ewww. ---
**Author:** ![FabioClone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5f8ce5/32.png) [@FabioClone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FabioClone)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-nude-scene-in-a-movie/161210/32 "2003-03-14T05:19:56Z")
John Cleese’s pasty ass in \*Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life \*. Coincidentally, this film also contains the best nude scene in a movie: topless girls in bicycle helmets running in slow motion. ---
**Author:** ![Avalonian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee7513/32.png) [@Avalonian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avalonian)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-nude-scene-in-a-movie/161210/33 "2003-03-14T05:30:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by litost \* > **The worst I have seen was Kate Winslet in a really bad film called _Holy Smoke_. Shamelessly gratuitous!** You’re talking about the one in which she pees, I take it? I actually thought that scene was pretty critical to the story at that point, since it’s all about Harvey Keitel trying to break down her barriers. A powerful moment in the film, I felt, and not gratuitous at all. And besides, I’m - \*ahem \* - pretty much for any Kate Winslet nude scene. _Despite_ the peeing (definitely _not_ because of it!). > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by ultrafilter_ > **Geoffrey Rush in Quills. No good reason for it.** I disagree here too. The point of that scene was to show that the Marquis was less comfortable with his own nudity than the Abbe was in witnessing it. A perfectly-played scene by both Rush and Joaquin Phoenix, in which the Marquis shows himself to be in control in that situation, despite his nakedness. Not to say I found it at all appealing… just that I completely saw a point to that scene. ---
**Author:** ![peri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/67e7ee/32.png) [@peri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peri)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-nude-scene-in-a-movie/161210/34 "2003-03-14T05:35:51Z")
The spanking scene in _Rush_. What the hell was that all about, other than a way to show her butt? ---
**Author:** ![Avalonian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee7513/32.png) [@Avalonian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avalonian)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-nude-scene-in-a-movie/161210/35 "2003-03-14T05:38:45Z")
I meant to say that the Marquis was _more_ comfortable with his own nudity in the above post of course. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Mook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Mr.Mook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Mook)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-nude-scene-in-a-movie/161210/36 "2003-03-14T05:44:21Z")
Jabba the Hutt in Empire Strikes Back (That wasn’t his tail Han stepped on). ---
**Author:** ![Satisfying\_Andy\_Licious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Satisfying\_Andy\_Licious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satisfying_Andy_Licious)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-nude-scene-in-a-movie/161210/37 "2003-03-14T06:50:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by AlbertRose \* > \*\*_Something About Mary_’s old-lady nudie shot. Yeck. > \*\* True, but did anyone else think it looked like a proth …prosthes … prosthezis … like a rubber body suit? ---
**Author:** ![Ender\_Will](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Ender\_Will](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ender_Will)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-nude-scene-in-a-movie/161210/38 "2003-03-14T06:59:13Z")
I second (or maybe third) **NoClueBoy** ’s nomination of Keitel in _The Piano_. I must admit, it was well shot (technically, that is) and actually had some relevance to the plot, but GOOD LORD! Full frontal shot of Harvey? Put some pants on man! The whole film was really over-loaded with man-ass, IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-nude-scene-in-a-movie/161210/39 "2003-03-14T07:07:18Z")
Every episode of _Oz_. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-nude-scene-in-a-movie/161210/40 "2003-03-14T07:19:58Z")
Well, _In the Realm of the Senses_ has quite a few, starting off with a homeless drunk passed out in the snow with his kimono open and a bunch of little kids using his penis as a snowball target. It was then followed up with the female lead giving said homeless guy a handjob, the boiled-egg scene, the 65-year-old geisha, and of course the finale: Does it count as a nude scene if the star’s genitals are more than 10 feet from the rest of his body? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-nude-scene-in-a-movie/161210.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-nude-scene-in-a-movie/161210.md?page=3)