Let's Talk About Sex (1998) Reviews

• I want to know how you're feeling, seriously.

  ultra_absorbent2005-07-12

  The most melodramatic piece of GARBAGE I've seen. This is the movie that makes men believe women are overly-dramatic, menstrual, and impossible to understand. It's a total generalization of women, as all the characters are typical stereotypes of lifetime watching, upper-middle class women with too much time on their hands and not enough brains in their heads. I felt absolutely no sympathy for any of these people, not even the one who couldn't have children. Boo hoo, I guess you'll just have to go get your hair done and buy yourself another Gucci suit. I'm female by the way, and this vulgar display of feminine instability is insulting and untrue. Perhaps one of the worst scenes in this movie is shortly after the girls discover the tape they've been working so hard on has been destroyed and in an attempt to distract themselves they each find an area of their comfortable loft to clean and cry while cleaning products fly in the air. We also get gratuitous cleavage shots while vacuuming. This movie is not about sex. It's about fakey women getting in touch with how incredibly self-involved they are as they revel in their mediocre problems. All this is done to soft, girly Lilith Fairesque music and soft camera lighting. Plus, as a special treat, all of these women are beautiful and have less than an ounce of fat on them. But you know how difficult life can be when you're beautiful and have little to worry about.

• Let's Talk about huh?

  queenb802005-09-28

  I happen to love the actresses in this movie. Paget Brewster is one of the most under-rated actresses of any time. The movie (in a nut shell)is about someone making a documentary about sex and trying to sell it to a network. She enlists her friends to help her and a good time is had by all. This is all well and good but the ending to this film was so bad that I have to share it so that no other unsuspecting person doesn't rent the movie. There's a mix up with the tapes and the documentary ends up being erased and replaced with a lesbian sex tape. So what would you do in this situation? I would scream or yell or get even but these women...they...CLEAN! Yes, that's right they run around the house in hysterics, tears streaming down their faces, dumping Comet on the tile and trying to clean. I didn't know whether to throw my high heel at the TV or just start laughing. Another reviewer wrote that this film made women look like emotionally unstable idiots. To be fair, most of us are, sometimes. This movie made women seem like sad, annoying, some what psychotic, estrogen crazies.

• Strong film, but the abrupt mood changes could drop your transmission.

  jedikeith1999-12-02

  But truthfully, that's the way that life sometimes works! Which is what I think this movie is actually about. It is a shame that Troy Beyer didn't focus more on the poignant and emotional parts of her three main characters long before the end of this movie. I honestly wasn't hoping for skin footage when I grabbed this video off the shelf. Paget Brewster as Michelle was the only reason I rented it from Blockbuster anyway--there was a recent cycle of her as "Kathy" on Friends broadcast on CBS recently. I found her presence as an actress and character intriguing, besides her large warm eyes and mammoth smile. In "Let's Talk About Sex" the gratuitous, raw sexual footage seemed overdone. But, it did serve to set the musky mood for this film's sexual side. The grainy video footage of women who were interviewed for a possible TV show called "Girl Talk" was impressive and disturbing for me, a guy, who has enough problems trusting some of you already. Their stories and opinions on sex, men, and being women did serve to add depth to the story; nevertheless, I found myself wanting to see more of the emotionally bruised and honest sides of the main characters, more of their history, as well as the sincere parts of the strangers they interviewed for "Girl Talk". To me, it was two different works melded together...the vulgar, clay side of sex along with the more ethereal feelings found within humans as sexual, emotional beings...somehow this film never seemed to find a segue from one into the other without making me lurch from the impact of the pace changes. Two sides of the same coin, I think that this is an honorable work: Like most films that have good merit, this one ends with the three friends each having their own much needed epiphany. That the characters learned something and had their ships come in is enough for me. I did take something really good from it.

• I don't talk about sex

  Anja-72001-02-15

  Anyone who saw this movie ? My boyfriend forced me to see it because he likes the actors. I didn't care for anybody. They are all bad bad bad. There is no story, they are all sitting around and talk. Better talk to your sister or your boyfriend, but he will not listen. Now then talk to your sister. But not about sex, you could hear things you don't want to hear for example that she had sex with your boyfriend although she is more ugly than you. The documentary style of this petty and trivial film is frightfully boring, it is like sitting within this group and not being able to run away from those fatal stories. Stay away. Run or die !

• A Tale of Two Movies

  Pryderi2000-03-15

  There are two things going on in Let's Talk About Sex. One part of the story is the making of a videotape that is to be the pilot of a cable TV program - a talk show where women talk about sex. This aspect of the film works well - it really does capture the feel of things (though the answers given are remarkably forthright; I suspect that you'd have to do a LOT of editing to get anything like that in real life), and the answers are entertaining and sometimes insightful. The other aspect of the story is a look at the love lives of the three principal characters - the one making the film, and the two friends that she lives with. This part of the film doesn't work nearly as well; the characters just didn't involve me. Let's Talk About Sex could have been an even better film if it had been done as a straight-up mockumentary. But there's enough good stuff here to make it worth a look.