Movies to play to seduce a date.

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Inspired by the current "discussion" on this thread.

I was saying to a friend of mine that like every guy I've ever had sex with almost has like, on first time coming up to my apartment, gone through my DVD collection and put on a movie. Why is this? Is it to pretend that you didn't come up to have sex, you came up to watch tv and, whoa, sex! I mean that's not very sensible and it's transparent. Or are these movies really meant to be background to sex? Because I once had a boy put on American Psycho which seems to be a v. clearly frightening message to give out! So, do you do this? And if so what movie would you put on? Obv. you are going to watch almost none of the movie as you will stop watching within 20 minutes of putting it on to resume making out and having sex.

(NB: the most common choice in my collection seems to be The Matrix??? I'm not sure why)

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 16:53 (twenty-two years ago)

(And my friend, after informing me he's never actually done this, told me he'd put on Schindler's List)

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 16:54 (twenty-two years ago)

My friends copy of Stalker has 'perfect first date movie' written on it. It isn't though; no no isn't no.

― David. (Cozen), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 16:56 (twenty-two years ago)

The almost up there is in the wrong place, it should read "almost every guy I've had sex with" not "every guy I've almost had sex with", because that's a completly different category, I reckon they watch Winnie the Pooh.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 16:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I had an ex-g.f. put on Breakfast at Tiffany's once, and she tried to, uh, touch me in my bathing suit area. I put a stop to that, and told her that the movie isn't really any good anyhow, since the George Peppard character is actually gay.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 16:57 (twenty-two years ago)

If someone came over and picked a movie to play and then partway through decided he was gonna try to have sex with me I'd be all like "What?! I thought you wanted to watch this!"

I am a really frustrating date (or boyfriend), I guess.

― Chris P (Chris P), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 16:57 (twenty-two years ago)

(As an aside:
I know what you want, and I know what you need
But I'm goin' screw it up, yeah
Cause I'm an idiot, and I'm your boyfriend, yes I am
I'm goin' take you out, and leave my wallet home
Then I use your cell phone, baby
Long distance, and I'm your boyfriend
Baby I know I'm a man who's made mistakes
I still got some learning to do
I made out with your best friend the other day, and
Now we're best friends too
Yeah Yeah
And I know what you want, and I know what you need
But I'm goin' screw it up, yeah
Cause I'm an idiot, and I'm your boyfriend, yes I am
And I'm goin' get you a gift, Hey! But its something I like too
Hope you like this Norelco beard trimmer with my name on it,
And I'm your boyfriend
Goin' Get real drunk,
And call my baby up at four o'clock in the morning
Wake you up
I'm an idiot!
Pick up the phone, come on
I love you
Lets get in my dad's SUV,
And we'll go over to my house, my crib, my pad
I'll tell my mom to go to sleep
Then we'll have the living room all to ourselves, you see
We'll put on some great DVD's I picked up
How bout like, something like the Matrix

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
)

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 16:59 (twenty-two years ago)

You record your conversations?

― David. (Cozen), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 17:00 (twenty-two years ago)

My video collection is very limited. It'd have to be Dogma or Transformers the Movie or Metallica: Cunning Stunts. But, then you know I'd just figure we were going to watch a movie. I'd probably, get bored with watching TV, and start putting songs on, and not letting them finish. This post is deeply psychological, ha.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 17:00 (twenty-two years ago)

David that's a real song!!

Transformers the Movie is a good choice, jel.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 17:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Except that the problem is that Transformers the Movie is inherently watchable, like the movie in question has to be good but not so good that you wouldn't be able to be distracted for making sex.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 17:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd pick "Transformers". Afterwards, I would obviously do you. But you probably wouldn't get a second date.

― Chris P (Chris P), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 17:04 (twenty-two years ago)

To answer the question honestly, um, I don't think I would ever try seduce anyone really. But if I did, I figure seduction is all about manipulation of the person's feelings so they feel a bit / lot more conducive towards having sex and stuff. Last film I watched that actually physiologically made the girl (she was my girlfriend at the time) and me want to have sex was Secretary. I imagine something like All the Real Girls would put someone more in the state of mind to fall in love (see my thread on it & bnw's comment).

― David. (Cozen), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 17:06 (twenty-two years ago)

WTF? Girls all the time come over to my house and go through my DVDs and choose something really romantic-like such as Amelie or Moulin Rouge and then we sit there and actually watch it all the way through...no funny stuff. I reiterate: WTF?

Oh, and Transformers: The Movie would work cuz then you could be making love and singing "DARE! DARE TO BELIEVE YOU CAN SURVIVE! THE POWER IS ALL IN YOUR COMMAAAAAAND!" at the same time!

Oh wait, I think I remember now why most girls won't have sex with me.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 17:07 (twenty-two years ago)

You don't want to have sex with girls who watch bullshit movies like that, trust me.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 17:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Groundhog Day

bad choice: _Leaving Las Vegas_

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 17:10 (twenty-two years ago)

http://photos.friendster.com/photos/41/27/357214/632519122068l.jpg

― David. (Cozen), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 17:10 (twenty-two years ago)

God that movie is such infuriating bullshit, jesus christ.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 17:11 (twenty-two years ago)

The favorite film-to-sex maneuver with me was when a girl I'd just started seeing brought a copy of Debbie Does Dallas '99(?), which was followed by Bringing Out the Dead. Somewhere around the twenty minute mark of the latter the fun started.

That relationship lasted several months, then we drifted apart and she drifted into porn acting. Ah well. =/

― ham on rye (ham on rye), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 17:13 (twenty-two years ago)

On the Right Track

― Nicolars (Nicole), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 17:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I find booze usually works better than a movie anyhow.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 17:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Pootie Tang

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 17:15 (twenty-two years ago)

You can't do better than Wong-Kar Wai films of course. Esp. the final shots of Fallen Angels and Chungking Express.

― ham on rye (ham on rye), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 17:15 (twenty-two years ago)

"Crash" by David Cronenberg would be a novel choice.

― Layna Andersen (Layna Andersen), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 17:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Horace, it's so easy to turn Transformers: The Movie into a drinking game...

― Chris P (Chris P), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 17:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I was once seduced during a documentary on Roy Cohn.

― Annouschka Magnatech (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 17:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Pootie Tang works well because you only really need to see the first 25 minutes of that film anyway, in all actuality. It's all downhill after the "Make 'Em Say Uhhhh" scene.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 17:18 (twenty-two years ago)

??? this a weird thing to do even if you're NOT there to have sex

(the correct answer is clash of the titans tho)

― jones (actual), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 17:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually, I've found Pootie Tang to be Booty-Repellant, which makes me sad.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 17:19 (twenty-two years ago)

(And my friend, after informing me he's never actually done this, told me he'd put on Schindler's List)

Seeing pain and pogroms never did inspire lust in me. But, hey, whatever....

To really seduce a date? Hmm, Velvet Goldmine works: sex sprinkled everywhere, and if things get slow, you can both trip on the pretty colours....

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 17:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha maybe you need to be horny to begin with for Pootie Tang to work.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 17:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe it's just the fact that we've watched about 15 times and she always leaves the room when it comes on.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 17:22 (twenty-two years ago)

"...i'm talkin' 'bout GROWN. ASS. WIMMEN."

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 17:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, I can see that too.

(FYI all of these movies got turned off when getting busy, who on earth actually wants to stop and watch any part of a movie while having sex??)

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 17:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Horace, you can't seduce her, can you? Object: keeping her body in the room....

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 17:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Movies that would make me immediately throw out a date:
Amelie
Velvet Goldmine

I'm still not sure why American Psycho didn't provoke this response.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 17:25 (twenty-two years ago)

FYI all of these movies got turned off when getting busy, who on earth actually wants to stop and watch any part of a movie while having sex??)

If he's any good, you won't care about the explosions onscreen. Call it background noise....

I'm still not sure why American Psycho didn't provoke this response.

Bloodlust=lust, maybe?

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 17:26 (twenty-two years ago)

to sidetrack a little bit, any genres better suited than others?

while comedy can be endearing, it is rarely sexy in a very immediate way
romantic movies set expectations too high (who wants to do it standing up, leaning against a pizza oven, while changing the oil filter on a '68 Buick?)
action movies, violence negates sexiness
historical epics, long boring speeches that allow the mind to wander

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 17:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Desperado!

― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 17:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Say Anything
Jules and Jim
How High

― bnw (bnw), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 17:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I hate romantic movies by and large to begin with, so those are right out.

Background noise=massive dud for me.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 17:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Say Anything is my romantic movie exception :)

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 17:30 (twenty-two years ago)

American Psycho was fun for the first 45 minuts, that's why. when the movie goes south, you're distracted by that point.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 17:30 (twenty-two years ago)

So what if they come in and go straight for you p0rn stash?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 17:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I've admitted this:
I got mad laid to "sammy
and rosie get laid"

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 17:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't own any porn, so it's a nonissue in my house! That'd be a huge turn off though.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 17:31 (twenty-two years ago)

American Psycho was fun for the first 45 minuts, that's why. when the movie goes south, you're distracted by that point.

And why were you not paying attention to her for 45 minutes?

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 17:33 (twenty-two years ago)

becuase Jude Law Must Die, that's why.

"ooooo, Bone White..."

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 17:33 (twenty-two years ago)

oh and in high school
a girl started kissing me
during "flash gordon"

and she was two years
older! Me: "master of the
universe" indeed!

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 17:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't own any porn, so it's a nonissue in my house! That'd be a huge turn off though.

Amen! Who wants to see Debbie jiggling on a 30 inch screen?

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 17:34 (twenty-two years ago)

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sorry did i say "porn kung fu" ?? i wish i had meant that.

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:49 (twenty-one years ago)

For some reason "porn kung fu" sounds more appealing than "kung fu porn".

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Naked Lunch (didn't work on me)

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Shit it's killing me that I can't remember the name of this store. I think it must have been on 9th because 9th Avenue was cooler. There wa a porn store in front, which was connected, but to go to the non-porn part you walked off the avenue and around to the street side, like ten feet from the northwest corner. there was a pink awning, and then there were stairs... leading down....

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Super Mario Brothers

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Best date movie: Y Tu Mama Tambien. If you don't get some action after this movie, there is no hope and you should forget it.

Worst: Rosemary's Baby.

― shookout (shookout), Friday, 17 September 2004 19:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Hannibal does not work.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Friday, 17 September 2004 19:14 (twenty-one years ago)

my dad took his mom to see Psycho. No joke.

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Friday, 17 September 2004 19:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Also avoid Neil LaBute movies.

― Tonight at ten (kenan), Friday, 17 September 2004 19:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Your dad was trying to seduce his mom???????

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Friday, 17 September 2004 19:31 (twenty-one years ago)

was it a seduction attempt?

xpost!

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 17 September 2004 19:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Well no, but you can see how it would be uncomfortable. On top of you know, the killing and stabbing and the killing and the stabbing. Haha this is the same woman who actually rates the movies she sees by how few curse words they have in them.

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Friday, 17 September 2004 19:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I once (when I was like, 18) watched "Threesome" with some dude and ended up getting it on with him later that night. What a LAME THING TO DO.

― Towelette Pettatucci (Homosexual II), Friday, 17 September 2004 19:56 (twenty-one years ago)

how about

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me - Classic or Dud [spoilers]

― amateur!!st, Friday, 17 September 2004 19:58 (twenty-one years ago)

oh also i have still not seen the matrix

― amateur!!st, Friday, 17 September 2004 19:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Then you could have Matrix-sex.

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/lists/titler.html

― Tonight at ten (kenan), Friday, 17 September 2004 20:01 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

This was the thread with the splosh reference on it! Wow.

― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 12:51 (nineteen years ago)

This thread is embarassing. The only thing I like about Amelie anymore is that part where she imagines all the people in the city fucking at the same time or whatever.

And Battle Royale is a very romantic movie.

― a naked Kraken annoying Times Square tourists with an acoustic guitar (nickalici, Tuesday, 12 September 2006 13:02 (nineteen years ago)

I still like "Amelie" just fine 3 years later.

Oh, and "Play Misty for Me" is my pick.

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

Stone monkey took a girl to see the accused! WTF!

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

I'm ashamed to say I was once seduced while watching Raising Cain.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

Betty Blue?

The twenty minute rule applies.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

Fletch or Fletch Lives - works every time!

― JohnFoxxsJuno (JohnFoxxsJuno), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

Dudes is there any way I can take back that American Psycho thing? I still can't believe that.

― Allyzay is cool: with Blue n White, with Eli Manning, with NY Giants (allyzay), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

I'm kind of really disturbed someone else said "Chuck and Buck." Man that was a bad choice.

― Eppy (Eppy), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

you want something magnanimous and cosmic to make any actions seem inconsequential - should also be funny and lusty to get the juices flowing. underground comes to mind - especially if you close the deal during the opening bombs, music, booze and sex scene.

ultimate so no gonna happen movie - kids!

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

if you're trying to avoid sex, "chuck and buck" will surely do the trick.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

As will 'Withnail and I'.

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

Chasing Amy; just last night.
I don't know how I got away with this.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

Boxing Helena cwould be a good choice!

Seriously though, The Pillow Book wi yer man Ewan McGregor.

― JohnFoxxsJuno (JohnFoxxsJuno), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

A Bout de Souffle.

The bedroom scene should provide enough time to get the hormones slowly a-bubblin'...

― JTS (JTS), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

I was totally seduced by 'you've got mail'

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

i could have sworn that i posted on this thread a couple of years ago. but anyway, blue velvet.

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B0002MFG3W.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

Porky's

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

The answer really depends on the date.

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

SCI-FI & SODOMY

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

Gotta be Full Metal Jacket. It'll impress the pants right off her. (or him)

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

wtf

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

I miss Helena Bonham Carter, my favorite celebrity ilxor.

― a naked Kraken annoying Times Square tourists with an acoustic guitar (nickalici, Tuesday, 12 September 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

I'm certain I will regret this the moment I click submit, but...

LISTED IN ORDER OF HIGHEST TO LOWEST BASE ACHIEVED DURING:

Harold & Maude (possible conception)
Bubbleboy (handjob)
The Adventures of Buckaroo Bonzai Across the 8th Dimensions (feel copped)
Office Space (vigorous makeout)
scratchy VHS Tape of Tom Waits Live Austin City Limits 1978 (makeout)
2001: A Space Odyssey (passed out by the 5 minute mark)

― a naked Kraken annoying Times Square tourists with an acoustic guitar (nickalici, Tuesday, 12 September 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

Why would you even keep track of this?!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

haha, yeah, I've got a running spreadsheet

― a naked Kraken annoying Times Square tourists with an acoustic guitar (nickalici, Tuesday, 12 September 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

How could you have torn yourself away from Bubbleboy that long??????

― Allyzay is cool: with Blue n White, with Eli Manning, with NY Giants (allyzay), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

Bubbleboy is kind of one of the best movies ever, isn't it?

― a naked Kraken annoying Times Square tourists with an acoustic guitar (nickalici, Tuesday, 12 September 2006 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

The scene where he thinks he died is pretty inexplicable.

― Allyzay is cool: with Blue n White, with Eli Manning, with NY Giants (allyzay), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.philipglass.com/images/films/koyaanisqatsi_f.jpg

― Really cool, wickedly cool, cooly cool bon apetit! (ex machina), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

i have seen the matrix, finally.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

Stone monkey took a girl to see the accused! WTF!

I have been roffling a this all day.

― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

(And my friend, after informing me he's never actually done this, told me he'd put on Schindler's List)

Right now, on Paramount, I'm watching the Seinfeld where Jerry is caught by Newman making out in the cinema to Schindler's List.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

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