50 Shades of Grey - Part 1

[DA_Champion]

The lead, Jamie Dornan? can't remember his name, is HOT HOt HOT!

Did you know that he's already played a sex toy in Once Upon a Time?

 

[psylockolussus]

Yes, I've seen the show and I was kinda bummed that he was killed early.

 

[SuperJediHero]

The lead girl (Dakota Johnson), while seem somewhat cute, not HOT HOT HOT

Not a single moment from the trailer, I felt even attracted to this character.

Never read the book, so dunno if she is portrayed as hotter or not on paper.

Probably won't see the movie, unless it's actually getting good reviews.

 

[mclay18]

Judging by the descriptions of Anastasia, she's more eye-catching than she was in the book.

 

[Flint Marko]

Off the top of my head I can't think of any non-trivial criticism of any franchise that is "unique".


Though I do watch a lot of guilty pleasures, not all movies/TV are **** as you imply. There is some genuinely better stuff -- I'm pretty sure we've been through this before.


Actually culture does influence behaviour and everybody understands that (consciously or otherwise), You're kidding yourself if you think otherwise.

All the parents of little girls that I know try to adjust what they watch so that they see more female protagonists. Based on your view, you think they're all wrong, they must be "uninformed soccer moms who don't have working brains".

The US military vetoes any screenplays where the director requests access to military hardware (and they ask to watch the movie early), it's known that they wish that more movies like were Top Gun. Why do you think that is? I'm pretty sure that their psychologists know better as they've been researching psychology very well for fifty years. They even apply these rules to movies where people have ridiculous powers and that have outlandish CGI effects. Are they brainless soccer moms too?

To return the thread to the topic raised a few pages back, there's bad stuff in Twilight and 50 Shades. But is it so bad as to warrant being number 1 in hate and ridicule? It seems a lot of other people think so, but that's a prediction of the argument.

So you are of the opinion that movies which depict cartoonish, outlandish fights between good and evil adorned in colorful costumes are morally repugnant and promotes corrosive, violent behavior in the viewer. Every time we turn on iron man or batman or man of steel we become more and more prone to violent, aggressive and antisocial outbursts.
I, nor any one else here probably, has noticed nothing like that in ourselves or anyone around us, so there's no observable evidence that would suggest what you're saying. But whatever, agree to disagree.

The lead girl (Dakota Johnson), while seem somewhat cute, not HOT HOT HOT

Not a single moment from the trailer, I felt even attracted to this character.

Never read the book, so dunno if she is portrayed as hotter or not on paper.

Probably won't see the movie, unless it's actually getting good reviews.

My mom read the book and says the main character is pretty much paper thin and uninteresting. That's about all I've heard about the actual content of the book outside the sexual acts it describes, so from what I know it sounds like the movie might be the same.

 

[Mad Ones]

I think I'm in love with DA_Champion

 

[DA_Champion]

I think I'm in love with DA_Champion

 

[The Guard]

Honestly, I was kind of hoping that they could do something to redeem this concept.

But nope. It looks terrible. Maybe that's just the way they've "marketed" the trailer, which, by the way, is amusingly chock full of the production designer going "Look everyone, it's all in shades of gray!" This just looks completely hollow.

 

[MadVillainy]

But where is that Crazy in Love Remix tho

 

[:eek:]

EXCLUSIVE: In the week since Universal and Focus Features premiered the trailer for Fifty Shades of Grey, the 2 1/2-minute promo has become the biggest online trailer launch in history, the studio said.

The steamy adaptation of E L James‘ 2011 erotic bestseller tracks the love affair between a naive young woman and a dashing entrepreneur who was damaged as a youth and rejects intimacy. Sam Taylor-Johnson directs and Dakota Johnson stars as Anastasia Steele and Jamie Dornan as Christian Grey. After strategically building up the July 24 trailer debut with teases on NBC’s Today and in Beyonce’s Instagram feed, Universal scored more than 100 million views across all platforms in a week. That is about the number of books sold globally.

Some of that staggering online success is more easily quantifiable than others, given the nearly 33 million YouTube views logged in a week from Universal’s two official uploads alone. “Fifty Shades Of Grey trailers are pulling monumental views” from two separate uploads this week, said RelishMix CEO Marc Karzen. The trailer on Universal’s YouTube channel attracted more than 13 million views, and its UK sibling did even better, with 19.3 million. “Add to that ripped and reposted versions on movie fan channels. It’s unprecedented for a film that’s six months out.”
Here’s a sampling of Fifty Shades‘ tear across social media in its first week: The 15-second teaser premiered unannounced to Beyonce’s 14 million Instagram fans on Saturday, July 19, notching 443,000 likes and over 85,000 comments in an unusual stroke of pop marketing synergy. The tease of a teaser featuring a breathy snippet of Beyonce’s Crazy In Love also aired in TV and digital spots for the next three days, and ran in a 30-second radio spot in 16 markets.

All that marketing foreplay led to the morning of July 24, when the full trailer dropped at 8:15 AM ET and became the most-watched trailer on YouTube that day in a surge of buzz that Ben Carlson of social network tracker Fizziology calls “simply unprecedented.” The trailer garnered 98,000 mentions per hour on Twitter and was the No. 1 Google-trending topic in the U.S., Canada, the UK, France, and Germany.

An additional 13 million uploads were viewed on additional platforms including Yahoo, IMDb, and Apple in addition to over 900,000 trailer views via unofficial YouTube uploads, according to Universal. It had over 40 million additional views on Facebook across the studio’s domestic and international channels as well as Beyonce’s Facebook page, where the trailer alone racked up 446,000 likes and 222,000 shares. Fifty Shades hit theaters February 13.

 

[jaymes_e06]

Thank god this is not on my birthday which is a day earlier.

 

[slumcat]

They are flaunting the trailer views but that won't translate into so much box office.

This is still something that the audiences will feel more comfortable watching in the privacy of their homes than in a movie theater.

Though I must say, the trailer makes it look very safe and tame. I doubt it will push much of any kind of boundaries at all.

 

[Golgo-13]

I have a feeling this movie will be down like The Da Vinci Code where it was so over hyped due to the books success, that the film will not be able to live up to the hype.

 

[Schlosser85]

I don't see why anyone is expecting badly-written S&M porn that started as Twilight fanfiction to be high art.

This probably would have been better off just being honest about itself and going straight to DVD as a porno.

 

[Octoberist]

I have a feeling this movie will be down like The Da Vinci Code where it was so over hyped due to the books success, that the film will not be able to live up to the hype.

But the difference is that 50 Shades was always been popular but at a low denominator. I'm not putting it down, but it what it is, especially from its conception.

 

[DeadPresident]

So here's a question: Is reading 50 Shades of Grey on the bus/in lecture venues not eerily similar to watching porn on a tablet in those same locations?

 

[terry78]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=121553

Fox has moved Kingsman: The Secret Service against Grey.

 

[MadVillainy]

Smart to move Kingsman from October because I was 85% sure it was gonna flop. Really bad to move it against 50 Shades. Stupid stupid movie. REAL stupid move.

But where that Beyonce remix tho..

 

[Drizzle]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=121553

Fox has moved Kingsman: The Secret Service against Grey.

What a stupid move by Fox. I guess they don't have much stake in that one. Well, folks, you all know what'll happen next.

Kingsman = Apollo Creed

50 Shades of Grey = Ivan Drago

 

[mclay18]

I don't understand why folks are in a tizzy over Jamie Dornan not doing full frontal nudity for this movie. (It doesn't say the same for Dakota Johnson, but we'll see.) It was likely stipulated by Universal and Focus in order to secure an R-rating.

http://www.thewrap.com/fifty-shades-of-grey-jamie-dornan-no-full-frontal-nudity/

The MPAA can be funny about nudity. I think the nudity in 50 Shades will be likely contained to chest and butt shots from both actors to allow more leeway with the naughtier stuff.

 

[dark_b]

Forgetting Sarah Marshall.

MPAA can give an official statement that male nudity in a comedy is different than male nudity in an erotic thriller. that way they will admit that they are hypocrites and we can move on.

2014 and an erotic thriller focused only on sex can not have a naked guy. thats US. a place on the planet that has the biggest porn industry yet they can not show male nudity in a 50 Shades of Grey movie.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

They can show it. It will simply get a higher rating. Which considering what this movie is suppose to be about, why is that a bad thing?

 

[Sawyer]

If this movie has full frontal Dakota Johnson, but no Dornan dong, these people don't know what audience they're putting this out there for.

 

[mclay18]

Forgetting Sarah Marshall.

MPAA can give an official statement that male nudity in a comedy is different than male nudity in an erotic thriller. that way they will admit that they are hypocrites and we can move on.

That's what I meant. There are other R-rated films with male full-frontal, but the MPAA lets them slide because they're indie films. (Or if they're in a comedic light like Sarah Marshall or Hall Pass.)

On the other hand, Dornan seems a bit shy for an Irish model-turned-actor. Usually European actors do frontal nudity and it doesn't kill their careers (and they're comfortable doing them). Now there are a few who want to keep their bits under wraps, but a lot less prudes there than in the U.S..

 

[jaymes_e06]

From what I know most models have done full frontal nudes and since he was once one I'm almost sure he done full frontal. Why would he be shy about it all of a sudden?