A Few Words About A few words about...™ Shame -- in Blu-ray (1 Viewer)

Let me get this out there before someone grabs a copy of http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006OB3K56/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=afewwordsabout-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B006OB3K56http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=htfamazonstore-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B006OB3K56

Let me get this out there before someone grabs a copy of Shame at the local Costco because they like the lead actors, and then pop it into their Blu-ray player with the wrong people around.

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- Walter.

Robert, have you seen McQueen's first film HUNGER yet? It's a brilliant film, and the Criterion Blu-ray is really great.
Vincent

Originally Posted by Vincent_P /t/320267/a-few-words-about-shame-in-blu-ray#post_3919569
Robert, have you seen McQueen's first film HUNGER yet? It's a brilliant film, and the Criterion Blu-ray is really great.
Vincent

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I have not. Wasn't interested in viewing it at the time. Simply one I avoided, even knowing there was quality.

RAH

Hopefully you'll change your mind and check it out now that you've seen SHAME. HUNGER is undoubtedly a painful film like SHAME, and also like SHAME, a very fulfilling viewing experience for adventurous and thoughtful filmgoers. Steve McQueen is the greatest new "artist" working in film today IMO.
Vincent

Never seen it , but as Michael Fassbender was great in A Dangerous Method as Carl Jung just added this to my amazon cart

No pun intended, but this just didn't "do it" for me. I wasn't bothered by the sex, and liked the ending (on the subway), but just didn't really enjoy seeing two people that screwed up.

Managed to see this last weekend... probably one of the most accurate and moving portrayls of sexual addiction ever filmed. Felt it a bit of a double standard however. Take out the male nudity... I dont believe we see an NC-17.

Anthony_H said:

Managed to see this last weekend... probably one of the most accurate and moving portrayls of sexual addiction ever filmed. Felt it a bit of a double standard however. Take out the male nudity... I dont believe we see an NC-17.

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i would think the only double standard is the one in your rating system.

My theory is that it got the NC-17 for one sequence in particular...
And, IF that's the case, I'm glad that nothing was taken out of it. It's a shockingly powerful sequence.

Felt it a bit of a double standard however. Take out the male nudity... I dont believe we see an NC-17.

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The thing is that is seems like the MPAA treats male nudity harsher than female nudity. I think part of the rationale is that when you see full frontal female nudity in movies, most of the time, you're still not seeing actual genitalia. with Male nudity, there's no real way to hide the genitalia (unless, of course, you're Jame Gumb).
I know there are films out there that feature frontal male nudity and get a R, but usually in those cases it's more comedic (Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Observe and Report, Eurotrip) and does not take place within a sex scene.

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(unless, of course, you're Jame Gumb).

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I hope I'm not the only person who got a laugh out of that.