Sex scenes are an integral part of the Hollywood movie experience, and these titillating scenes are constructed to make audiences aroused and keep them coming back for more.
In fact, audiences are often disappointed when they see a Hollywood movie that doesn't include a sex scene, so filmmakers feel obligated to include sexiness in every movie they make.
Which is why Hollywood filmmakers become students of scopophilia, mastering the craft of visual stimulation.
As you can see in this video by The Film Theorists Hollywood filmmakers have sex appeal down to a science, so it's not our fault sex scenes turn us on, because Hollywood has been perfecting them for over 80 years.
It can be hard to serve as gamemaster and maintain your friendship with the players in your tabletop roleplaying group, because gamers take character death very seriously.
They also get pissed off if you don't award them enough experience points, give them enough magic items, or if you keep rolling really high for enemies.
But, as this Is It Canon comic by Rock Paper Cynic and Big Simple Comics shows, there's one quest which will defeat even the most experienced role players and make your group hate you at the same time- trial by noob.
It's a tale as old as time, girl books a room on Airbnb, finds out her host is a roaring monster, she gets attacked by wolves while trying to escape to a Motel 6 and then her beastly host ends up saving her life. Next thing you know, the two are dancing it up and the host shows the girl his extensive e-library. Ok, maybe that's not the most common story in the world, but it does sum up Beauty and the Beast pretty well, which is what we love about Disney's tales told in emoji series of videos.
Horror movies are often churned out just to make a quick buck for studios at the box office, hence the PG-13 ratings and overabundance of supernatural and slasher-themed flicks.
But if the storyline is good, and the gruesome visuals make you clench your cheeks in fear, then that horror movie is sure to stick with you for a while.
However, if you haven't watched a horror movie in a while yet keep having a spine-tingling feeling something's wrong then take it from Webtoons Bluechair Comic and watch your back...
Quentin Tarantino wasn't asked to direct the Star Wars sequels, and he bluntly stated he had no interest in being involved with anything produced by Disney.
But, as you can see in this video by How It Should Have Ended, a Tarantino-style Star Wars sequel would have been full of that kung fu cool QT is known for, and Uma Thurman as Rey for some reason.
The future as imagined by Gene Roddenberry was ruled by law, at least for the United Federation of Planets’ exploration, diplomacy, and defense entity known as Starfleet. Over the course of the original Star Trek TV series (and subsequent series), we heard references to the Prime Directive, which was an order to “not interfere in the natural cultural and scientific development of a civilization, particularly those that are pre-warp.” That created a fine line to walk for a spaceship crew whose mission was to to explore strange new worlds and to seek out new life and new civilizations. The Enterprise crew violated the Prime Directive almost weekly, but still used the order to moderate their decisions at times.
When Star Trek premiered on television 50 years ago today, many of the young people watching grew up to be lifelong Trek fans. Some became lawyers. Ars Technica consulted some of those lawyers who are well-versed in Star Trek lore to explain and give their opinions on the Prime Directive and how it would work for the earth in 2016. In a nutshell, it wouldn’t. Read the reasons why at Ars Technica.
Sure anyone could dress as Winona Ryder's character in Stranger Things, but if you really want to sell your Joyce Byers cosplay, you need a few accessories and ideally -a haunted, light-covered wall. Now that's doing the character justice. Amanda Meldrum and Roy Holt have the right idea with this cosplay!
The first episode of Star Trek was broadcast on September 8, 1966, making the futuristic universe of the Enterprise 50 years old today. There were 79 episodes of the original series, all featuring some character, entity, group, or concept that provided conflict. Not all of them were what we’d normally call villains, but they are all pictured and ranked at Uproxx. That means 77 "villains," because a couple appeared in more than one episode. Which is your favorite: Elaan of Troyius, Nomad, Harvey Mudd, Khan, Balok, the Doomsday Machine, or some other villain? Yeah, it’s the Tribbles. Gotta be the Tribbles.
Illustrators get used to receiving requests for drawings, especially as they develop their skills around friends and family members who feel requests are the best way to encourage a budding artist.
But those encouraging folks don't ask the artist to draw sick and twisted scenes featuring pop culture characters in sexual and/or gratuitously violent situations, at least not in public.
However, any artist who has worked the fan con circuit, sold their artwork online or taken commissions knows there are sick people out there looking for an artist to draw the stuff of nightmares.
Tom Fowler, artist/writer for Rick and Morty, was asked to draw a gross scene featuring Sauron, the Pterodactyl man from the Savage Lands, hypnotizing a teenage Storm into becoming his sex slave, akin to this panel:
Tom drew up a much tamer version for that weirdo, stating "I'd robbed this creep of his boner, and that's the real satisfaction that a cartoonist should feel".
Believe it or not the requests aren't always sexual- Tristan Jones, artist from ALIENS: Defiance, one got this request:
There was this guy that asked me to draw him, which is usually an immediate no from me on the spot at conventions, but as Jack Skellington (whatever that meant, I assumed it meant drawing Jack slightly heavier set and with this dude's hair) as a Ghostbuster, busting the ghost of his mother (who he had a photo of) from Jack's reindeer sleigh.
But then he talks about a different request which was racy to say the least...why, perverts, WHY?
People often see Keurig coffee machines as a good purchase while at the store only to find the overpriced and underwhelming Keurig isn't as useful as a standard coffee machine.
So what's a jittery MacGyver to do when they discover their Keurig machine is a disappointment?
Take that Keurig apart and turn it into something far more useful, like a bionic hand.
Being part of a Disney couple looks like a whole new world of awesome, but we only get to see a small and triumphantly joyous part of their lives in the movies.
But things get real after the movie magic wears off and the main characters settle into their lives together, discovering they were caught up in the moment and may have made a horrible mistake.
Very few Disney couples seem like they're cut out for a long-term relationship if you really think about it, because they rarely have anything in common, culturally or otherwise.
But maybe they make it all work out because happily ever after? *shrug*
Paul Westover illustrated these childhood ruining moments that take place approximately six months to a year after the movie, moments that may be the perfect setup for a dramatic sequel.
The sequel Terminator 2: Judgement Day is a fan favorite that tends to outshine the original movie, and even though T2 came out 25 years ago it's still really fun to watch.
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of T2 Arnie's son Joseph Baena starred in a video made by his friend Ben Hess which recreates an iconic scene from the film- the "Bad To The Bone" scene.
Pokémon creator Satoshi Tajiri says the series was inspired by his childhood hobby of insect collecting, and since the series needed hundreds of character designs Pokémon inevitably included animals too.
But Satoshi probably didn't spent nearly as much time thinking about the inner workings of Pokémon as illustrator Christopher Stoll, who is now sharing his anatomical findings with the world.
Christopher's series PokéNatomy reveals not only the stuff that lies beneath the skin of each Pokémon species but also includes information on their diets, mating habits, social structure and more.
If you couldn't tell by how often we post their projects, we love Instructables here at Neatorama, so when we saw they had a whole contest dedicated to geek projects, we pretty much had an office party. While the Heroes and Villains contest may be in the judging stage and closed to new entries, you certainly won't want to miss this incredible collection of projects related to comic books, sci-fi, fantasy and more. I'm pretty impressed by the Dobby doll and, while it's not in the finalists, I love this Gremlin costume. Of course, your personal preferences will no doubt be affected by your own favorite heroes and villains.
Batman: The Animated Series isn't the greatest adaptation of the Batman comics because it's faithful to the source material or because the storylines were so compelling- it's the greatest because it made us feel stuff.
We laughed, cheered and cringed, and as you'll see in this video from Dorkly it also made us sad for poor lovesick Harley, showed us what an existential crisis feels like, and taught us vengeance leaves one feeling cold and hollow inside.
