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One of the most disgusting sex scenes ever

posted 16 years ago by Gwasgray
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The one near the end, I'm surprised this gets left out of all those those "grossest/least sexy sex scenes in movies" lists that magazines and websites tend to do. There's the fact that Robbins is playing an odious yuppie who is now screwing the girlfriend of someone he murdered but also there's the way it looks, one long extreme close-up of him sweating and slobbering all over Greta Scacchi's neck and jaw region, with his huge forehead and weird baby-faced features. I'm a straight guy so I don't really like having to look at the man in a sex scene and somehow because Scacchi's eyes aren't visible most of the time I notice Tim more in this scene. Obviously Susan Sarandon likes him and probably a number of female viewers as well, but he is a bit of funny-looking guy isn't he?

[–] 12 years ago

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[–] Degree7 12 years ago

That op was hilarious.

Big forehead and weird baby faced features indeed!

Normally Robbins is considered a decent looking dude, I think it's just because he was playing a slimy, disgusting character

Limit of the Willing Suspension of Disbelief: directly proportional to it's awesomeness.

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[–] henrimaine 11 years ago

The sex scene is perhaps not very "sexy", but since The Player is not a porn movie, it doesn't have to be "sexy". You are not supposed to jerk off to that movie.

[–] valis1984 10 years ago

I think Altman was parodying (is that a word?) the "obligatory" sex scene.

"Everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects". Will Rogers (1879-1935)

[–] dcobbimdb 10 years ago

What I found odd about that scene was just that he brings up the writer and tries to confess has he's boning her. I mean seriously??? I mean I know he's an actor as is she and maybe that's the black comedy meaning behind it but seriously what guy would think and talk about something like that as he's having sex? Confessions and whatnot are done the day after or prior, but not during... So that I found retarded

[–] prplayer 9 years ago

sex usually is

so many movies, so little time

[–] EliotTempleton 8 years ago

I'm a straight guy so I don't really like having to look at the man in a sex scene and somehow because Scacchi's eyes aren't visible most of the time I notice Tim more in this scene. Obviously Susan Sarandon likes him and probably a number of female viewers as well, but he is a bit of funny-looking guy isn't he?

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