apparently that is also terrible
― Simon H., Sunday, 15 February 2015 01:21 (nine years ago) link
kind of thinking who Dakota Johnson's parents are, this is not even in the top ten debacles in her life thus far
― mh, Sunday, 15 February 2015 02:10 (nine years ago) link
I dug the Jezebel staff's take on this, where they saw it as a group of eight and divvied up the review by different aspects of the movie:
http://jezebel.com/we-survived-an-opening-night-screening-of-fifty-shades-1685672861
The consensus is that they hadn't, as a group, pre-gamed nearly hard enough, or even approaching the levels of others in the audience
― Delbert Gravy (kingfish), Sunday, 15 February 2015 02:23 (nine years ago) link
Still Alice appears to have a special kind of middlebrow american bathos that trash like fifty shades would never be at risk of
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Sunday, 15 February 2015 14:34 (nine years ago) link
The whole thing of turning something wholly awful and tragic into a "triumph of the human spirit" is such a big lie
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Sunday, 15 February 2015 14:35 (nine years ago) link
...I meant I'd rather see something wholly depressing like that for VD, not that it's a bad movie (it wasn't)
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Sunday, 15 February 2015 15:33 (nine years ago) link
middlebrow trash v plain trash FITE
― A MOOC, what's a MOOC? (Bananaman Begins), Sunday, 15 February 2015 15:43 (nine years ago) link
hey guys, just saw this yesterday, let me tell you all about it
― Jennifer 8.-( (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 15 February 2015 17:55 (nine years ago) link
The film is 2 hours for no reason because almost nothing happens in the film. The characters are really, REALLY underdeveloped (moreso than you would expect even for a film like this); they solely exist in relation to each other but have no personality whatsoever, almost to an impressive extent. The sex was ultimately pretty tame, but some of the sex scenes were reaaaally funny, like when the dude rips off all of her clothes and spins her backwards and then starts to... braid her hair (???).
I was kinda hoping for comically awful but what I expected (and ultimately received) was thorough mediocrity with occasional bits of unintentional humor. Like really though who cares about a boring rich white dude getting off on a quasi-abusive relationship being played off as BDSM, zzzzzzzzz
― Jennifer 8.-( (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 15 February 2015 18:02 (nine years ago) link
Was it worth it?
Is it gunna be worth another two outings?
― Delbert Gravy (kingfish), Monday, 16 February 2015 00:10 (nine years ago) link
I mean it's terrible but only 35% less masturbatory than the Hobbit threefer
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Monday, 16 February 2015 00:22 (nine years ago) link
I've only ever met one person who completetely unironically loved the book and admitted so with gusto - one of my sisters in law, and to be cruelly uncharitable, shes an ill-read bogan, so.
― I checked Snoops , and it is for real (Trayce), Monday, 16 February 2015 04:47 (nine years ago) link
find me a person who completely unironically loved the book etc etc
(ps is "ill-read bogan" kind of like a sweatshirt mom?)
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Monday, 16 February 2015 05:03 (nine years ago) link
My mother-in-law apparently enjoyed all 3 books and was irritated and incredulous when my wife told her they started as Twilight fanfic
― Free Me's Electric Trumpet (Moodles), Monday, 16 February 2015 05:11 (nine years ago) link
It was totally worth it because I went with a really fun friend who was in it for the laughs and we laughed the whole time and made the experience totally worthwhile. If I went with people who wanted to see it because they found it earnestly interesting or erotic I would have been really miserable.
― Jennifer 8.-( (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 16 February 2015 05:22 (nine years ago) link
hope the studio and distributors are aware that much of the money earned by this film is ironic money
― A MOOC, what's a MOOC? (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 16 February 2015 10:46 (nine years ago) link
ironic money spends just as well as sincere money
― bizarro gazzara, Monday, 16 February 2015 10:48 (nine years ago) link
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/fifty-shades-grey-rowdy-women-5169920
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Monday, 16 February 2015 10:51 (nine years ago) link
xp http://i.imgur.com/Tqw0fqK.gif
― A MOOC, what's a MOOC? (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 16 February 2015 11:20 (nine years ago) link
http://www.theonion.com/articles/ironic-porn-purchase-leads-to-unironic-ejaculation,1567/
― piscesx, Monday, 16 February 2015 11:53 (nine years ago) link
BOM has this already making 8x its budget back, worldwide
― Delbert Gravy (kingfish), Monday, 16 February 2015 15:10 (nine years ago) link
did not know danny elfman doing the music here; would love to find out it's just the batman theme over and over
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Monday, 16 February 2015 16:05 (nine years ago) link
the trailers should show crowd reaction shots like they do with horror movies.
― goole, Monday, 16 February 2015 18:13 (nine years ago) link
hope the studio and distributors are aware that much of the money earned by this film is ironic money― A MOOC, what's a MOOC? (Bananaman Begins), Monday, February 16, 2015 4:46 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― A MOOC, what's a MOOC? (Bananaman Begins), Monday, February 16, 2015 4:46 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
most do, but inevitably a few studios will spend big money on some slashpic and watch the results either langish in development hell or be released to critical ridicule and audience indifference
― I dunno. (amateurist), Monday, 16 February 2015 18:37 (nine years ago) link
and the sequels will tank
― I dunno. (amateurist), Monday, 16 February 2015 18:38 (nine years ago) link
get ready for a lot of overwrought mainstream sex dramas; if someone isn't rebootying last tango, postman always rings twice and body heat right now, it's because the rights are tied upc what i did there
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Monday, 16 February 2015 18:42 (nine years ago) link
actually if this leads to more "adult" (or even adult) romantic dramas, then i'm all for it
― I dunno. (amateurist), Monday, 16 February 2015 18:46 (nine years ago) link
A friend who works in a theatre just informed me that someone left a whip behind at one screening (though this reeks more of "ironic" viewing than anything).
― That shit right there is precedented. (cryptosicko), Monday, 16 February 2015 19:20 (nine years ago) link
my sister works at a movie theater, and last night she told me they found a condom on the floor during cleanup. i was like "ew, those 50 shades fans are sick" and she said "no, it was in the theater for the Spongebob movie."
― bonkers candle ancestors (reddening), Monday, 16 February 2015 20:06 (nine years ago) link
Universal’s second highest opening weekend of all time, just behind “Fast & Furious 6″ ($160.3 million).
"Fast & Furious 6" starring Jenna Jameson et al
― bit of a singles monster (Eazy), Monday, 16 February 2015 20:10 (nine years ago) link
xpost
wouldn't this have been more appropriate?http://www.todaysponge.com/images/press-sponge.jpg
― Free Me's Electric Trumpet (Moodles), Monday, 16 February 2015 20:15 (nine years ago) link
So people are going to this like they would to see the Chippendales strippers or go to a lol naughty sextoy sales night? #sadhousewives
― I checked Snoops , and it is for real (Trayce), Monday, 16 February 2015 22:35 (nine years ago) link
a whip or whippits?
― mh, Monday, 16 February 2015 22:45 (nine years ago) link
the Phish crossover market
― It's strange to me too. But we're talking about praxis, man. (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 16 February 2015 22:54 (nine years ago) link
Universal’s second highest opening weekend of all time, just behind “Fast & Furious 6″
lol @ medium of film
― A MOOC, what's a MOOC? (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 17 February 2015 11:17 (nine years ago) link
can't lie, I'll be buying tickets for the seventh chapter in the F&F franchise
― mh, Tuesday, 17 February 2015 14:21 (nine years ago) link
excited about the revival of the EROTIC THRILLER genre
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 17 February 2015 17:12 (nine years ago) link
This lacks thrills though right?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 17 February 2015 17:28 (nine years ago) link
its just an EROTIC
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 17 February 2015 17:37 (nine years ago) link
I'm sure people find it thrilling in exactly the same way Wild Orchid was thrilling
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 17 February 2015 17:39 (nine years ago) link
I remember my parents going to see Wild Orchid. A year or so later, when it hit cable, I snuck downstairs late at night to watch some of it and was pretty much like "so, this is what adults find hot?!"
― That shit right there is precedented. (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 17 February 2015 17:57 (nine years ago) link
Thanks to winning a VCR circa 84/85 at a fundraiser raffle, my father treated the entire family to some uncomfortable family movie nights with movies like Body Heat and 9 1/2 Weeks. My takeaway was that my dad is super shameless and a total hero.
― "Go pet your dog" is the name of my dog (DJP), Tuesday, 17 February 2015 18:17 (nine years ago) link
Way to go dad
― Minaj moron (Re-Make/Re-Model), Tuesday, 17 February 2015 18:23 (nine years ago) link
So, basically, this movie is book one, and there will doubtless be three eventually.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 17 February 2015 19:29 (nine years ago) link
Ok, I have now read more of this thread.
Basically, Stevie D's review is otm.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 17 February 2015 19:33 (nine years ago) link
they're going to break the third book out in to three separate movies though
― gr8080, Wednesday, 18 February 2015 12:27 (nine years ago) link
The desolation of SM
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 18 February 2015 13:03 (nine years ago) link
applause
― oochie wally (clean version) (sic), Wednesday, 18 February 2015 13:04 (nine years ago) link
50 Shades of Armond: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/413741/50-shades-dull-armond-white
Enterprises such as 50 Shades of Grey and Gone Girl, designed to exploit modern moral confusion, also mean to rationalize political disorientation. Anastasia and Grey’s sadomasochistic love/hate symbolizes contemporary bewilderment regarding capitalist politics. Rich, empowered men like Grey are shown to lead and seduce us, while a new consumerist myth (replacing rugged individualism) suggests that our naïve affection — the opposite of buyer’s remorse — can redeem them, just as Bill Clinton has been redeemed and sanctioned by the mainstream media.
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 20 February 2015 22:26 (nine years ago) link
I think he is getting at something but not getting all the way there
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Friday, 20 February 2015 22:38 (nine years ago) link