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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Merlion" data-source="post: 2449582" data-attributes="member: 10397">It doesnt offend me but I do find it a little funny since when it comes to it the two are a lot alike.I know I'm getting off the subject a little bit here but I am curious as to your definition...obviously, mainstream movies do not show fully explicit sex scenes of any kind...usualy you see a guy and a girl in bed together, one on top of the other, writhing around, still more or less covered from the waist down.So I'm curious...you would walk out of a movie that had a scene like that between two guys? A scene that really showed almost nothing? I'm just curious.But really I guess the whole thing doesnt as much annoy me as I just find it sort of odd and funny. Female nudity is ok, but male isnt. I guess its because I was raised that gratuitious nudity is inapropriate, regardless of gender. But in Hollywood, female nudity is ok, and made use of, but male nudity (or even eroticism) is taboo.Although it seems to be changing. Of course thats probably mostly because of two largely unrelated things...homosexuality is becoming more accepted, and I think women are starting to feel comfortable breaking out of some of their sterotypes (like that women dont enjoy seeing male bodies etc)But getting back on subject a bit more, showing anything or not aside I do find it most annoying that gay characters in movies and TV are almost always 1) very much background characters and 2) generally walking sterotypes, usualy very negative. I would love to see an action movie with a gay male heroAlso, I'd like to agree with those who have mentioned various forms of problems with hearing and understanding the dialogue in movies. Its of course especially bad in action movies and the like. I'm big on details and I often find myself missing important points either because the music/sound effects are too loud, or the actors wont speak up.Oh and another thing..related to although somewhat contradictory to one of my other comments...even thought Western cinema usualy seems to want to spoon feed us the plots of movies, some times they also seem to have an odd aversion to clear exposition. The new War of the Worlds was especially bad about this. Movies...especially sci fi/fantasy ones...will introduce elements in the story...and some times give them a good degree of importance...but fail to ever explain what they are or how they work.In the context of a movie where everything else is being handed to you, it comes out odd. And usualy its not like a mystery or anything...its just something that should've been explained but wasnt.</blockquote>

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