Comments on: sex doesn’t sell (the blockbuster remix)

By: DrCastellanos

DrCastellanos — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 17:54:43 +0000

I don’t agree that sex doesn’t sell. Nudity and sex are things that naturally attract us and advertisers for centuries have banked on this. The issue with movies, especially recently, is that there has to be appeal for the general market, of which a large percentage is children and adolescents. Obviously, sex and nudity would be a negative for selling to this market. But if you look at advertisements, and also do a little self-examination about where your attention is drawn to with ads and images, I think you will find that sex does sell. It’s natural.
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By: Erika

Erika — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 03:59:05 +0000

My immediate first question was: What does sell movies, then? If you look at the movies that they mention in the article as being top-grossing, what they all have in common is lots of action scenes or violence. I think that Mark, above, is probably right, it’s easy to find sex on the internet. What still looks good in a movie theater though is epic action (car chases, good CGI, big battle scenes, etc.). The internet can’t quite manage that, yet.

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 00:19:07 +0000

Not a surprising finding, actually, since we now can obtain all the prurient jollies we like via the ‘net. The general public no longer has to go to the movie theatres to be titillated, thus movies need more than skin to attract our hard-earned popcorn dollars. What I think this study tells us is that the generally uptight general public is finding more visual stimulation online than many uptight folk would care to admit.

By: Elf Sternberg

Elf Sternberg — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 23:11:23 +0000

He appears to be not only naked, but tied down Oh, my, I think I’ve got the vapors.