# Worst/most awkward sex scene in a movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 23, 2002, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-most-awkward-sex-scene-in-a-movie/105162 "2002-04-23T16:01:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Elvis_Rojo)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2002, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-most-awkward-sex-scene-in-a-movie/105162/1 "2002-04-23T16:01:17Z")
Everyone always talks about the good sex scenes in movies, but what about the bad? A friend of mine just recently gave me the Director’s Cut of **Blade Runner** , which happens to be the only version I’ve seen, but this was my first time to actually own it and read the back. There’s a bit where it mentions how, in this version, among other things, Ridley Scott plays up the “romance” between Dekard and the chick. But upon watching it, their supposed “love scene” comes off very awkward. In fact, I would say it’s about a hairs breadth away from a rape scene. Not very romantic in my book. Anyone else have examples of a rather awkward, or just downright disturbing sex scene from a movie you’ve seen? ---
**Author:** ![Why\_A\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Why\_A\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Why_A_Duck)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2002, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-most-awkward-sex-scene-in-a-movie/105162/2 "2002-04-23T16:03:19Z")
Well if you want disturbing, look no further than _Blue Velvet_. But are you looking for intentionally awkward (i.e. the characters don’t mesh) or uninitentionally awkward (i.e. the actors have zilch chemistry)? ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2002, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-most-awkward-sex-scene-in-a-movie/105162/3 "2002-04-23T16:03:27Z")
Harrison Ford and What’s-Her-Name jerking each other off in the car in _Random Hearts_. ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2002, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-most-awkward-sex-scene-in-a-movie/105162/4 "2002-04-23T16:04:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by El Elvis Rojo \* > In fact, I would say it’s about a hairs breadth away from a rape scene. Not very romantic in my book. Ever seen [Straw Dogs](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0067800)? ---
**Author:** ![scott\_evil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@scott\_evil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scott_evil)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2002, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-most-awkward-sex-scene-in-a-movie/105162/5 "2002-04-23T16:05:35Z")
Jeff Goldblum and some woman in _The Tall Guy_ (about a musical version of The Elephant Man). They basically trash the kitchen. It’s hilarious. 😃 - s.e. ---
**Author:** ![RaCha\_ar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@RaCha\_ar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RaCha_ar)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2002, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-most-awkward-sex-scene-in-a-movie/105162/6 "2002-04-23T16:09:44Z")
I always thought the Billy Baldwin/Jennifer Jason Leigh scene on top of the fire truck in _Backdraft_ was too weird for words. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2002, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-most-awkward-sex-scene-in-a-movie/105162/7 "2002-04-23T16:10:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by scott evil \* > \*\*Jeff Goldblum and some woman in _The Tall Guy_ (about a musical version of The Elephant Man). They basically trash the kitchen. It’s hilarious. 😃 > > - s.e. \*\* It was Emma Thompson, and that scene is one of the best sex scenes on film. Worst include Richard Benjamin’s “How about a little roll in the hay” scenes in _Diary of a Mad Housewife_, but they’re supposed to be bad. ---
**Author:** ![LabRat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/898d66/32.png) [@LabRat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LabRat)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2002, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-most-awkward-sex-scene-in-a-movie/105162/8 "2002-04-23T16:11:48Z")
Ted Danson and Whoopie Goldberg in Made in America. Looked more like a bar fight… ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2002, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-most-awkward-sex-scene-in-a-movie/105162/9 "2002-04-23T16:16:45Z")
The one in Starship Troopers; I wasn’t watching the movie with my grampa, but he was in the room and looked at the screen at exactly the wrong time :). ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2002, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-most-awkward-sex-scene-in-a-movie/105162/10 "2002-04-23T16:28:49Z")
The front-seat-of-the-car scene in _The Ice Storm_, but that’s intentional. For likely-unintentional bad, I would second the scene from _Random Hearts_. Oy, what a piece of crap movie that was. ---
**Author:** ![ianzin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@ianzin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ianzin)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2002, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-most-awkward-sex-scene-in-a-movie/105162/11 "2002-04-23T17:46:44Z")
“Damage” aka “Fatale” (1992) starring Jeremy Irons and Juliette Binoche, contains laughably awful, awkward sex scenes between the two leads, who patently don’t want to be doing what they’re doing. Which is a shame since the plot hinges on them being irresisitibly attracted to one another. “Lone Star” (1996) contains an excruciatingly unattractive, awkward, poorly shot love scene between Chris Cooper and Liz Pena which really dents an otherwise ambitious and largely successful movie. ---
**Author:** ![Mojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Mojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mojo)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2002, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-most-awkward-sex-scene-in-a-movie/105162/12 "2002-04-23T17:51:10Z")
There was something completely unappealing about the “love” scene in _The Name of the Rose_. Probably the squalor factor. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2002, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-most-awkward-sex-scene-in-a-movie/105162/13 "2002-04-23T18:03:49Z")
But the “implied” love scene in “Yes, Giorgio” between Luciano Pavarotti and Kathryn Harrold. If anyone has actually seen this classic, please expound. I only know what the film reviewer said about it 20 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Edwardina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Edwardina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edwardina)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2002, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-most-awkward-sex-scene-in-a-movie/105162/14 "2002-04-23T18:24:34Z")
I don’t remember the name of the film, but it starred Dolph Lundgren as a photographer, I think. He has a sex scene in a shower with this chick, and it was damn near painful to watch. Zero chemistry. _Zero_. I felt sorry for the poor girl, because Dolph looked like he’d rather be kissing a dead skunk. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2002, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-most-awkward-sex-scene-in-a-movie/105162/15 "2002-04-23T18:33:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by RaCha’ar \* > \*\*I always thought the Billy Baldwin/Jennifer Jason Leigh scene on top of the fire truck in _Backdraft_ was too weird for words. \*\* I thought the fire hoses looked really soft and comfortable, but we knew that what happened next was going to happen. Notice how in the movies people never worry about privacy? No, no one will happen by while we’re doing this - yee-hah! And Billy Baldwin - eeeewwww! ---
**Author:** ![Ura-Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/51bf81/32.png) [@Ura-Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ura-Maru)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2002, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-most-awkward-sex-scene-in-a-movie/105162/16 "2002-04-23T18:37:03Z")
> [@](#): > > But upon watching it, their supposed “love scene” comes off very awkward. In fact, I would say it’s about a hairs breadth away from a rape scene. Not very romantic in my book. Apparently Sean Young didn’t particularly enjoy the experience, either. I may be in the minority, but I don’t think that was _supposed_ to be a ‘love scene.’ At best it was a ‘make me feel alive’ scene, in a somewhat more literal way than usual. Part of the reason that ‘I love her, even though she’s not human’ doesn’t work for me as the central message of the film. (It WAS the central theme of BGC: Moonlight Rambler, but that’s something else again) At most, near the end, Deckard identified with her, but not much more than that. Unfortunately my hard drive tragically exploded before I could bring it up in the relative thread a couple of weeks ago, but, ah, well. I can think of one or two other ‘bad on purpose’ examples (Griffith and Charlotte’s ‘rape or not?’ from the soon to be released **Berserk** anime probably topping the list, assuming we’re leaving out the ISOYG category) but nothing accidental. A bunch that weren’t particularly arousing, but nothing that grabs me as terrible. – ‘It’s just part of being an actress. That Jodie Whatshername did it, remember?” ---
**Author:** ![elf6c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c57346/32.png) [@elf6c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elf6c)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2002, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-most-awkward-sex-scene-in-a-movie/105162/17 "2002-04-23T18:43:37Z")
**Ned Beatty** gets some prison style lovin’ in _Deliverence_. “Squeal little piggy”. :eek: Clearly the worst IMHO. _-me_ ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Maximino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e95f7d/32.png) [@Mighty\_Maximino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Maximino)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2002, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-most-awkward-sex-scene-in-a-movie/105162/18 "2002-04-23T18:54:26Z")
I really find the scene between Ellen Barkin and Dennis Quaid in **The Big Easy** to be painful to watch. It just goes on for too long, and no one seems happy. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2002, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-most-awkward-sex-scene-in-a-movie/105162/19 "2002-04-23T19:05:25Z")
I can’t believe that after 16 posts I got to mention the pool sex scene between Elizabeth Berkley and Kyle McLachlan in “Showgirls.” It was hilarously bad. Some of the scenes mentioned to this point were the height of artistic erotica by comparison. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2002, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-most-awkward-sex-scene-in-a-movie/105162/20 "2002-04-23T19:21:26Z")
Try Joe Don Baker and Linda Evans in “Mitchell”. Ugh. There’s a part where someone’s (I think it’s Joe Don’s, but it could be Linda’s as well) foot surfaces from the blankets and hooks a six pack by the ring with the big toe. And then, you spot the bottle of _gulp_ BABY OIL beside the bed. AAAAAHHHH!!! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-most-awkward-sex-scene-in-a-movie/105162.md?page=2)