You can try "fuzzy giblets" if that works any better for you..lol.
"What does the sign say above the nursery in a Palestinian maternity ward? 'Live ammunition.'"

Wedding tackle!! That is friggin' funny. I gotta slip that one into a conversation some time.

There was almost no mention of sex in the book. So why is this film almost soft core porn? Did I really need to see Rip Torn's wedding tackle a-dangling all over the screen in several scenes. What was the point? This movie had such great potential, and some high brow artist wannabe made miserable dreck instead of a good or even great film.
"What does the sign say above the nursery in a Palestinian maternity ward? 'Live ammunition.'"

It was made in the 70's
If you watch "R" rated movies from that era, there is a tendency to have gratuitus nudity because it was 'allowed' for the first time in the hstory of cinema.
Believe it or not, people have become MORE hung up on nudity over the years. Hence the 'new' MPAA rating which cause many films to cut things out rather than risk losing the teen audience with an NC-17 rating.
If you made The Man who Fell to Earth in 2007, you would leave out a lot of nudity but it was 1976.key parties, discos and coke.

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agreed, fatty came off as three times the pretentious \

And fattmcmatty, your the one showing how pretentious you are by having your anger easily manipulated by people on the internet.
Sounds like you get too offended. Mind me asking how the hell you get by each day?

art is a hobby, at least for me
Haha, caught me. True, I went back, read that, and said, "Man, I sound like an f'ing retard" It's not the biggest crime in the world. I was also a little distracted, so five min later, I forgot about it and reposted, but that's not what we're arguing about.
And if someone draws or writes as a hobby, I consider them an artist or writer

"I don't think I called myself an artist
And what's wrong with saying I'm an artist anywawy? Just because I think a movie has too much unnecessary sex, and I do draw, why would that make you hate me.
Plus, most artists don't really make a living off of Art, just like writers.
So what's wrong with saying that?
This movie just seems toomuch like a Tinto Brass movie, where there is more unnecessary sex than there is plot."
And now, seeing how undeservingly pretentious you sounded, you're lying to people on the internet. Genius!
Here's when you updated the post where you said "You can tell I'm an artist, can't you?"
UPDATED Wed Feb 21 2007 20:21:25
Here's when you posted the first quote, your pathetic lie.
by - mattqatsi on Wed Feb 21 2007 20:27:07
So it's a coincidence that you "just found a spelling error" in your first post, then posted your excuse for a refutation only minutes after? You're not fooling anyone. By the way, saying "And what's wrong with saying I'm an artist anyway?" afterwards doesn't strengthen your credibility either.
I hate you because you're the cliche modern, wannabe artist. Even though you have no talent and don't know the first thing about art, you claim to be an artist by saying stupidly pretentious things. There's a difference between art and "do draw".
Artists and writers make a living, support themselves, put bread on the table, by painting, screenwriting, sketching, writing, directing, producing, animating, whatever the hell verb you want. People who doodle with mechanical pencils on notebook paper and people who write the first three pages of a sloppy story with no rhetoric aren't artists and writers. They may have it as a hobby, and that's fine, as long as they (i.e. you) don't claim to be something they're not.
Then they're liars (i.e. you).
I'm not arguing about the movie, it may very well have too much sexual content, it may very well have the perfect amount of sexual content, and it may very well merit more sexual content. But when you type one word sentences and imagine yourself drinking pinot noir in a library as you type, then end your post by saying "You can tell I'm an artist, can't you?", you're trying to convince people you'll never know that you're something you're not.
That's extremely pathetic.

I don't think I called myself an artist
And what's wrong with saying I'm an artist anywawy? Just because I think a movie has too much unnecessary sex, and I do draw, why would that make you hate me.
Plus, most artists don't really make a living off of Art, just like writers.
So what's wrong with saying that?
This movie just seems toomuch like a Tinto Brass movie, where there is more unnecessary sex than there is plot.

I think I hate "mattqatsi".
"You can tell I'm an artist, can't you?" is probably the most undeservingly pretentious thing I've ever heard.
Show me the art you've produced and made money on. Send me some links of all the beautiful art you've made as the artist you are and I'll buy anything else you "make".
I hope you start your next post with multiple "no"s, too.

I wasn't at all bothered by the amount of sex in the movie. But I will admit to two things

1. I giggled a bit at the springy pubic afros; and
2. I could have gone my whole life without ever seeing Rp Torn's wang and died a happy woman.
   I'll leave my love between the stars

No, no, no. I'm not saying I didn't like them, I also thought that (most) were essential to the plot, I just thought it was a bit excessive.

But my understanding is that the original American release cut most of these scenes out and as a result was even harder to follow and more confusing, so they must serve some purpose to the story. To be fair, I haven't seen the edited version. Maybe some people would like it better (like some of you folks on this thread that didn't like all the sex scenes).

No, no, it is done artistically. There can be nudity for the sake of art (Cashback) but most movies screw it up. I just thing there was too much and it detracted from the main focus of the film.

Way too much sex crap, clearly a filler to attract all those who aren't getting any.

Ditto!!
That's just my two cents.

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yep - I thought something like that might have happened! hehehe

The sex scenes in Nicholas Roeg's films always impress me. They always evoke an intimacy that feels natural, I think.

'hang on a sec, now i'm curious. i just watched a version of this film that i rented from blockbuster that was marked with an R rating. I thought it contained quite a bit of sex, but is there another uncut version with even more sex?'
All DVD versions are complete but any American VHS tape of The man who fell to Earth from before 1989 is cut, badly. It still has sex in it but it's missing the gun scene (you'd know what I'm talking about if you saw it) as well as scenes that were actually important to the story.
And yes, there is no sex in the novel. Betty Jo (Mary Lou in the film) tries to seduce Thomas Jerome Newton but it doesn't work in the novel.

hang on a sec, now i'm curious. i just watched a version of this film that i rented from blockbuster that was marked with an R rating. I thought it contained quite a bit of sex, but is there another uncut version with even more sex?

To be honest I think films were better when the violence and gore were far less and you had to use your imagination more.