Actually, sex doesn't sell
By: Patrick Vu | Category: Film Commentary | 03/21/05 | 10:38 AM
LAS VEGAS, Nevada (Hollywood Reporter) -- You can laugh about it. Fantasize about it. Be punished or killed for it. But what you can't do is take sex seriously at the movies.
Look at the numbers on sexy movies. The list of boxoffice casualties is long. Both versions of "Lolita" died at the boxoffice, along with "Striptease," "Showgirls," "Henry and June," "Crash," "The Brown Bunny," "The People vs. Larry Flynt," "Crimes of Passion," "Wonderland" "and "Original Sin."
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