I've read two reviews of SISTERS (opening Friday) that mention a mud wrestling scene. One review says it's between Tina Fey and Amy Poehler and takes place in a "sinkhole" ... so I bet it's not going to rate super high on the wam scale, but somebody report back anyway, eh?
(Edit: Annoying that I can't do titles in caps in the subject line!)
I actually cannot remember a real mud scene in any recent major Hollyood release. Most of what does get produced consists of stuff that looks like watery finger paints or something that can be washed off in seconds. I think it may have been as far back as National Lampoon's Thanksgiving Vacation that a director allowed actual soil to be saturated and cavorted in. Hollywood is afraid of real stuff, unless it is the sight of someone being cut down in a hail of bullets. Then, it must be unfailingly accurate.
Regis said: Well if the new STAR WARS movie had mud wrestling* in it, I would go see it.
* non-Carrie Fisher mud wrestling
For that you need to know the secret codewords for the unadvertised showing of the extended director's cut version. You don't want to know what we had to do to get hold of those tickets. None of us at the Hall are sure about the lesbian Ewok orgy though. And the Dalek was just weird.
Plonk said: The original story for Episode 5 "Splinter of the Mind's Eye" actually does include mud wrestling. It happens between Leia and Han before they find out they're kin. http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Splinter_of_the_Mind's_Eye_1
I don't know what makes me feel geekier -- the fact that I'm posting to say it was between Leia and LUKE, or the fact that I just realized that scene was one of my early "WAM" indicators and I'd completely forgotten about it.
I've always felt that Alan Dean Foster put a lot more work into that scene than he did into most of the rest of his writing.
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