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sex, lies, and videotape
1989 · Film · 101 min
Directed by Steven Soderbergh
Ann, a frustrated wife, enters into counseling due to a troubled marriage. Unbeknownst to her, her husband John has begun an affair with her sister. When John’s best friend Graham arrives, his penchant for interviewing women about their sex lives forever changes John and Ann’s rocky marriage.
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Interesting title. It is wordplay on the old movie title "Sex, Lies, and Videotape", where 'videotape' gets changed to the topic under discussion.
Of those three, " videotape " is the only one that is obsolete, while the others are timeless. While the original phrase goes increasingly obscure, the wordplay remains fresh because the obsolete part is invisible.
I think it's a play of word on the famous "Sex, Lies and Videotape" movie:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098724/
Well... speaking about Soderbergh: Solaris was an insult against Tarkovskiy's Solaryis (and Lem?). Sex, Lies, and Videotape was very good and I remember my parents good comments about that movie. In my opinion Kafka (1991) was an excellent movie (9 in my ranking). Erin Brockovich? mmmmmm.... 5. So, in my opinion Soderbergh is prolific but abandoned his art. I would prefer a Soderbergh oscillating between very good and very bad movies but not decaying. I think Woody Allen is a better example.
The topic is very interesting but I believe it is more related to personalities. Some people are more compatible to a prolific personality and some not. Others never release, and only in this case is where the sin appears.
That's just asinine. Once someone has decided not to go to the theater, the appropriate price comparison isn't tickets + refreshments + babysitter + parking + whatever else people pay for to leave home. For one, nobody spends more than $30 just to see a movie with their spouse. They might spend $30 on a babysitter, $10 on popcorn and refreshments and an extra $15 on the tickets, which seems like an easy win for a $30 rental. However, the key difference is that $30 rental isn't going to watch your kids so you can watch Sex, Lies and Videotape in peace. That rental isn't going to coat itself in salt and butter so you can snack on it while you watch. That rental is really just money you give to sit on your own damn couch (which you paid for earlier), to eat your own damn popcorn (which you paid for earlier) and to worry that your kids will wake up and watch your adult movie (which you'll pay for later in therapy). The comparison doesn't make any sense because the rental gives none of the value they're wrapping up in the "movie night out" experience.