Movie Sex Scenes, Take Two

Movie remakes are usually iffy propositions. If you're trying to update a beloved cinema classic, no matter how good the end result, it's going to be tough to top the fans' memories of the original. There's one area, however, where the remake almost always has a clear advantage and that's when it comes to re-imagining the onscreen boinking.

They may not make movies like they used to, but they can certainly get away with a lot more explicit action these days. For example, you (or more likely, your parents) may love to break out the hankies for 1955's "The End of the Affair," but the Hayes' Code-hampered Deborah Kerr and Van Johnson could never have matched the wall-crumbling fuck session that Julianne Moore and Ralph Fiennes engaged in the 1999 version. (Oh, wait those are falling German bombs.) Even porn movies get wilder with the passage of time (see "Devil in Miss Jones" or the 5,000 "Debbie Does Something" reiterations), but Nerve decided to look at the mainstream films that got a second life and compare how their bedroom antics changed. Of course, the newer versions don't always win for hotness, but there still must be one or two sexual situations in your own life where you wish you could have had a re-shoot. Or at least a stunt double?

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Previously: The Mightiest Movie Mammaries, The 50 Greatest Sex Scenes In Cinema, More Or Less