"Great sex is never funny"? Judd Apatow needs to watch Jeff Goldblum and Emma Thompson in The Tall Guy. One of the greatest sex scenes in movie history, and one of the funniest, warmest movies I've ever seen.

Confusing a romantic comedy with a sex comedy is a common mistake made by the entertainment industry and audiences alike. One is not necessarily the other. The best are definitely not the other. The best sex comedies are farces. The romantic comedies are comedies. The best farces are very physical to the point of slapstick. The best romantic comedies are subtle. I'm not sure who can do the best farces today. As far as romcom goes Stana Katic and Nathan Fillion produce the finest romantic comedy performances today and any day since "The African Queen."

I don't know if it's the sex that makes these movies seem uninteresting or the world of middle-class white bread relationships that they are set. I get the notion that the bland exterior hides a kinky not-what-you-would-think interior, but that itself is trite. Show me a world I don't know, that challenges my preconceptions, that's sex-driven and sexy (and not) at the same time.

https://www.lensculture.com/peter-schafer?modal=true&modal_type=proj...

As others have said, this middle-class white couple fixation is old already. Are moviegoers so limited they only want to see (a risque version of) themselves?

Thanks. You've just saved me at least $40.

As a sexually-active adult male, let me express my view that sexual desire in contemporary society is synthetic, artificially generated by popular media - movies, songs and television. Health professionals, MDs and even psychiatrists, add fuel to the fire by telling us that sex is "essential", and by suggesting that sexual abstinence and asexuality are abnormal and unhealthy. I do not believe that. I know plenty of people, male and female, who don't do sex. They seem perfectly happy and healthy. There are still young men out here who hope and expect that their bride will be a virgin. Try and find one - today, virginity is deemed abnormal. In Scandinavia, where I lived for many years, girls are deflowered at an average age of fourteen.

Bunuel had this all figured out 40 years ago...kink and fun were the essence of good sex, one leading to the other...today's neanderthals cannot grasp this...a composite film of Luis' work in this area would entertain mightily...

a scorpion present in bed
enlivens a movie with dread
there'll be some though who laugh
on their partner's behalf
and others so clearly well fed.

Really, Hollywood, and New York Times? Only young white people have sex? It's 2015! Talk about a narrow picture of the world, replicated over and over and over. It's like bad social and political propaganda, but not as interesting or innovative.

Hollywood production decisions are made by kids under 25. If you're that young, you have no memory of anything older than the milk in your refrigerator. That's why they think it's all fresh and new, and that's why these will all be in the $5 DVD bin in Target by Christmas.

Best to always think of sex as comedy, that way you are never disappointed.

Here we go again. "Fresh!" "New!" "Never been done before!" "Different!" "A WOMAN'S PERSPECTIVE!" "WOW!"

And they will all be bad. Lame. Obvious. Maybe one will be ok. We get these stories all the times from - let's face it - not exactly impartial actors and film makers. "MY movie is different!" No, it isn't. We've seen it all before.

Why do people keep laughing about my past exploits. No wonder I retired.

http://thetruthoncommonsense.com

If anyone can overwork and oversell anything it's Hollywood, even sex.

Where are faces of different races in these movies? America is not all white. most of Hollywood apparently hasn't caught on.

Americans are increasingly multiracial. None of these movies even tread into multiracial relationships. Seems pretty regressive.

The 'Furious 7' movie has been successful, largely but not solely due to having a majority non-white cast.

Quality Beck quote from Jables, but you spelled it wrong — it's "sexx laws."

Jeez" all white people? The movies all sound awful. Jack Black the only vaguely interesting one here. UGH.

Well, I guess every generation gets the sex comedy it deserves. Crass, unrealistic, explicit but unrevealing, and unfunny. Yup. Perfect.

There is an error in my earlier post. I mean to say that "society and even health professionals tell us that if we don't do sex then there is something wrong with us, that we are abnormal. I don't believe that."

speaking as a sexually active straight male, I think that sex is grossly over-rated. I believe that sexual desire and incentive is, to a big extent, artificially generated by popular media - films and television and pop music. to my mind, sex is not a big deal. society and even "health professionals" tell us that if we do sex then there is something wrong with us, we are abnormal. I don't believe that.

Six films, each, apparently, about a white, heterosexual sexual relationship. This, the Times thinks, is "All Manner of Sex Scenes."

If you can't beat them, join them. Women have finally figured it out.
Sex sells...

Sex in movies was great when I was 15, however, it's just a boring patch of the movie to get over now that I am an adult. Nothing spells "lack of substance", lack of "story line" or "lack of dialogue" like a good old fashion sex scene. Additionally it lowers the bar in general for any who seek romance. Sex does not = romance.

Nothing good, interesting or intellectual comes out of attempting to realign the public that sex scenes are somehow all of the sudden new or inspirational. Sorry to rain on your pubescent sex parade.

These movies all sound god-awful and totally unfunny. Straight to video!

'...Jake teaches Lainey how to masturbate...'

Why would any woman need a man to teach her this?

those movies look so similar....

Robert Redford and Barbara Streisand in her little apartment - "The Way We Were" ---- Wake up Bob!

Kristen Wiig and John Hamm in "Bridesmaids" - Like, "you better leave now." John, you pig!

Billy Chrystal and Meg Ryan in "When Harry Met Sally" - So what if everything is not the real thing?

Ah, a different twist to the same old act - makes life and movies interesting.

Hm. Why is it that women are assumed to be writing about their own lives (i.e. are "limited") while men write about humanity? What makes something "real"?

You know what makes me happy about this article? Reading about Dan and Oliver's sex scene. My goodness, we have come such a long way from 2005 when Brokeback Mountain came out. So happy to see same gender relationships included in these sex romps......

.....though.....

I am the one weirdo who prefers less is more in these movies. For me, the most fulfilling romantic movies are about just that, the romance. I can do without the sex, in the movies, anyway. ;-)