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comment by kleinbl00

I think tits are tits. There's a certain amount of un-cladded-ness that you pretty much need to have in any light sex comedy just to set the tone. Much of the nudity in the '80s was exploitive, no doubt but when you penalize "here are boobs" and don't penalize "here are guns" there will be more guns.

Take Fast Times at Ridgemont High. It's simply a different movie without Judge Reinhold fantasizing about an undressing Phoebe Cates. Is it exploitive? Sure. Is it more exploitive than Leaving Las Vegas? Is it more exploitive than Risky Business? The smart, active, empowered characters in that movie are the prostitutes, full stop. Is anyone going to remake Risky Business? Never. Perish the thought.

There are three Human Centipede films, ten Saw movies and what got an NC-17 in 2000 purely for plot is a billion dollars worth of Jennifer Lawrence vehicles by 2012.

    WTF even passes for a rom-com these days?

This movie is, beat for beat, Romancing the Stone. It's not spectacular? But neither is Romancing the Stone.

For that matter, I would argue that the buddy movies have gotten more inclusive. I'll take this sort of thing over Poison Ivy or Beautiful Creatures any day.