Really? Granted I haven’t seen it in a while. Must’ve been a local - she sure did come out of it quickly.
In a race to the bottom for Most Gratuitous Scene in a movie that was entirely gratuitous, I nominate “Uhura Fan Dance” (Star Trek V).
This can never be mentioned too many times.
So… Carla Gugino. Drooooool. Losing Karen Sisco was a tragedy.
Re the OP: How about Beverly D’Angelo in the first National Lampoon’s Vacation movie? What was the point of that?
The first time I saw Ace Ventura I was patently unimpressed. The second time I saw it I kind of enjoyed it. The second time it was edited for network broadcast.
It was Beverly D’Angelo, man. Who cares? She can wear as little clothing as she likes.
Psst. Threshold
Well, they figured the teenage boys in the audience got so worked up by the promise of some non-gratuitous Christie Brinkley, that they had to deliver some sort of goods…
Some Van Damme movie: one of the Universal Soldier ones, I think. Anyway, our hero has to make a phone call, so he goes into a strip club to find a phone. Of course! Where else would one look?
Clarify something for me, por favor: There is gratuitous nudity in movies? Anywhere? Sure, there can be undesired nudity (ie: me at any time), but gratuitous?
Pretty much any movie–men taking leaks. Seems every movie has to have a urinal scene, and most of the time it just seems unnecessary.
And I have to agree with that stupid scene in Under Siege. What makes it even MORE ridiculous is how she gets so modest a few minutes later and covers her breasts when Ryback hands her some clothes to put on. She was ready to show those boobs to a whole shipful of men, but she has to cover them up so that one man doesn’t see them just before she puts on a shirt? Riiiiiiiiiight.
I don’t know why that shows up so often. A friend of mine has been saying for years that there just has to be a man peeing in every movie she sees. She can’t escape it. When we rent movies, she’ll call it out half the time.
Hey, she was gettin’ paid to burst out of that cake. This ain’t a charity, buddy.
LOL, that must be it! I always wondered why a former Playboy centerfold, who’d done a Wet and Wild video, and was about to show it all to that crew suddenly got shy–the cook didn’t have any dollar bills to line her G-string with! Now it all makes sense! 
A couple others that leapt out at me from my cringing memory:
In Independence Day, where does Wil Smiths wife work? At the strip bar, of course! So you get the pointless moment of performance before moving on to the rest of the pointless movie. I want my money back!
A moment that has become famous for it’s gratuity: the (in)famous point in the Batman movies where our hero is getting into bat-costume and they have a little bat-montage ending in a pretty blatant bat-ass-shot. I remember the audience laughing/groaning at that. It’s became a sort of joke for the movie so they included the same moment in future bat-flicks with Batgirl. The one episode of Spongebob I’ve ever seen parodied that moment by including it in a scene where our yellow square hero puts on a bat-like costume and they use the ass-shot.
Or, as my sis-in-law put it when we saw it, “Okay, we’ve seen your boobs. Can she die now?”
It’s one of items on the movie cliche list that every police investigation requires the detectives to visit a strip club at some point.
Most gratuitous nudity ever? The 1985 HBO movie Gulag was about an American journalist who was imprisoned in a Soviet labor camp on trumped up charges. Not much opportunity for choice female nudity would seem to present itself. But the movie had a sequence in which the hero was dreaming about his wife back home - taking a shower.
Well you don’t see strippers wandering around naked at the mall, the supermarket, college classes, etc. They’re performers, but they’re not always “on.”
That’s true (thankfully!)! But it’s not only the fact that she was remaining clothed in a different situation. It’s that I just had to laugh at someone who felt the need to cover her breasts in the half-second before she put on a shirt, when she’d been hanging them out not two minutes earlier. I mean, the guy had just seen her pretty much fully exposed. He wasn’t going to be terribly shocked if he saw a flash of them in the instant before she clothed herself! 
From Holllywood Reporter (I hope this works) From the Hollywood Reporter (I hope this works)
Huh? The “kiddie” rating is a death sentence for movies? Not to hijack too far, but G rated movies generally outperform all other movies at the box office. IIRC, the “higher” the rating, the worse the movie is likely to gross.
I tried to post a cite, but it isn’t working - Look at June 7, 2005 issue of Hollywood Reporter - On-line at Hollywoodreporter.com
I guess it worked.
Tailhook aside, there was a pretty small chance she’d be molested (or worse) in the presence of an entire room full of sailors. Alone with an armed, unsavory looking thug, OTOH… best she didn’t give him any ideas.
Besides, lots of people who are comfortable with crowds can be quite shy in one-on-one situations. It’s very common with showbiz types.