10 Movie Franchises Ruined By One Dumb Decision

1. The Lack Of Male Nudity - Fifty Shades

The Fifty Shades franchise, both in novel and movie form, caters primarily to the under-served demographic of heterosexual middle-aged women, and so it follows that the films would, by duty, feature their fair share of full-frontal male nudity courtesy of hunky protagonist Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan).

And so, despite the trilogy's R-rating and an audience thirsty to see Dornan bare it all, the Fifty Shades movies took a curiously demure approach to sexuality and nudity, with Dornan not once stripping off entirely for the audience.

What makes this especially frustrating is the sheer number of times the female protagonist, Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson), bares her chest and behind, confirming that the films are indeed shot with a male gaze above all else - even with the first being directed by a woman.

Moreover, these films conform to the bizarre double standard that female nudity is acceptable and sexy while male nudity is somehow transgressive, obscene or even comical.

If the goal of these movies was to capture the smuttiness of the (admittedly badly-written) novels, then by having Dornan reveal nothing more than the bare butt you could see in any generic softcore skin flick, they categorically failed.

Fifty Shades could've, in spite of its silly melodrama, actually been a positive step forward for normalising male nudity in Hollywood movies and given both male and female, gay and straight audiences plenty to gawk at.

But instead it took an embarrassingly conservative, weirdly shy approach to its tasteful, dispassionate sex scenes.