The T-1000 mimicked clothing. I thought that kind of made sense. Chameleon ability is kind of negated when everybody points and yells “Look at the naked guy!”.
I assumed that Mystique was actually copying clothes with her skin. If she can copy hair, Wolverine’s claws, and a 6 foot replica of the Statue Of Liberty, a wardrobe shouldn’t be difficult. In an issue of Exiles, the shapeshifter Morph says ‘What you think I carry around a miraculous shapechanging wardrobe? This may look like a tuxedo, but it’s all me’. Namora is speechless. Spider-Man says “I think the word you’re looking for is ‘eeeeeewwwww’.”
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Tarzan. Why is the Earl Of Greystoke cleanshaven and wearing a loin cloth?
No Janet’s been mentioned on this thread, but if you’re referring to Janet Jackson then the answer is no. She had a shield around the nipple, but no pasty or anything else covering it. For the second it could be blurrily seen with a digital playback.
Brendan Fraser should have been shown naked in Gods & Monsters, and that’s not just because I want to see Brendan Fraser naked (which I certainly do). I’d have cut away from him, hear him call to Jimmy, and when Jimmy turned around he’d have been naked, which would have shocked the audience (as pleasantly) as Jimmy.
I came in to mention Eyes Wide Shut but somebody beat me to it. What kind of husband lets his wife roll around butt-nekkid on camera but won’t show us his own (not even just some booty)?
Arrested Development could have really had fun with nudity, particularly the Girls With Low Self Esteem videos, and I wanna see Jason Bateman nekkid (and have since he and I were both adolescents).
I think some unrated SURIVOR would be cool, and REAL WORLD would sure as hell sell a lot more DVDs if they’d cut out the digital blurring.
I’m surprised that women’s boobs haven’t been more decriminalized on primetime TV, incidentally, since you see butts all the times.
Don’t you know what a jungle’s like? All those thorns, stickers, burrs, mites, fleas, parasites, stinging insects, and creatures great and small that bite. That’s one of the last environments you’d like to go around with your boys totally unprotected.
Actually, IIRC, that’s from the books. He starts naked, like the great apes who raised him, but then he learns that he’s human and he watches the natives, sees that they wear loincloths, and copies them.
*Gilligan’s Island * would be much better if the non-Mrs. Howell girls weren’t wearing all that heavy clothing all the time. On a semi-related note, while I loved seeing Bailey Quarters’ in one of Johnny Fever’s old t-shirts, I would’ve loved it even more if I could’ve seen Ms. Quarters out of said t-shirt.
What about that film where Mel Gibson winds up in a woman’s body? Wouldn’t the first thing any guy would do is find a vibrator and spend a few hours chcking out the distaff side of orgasms? And younger guys who haven’t had that much sex … like the male lead in Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde, would probably be pretty darned curious about all the equipment they were suddenly in charge of. There’s be some lookin’, I imagine. A lotta lookin’. Followed by vibrator stuff. Be funny to have the “gal” say after a montage indicating much masturbating. say, “I’ve been at this for hours! What the hell doe it TAKE to get this thing to turn over?”
Movie scene that would have been better with nudity: Sam finds Frodo in the tower of Cirith Ungol in “Return of the King”. Would have been truer to the books, in which Frodo has been whipped/beaten by the orcs after having been stripped. Boy, I was really looking forward to this scene. I can live with elves at Helm’s Deep, no Bombadil, and all the other changes, but no naked Frodo was a disappointment.
nitpick – in Carpenter’s version of the Thing it specifically didn’t do clothes.
[Kurt Russell as MacReady, talking into tape recorder]“I think when it tranasforms you it tears through your clothes.”
All the clothing in The Thing seemed to belong to the “victims”.
There was an episode where a shifty photographer took some nude pics of the blonde receptionist in the nude as she changed in a dressing room for a photo shoot or something, and the gang worked some kind of scam to get the photos back. Woulda been nice to see those photos. Would have made the episode more believable.
Because he didn’t know what clothes to mimic. What if the latest fashion was to insert peacock feathers into your nostrils and wear phone cords as belts?
The movie Imortal Beloved really blew a nude scene.
Near the end, in a flash back, young Ludwig runs out of his troubled home in the middle of the night, (this to the 4th movement of the 9th symphony) He starts taking off clothing and he jumps into a lake. There he floats and as the water settles you see the reflection of the stars and the boy floating in them as he becomes one with the universe. However, he is wearing pants! You have to be naked to become one with the universe. When Dave Bowman comes back as the giant blue baby the baby was naked.
Also Sense and Sensibility need a lot more nudity.
