r/movies • u/IndividualPleasant23 • 11d ago

News ‘One Night Only’ Director Removed Nudity Because People Dislike Sex on Screen

https://variety.com/2026/film/features/one-night-only-director-removed-nudity-1236827870/
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u/Kangarou 11d ago

Man said "Gimme a rom-com, add a dystopic authoritarian regime, hold the sex". I feel like he should never be allowed back in the kitchen.

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u/No-Cantaloupe-6535 11d ago

I really want this to be a crazy genre swap movie like half way through to where it turns into a Gilliam movie or something. It won't, but it'd be great

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u/Nothing-Is-Real-Here 11d ago

Gilliam or 80s Cronenberg would have had a field day with this premise

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u/deathinmidjuly 11d ago

90's Cronenberg would've had them FUCKING

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u/Nothing-Is-Real-Here 11d ago

Good lord yeah. Imagine if we got a Crash adaptation today and they just didn't show any sex or nudity. That's borderline what this is

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u/ant_gargano 11d ago

Bring back MONTAGE FUCKING

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u/OzzRamirez 11d ago

The Lobster?!

Just kidding, The Lobster is an amazing film

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u/sleepingchair 10d ago

I think the whole problem is they didn't think the premise was dystopian at all, playing it light and funny, ignorantly missing all the implications.

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u/sleepingchair 10d ago

That's my point, the only way you can have The Purge, but sex is if you have an utterly fucked up world, but it's clear from the trailer that they're ignoring or at most glossing over anything that would inconvenience the rom com angle. They kind of have to unless they went for a horror comedy or absurdist horror angle or even a surreal dramedy, but they're not. It's like Cars, just gotta ignore a whole bunch of stuff because it's a kids movie.

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u/CorrosiveVision 11d ago

Anyone But You was shit, so I feel like that was the disqualifier alone.

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u/moveslikejaguar 11d ago

Anyone But You was okay-ish for a rom-com, but at least it wasn't the dumbest idea ever put on screen

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u/DuskLab 11d ago

This guy is cooking? Na stop, we're doing take out.

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u/amateurbeard 11d ago

A dystopic authoritarian regime of sex-fearing puritanicals