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Easy Mac
12-17-2005, 08:02 PM
This will probably be a NSFW conversation, so I'm putting this disclaimer in the title.

Anyway, I was having a conversation with my fiancee and I spouted off some random sports fact. Forgot what it was, but I also corrolaried a randomed 80's movie. She asked how I know this shit, and I just said "because I'm a guy, we know this stuff. We remember everything about sports, bad movies, and any movie where there's a naked girl."

Obviously intrigued, she questioned me on the last bit, the "naked girl" part. She asked what we know and why. I couldn't really the answer the latter, but I could probably spout off the majority of the useful nude scenes for various actresses. So she started quizzing me. Since we had recently discussed Brokeback Mountain (which the thread reminded me of this conversation), the conversation started with Michelle Williams (If these walls could talk 2) and Anne Hathaway (Havoc). She then did the standard Julia Roberts (partially in Pretty Woman), Jennifer Anniston (The Good Girl) and I threw in a Katie Holmes for good measure.

I'm not really sure what the point of all this was, but she was generally amazed I knew all of this (quite possibly even disturbed). But I told her this was common knowledge, if she asked my brother-in-laws, they could do the exact same thing. I guess my question here is, am I alone in this skill, or is this something that all guys just inherently know, like dogs who can smell people under rubble or something? I don't know why I know this stuff, I don't really seek it out, it's just one of those things... even the guys on Cinecast made an off-hand reference in their podcast to Caroline Keener being naked in some random movie, not even related to the movie they were talking about... we just know certain things. Is it just the guy version of women's intuition?

Not sure if this is too risque to discuss here. Obviously will delete if its too out there (and no, this isn't meant as a thread where we're requesting movies for naked ladies)

Warhammer
12-17-2005, 08:12 PM
I used to, but I never get to see any nipplage in movies any more since I am married with children. Another trait I used to have was the ability to name playmates. Not that I ever looked at the mags, but I used to be able to go through whole lists of playmates...

Buccaneer
12-17-2005, 08:18 PM
Which is why I made a point earlier (in the movie critics thread) about gratuitous and how it adds nothing to a movie except titillation. Maybe it does come down to getting more guys to watch dramas and certain comedies. Moviemakers seem to think we are without imaginations.

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I think this was also in reference to Brokeback in wondering WHY they have to show what they do? Can it be implied and therefore more of a less controversal (but just as dramatic) movie?
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