tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post6052450119427030153..comments2024-03-27T21:42:56.131-05:00Comments on 1001plus: It's a Man's WorldSJHoneywellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-7022892832483928872015-07-10T12:10:01.173-05:002015-07-10T12:10:01.173-05:00Well, the U.S. has always been a sexually repressi...Well, the U.S. has always been a sexually repressive country. It's hardly a shock that this would express itself in our entertainment.SJHoneywellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-67114919812692655752015-07-10T11:39:43.158-05:002015-07-10T11:39:43.158-05:00And that gay or lesbian sex sets them off even mor...And that gay or lesbian sex sets them off even more. I remember the side by side shots of nearly identical heterosexual sex scenes that got R ratings and homosexual sex scenes that got NC-17s.Chip Laryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00787403805554027107noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-54817921261742454002015-07-10T10:35:39.319-05:002015-07-10T10:35:39.319-05:00I liked This Film Is Not Yet Rated. It's an in...I liked <i>This Film Is Not Yet Rated</i>. It's an interesting feature of the American film industry that sex is so heavily edited and frowned upon while violence is glorified--the film makes the case that it's even less about sex itself and more about women experiencing pleasure from sex that gets cut, with <i>Boys Don't Cry</i> being fairly central to that thesis.SJHoneywellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-54587550468284514742015-07-10T09:58:39.603-05:002015-07-10T09:58:39.603-05:00I agree there are good performances in this film, ...I agree there are good performances in this film, but that it is a tough watch.<br /><br />The director of it was in the doc This Film Is Not Yet Rated about the hypocrisy of the MPAA. She pointed out that they made her reduce or remove a scene where one of the women has an orgasm, otherwise they would have given it an NC-17. They had no problem whatsoever with the scene where someone's brains get graphically blown out by a gun.<br /><br />In regards to Swank's movies, you can add The Next Karate Kid to the list of "the" films that sucked. The Gift and The Black Dahlia are not that bad.<br /><br />In regards to Sevigny, she seems to go out of her way to pick risky or edgy roles right from her first film - Kids. There's a miniseries in my Netflix Instant queue I haven't seen yet where she plays a hitwoman...who is also a man in the process of transitioning to a woman. It's called Hit & Miss.Chip Laryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00787403805554027107noreply@blogger.com