MOVIES ABOUT SEX: “Shortbus.” / “99 Moons.” / “Get Naked!”

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“Shortbus” (2006, PlutoTV) erotic comedy-drama film written and directed by John Cameron Mitchell. We know John from his “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” (2001) musical. That talent though isn't visible of felt in this self-gratifying peepshow. 



       The plot revolves around a sexually diverse ensemble of colorful characters trying desperately to connect in an early 2000s New York City. The characters converge in a weekly Brooklyn artistic/sexual salon loosely inspired by various underground NYC gatherings that took place in the early 2000s. 

       The movie's obvious come-on variety of explicit scenes containing non-simulated sexual intercourse with visible penetration and male ejaculation. Yup. Says the writer/director: “The film employs sex in new cinematic ways because it's too interesting to leave to porn.” Uh huh. 🎥💻📽


“99 Moons” (2022, Tubi) Swiss erotic drama. Writer and director Jan Gassmann sought to explore the state of love and sexuality in the 2020s via a couple who can't really figure out what they want. Or the movie didn't really offer something sensible or logical to anchor it with which easily makes all those fifty shades of crap, such masterpieces. 


       At least Valentina di Pace and Dominik Fellmann are not bad performers at all, given the spineless Project. 🎭👎🎬


“Get Naked!” (2017, Roku). The IMDb blurb says this: In a world where nudity has been outlawed, a mysterious operative orders a madcap manhunt on a naked woman spotted on the streets of Bakersfield. Yes, this movie is supposedly a comedy but it's not funny at all, although I finished it while doing 5 other chores at the same time. (Yes, Eric Roberts is in this movie!) 🎭👎🎬



GAVE UP: <>“Scenes of a Sexual Nature” (2006, Tubi) British comedy-drama, with an ensemble cast which includes Ewan McGregor, Andrew Lincoln, Mark Strong, Polly Walker, Tom Hardy, Sophie Okonedo, and Hugh Bonneville. The film follows a series of seven loosely related stories of couples on Hampstead Heath in north London. The scenes appear out of sequence and jump back and forth between one story and another. Fine actors but easily talky-boring. Lumbering cliche.

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