10 Perfect Movies With One Glaring Flaw
6. A Sex Scene That Misses The Point - Watchmen (2009)
Watchmen had no right to work as well as it did, but Zack Snyder did it justice with impressive visuals, scope and thematic depth.
Unfortunately, it has one glaring issue that's difficult to unsee. We're talking, of course, about the bizarre, slow-motion sex scene between heroes Nite Owl (Patrick Wilson) and Silk Spectre (Malin Ackerman), which aside from being impressively awkward also completely misses the point of their relationship in that moment.
Presenting the moment as the characters hooking up simply because the world is crumbling around them, it fails to grasp the importance of their connection. In the comics, their intimacy is supposed to symbolise them reclaiming their outlawed hero identities, but in the film, it's little more than sex for sex's sake.
And, listen, we're not getting into the "should movies have sex scenes?" debate here (they should)! It's just that this time, the metaphor was lost in the visuals, despite the rest of the film translating Alan Moore's source material surprisingly well.