Nothing against the chapo hosts but this is one of the culture takes they make that you have to take with a grain of salt, male-gazey box-checking badly shot sex scenes and their accompanying shoehorned hetero relationship plots were not crucial to good movies, they were mostly just weird. They also weren’t a part of movies, many many excellent movies, for a long time before they became ubiquitous during the ‘especially creepy rapist producer’ Hollywood era. Not that they aren’t necessary and great in lots of films, just not most that they were a thing in. We also don’t need a return to the stock scene where prepubescent boys peeped on undressing teen girls, as much as Will Menaker may like that, as an example. More realistic attitudes towards sexuality in movies doesn’t mean more sex or nudity, my favorite sex in movies is of the embarassing and uncomfortable sort, or sexual repression and feeling being represented by a lack of sex or even masturbation (sadly underexamined in cinema).

Now, squibs and practical effects in general? Absolute must, parrot the podcast by all means on that

Please support me in my efforts to not have to see awkwardly shot and drawn out scenes of heterosexuals fucking every time I want to watch a tv show or movie.