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Old 08-10-22 | 01:47 AM
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Re: Most shocking nude scenes in cinema

Something’s Gotta Give is certainly up there for surprising nudity. The Whole Nine Yards was also surprising just because of how they set it up, but it wasn’t shocking or anything.

Originally Posted by cultshock
Heh, I still have my copy that I bought back in 1993. I rented a lot of videos based on the book's er, recommendations (they even helpfully added time codes and exact descriptions of what was bared). When I first read in there that Jennifer Connelly was topless in The Hot Spot, and I found the film at the local video store, I felt like I had won the lottery or something.
Ha, my mom knows Craig Hosoda’s mom and mentioned the book years ago. I was interested but it would’ve felt weird to buy a copy.

Originally Posted by Paff
And here's The Bare Facts' assessment of Lynda Carter in Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw (time of the scene, and rating of how visible the nudity is from 0 to 3 stars):
I watched Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw free on Prime last month just before its contract ran out. I only heard about it because some nostalgia FB page posted a pic of Carter and all the pervs mentioned that movie… so I watched it. The scenes were worth watching the dumb movie for. I thought about mentioning it here but wasn’t sure what the right thread would be, as Last Movie I Watched seems like kind of a black hole.
Old 08-10-22 | 02:20 AM
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Let The Right One In - while nothing sexual in and of itself, an underage girl that also crawls into bed with her underage co-star is kind of shocking to see in 2008. Damn good movie though.
Old 08-10-22 | 02:21 AM
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Doh, sorry. I missed the top line of your post. yes I remember when people actually used physical guides.


Originally Posted by Paff
No, you haven't been paying attention. It's from a physical reference book (remember those?) called The Bare Facts:

Old 08-10-22 | 02:23 AM
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Let The Right One In - while nothing sexual in and of itself, an underage girl that also crawls into bed with her underage co-star is kind of shocking to see in 2008. Damn good movie though.
Does this make it any better?:


Old 08-10-22 | 02:30 AM
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Fully second this. MUTE WITNESS is an amazing low-budget thriller. I'm surprised we're this long into the Blu-ray era and it hasn't been given the Special Edition treatment.
Seems like it would be a good one for Vinegar Syndrome to tackle, since they've done some of those other 90s thrillers like The Grave.

Originally Posted by davidh777
Ha, my mom knows Craig Hosoda’s mom and mentioned the book years ago. I was interested but it would’ve felt weird to buy a copy.
Did you ever hear the origin story of the book? Hosoda was part of the crew on Howard the Duck, and was mentioning to a fellow crewmember how beautiful Lea Thompson was. The co-worker asked, "did you see her nude scene in All The Right Moves?", and Hosoda immediately realized there should be a resource where you could find this information. Again, before there was something called the Internet.
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Old 08-10-22 | 03:56 AM
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The website for the Bare Facts book is still up. Doesn't appear to have been updated since 2006. Beware, though, it has frames, so you'll have to use Netscape instead of IE.

I won't post a link to the site since there is a topless image of Christina Ricci on one of the pages I clicked, but it should be too difficult for anyone to figure out.

Old sites like that that are still up but haven't been updated in more than a decade kind of fascinate me. It's almost like an archaeological dig.

The passage of time is a weird thing. The last update was in 2006, which doesn't seem that long ago to me, but it's like the difference between 1966 and 1982, or 1978 and 1994.
Old 08-10-22 | 07:13 AM
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My Dad told me he saw Bobbi Joe at a drive in theater when it came out "those boobs were huge on that screen"
Old 08-10-22 | 08:22 AM
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Originally Posted by stingermck
My Dad told me he saw Bobbi Joe at a drive in theater when it came out "those boobs were huge on that screen"
Depending on how the screen is situated, imagine the surprise for someone driving by.
Old 08-10-22 | 08:30 AM
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Affleck in Gone Girl. Not gratuitous or anything, just unexpected.
Old 08-10-22 | 08:34 AM
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Jo Beth Williams first in the PG rated Oscar Winner Kramer vs Kramer ​​​​​​, then again in the long-forgotten Teachers
Old 08-10-22 | 08:35 AM
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No one mentioned the ending of Requiem for a Dream?
Old 08-10-22 | 09:26 AM
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Originally Posted by Decker
Jo Beth Williams first in the PG rated Oscar Winner Kramer vs Kramer ​​​​​​, then again in the long-forgotten Teachers
i love Teachers. have the blu. she runs down the HS floor naked. great movie all around. can't beat Nick Nolte in his prime.
Old 08-10-22 | 10:36 AM
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Originally Posted by Eric F
Yeah but seeing Mathilda May nude almost makes the movie worth watching. Oh and also…

Spoiler:
She’s rockin’ a full bush.

We come from two different eras, I think haha
Old 08-10-22 | 10:38 AM
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Originally Posted by OldBoy
i love Teachers. have the blu. she runs down the HS floor naked. great movie all around. can't beat Nick Nolte in his prime.
Too bad they never made a sequel where she goes to all her neighbors door to door to inform them that she is now a registered sex offender.
Old 08-10-22 | 11:02 AM
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Depending on how the screen is situated, imagine the surprise for someone driving by.
All the drive in theaters I remember had the back of the screen to the highway so you couldn't see it from the road. You had to walk into the woods on the other side.
Old 08-10-22 | 11:10 AM
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Originally Posted by dvd-4-life
Lynda Carter was in a movie(she did nudity) right before she did the Wonder Woman tv series.

The movie (can't remember the name)sucked but the nudity was kind of shocking.
Other than Bobby Jo and the Outlaw, Carter was also originally cast as a playmate in Apocalypse Now, but backed out when she got the Wonder Woman role. She was involved long enough to have shot a fake Playboy photo session, at least the centerfold, the prop of which was sold at an auction awhile back. There are pics of it floating around online, and internet movie nudity sleuths have determined that it is real.

Speaking of Bare Facts and sleuths, remember those Celebrity Skin and Celebrity Sleuth magazines that had photos and film stills of nude celebrities? It was a different era.
Old 08-10-22 | 11:46 AM
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Originally Posted by Nick Danger
All the drive in theaters I remember had the back of the screen to the highway so you couldn't see it from the road. You had to walk into the woods on the other side.
I saw several movies floating in the air while driving on L.A. freeways back in the heyday. Especially twin screen drive-ins.
Old 08-10-22 | 12:29 PM
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In case anyone is unaware, there's an excellent site called Celebrity Movie Archive, where one can look at virtually any and every (female) nude scene in film history. I will refrain from linking it.
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Originally Posted by IDrinkMolson
Alexis Dziena in Broken Flowers,
Had forgotten about that one.
Old 08-10-22 | 03:58 PM
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No love for About Schmidt?
Yes, absolutely no love to About Schmidt.
Already stated but first one that popped into mind,,. "The Crying Game..."
Old 08-10-22 | 04:16 PM
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Two that I immediately thought of:

Helen Mirren in The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover

Holly Hunter in David Cronenberg's Crash
Old 08-10-22 | 05:07 PM
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I could have done without the closeup of Divine's diseased penis in Female Trouble, that's for sure.
Old 08-10-22 | 05:12 PM
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I could have done without the closeup of Divine's diseased penis in Female Trouble, that's for sure.
That and the "singing asshole" in Pink Flamingos. Yikes!
Old 08-10-22 | 06:13 PM
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Originally Posted by IBJoel
We come from two different eras, I think haha
In the 80’s the “natural look” was in.
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