It's not that showing off the female form is bad, and it's not that every movie nowadays jumps on the let's-make-a-deal-and-get-the-actress-naked train, but sometimes don't you want to watch a film for the sake of the story as opposed to being distracted, perhaps subconsciously, by the fact that the lead actress is half naked here, half naked there? (Men don't answer this). There seems to be current costuming formulas in Hollywood at the moment. They're not new formulas, but the results are getting tiring and drab, trite and cliche. Some well-known formulas may include:
tight tank top at some point + short shorts or skirt = Jennifer Aniston
overblown cleavage + beaucoup de lipstick = Scarlett Johansonn
tight pants + exposed midriff at some point in film = any Transformers actress
socks + underwear + open mens shirt = Cameron Diaz
To give these actresses the doubt, let us acknowledge that they have fabulous bodies to show off and can hopefully laugh all the way to the bank when their agents negotiate more money for them as they show off their beauty, even when much of the time body double skin is being used anyway. So in that sense, I can't blame them.
Beyond actresses, I even caught Ann Curry wearing oversexualized high heels (you know, the at-least-six-inch) during her interview with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The interview, re-posted on the Internet, seems to now have been scrubbed to only feature medium close ups so we don't see the shoes. Really Ann? Were you trying to get arrested? "Hooker heels" -- as Rachel Zoe affectionately calls them. As much as I love Rachel Zoe, since when have "hooker heels," designed to make women look like oversexualized caricatures, become a good thing?
Even though Sally and Harry had intimate moments, at least the lead female was for once under a cotton sheet instead of the standard Hollywood sheet of skin. No really, they say, the nudity is required. For realism. For the story.
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