Hollywood Movies Just Aren't as Sexy as They Used to Be. Blame Superheroes
Time|February 13 - 20, 2023 (Double Issue)
Channing Tatum's stripper Magic Mike pulls on bookcases and beams in the Miami home of a wealthy woman played by Salma Hayek Pinault. Hayek Pinault's character looks confused, but if you've seen a Magic Mike movie, you know Mike is testing whether the furniture will hold up to his swinging and gyrating.
By Eliana Dockterman
Hollywood Movies Just Aren't as Sexy as They Used to Be. Blame Superheroes

Tatum has a particular talent for swiveling and thrusting in dances steamier than most sex scenes. In Magic Mike's Last Dance, out Feb. 10, Tatum and Hayek Pinault's characters do wind up in bed together, but whether they consummate the relationship is almost academic. He has already wrapped her legs around him and buried his face in her breasts before they ever undress, a rare moment of physical intimacy in a modern film with a big marketing push.

Movies aren't sexy anymore-or at least the bigbudget movies that studios dedicate resources to are devoid of lust. Comic-book films have come dominate the box office, and in the words of Steven Soderbergh, the director of Last Dance, "nobody's f-cking" in those movies. It's a sentiment he originally shared after being asked why he wasn't interested in helming a superhero movie himself. "You can imagine the reaction to those comments," he says now. But it's true. The era of Michelle Pfeiffer's Catwoman clawing the clothes off Michael Keaton's Batman are gone. Instead we get Captain America, a character whose confounding virginity, given that he's played by sex symbol Chris Evans, has been hotly debated for more than a decade.

Soderbergh specializes in adult dramas. His movies, like Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Out of Sight, and Ocean's Eleven, often exude sexiness, whether or not the characters act on their passions. "We liked the idea of making a sexy movie where there's essentially no nudity," he says of Last Dance.

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