Netflix Picks: Maybe Don’t Have Sex With That Person

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Do you ever get the urge to talk at movies? It can't be helped sometimes: you'll be sitting there, watching a dangerous sexpot cozy up to the protagonist, and you'll suddenly say, "No, hero! Don't put your genitals next to theirs!" Meanwhile, your heart is yelling at your brain, "Shut up! They're gonna do it and shit is gonna go down!" We're with your heart on this one, and so is today's double feature.

1. Fatal Attraction: A classic film right here. Michael Douglas's family is out of town for the weekend, so he decides to have a passionate fling with a woman he met through work, Glenn Close, and naturally, she becomes obsessed with him, threatens his family, does terrible things to all of them, etc. The sex that goes down between 18:00 and 30:00 is steamy: Glenn beckons Michael to her breast so he can gnaw on her nipple, he rips up her dress as they ride the elevator together, and even when the fun is over, Glenn looks gorgeous in bed as Michael pulls his clothes on. A lot of people--smart people who know about brains 'n stuff--like to debate what kind of psychological issues Glenn Close's character is dealing with in this film and how she would be categorized under the DSM-IV, but we like to debate whether or not Michael thinks the sex was worth the strife. The obvious answer is no, but we could argue that the taste of Glenn's breasts makes up for the whole "attack your family with a knife" thing. The bunny scene, however, cannot be made up for.

2. Lust, Caution: In "Fatal Attraction," there's no way Michael Douglas's character could've known how absolutely crazy Glenn Close's character would go post-coitus, but Wei Tang's character in "Lust, Caution" knows from the get-go that she's sleeping with her ultimate enemy, and so the whole movie allows you to sit there and mumble, "Girl, get your mind right." The story is about a group of militant activist students in China who try to assassinate a high-ranking special agent of the puppet government set up by the Japanese by baiting him with a beautiful young woman. He's a brutal man, and our lady protagonist despises him, but she seduces him for the mission and thus begins some of the hottest sex ever captured on film. As we've mentioned in the past, director Ang Lee had his actors work through about one-hundred hours of sex in order to get the few perfect minutes he wanted; this effort shows, and you can see it (and yell at it) at 1:02:00, 1:33:00, 1:40:20, and 1:53:00.

[At top: every second of nudity is made of gold in "Lust, Caution" (movies.netflix.com)]