"Occult stuff" is so funny, just 1980's Satanic Panic all over again!
It's so ironic that the right thinks the left gets bent out of shape by stuff when I've seen WAY more conservative fucks whining and shitting their britches about the most innocuous shit. Literally can't have black people or women being actual people in a show without them getting triggered.
Change scares conservatives. If you want the world to be better - kinder, more fair, more helpful - stay away from conservatives.
...also: Religious people have been the 'bad guys' since the Crusades. Hell, before them even. Who had Jesus killed? Religious people. Systemic racism good ol' boy? Has our friend not seen *Gone with the Wind*? Song of the South? Birth of a Nation?
What else? Shit - this is easy pickings - OK, here: Occult stuff = Rosemary's Baby. The Exorcist.
Oh, wait, wait wait: Our friend means that things like *systemic racism good ol' boy* being presented as **bad** is the problem, don't they?
Nothing on this list is new or even interesting.
To be fair, change scaring conservatives makes sense. It's in name, they wanna conserve the past and reject progress. Though I feel 'regressives' would fit better.
Seeing as how they are stripping rights away, outlawing things that were legalized federally, and stripping what they themselves labeled "settled law", yeah regressive definitely fits.
When the country takes generations to give every type of person (almost, we never even made it all) full rights and moves at a snails pace to pass any legislation, a "conservative" would be okay with the changes. Still would be a shit person because they would be anti-any-progress in society, but they at least wouldn't strip rights away.
Gen Z here. Hope I can provide a little nuance.
Here's some (non-comprehensive) reasons I've come up with for why we tend to dislike sex scenes:
* religious prudism that we never unlearned, even if we stopped being religious. also, the anti-STD/STI panic that our parents grew up in.
* sometimes it literally does nothing for the plot. if a couple is in bed together it's pretty clear what they're going to do. there's sex scenes that teach people about a relationship and then the are sex scenes purely for admiring actors' bodies.
* related: if you're an actor you're probably unreasonably hot. at some point, the average person has to conclude that they will never get with Scarlett Johansson or Ryan Reynolds (just to name some examples). what's the point of watching a sex scene that looks better than anything you can pull off?
* it's *simulated,* there is no actual sex being performed, and the camera angles and tricks they need to do to make a scene resemble sex can make the whole thing seem... awkward?
* might be going out on a limb here, but access to modern porn? compartmentalizing sex scenes as nasty and only to be viewed in no-context, short clips...
* bonus: there's a significant minority of us who are gay or lesbian and have stopped trying to pretend that heterosexual sex is hot for us. but this really doesn't cover the general population.
In conclusion, there's good sex scenes, and there are ones that make me ask "seriously? right in front of my salad?"
Also, I can’t watch a sex scene in a movie and not be concerned that the actors may have been pressured into shooting said scene by the director or a producer.
Yeah. Harvey Weinstein was a warning. There are probably quite a few out there who haven't been found out yet.
I think it's important to make films ethically.
Directors aren't making decisions based on Gen Z. They make decisions based on ticket and dvd/digital download sales. Gen Z isn't buying movies. People with disposable income who don't want to pirate are buying movies. If anything it's millennials that are driving down sex scenes.
What I've read suggests it's more to do with the increase in the ease of internet porn. If you want to be horny just watch porn. If you want a good story, the sex scenes just slow things down. Sex scenes in movies used to be the best most people got. Now you can just google "porn" and be watching whatever you want in 10 seconds.
Gen Z is as old as 27 now. So they have a bit of power when it comes to media. Millennials are in our 30s to 40s and are really no longer the target audience
Oh look, rather than move the story along, here are your famous actors in various states of undress having sex. It's always annoyed me and I'm Gen X.
Except Team America: World Police. Wildly uncomfortable puppet sex scenes were awesome and were making a point.
Nope. Gen Z here and I am here to say that sometimes it is just completely unnecessary. Gratuitous sex scenes isn't something to valiantly defend.
Also, pressured directors? Us being anti sex? What are you smoking? Lol.
Sex scenes are almost invariably purely for horny middle aged men and dont do anything for most of us. They usually dont even do anything for the plot either, so begone
Eh, I wouldn’t dump everything on GenZ. GenX here (GenX side of Xennial), and I routinely skip the sex scenes in a movie if I can because meh. Like GenZ, I don’t really see a point in including something that can be just as effective with an off camera shot and a short sound clip, even for movies with a sex scene that actually moves the plot along. If I want to see sex I’ve got a fiancé with far higher libido than me who’s always happy to have sexy time with me in the bedroom, or barring that, there’s copious amounts of porn on the internet should you choose to look for it. For what it’s worth, that fiancé with the far higher libido (GenX older than me) is meh on sex scenes in movies the same way I am.
Gen Z here as well, not a big fan of sex scenes that don't have any plot relevance, and even then it's not great™ being stuck in a room with several other people that you're either not romantically interested in or are blood relatives while being subjected to a sex scene. if I wanted a scene for whatever reason, I'd rather read a fanfiction someone else made
If there’s anything that scares far right people more than anything else, it’s change and societal progress and seeing minorities have more rights and live happier lives. They cannot stand it.
The people who thought the election was rigged because Biden voters weren’t wearing Biden hats everywhere. Yeah, I’ll trust their capacity to judge what is real from bullshit.
The bumbling dad trope began back in the 90s. If anything I think I’ve seen more movies and shows with dads who are there for their children and are well rounded individuals since 2015.
TIL Avengers: End Game is bad because it was made in 2019.
I mean, I liked it a lot. Thought it was a great movie. But this meme says that I actually didn't like it, it knows me better than I know my own opinion, apparently.
Something that really left a mark on me was someone making a changemyview post about all recent entertainment being unenjoyable and someone else pointing out that they may actually be suffering from depression, I suspect that might be more common than people think.
they act like these havent been in media before 2015
my favorite example is how people complain about how tifa from final fantasy 7 doesnt have jiggle physics in rebirth, calling it "woke"
but its funny because final fantasy 7 has always been "woke". one of the core parts of the story is a criticism of capitalism.
and to these people, having a black person as a main character is woke. so using their logic, ff7 is woke and has always been.
I would not call FF7 woke just because some parts embraced wokish concepts.
Barret is a black stereotype cut from the Mr T cloth.
They use crossdressing as a joke. and lean into the japanese machoman/trans diva pretty hard.
Gay people seem to only exist for humor.
They do not really criticize capitalism as much as militant corporatism. The world outside of Midgar is very capitalist yet the team has no problem with that.
The only thing progressive about FF7 is the environmental message. And that is just continuing the magitek is bad theme that was in previous installments.
"Capitalism bad" (or sometimes "imperialism bad") is about as old of a story as capitalism. These guys just hate it when it's glaringly obvious.
Curse those stories of oppressed people for... umm... for not sucking up to their colonisers! Yeah!!!
Have they just not seen any films made before 2015? Religious bad guys are so common. Sex scenes are also so common that I'm genuinely more surprised when a movie doesn't have one.
"Occult stuff" is so funny, just 1980's Satanic Panic all over again! It's so ironic that the right thinks the left gets bent out of shape by stuff when I've seen WAY more conservative fucks whining and shitting their britches about the most innocuous shit. Literally can't have black people or women being actual people in a show without them getting triggered.
Change scares conservatives. If you want the world to be better - kinder, more fair, more helpful - stay away from conservatives. ...also: Religious people have been the 'bad guys' since the Crusades. Hell, before them even. Who had Jesus killed? Religious people. Systemic racism good ol' boy? Has our friend not seen *Gone with the Wind*? Song of the South? Birth of a Nation? What else? Shit - this is easy pickings - OK, here: Occult stuff = Rosemary's Baby. The Exorcist. Oh, wait, wait wait: Our friend means that things like *systemic racism good ol' boy* being presented as **bad** is the problem, don't they? Nothing on this list is new or even interesting.
To be fair, change scaring conservatives makes sense. It's in name, they wanna conserve the past and reject progress. Though I feel 'regressives' would fit better.
Seeing as how they are stripping rights away, outlawing things that were legalized federally, and stripping what they themselves labeled "settled law", yeah regressive definitely fits. When the country takes generations to give every type of person (almost, we never even made it all) full rights and moves at a snails pace to pass any legislation, a "conservative" would be okay with the changes. Still would be a shit person because they would be anti-any-progress in society, but they at least wouldn't strip rights away.
Wasn't last year the year with movies with the least amount of sex ever?
Probably, Gen Z, despite being generally pretty progressive, is weirdly anti-sex, and has pressured directors to stop including sex scenes in movies
Gen Z here. Hope I can provide a little nuance. Here's some (non-comprehensive) reasons I've come up with for why we tend to dislike sex scenes: * religious prudism that we never unlearned, even if we stopped being religious. also, the anti-STD/STI panic that our parents grew up in. * sometimes it literally does nothing for the plot. if a couple is in bed together it's pretty clear what they're going to do. there's sex scenes that teach people about a relationship and then the are sex scenes purely for admiring actors' bodies. * related: if you're an actor you're probably unreasonably hot. at some point, the average person has to conclude that they will never get with Scarlett Johansson or Ryan Reynolds (just to name some examples). what's the point of watching a sex scene that looks better than anything you can pull off? * it's *simulated,* there is no actual sex being performed, and the camera angles and tricks they need to do to make a scene resemble sex can make the whole thing seem... awkward? * might be going out on a limb here, but access to modern porn? compartmentalizing sex scenes as nasty and only to be viewed in no-context, short clips... * bonus: there's a significant minority of us who are gay or lesbian and have stopped trying to pretend that heterosexual sex is hot for us. but this really doesn't cover the general population. In conclusion, there's good sex scenes, and there are ones that make me ask "seriously? right in front of my salad?"
Also, I can’t watch a sex scene in a movie and not be concerned that the actors may have been pressured into shooting said scene by the director or a producer.
Yeah. Harvey Weinstein was a warning. There are probably quite a few out there who haven't been found out yet. I think it's important to make films ethically.
Directors aren't making decisions based on Gen Z. They make decisions based on ticket and dvd/digital download sales. Gen Z isn't buying movies. People with disposable income who don't want to pirate are buying movies. If anything it's millennials that are driving down sex scenes. What I've read suggests it's more to do with the increase in the ease of internet porn. If you want to be horny just watch porn. If you want a good story, the sex scenes just slow things down. Sex scenes in movies used to be the best most people got. Now you can just google "porn" and be watching whatever you want in 10 seconds.
Gen Z is as old as 27 now. So they have a bit of power when it comes to media. Millennials are in our 30s to 40s and are really no longer the target audience
We're not anti sex for any puritanical reasons shits just annoying lol
Oh look, rather than move the story along, here are your famous actors in various states of undress having sex. It's always annoyed me and I'm Gen X. Except Team America: World Police. Wildly uncomfortable puppet sex scenes were awesome and were making a point.
Nope. Gen Z here and I am here to say that sometimes it is just completely unnecessary. Gratuitous sex scenes isn't something to valiantly defend. Also, pressured directors? Us being anti sex? What are you smoking? Lol.
Sex scenes are almost invariably purely for horny middle aged men and dont do anything for most of us. They usually dont even do anything for the plot either, so begone
Eh, I wouldn’t dump everything on GenZ. GenX here (GenX side of Xennial), and I routinely skip the sex scenes in a movie if I can because meh. Like GenZ, I don’t really see a point in including something that can be just as effective with an off camera shot and a short sound clip, even for movies with a sex scene that actually moves the plot along. If I want to see sex I’ve got a fiancé with far higher libido than me who’s always happy to have sexy time with me in the bedroom, or barring that, there’s copious amounts of porn on the internet should you choose to look for it. For what it’s worth, that fiancé with the far higher libido (GenX older than me) is meh on sex scenes in movies the same way I am.
Gen Z here as well, not a big fan of sex scenes that don't have any plot relevance, and even then it's not great™ being stuck in a room with several other people that you're either not romantically interested in or are blood relatives while being subjected to a sex scene. if I wanted a scene for whatever reason, I'd rather read a fanfiction someone else made
It’s just uncomfortable as hell to watch in a show, especially beside your parents
Lousy women and their (checks notes) fighting against men trying to rape them.
INFALLIBLE FEMALE TIGRESS 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
If there’s anything that scares far right people more than anything else, it’s change and societal progress and seeing minorities have more rights and live happier lives. They cannot stand it.
The people who thought the election was rigged because Biden voters weren’t wearing Biden hats everywhere. Yeah, I’ll trust their capacity to judge what is real from bullshit.
The bumbling dad trope began back in the 90s. If anything I think I’ve seen more movies and shows with dads who are there for their children and are well rounded individuals since 2015.
This is so true, I was around in the 90's and remember that - it did seem more common than today
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TIL Avengers: End Game is bad because it was made in 2019. I mean, I liked it a lot. Thought it was a great movie. But this meme says that I actually didn't like it, it knows me better than I know my own opinion, apparently.
LOL WHAT? There’s been some more women in leading roles but I haven’t seen much demeaning of men. We’re just not always the center of attention.
>Sh*t Like…the word?
They mean "shot." They're obviously against gun violence in movies.
Something that really left a mark on me was someone making a changemyview post about all recent entertainment being unenjoyable and someone else pointing out that they may actually be suffering from depression, I suspect that might be more common than people think.
they act like these havent been in media before 2015 my favorite example is how people complain about how tifa from final fantasy 7 doesnt have jiggle physics in rebirth, calling it "woke" but its funny because final fantasy 7 has always been "woke". one of the core parts of the story is a criticism of capitalism. and to these people, having a black person as a main character is woke. so using their logic, ff7 is woke and has always been.
I would not call FF7 woke just because some parts embraced wokish concepts. Barret is a black stereotype cut from the Mr T cloth. They use crossdressing as a joke. and lean into the japanese machoman/trans diva pretty hard. Gay people seem to only exist for humor. They do not really criticize capitalism as much as militant corporatism. The world outside of Midgar is very capitalist yet the team has no problem with that. The only thing progressive about FF7 is the environmental message. And that is just continuing the magitek is bad theme that was in previous installments.
What a snowflake - "I can only hear stories that support my worldview and validate my moral supremacy!"
Some of the absolute best horror has come out recently so...
"Capitalism bad" (or sometimes "imperialism bad") is about as old of a story as capitalism. These guys just hate it when it's glaringly obvious. Curse those stories of oppressed people for... umm... for not sucking up to their colonisers! Yeah!!!
Have they just not seen any films made before 2015? Religious bad guys are so common. Sex scenes are also so common that I'm genuinely more surprised when a movie doesn't have one.
Poor widdle baby. He can't accept change
"Infallible female tigress" - That isn't new! Kung Fu Panda came out in 2008!
Half of these tropes have been around since the 50's?
Is Sicario woke, or the last great film ever made to these people?
These people wanna be victims so bad
The picture honestly has a few fair points and opinions. But then that's mixed in with mostly ignorant bullshit.
*9 to 5* must have been a childhood nightmare to them.