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What, no TD reviews of 50 Shades??
Posted on 2/14/15 at 2:45 am
Posted on 2/14/15 at 2:45 am
No one went to see it?? Bad? Awfully bad? Get drunk before going bad?
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Posted on 2/14/15 at 8:39 am to CCT
Girl interviews young billionaire man. He stalks her and entices her with his money. They have sex. More sex. He likes bdsm. She ask him to punish her the worst he can. He whips her with a belt. She gets pissed and leaves, movie over.
It was stupid. The plot is not very good. Women clearly are into it just for the sex. The two main actors had very little on screen chemistry.
It was stupid. The plot is not very good. Women clearly are into it just for the sex. The two main actors had very little on screen chemistry.
Posted on 2/14/15 at 8:47 am to LSU6262
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The two main actors had very little on screen chemistry.
I heard they hated each other while filming the movie
Posted on 2/14/15 at 8:50 am to lsunurse
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I heard they hated each other while filming the movie
I would probably hate that chick too if I signed up for a kinky sex movie and got a costar that is an OT4
Posted on 2/14/15 at 8:53 am to wildtigercat93
Posted on 2/14/15 at 9:13 am to Patrick_Bateman
I read about a 5 page excerpt of the book and the writing is on par with a fifth grader in remedial Reading.
Posted on 2/14/15 at 9:18 am to CCT
Movie sucked. Sex scenes were surprisingly boring. Most dialogue was laughable.
TBH, the best parts were a few funny lines by the girl. She was surprisingly more likable than the patheticness of the book. I like Dakota Johnson though, so I'm biased.
TBH, the best parts were a few funny lines by the girl. She was surprisingly more likable than the patheticness of the book. I like Dakota Johnson though, so I'm biased.
Posted on 2/14/15 at 9:19 am to Antonio Moss
The New Yorker's review of the book said that it seemed as if the author wasn't writing in her first language.
Posted on 2/14/15 at 9:34 am to TotesMcGotes
I'm finally reading the books right now. I want to know what happens so will finish the series. But yeah...don't see the hype at all. Very badly written books. With a horrible editor. I feel like I need to go read classic literature after I finish this series to redeem myself as someone that loves to read.
Posted on 2/14/15 at 9:49 am to TotesMcGotes
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The New Yorker's review of the book said that it seemed as if the author wasn't writing in her first language.
the review itself was a fantastic piece of writing. I read it a few times cause I couldn't stop laughing.
"she should be more worried about the rectifying"
Posted on 2/14/15 at 10:06 am to CCT
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Mostly, he sounds like your basic stalker: “I’m incapable of leaving you alone,” he informs Ana—a notion that appears to stimulate her, although it would easily warrant a call to 911. She succumbs, up to a point, but her recurring doubts lead Christian to dish up one of those crusty old no-means-yes propositions which feminism has battled for decades: “You want to leave? Your body tells me something different.” Pass the butt plug.
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And there you have the problem with this film. It is gray with good taste—shade upon shade of muted naughtiness, daubed within the limits of the R rating. Think of it as the “Downton Abbey” of bondage, designed neither to menace nor to offend but purely to cosset the fatigued imagination. You get dirtier talk in most action movies, and more genitalia in a TED talk on Renaissance sculpture. True, Dakota Johnson does her best, and her semi-stifled giggles suggest that, unlike James, she can see the funny side of all this nonsense. When Christian, alarmed by Ana’s maidenhood, considers “rectifying the situation,” she replies, “I’m a situation?”—a sharp rejoinder, although if I were her I’d be much more worried about the rectifying.
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Posted on 2/14/15 at 10:08 am to CCT
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So how does the movie, directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson, stack up against the book? And what’s in it for non-Jamesians? Well, we lose Ana’s introduction to fellatio, set precariously in a bathtub; in a similar vein, we skip the breakfast that she shares with Christian at an International House of Pancakes. Above all, we are denied James’s personifications, which are so much livelier than her characters: “My sleepy subconscious has a final swipe at me.” “yes! My inner goddess is thrilled.” “no! my psyche screams.” Couldn’t someone have got Sarah Silverman to play the psyche?
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Check out the Red Room: rack upon rack of cutting-edge bullwhips, a variety of high-end arse paddles, and more restraining cuffs than you can shake a stick at. And how much of this kit gets used? A mere fraction, and even then Christian, supposedly the maestro of pain, can do little more than brush his cat-o’-nine-tails over Ana’s flesh with a feathery backhand. He looks like Roger Federer, practicing gentle cross-court lobs at the net.
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Much of the novel’s fixation with style, or with the barrage of stuff that a sense of style can buy, is carried onto the screen. Where the money shots should be, we get shots of what money can provide. The subtle silk ties that adorned the paperback covers, and which somehow made it O.K., by a dazzling sleight of the publisher’s hand, to read soft pornography in public, are arrayed in the opening scene. Ana can barely move for Audis. Christian wows her with rides, first in his thunderous chopper and then in his smooth white glider, presumably praying that she won’t have seen Pierce Brosnan do the same in “The Thomas Crown Affair.” The only viewer, in fact, who may feel shortchanged by “Fifty Shades of Grey” is Liam Helmer, who is listed in the credits as “BDSM Technical Consultant.”
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Posted on 2/14/15 at 12:01 pm to lsunurse
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I'm finally reading the books right now. I want to know what happens so will finish the series. But yeah...don't see the hype at all. Very badly written books.
I don't know why but I found this series is much better than FSOG.
Posted on 2/14/15 at 1:12 pm to LSU6262
But the white trash on my Facebook are like "mmm girls go check it out, it was sum good!"
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Posted on 2/14/15 at 1:36 pm to Fight4LSU
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Posted on 2/14/15 at 9:09 pm to cajunangelle
Wife had it. Read some to see what the fuss was. The writing did fricking suck. No different from any other trashy paperback expect possibly worse writing and a smaller vocabulary. And I did try to have an open mind. Must have been some brilliant marketing. Wife agrees. Cannot for the life of us figure out how in the hell it became so popular. I'm sure many read it to see what the fuss was, but where in the hell did the fuss come from? That's the genius! Selling that shite, and a lot of it!!
Must have been some brilliant marketing. Wife agrees. Cannot for the life of us figure out how in the hell it became so popular. I'm sure many read it to see what the fuss was, but where in the hell did the fuss come from? That's the genius! Selling that shite, and a lot of it!!
Posted on 2/14/15 at 9:38 pm to CCT
was Dakota Johnson really the best looking woman they could find for this movie?
Posted on 2/14/15 at 10:30 pm to hsfolk
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was Dakota Johnson really the best looking woman they could find for this movie?
No attractive A list actress is going to get nude and do multiple sex scenes...
Posted on 2/14/15 at 11:13 pm to CCT
It sounds like they pushed this movie out as quickly as possible to make money and capitalize on the waning popularity. Having watched the interview they had with GMA, I think they genuinely don't like each other.
Posted on 2/14/15 at 11:57 pm to The Pirate King
It wasn't terrible but then again I didn't read the books either
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