Modern action films fetishize the body even as they desexualize it

Re:Modern action films fetishize the body even as they desex... by tootie on Monday March 08, 2021 @01:04AM (#26382711)

I feel like a lot of 80s movies just a generic sex scene or topless woman inserted as a matter of course. Because it was expected whether or not it was remotely relevant to anything.

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Re:Modern action films fetishize the body even as they desex... by Lio on Monday March 08, 2021 @03:40AM (#26383470)

The infamous “Boob scenes” of 70’s and 80’s cinema always stuck me as a peculiarly pre worldwide web artefact.

ie with ready access to actual, proper porn teenage lads no longer need to see a random set of norks added to films like Police Academy, Porkies or Trading Places solely for titillation[sic].

The world was different back then.

To hook up with someone you had to actually speak to a random stranger, get shot down, deal with it and workout whatever goofy thing you’d said or done before plucking the courage to have another go.

In the meantime there was Sgt Callahan... :P

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Re:Modern action films fetishize the body even as they desex... by alamortsubite on Monday March 08, 2021 @10:28AM (#26386720)

I remember "Airplane!" took a hilarious crack at this phenomenon.

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