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The 16 Unsexiest Sex Scenes

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By Andy Lowe published 20 November 2008

When flesh-flashing gets ugly…

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The Matrix Reloaded (2003)

The Matrix Reloaded (2003)

Beaver-bashers: Carrie-Ann Moss, Keanu Reeves

Carrie and Keanu enjoy a bout of board-stiff sex-cuddling as an underground cave/rave/orgy scene pounds on and on around them. They veeery slooowly writhe in the flickering candlelight, evoking the raw sexual heat of two dermatologists examining each other for potentially cancerous blemishes.

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Angel Heart (1987)

Angel Heart (1987)

Uglies-bumpers: Lisa Bonet, Mickey Rourke

Together at last: frantic shagging and a splattering torrent of vein-sauce. Pity poor Lisa (just 19 at the time): from Lenny Kravitz to this. And then not much else.

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Page 2 of 16
Body Of Evidence (1993)

Body Of Evidence (1993)

Horizontal joggers: Madonna, Willem Dafoe

Shot in skin-whitening, passion-murdering overhead light. Weaselly Willem keeps his trousers on for an unconvincing full-body ravish of a bored-looking Madge. Then, she spills wax on him.

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Page 3 of 16
Knocked Up (2007)

Knocked Up (2007)

Orificial athletes: Katherine Heigl, Seth Rogen

Beautiful blonde woman pumped up with cocktails graciously receives the stoner seed of pudgy, booze-bloated ginger geek. Drunk sex: just a notch above joyless masturbation – only with the added erotic charge of pregnancy risk.

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Page 4 of 16
Last Tango In Paris (1973)

Last Tango In Paris (1973)

Synchronised squirmers: Marlon Brando, Maria Schneider

In which a self-loathing, grieving man wastes a perfectly good slop of butter to investigate the rear plumbing of a depressingly compliant woman in France. Banal anal.

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Page 5 of 16
Monsters Ball (2001)

Monsters Ball (2001)

Salami-hiders: Halle Berry, Billy Bob Thornton

Okay, so the second ‘tender’ scene is probably worse, but the first couple-up is still criminally over-celebrated. Berry: gorgeous. Billy: inexplicable Jolie ex with a distractingly simian ‘O’ face. Together: total chemistry bypass.

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Page 6 of 16
Showgirls (1995)

Showgirls (1995)

Two-backed beast-makers: Elizabeth Berkley, Kyle MacLachlan

A very, very stupid crotch-clinch, with emo-fringed Kyle tipping chip-oil over Liz’s perky puppies before stifling laughter as she, umm, splashes about LIKE A WILD THING. Well, like a stripper having a seizure…

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Page 7 of 16
The Tall Guy (1989)

The Tall Guy (1989)

Botched boffers: Emma Thompson, Jeff Goldblum

Oh, it’s so English! All elbows and apologies and stepping on the toast and knocking over the vase. But that’s okay because spontaneous sex is like that, right? Maybe - but at least it doesn’t involve Jeff Goldblum. Unless, of course, you’re Jeff Goldblum’s sex partner… Brr.

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Page 8 of 16
Young Adam (2003)

Young Adam (2003)

Muffin-butterers: Emily Mortimer, Ewan McGregor

What movie sex definitely isn’t missing: the spirit of early ‘80s German porn. Emily Mortimer is perfectly lovely without being doused in custard powder, ketchup and random condiments. Bet it smells like a canteen lunch.

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Page 9 of 16
Casino (1996)

Casino (1996)

Jollies-getters: Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci

Evil, helium-voiced dwarf comforts drunken drug-addict harpie-hooker. Then, the dwarf factors in a little pawing... Oh, Christ. They're not... They are! A needy frenzy of dwarf-drooling and whore-panting. Phwooar.

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Page 10 of 16
Kingpin (1996)

Kingpin (1996)

Pipe-cleaners: Lin Shaye, Woody Harrelson

After being rumbled in a rent-dodging scam, Woody’s ten-pin titan is forced to carnally commune with his haggy landlady. The action is off-screen, but the post-coital reveal tells all: him vomming in the en-suite, her basking in the icky afterglow (“What is it about good sex that makes me want to crap?”)

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Page 11 of 16
Brideshead Revisited (2008)

Brideshead Revisited (2008)

Mattress-jivers: Hayley Atwell, Matthew Goode

After the steamy trailers, we all hoped for a down and filthy British Dangerous Liaisons. What we got was an exhaustingly chaste period piece capped by this airless, underlit, above-the-waist fumble. As erotic as a trip to Ann Summers with your nan.

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Page 12 of 16
Swept Away (2002)

Swept Away (2002)

Secretion-swappers: Madonna, Adriano Giannini

Stranded on a desert isle with a beefy boatsman, Madge’s shrill socialite finally succumbs to a half-arsed pseudo-rape. The sniggerworthy sexlessness isn’t helped by the queen of pop looking like a strip of biltong.

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Page 13 of 16
Fargo (1996)

Fargo (1996)

Trench-stormers: Steve Buscemi, Peter Stormare, two hookers

Couple of dead-eyed contract kidnappers. One of them craves pancakes. The other wants to “get laid”. Cut to: a pair of prozzies synchro-bouncing on (probably) semi-tumescent contract-kidnapper cock, clearly contemplating their weekend shopping lists. Pancakes, please.

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Page 14 of 16
Crash (1996)

Crash (1996)

Bones-jumpers: Rosanna Arquette, James Spader

Cronenberg’s Ballard adap is fuelled by freaky sex – that’s the point. But using a weeping leg-wound as a proxy-vagina? Big bowl of wrong.

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Page 15 of 16
Jackie Brown (1997)

Jackie Brown (1997)

The Old In/Outers: Bridget Fonda, Robert De Niro

De Niro rarely does sex well (see the similarly inert insertion with Meryl Streep in Falling In Love) but this one’s barely sex at all. A huff and a puff and we're done – Bobby’s eager emission (and subsequent film career) squirting out over the small of Bridget's back.

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