USA male here and here's my encapsulated response of some of the previous posts. Gay has nothing to do with not preferring unnecessary nudity in a movie. Also has nothing to do with the alleged "Ewww" factor. Love to see naked women, I mean LOVE to. There's a time and a place. Superficial nudity without substance demonstrates a movie worth avoiding and anyone apologizing for having it there anyway has a serious deprivation issue. Kinda pathetic especially when there's so much free sex on the internet that'll give it to you any way you want it. If you defend some flashing tits just because you need to see it regardless of where your attention should really be, pause the movie and announce to everyone in attendance you need a break to find some nudity to j/o to and you'll be back in a little while.
Ahole said: "America is pretty much a collection of people that want you to think they are perfect then sneak around and watch porn, gamble, drink, and smoke weed when nobody is looking."
Sounds like this statement came from someone with a dick in their arse. Grow up idiot. We have a lot of issues and I defend few of them, but find another forum to throw your irrelevant disdain in. Your comment is so non sequitor it's obvious you go around looking for places to flame Americans. Don't you have a field to plow or something? How's that my non sequitor moron (I thought that was more flattering than "mental Pygmy")?
OP Quote: "I agree, a bit awkward for me as I was watching with my 70yr old parents! In saying that they looked wonderful!"
Nicely put! This is a movie that doesn't require that kind of exploitation. Again, demonstrates lack of confidence in the director's ability to maintain coherency and interest without it. You want nudity fine, but there's quite a few boneheads here that obviously should just put in their copies of Revenge Of The Nerds, or similar. When I'm trying to watch a movie with my parents, 15 yr old daughter or 20 yr old son for that matter, stupid nude scenes usually ruin an otherwise good time. If someone in a show is getting raped? Well, that might at least have some relevancy depending if a specific emotional impact was required to make the scene effective, but I'd not have chosen a movie with kind of content given who else might also be watching.
OP Quote: "If you think this movie had too much nudity you do not watch movies. You talk about Americans with too much nudity. Well answer this why does every European film I watch is about a young girl becoming a woman, or prostitute? The fact is films from Europe are more prone to have a woman getting raped, two guys doing it, not to mention men and women just walking around nude."
I agree, Americans might be a little uptight that way, but, this IS an American movie and in my American home. I have family in Europe and no exactly what you're referring to culture-wise. I personally enjoy the way foreign films portray life, and I gravitate toward those when I'm not going to the video store to pick out what would seem like a reasonable film to watch with my family. There's many, many, many examples of high drama, energized action and other movies of high caliber that have zero nudity or prolonged unnecessary sex. Examples, like them or not, would be anything by Clint Eastwood or Steven Spielberg. And what about the Academy Award movies on Turner Classic Movies? Did any of them require undue sex to make the movie work? If you say yes, get a sticky copy of Porky's and grab a roll of paper towels. Hitchcock didn't need to stick the violence in your face to be effective. I'll take one of his movies over garbage like "Saw" anyday. There's no need to sneak sexual content into a scene of a movie to keep the movie interesting. If you need that, put in a movie designed for that.
Point is, Crossing Over was a good movie, well worth a watch, has Aussie Alice Eve with amazing, no, spectacular tits, but it was flagrant exploitation and offered nothing except an uncomfortable feeling in mixed company (not just the nudity but also prolonged scenes of Liotta bangin' the girl, like I should have been. Otherwise this is fairly well worth it.
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