‘One Night Only’ Director Will Gluck Cut Out ‘So Much Nudity’ Because People Dislike Sex on Screen: ‘It Takes You Out of the Movie’

Is it a garden path sentence or a crash blossom?

Seriously, it's like nobody even tries to embiggen their vocabulary anymore

Well glucking is a sound some people make when giving real nasty sloppy toppy so I thought it may have had something to do with that but variety is normally not that crass.

I feel like you had your way for a while. Seemingly every movie targeted at vaguely adult audiences needed to have a sex scene in it. For some it was fitting (Anora is the last one that comes to mind), but for the vast majority it just felt so forced. You could almost see that everyone involved in making the movie, from actors to camera operators to the director, didn't really want a sex scene and just had to add it because it would boost movie ticket sales (or more likely blu-ray sales, hopefully people wouldn't be wackin' it in the theaters). Some of those scenes were so out-of-tune and out-of-pallet from the rest of the movie, it completely shattered the suspension of disbelief, reminding me that it is really just a bunch of scenes spliced together rather than a cohesive story or a self-contained experience.

In this case, since it's literally a movie about fucking, a few explicit sex scenes are in order. But overall I think it's good, at least for the art of moviemaking, that the pendulum is swinging the other way.

If you want to watch porn, you know where to find it. There's no reason why people who sit down to watch a movie should be surprised to find out one of its scenes is literally porn.

If you need to use nudity to make your audience feel something, then you're a shit director and need to quit your job and transfer to the porn industry.

And if you require nudity in order to feel emotion then you're probably a porn addict and should get therapy.

Sure they do. Seeing 2 people nude up and simulate motion isn't texture, it's carnal gratification no different than porn. You can dress it up as art or meaning or whatever that makes you ignore the fact that you want to see sex.

You know how I know I'm right? Where are the sex scenes with ugly and fat people in them?

Cinemas should run a drink and tissue box combo for it.

Speaking of formative years, kids aren't required to change in front of each other for PE starting in middle school, like they used to be. I think that's part of it. They never face that embarrassment and get past it. Plus they don't gather in crowds of strangers, they stick to their friend groups, too often online only, so there's not the opportunity or the gentle pressure to take a shot and ask someone out. Also, from what I've read, people are bailing on plans they do make at the last minute.

Add to that the stigma against sexualizing others--if you're not allowed to look at another person with the idea and intent of getting them to have sex with you, and you can't talk sexually about other people to your friends, the plane never even leaves the hanger. I know this one would rile feathers, but there needs to be some leeway here.

The single biggest problem is that people spend too much time online now, particularly from a young age. Not only does this prevent them from meeting in-person and experiencing physical chemistry with others, but it also develops all these bizarre social behaviours and norms that make people anxious and cautious when they meet offline. It's no surprise that people, especially younger people, are not having sex when you look at how they behave online. They are so passive aggressive and hostile by default - they don't trust anyone because the constant fighting being pushed to them through algorithmic social media has conditioned them to think every other person is a dickhead or is going to betray them somehow. You need to be willing to get close to people and be vulnerable with them to have sex, and they aren't.