J.Quondam
CR 1/8
Yeah, me too. I'm aging like cheese rather than wine.That's true. The irony is, I've actually gotten more nasty and unsympathetic with age.
And I hate cheese.
Yeah, me too. I'm aging like cheese rather than wine.That's true. The irony is, I've actually gotten more nasty and unsympathetic with age.
Starship Troopers and Showgirls are both crummy movies but their defenders like to tell me it's satire as if I didn't get it. Satire isn't a defense.
IIRC, the problem with Starship Troopers was that the writers/producers/whatever on that film didn't like Heinlein's worldview and went out of their way to paint him as a fascist. Showgirls was just another lame attempt by a child/teen celebrity to prove they're all grown up by doing something with a lot of excess sex and nudity. And in the end, the result is nearly always the same: the sound of a toilet flushing in the distance signifying what has just happened to their career.
Honest erotica in and of itself doesn't bother me. However, I roll my eyes at gratuitous sex and nudity. I pretty much felt the same way when this thread was new. It's IMmature and puerile to me. Back when Dragon was still in print and they still ran RPG reviews, Rick Swan it best in the introduction to one of his monthly review columns: a half-naked woman on the cover of an RPG was a good as putting a label on it that said: "WARNING: CRAP AHEAD".
Oh yeah I know that. The people who did the Starship Troopers film evidently didn't.
Radical feminists and conservative Christians have this odd alliance going in opposition to porn.
Nah, was like that in the 80s. There was a big anti-porn and anti-adult video/sex store movement at the time and about the only time I can remember seeing right-wing "moral majority" christians and left-wing feminists on the same picket line.I do find it kind of amusing they pulled the nudity in the late 1980s in response to Christians and then in the 2000s in response to feminists. The side of attack is different, the result is the same.
I think Americans just don't like sex. (And I am one!)
Like everything it depends on the context. Nudity can be fine in art or storytelling in a visual medium. The society may not wear much clothes, or it is a logical progression to the story. But partial armour annoys me as i have stated in the original go around of this thread. If you can make chain why would not wear a full chain shirt that covers everything.
Why would you order an expensive plate harness and leave a boob window in it?