I have a theory:
You can have an erotic movie starring Michael Douglas, and you can have an erotic movie starring Glenn Close, but you cannot have an erotic movie starring both Michael Douglas and Glenn Close
― dense macabre (DJP), Monday, 7 November 2011 21:52 (twelve years ago) link
9/5 Weeks was a thriller?
― nostormo, Monday, 7 November 2011 21:52 (twelve years ago) link
BOUND
― Juggy Brottleteen (ENBB), Monday, 7 November 2011 21:52 (twelve years ago) link
Listen people I didn't make the list I'm just going by what wiki cites as the definitive examples of the decades, OK? *hmpf*
― Juggy Brottleteen (ENBB), Monday, 7 November 2011 21:53 (twelve years ago) link
Can't remember much of a thriller element in Eyes Wide Shut?
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 7 November 2011 21:53 (twelve years ago) link
LEBSIANES
― enchilada sauce (get bent), Monday, 7 November 2011 21:53 (twelve years ago) link
Memorable quotes forBody of Evidence (1993)
Rebecca Carlson: All we did was make love.Frank Dulaney: In handcuffs.Rebecca Carlson: It was different, but it was still making love. Have you ever seen animals make love, Frank? It's intense. It's violent. But they never really hurt each other.Frank Dulaney: We're not animals.Rebecca Carlson: Yes, we are.
― buzza, Monday, 7 November 2011 21:54 (twelve years ago) link
Here's all I remember about Eyes Wide Shut: It really sucked.
― Juggy Brottleteen (ENBB), Monday, 7 November 2011 21:54 (twelve years ago) link
You say that like it's a good thing.
Any movie that incorporates this song into a "sexy" scene gets humor points from me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l23DI4WdXXA
― dense macabre (DJP), Monday, 7 November 2011 21:54 (twelve years ago) link
there was ABSOLUTELY NOTHING erotic about "Boxing Helena"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
shirtless Bill Paxton + leather pants + mullet + Sadeness = EROTIC
― The Uncanny Frankie Valley (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 7 November 2011 21:54 (twelve years ago) link
― enchilada sauce (get bent), Monday, November 7, 2011 4:53 PM (23 seconds ago) Bookmark
Bound was hot. I remember watching that and being like O_O omg what did I just see ON TV?!!
also where is "Angel Heart"?
― dense macabre (DJP), Monday, 7 November 2011 21:55 (twelve years ago) link
Of the seven films I've seen on the list, the best is easily Eyes Wide Shut, which is not a thriller. (even if that's how WB tried to sell it, cuz "Tom Cruise thinks/dreams about extramarital fucking, doesn't do it" isn't much of a box-office hook.)
The Last Seduction and Wild Things are fairly old-fashioned noirs with nudity etc.
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Monday, 7 November 2011 21:55 (twelve years ago) link
also I assume the Blown Away on this list is the softcore porn featuring that chick from Baywatch and the two Coreys yes?
― The Uncanny Frankie Valley (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 7 November 2011 21:55 (twelve years ago) link
Surprised not to see any David Lynch films in this list.
― Moodles, Monday, 7 November 2011 21:56 (twelve years ago) link
Basic Instinct when Michael Douglas tries to blend in at the danceclub = roffles (and NSFW, I seem to remember, so I'll just link the scene here.)
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 7 November 2011 21:56 (twelve years ago) link
"Wild Things" is nonstop bananas moment after bananas moment
― dense macabre (DJP), Monday, 7 November 2011 21:56 (twelve years ago) link
xx-post - Nicole Eggert. Yes, I think that's a safe assumption.
― Juggy Brottleteen (ENBB), Monday, 7 November 2011 21:57 (twelve years ago) link
Wild Things is easily the best actual film on here, the rest are pretty much just cheap lolz but oh the many lolz to be had...
― The Uncanny Frankie Valley (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 7 November 2011 21:57 (twelve years ago) link
Color of Night (1994), this film is astonishing
― |III|||II|||I|I||| (Matt #2), Monday, 7 November 2011 21:57 (twelve years ago) link
the last seduction was one of those movies that was a big deal at the time but no one talks about it anymore. sorta like hal hartley.
― enchilada sauce (get bent), Monday, 7 November 2011 21:57 (twelve years ago) link
Emmanuelle is 70s; I know there were 80s sequels, but not much of a thriller element in those.
Probably go for Single White Female, just because running a double film w/Schroeder's classic Maitresse would be fkn good.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 7 November 2011 21:58 (twelve years ago) link
double bill
x-post - COlor of Night = Full frontal Willis!
― Juggy Brottleteen (ENBB), Monday, 7 November 2011 21:58 (twelve years ago) link
cuz yeah most of these movies are neither thrilling nor erotic
xp
― The Uncanny Frankie Valley (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 7 November 2011 21:58 (twelve years ago) link
I confused
http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0103843/
With
http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0109303/
― Franz Kappa (S-), Monday, 7 November 2011 21:58 (twelve years ago) link
Full frontal Willis!
eh he does this all the time
― The Uncanny Frankie Valley (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 7 November 2011 21:59 (twelve years ago) link
He does?
― Juggy Brottleteen (ENBB), Monday, 7 November 2011 21:59 (twelve years ago) link
Defend the Indefensible: psychologically raw films about sexual obsession
:)
― goole, Monday, 7 November 2011 21:59 (twelve years ago) link
he's very proud of Li'l Bruce afaict
Had to double check Jade is on here so laughter does reign supreme. (Again an NSFW clip.)
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 7 November 2011 21:59 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, i was thinking of the '80s/'90s spinoffs.
― enchilada sauce (get bent), Monday, 7 November 2011 21:59 (twelve years ago) link
other films Bruce Willis gets naked in:
12 Monkeysshows his ass in 5th Element iirc
Body double one of my fav movies, btw lol 'erotically trilling', gangster
― ice cr?m, Monday, 7 November 2011 21:59 (twelve years ago) link
"Erotic thrillers" of the 1940s would be a much better poll.
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Monday, 7 November 2011 22:00 (twelve years ago) link
I can't believe nobody has mentioned Poison Ivy yet. I've seen that movie so many times. Darlene! Drew and Skeritt on top of a car in a scene that left me traumatized for years!
― Juggy Brottleteen (ENBB), Monday, 7 November 2011 22:00 (twelve years ago) link
thx for reminding me - I need to see that
― The Uncanny Frankie Valley (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 7 November 2011 22:00 (twelve years ago) link
oh wow, you really do
― dense macabre (DJP), Monday, 7 November 2011 22:01 (twelve years ago) link
> 9/5 Weeks was a thriller?
no, but still maybe my fave plotless movie
― Everything else is secondary (Lee626), Monday, 7 November 2011 22:01 (twelve years ago) link
totally surprised Wild Orchid isn't on here...?
― The Uncanny Frankie Valley (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 7 November 2011 22:04 (twelve years ago) link
Body Double is 100% bravura ridiculousness but Craig Wasson is pretty terrible.
― Mohombi Khush Hua (ShariVari), Monday, 7 November 2011 22:07 (twelve years ago) link
I really really hated EWS but the Ligeti piece that is the cornerstone of the soundtrack ("Musica Ricercata" mvmt 2) is one of my favorite things in the entire world
― dense macabre (DJP), Monday, 7 November 2011 22:09 (twelve years ago) link
Wild orchid does seem to be a really obv omission.
― Juggy Brottleteen (ENBB), Monday, 7 November 2011 22:09 (twelve years ago) link
guys have you read the original script for Jade online. You really should.
― Matt Armstrong, Monday, 7 November 2011 22:11 (twelve years ago) link
So I am thinking I should see this jade movie.
― Juggy Brottleteen (ENBB), Monday, 7 November 2011 22:14 (twelve years ago) link
i def have a soft spot for 'single white female'
― vitameatawalloginavegamin (donna rouge), Monday, 7 November 2011 22:15 (twelve years ago) link
last seduction is really good. body double is dope and i like how it's almost a slasher film, too. very giallo as much as hitchcockian. wild things is cool. if this was expanded to the nineties i might consider a vote for unfaithful, which was better than it had any right to be.
― omar little, Monday, 7 November 2011 22:22 (twelve years ago) link
"Sliver" shouldn't work at all... and it doesn't. It does have Lords of Acid on the soundtrack, tho
but it does have "Unfinished Sympathy."
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 November 2011 22:23 (twelve years ago) link
Craig Wasson is pretty terrible.
yeah srsly. Is this the worst performance in a De Palma movie before TBOTV?
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 November 2011 22:24 (twelve years ago) link
omg "Unfaithful"! I had forgotten about that movie
― dense macabre (DJP), Monday, 7 November 2011 22:25 (twelve years ago) link
that's my Guttenberg Bible
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Tuesday, 28 March 2023 15:37 (one year ago) link
https://townsquare.media/site/341/files/2013/02/morgan_0.jpg
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 28 March 2023 15:54 (one year ago) link
Guttentag!
― the very juice and sperm of kindness. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 28 March 2023 15:57 (one year ago) link
iirc the bedroom window also has steve guttenberg give the least convincing use of the word "bitch" in a movie ever
― na (NA), Tuesday, 28 March 2023 16:02 (one year ago) link
That movie has a lot of Least Convincing things, for example the Art Deco nightmare of a bar they hang out at.
― the very juice and sperm of kindness. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 28 March 2023 16:21 (one year ago) link
Who made him a star, anyway?
― nickn, Tuesday, 28 March 2023 17:24 (one year ago) link
Hey, let's not forget Short Circuit, where he has a threesome with Ally Sheedy and a robot:
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/c4/60/f2/c460f240be5066d3830fd6e52bb3baac.jpg
― carne asana (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 28 March 2023 17:42 (one year ago) link
Guttenberg > Selleck > Danson
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Tuesday, 28 March 2023 17:52 (one year ago) link
well, compared to the last two, Guttenberg is Alain Delon.
― the very juice and sperm of kindness. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 28 March 2023 17:54 (one year ago) link
Have only listened to the first 15 of the ep but, damn, if this turns into a 14-episode arc of how much the '90s sucked when it comes to sexual politics, it's going to be amazing.
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Tuesday, 28 March 2023 17:55 (one year ago) link
Having finished listening to it, especially with her personal note at the end, I'm thinking your guess is right. Also looking forward to next week, which was fairly clearly signalled.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 28 March 2023 18:06 (one year ago) link
Will be interesting to see how this all comes together with the main impetus for the project, which is how the American cinema came to turn its back on depictions of sex almost entirely
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Tuesday, 28 March 2023 18:09 (one year ago) link
One not mentioned yet. Save Mewith Lysette Anthony and Harry Hamlin.
Hamlin glowers through a telegraphed plot where red flags are slapping him constantly, and yet the show goes on. Plus, Michael Ironside in the cast!
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Tuesday, 28 March 2023 19:14 (one year ago) link
Watched a couple of the Criterions (second viewing for each).
I actually tried to buy The Bedroom Window a couple of years ago and found it a little pricey. Hard to believe that when assembling the cast, someone said "erotic thriller" and someone else said "Steve Guttenberg!" I think Isabelle Huppert was getting lots of acclaim at the time for her French films, but to me she seemed miscast here. The only Robert Palmer song I ever liked, "Hyperactive," is used, the one thing I still remembered about the film, and Carl Lumbly, the detective, did a great job a few years ago providing Miles Davis' voice in Birth of the Cool.
Dream Lover is sillier but more interesting, I'd say, mostly thanks to Madchen Amick. Truly bizarre coincidence: after I finished watching last night, I was flipping around and came across two stations playing Seinfeld. One was airing the episode with Larry Miller as the doorman, the other had the episode with James Spader doing his 12 steps. Honest to god. (Both in Dream Lover, if you don't know.)
― clemenza, Monday, 3 April 2023 14:21 (one year ago) link
Here we go …
The enemy gained a very powerful ally today https://t.co/774eiUrFeX— Brandon Streussnig (@BrndnStrssng) April 13, 2023
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Friday, 14 April 2023 13:01 (one year ago) link
Although it's played for laughs, I find the Robert DeNiro/Bridget Fonda sex scene in Jackie Brown to be very unpleasant. Maybe it's a good thing he feels this way.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 14 April 2023 13:15 (one year ago) link
per latest Karina Longworth episode, Theresa Russell's career is truly interesting but she's difficult to assess as an actor. I thought she was amazing in Bad Timing but had an opposite reaction when I saw her in Whore (during its brief theatrical run). But I suspect the problem in Whore is that Ken Russell's natural staginess overrides her skills somehow; would be interesting to see that again after all these years. Rewatched Crimes of Passion with Kathleen Turner and that film has a similar staginess problem although Turner does a good job in it.
― Josefa, Friday, 14 April 2023 13:49 (one year ago) link
I'm glad you brought her up; except for in Black Widow I've never considered her a watchable actor.
― retrofuturist cop slayer! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 14 April 2023 13:50 (one year ago) link
(xpost) She's fantastic in Straight Time--small role, might be her first film.
― clemenza, Friday, 14 April 2023 13:56 (one year ago) link
Worth a read: https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/8117-the-wet-dreams-and-twisted-politics-of-erotic-thrillers
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Friday, 14 April 2023 13:58 (one year ago) link
Watching The Bedroom Window right now and I swear I’ve seen this exact same premise in an Italian giallo. Man’s girlfriend witnesses a crime from their apartment window… man reports it to the police as if he had witnessed it. Ring any bells to anyone? Early ‘70s Italian giallo?
― Josefa, Saturday, 15 April 2023 02:30 (one year ago) link
lol I read that as "gelato"
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 15 April 2023 02:31 (one year ago) link
Steve Guttenberg and Isabelle Huppert as a couple is a fantasy that only Hollywood’s dream merchants could bless us with
― Josefa, Saturday, 15 April 2023 02:38 (one year ago) link
I saw The Bedroom Window at a second run theater when it was new and recalled sort of liking its neo-Hitchcockisms, but rewatching last night it's really not very good.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 15:12 (one year ago) link
The You Must Remember This episode yesterday on Basic Instinct was unsurprisingly great. (Also a nice move to use selections from Sharon Stone's audiobook reading of her autobiography at points.)
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 3 May 2023 15:17 (one year ago) link
Haven’t gotten to that one yet but anything that dissuades her from doing impressions is a plus (her Eastwood was a struggle!)
― rob, Wednesday, 3 May 2023 15:38 (one year ago) link
I'm still haunted by her Susan Atkins.
― peace, man, Wednesday, 3 May 2023 15:44 (one year ago) link
yeah i enjoyed this episode a lot, the stone audio was a nice touch. She did the same iirc for Carre Otis in the Wild Orchid/Rourke episode & it really elevated the ep i thought
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 16:11 (one year ago) link
lol Call Me is so bad. Why am I watching these things when there are other actually good movies on Criterion?
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Friday, 5 May 2023 03:40 (one year ago) link
Is that a rhetorical question?
― Because the Nighttoad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 5 May 2023 04:00 (one year ago) link
Dream Lover is currently on Criterion ending this month, and I thought it was entertaining, some offbeat dialogue, good supporting characters and plot turns. And Madchen Amick is beautiful.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Monday, 12 June 2023 19:04 (eleven months ago) link
Have we talked about The Hot Spot? Dennis Hopper directed 1990 adaptation of the very hood Charles Williams novel about car salesmen, sex and robbery? I lived that book so I’m gonna watch this one asap. May actually start it now, before work.
― ian, Monday, 19 June 2023 12:00 (eleven months ago) link
I can’t type on my phone sorry.
― ian, Monday, 19 June 2023 12:01 (eleven months ago) link
Interested to see what you think.
― Holly Godarkbloom (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 19 June 2023 12:03 (eleven months ago) link
Well... so far, I like the shots of the small town location. The acting is not particularly great. It's certainly erotic, and certainly a thriller. The sexy stuff can be a lil over the top (already, hardly into the film) but, I'll enjoy it. Probably finish this evening or tomorrow.
― ian, Monday, 19 June 2023 12:20 (eleven months ago) link
B-b-but what about the soundtrack?
― Holly Godarkbloom (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 19 June 2023 12:22 (eleven months ago) link
It's not the worst, but definitely helps to date the film. The eating-pussy-in-the-car scene was a littttttle extra, if you know what i mean.
― ian, Monday, 19 June 2023 12:57 (eleven months ago) link
Enjoyed the heist sequence itself.Now off to work.
― ian, Monday, 19 June 2023 13:10 (eleven months ago) link
Rep theatre screening of Basic Instinct. It really is kind of terrible. Two good things: Sharon Stone's performance--she seems to be the only one who's onto how campy and overwrought it all is--and four Seinfeld people.
― clemenza, Sunday, 9 July 2023 05:17 (ten months ago) link
(Six actually, checking online--four I knew.)
― clemenza, Sunday, 9 July 2023 05:22 (ten months ago) link