LogFAQs > #913381839

v_charon posted...

Why keep this sad moment in a kid's film, ya know? We know he's dead, he fell off a cliff. Pointless interlude!

That's not a pointless scene, it's Simba's reaction to it. It's a major defining point for Simba's character.

Softcore porn isn't a major defining point of a character, it's the material means to the creation of a new character. Plenty movies have taken this similar sort of scene where the girl is falling for the guy, they make out, they start undressing and start moving into the bed, it fades to black. Why? Because they didn't go after softcore porn. Does it change the exact level of romance in the scene? No. It keeps what happened in bed to your own perverted imagination.

scarletspeed7 posted...

Porn is a demeaning term, especially when you volley it. And this is the opposite kind of sex than what you get in porn.

But it directly is softcore porn. And I'm using the demeaning term because that's what the scene is for me. I can forgive a movie like hell, Barbarella for its softcore because it never deviates from being just... that. I literally call the Fifth Element a movie that feels like a porn parody as an effort to show that I forgive the film for its gratuitous nudity, but I don't have to like it. Prior to the softcore porn, Terminator was an action flick, it would go on to be an action flick. It could have been an action flick with romantic qualities, instead of softcore porn to try and tell the story of their love. Yes, knowing that sex happened is integral to the plot of this movie and movies onward, but that doesn't mean we have to see them in the act.
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I'll just go back to gifs. Not like the winner was gonna click my topic.
https://imgur.com/SXyi7uX