Yeah, yeah, there's another government bailout of a bank and Barack Obama is unfurling his economic team and policy proposals.
Can we get to the important stuff? Like, the sexiest movie ever?
Entertainment Weekly, as is their wont, has come up with their list of the 50 sexiest movies of all time, and gee, the list suck eggs. The fact that 300 is on the list at all is the first tipoff that something is wrong [But that one is for the gays!!--ed. Oh, for Pete's sake, then put Top Gunon the list -- that flick has way more homoeroticism than 300.]
More importantly, I refuse to live in a world in which Mr. & Mrs. Smith is declared to the the third sexiest movie of all time.
Call me old, old school, but a list like this that has no Bogart-Bacall films, no Tracy-Hepburn movies, no Bringing Up Baby, no Thomas Crown Affair (either version), only one Susan Sarandon movie, etc., then the list is pretty piss-poor.
It does get one thing right, however. This is a pretty sexy scene:
Readers are encouraged to improve upon Entertainment Weekly and discuss which sexy movies were thoughtlessly omitted from the list.
First thing I noticed was the number of those movies I hadn't seen. I better get my nose out of Playboy and pay attention to my Netflix queue.
I think a list with Tracy-Hepburn and Bringing up Baby would be a bit much. (Though Pat and Mike might have brought some pleasent middle age to the list.)
I thought the omission of Atlantic City unfortunate. (That would be your second Sarandon. Though I guess you could replace Bound with The Hunger, and get all the girl on girl writhings with another helping of Sarandon.)
As you might expect, this list was short on offerings from much earlier than 1985. I would have thrown in something with Jean Harlow ("Red Dust") and Astaire-Rogers ("Gay Divorcee", "Carefree", "Swing Time", and Barbara Stanwyck ("The Lady Eve").
There are sexy scenes here and there, but it's hard to think of a movie that is sexy in its entirety. I really like the seduction scene in In the Line of Fire, in which Clint Eastwood seduces Renee Russo with some nice piano playing and meaningful dialogue.
"Bound" definitely deserves to be on the upper half of the list; also, I'm glad Hong Kong got its due shout out with "In The Mood For Love".
Glaring omission: "Scarface"... Aside from the fact that Tony so loved Elvie, I'll throw the the "Scarface-Economist's-Definition-of-Power" back at you Professor: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJ7HZATMKBY Tony really was a romantic...
My Son the Fanatic (Om Puri & Rachel Griffiths)
The Grifters (John Cusack & Annette Bening)
A Rage in Harlem (Robin Givens in the whole movie)
Presumed Innocent (Gretta Scachi)
[...] by Nicholas Cote on November 25, 2008 Dan Drezner refuses to live in a world in which Mr. & Mrs. Smith is deemed the third sexiest movie ever by Entertainment Weekly. I [...]
Since this thread is almost complete I feel I can sneak in a confession that Kelly McGillis in Witness briefly made me consider the advantages of turning Amish. I am so completely over that by this time.
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