Fifty Shades of Grey

I will probably never read these books or see the films....

I will stick to the books "Exit to Eden" (WHICH IS NOTHING LIKE THE FILM!!), "Belinda" and "The Sleeping Beauty Trilogy" by Anne Rice.... they are full of S&M, Bondage, Slavery, Homosexuality... everything you can think of that relates to sex.....

Hell, the book "Venus in Furs" by Leopold von Sacher Masoch...might be lamer than "50 Shades of Grey" but I have more respect for von Sacher Masoch to read his book instead......

This sentence made me laugh.

I'd never read a book solely classed as erotica and I'm not likely to again, but at the time everyone was talking about that book. It was everywhere. I wanted to know what the fuss was about and afterwords I wanted to know why everyone had lost their fool minds.

I love the Exit to Eden movie and I also have the book.

Anne Rice's Sleeping Beauty trilogy, though... I've leafed through them. I didn't find them particularly interesting. It's nothing but spanking after spanking after spanking. Which COULD be wonderful, but for me, it just wasn't. Especially since it was mostly just women getting spanked. But even without that, it was boring. It was all like, "Come over here, slave! Let me spank you now!" "Who wants to get spanked next?!" Three books of nonstop spanking.

None of these books are interesting or sexy, though, to me. I'd rather read some brutal gay S&M story, which they wouldn't sell in stores -- at least not mainstream. The S&M in that would be light years ahead of Anne Rice or Fifty Shades of Grey.

Well good luck to the woman who wrote it, her boat definitely came in (and Deadite if you're reading this anywheres , that's not a euphemism )
It's a very badly written book and the trailer looks bloody awful but it'll make loads of money I suppose

I think it may make a bit but pretty sure it'll be a flop compared to what it could have made as the fans don't seem happy with the casting and as it's an erotic fantasy, the look of the actors counts.

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Agh.. I hated the books, don't think will waste time on the movie(s)....

The trailer looks absolutely terrible, and I don't doubt the movie will be too. But doesn't the blonde secretary remind you of Madeleine, Kim Novak's character in Hitchcock's Vertigo? Anyone who's read the book knows if this is intentional?

Apparently the film has broken records on more than one level.


Fastest selling tickets for an R rated film, most tickets sold for an R rated film... and has been labelled by some critics as the worst movie ever made.
It's also been called abysmal, appalling, sluggish, has one-note performances, has nothing in common with the book, apparently it also glamorises domestic violence, and has garnered a single star on both IMDb and RT.


Sounds like a blast

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And I've got my tickets booked to go and see it tommorow .

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One of the few instances where, pretty much everyone, will agree the film is better than the book?

BTW, did anyone see Charlie Brookers take on it (and the medias tie in and narrative) last night? There's a nice joke in the intro and then from 5 minutes in for three minutes.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...es-3-episode-3

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I'm really glad that critics are bringing up the domestic violence thing and it has nothing to do with the "play room" The man is written as if the author got a hold of a pamphlet at a crisis center about things to look for if the man you're dating might become a potential abuser and said "Gee, that sounds kind of sexy, I'll give this guy all those qualities."

This Australian critic tore the movie I knew one. I love her.

I hate it that this is going to be so many couples valentines day movie.

What are people on? This looks just like a porno turned into a big budget movie. The story is certainly ridiculous enough. The fact that it's breaking box office records is really concerning.
And miraculously, the scores on Metacritic and RottenTomatoes are only half as bad as you'd think.

SMH

It does seem to go beyond a bit of fantasy roleplay in the Pain Room. Surely BDSMers have periods when they are 'on' and then periods when they are off, rather than just having one person endlessly torturing the other.


Let's face it though- the eroticism is the money. It's consumer porn. It looks like it may pull of an Indecent Proposal vibe in that respect- although I think IP is actually an interesting and provocative film that confronts people with their capitalistic desires.

Most BDSM people I've known/read seem to dislike this book because much/all of it isn't really BDSM. According to them, it's abuse.

Exactly. It's not about what happens in the bedroom in this book and I would awesome the movie as well, it's what happens after it. He stalks her, controls her and tries to alienate her from everyone but him (classic abuser behavior) but the books writes it as that's how she knows her really cares.

I'm glad so many in the bdsm community and people that write erotica have spoken against it. When I try to speak out about it people don't listen and assume it's the sex I'm against and it's not. In the book only very light bondage occurs anyway.

Holy sh*t. I just realize the screenplay I'm starting to write with a bud could be an awesome critique of 50 Shades of Grey.

In what way?

It's about a girl who becomes infatuated with a guy who turns out to be a psychopathic murderer.

I don't really want to read the book, though.