I just finished watching Heated Rivalry, which is what prompted me to ask this question. I saw this show being recommended constantly and lauded as a gay content masterpiece, so naturally, as a gay guy, I wanted to watch it. I haven’t been this disappointed by a show or movie in a long time. It’s basically just softcore porn. The plot is almost nonexistent, the dialogue is scarce, there’s a random filler episode (episode 3) even though the show is short to begin with (only six episodes), and it relies heavily on the same tired gay clichés. As a horny and kinky person, I never thought sex in a show could bore or turn me off, but apparently, I do have a limit. After the first two episodes, where repetitive sex scenes make up about 90% of the runtime, I’d had enough. If I wanted to see that much sex, I’d rather just watch porn.
If I want to see sex, I’ll just watch porn where I can actually see it and not just the implication of sex. I can not think of a single sex scene in a TV show or movie that was memorable and hot. And the one that was memorable? The one from Team America. Because it was funny.
The Zero G sex in the first episode of The Expanse was fun and memorable.
The moment I started reading “I can not think of a single sex scene…” I started thinking, and the only scene that came up was Team America. It is probably the only memorable one, lol.
I’d like to see a big-budget, proper TV show or movie, with strong dialogue, a real plot, thoughtful cinematography, etc., that includes unsimulated, fully explicit sex. I think that would be genuinely innovative. However, I’m not sure it will ever happen because of regulations and the social taboo and stigma surrounding it.
I don’t recall the name of the movie but one director created one full length movie only to have the lead actress make him a blowjob on screen.
Yeah, there are already gimmick movies like that, Love (2015) is another example with unsimulated, porn-level sex. But those films tend to be niche or underground, and the explicitness feels like the point rather than a meaningful part of the storytelling. What I mean is a truly mainstream, blockbuster movie or TV show that incorporates that kind of content.
Now I just remembered one: Lars von Triers’ Nymphomaniac.
It didn’t have unsimulated, genuine sex. It’s also an “erotic art film”, so I wouldn’t call it mainstream or blockbuster. In my opinion, it’s just another example of a gimmick.
Well, it wasn’t simulated. The body doubles did have sex.
Brown Bunny?
Yes, that one.
I’ve seen movies like that but it’s basically immediately cheap porn with a plot instead of a movie with a real sex scene
The kiss the hero after being saved is a trope that makes me tune off from whatever the film is about almost immediately…
I have one good scene: Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo in The Thomas Crown Affair.