Clearing the Browser Tabs – Lesbian Swan Sunday Edition

| January 2, 2011 | Comments (0)

For reasons I can’t quite comprehend, the movie The Black Swan is the talk of the theaters. I don’t understand why an artsy film about a neurotic, borderline-anorexic ballet dancer should cause such a stir, even if it does include Natalie Portman naked and in a lesbian love scene. Then again, I only watch two or three movies a year in the theater, so perhaps I’m not the best judge of what is buzz-worthy and what is not.

Matt Patterson, at Big Hollywood, wasn’t a big fan of the movie either and his description of the prurient sapphic grappling isn’t going to send you rushing to the box office, waving your ten spot in the air like you were a stock trader in an old-time movie. Stacy McCain took a shot at analyzing the lesbian love-scene, and ended up wandering through a brief history of pornography in the United States and the influence it’s had on male sexuality over the decades. His surprisingly clean post is quite entertaining and inspired DaTechGuy to call it “The Ultimate in Counter-Programming” (via Ed Driscoll).

My take is far more simple. There’s going to have to be a lot more in a ballet movie than a stick-thin Natalie Portman in a lesbian love-scene to get me to shell out for a night at the movies. I’d rather watch Tron: Legacy a second time. At least there were some legitimately sexy women, with curves, in that one.

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