Fifty Shades of Grey

Degag

cloud493 wrote: »

No, its incredibly tame. No genitals in the whole thing, only topless.

At least there's boobs I guess.

wannabegard

saw five minutes of it. It was ****e

mad m

callaway92 wrote: »

Men dragged along by the other halves is very common for this.

Yes and I was one....Dont know what all the fuss is about. Wife said book is much better. Her ears sprang up when an ad on Tv said the 2nd book will be free in this Sundays Indo.....jaysus god help me.

Corvo

mad m wrote: »

Yes and I was one....Dont know what all the fuss is about. Wife said book is much better. Her ears sprang up when an ad on Tv said the 2nd book will be free in this Sundays Indo.....jaysus god help me.

Woo HOO!

I mean...must pick that up for one of the girls in work...

Harry Palmr

Expected -

from boxofficemojo

Coming off a massive holiday weekend, Fifty Shades of Grey plummeted 73 percent in its second outing. Still, the movie easily held on the top spot this weekend with $23.2 million.

It'll be dead as a duck by this time next week. Not that the releasing company will care of course but the sequels if they are made will almost certainly be far less remunerative.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Expected -

from boxofficemojo



It'll be dead as a duck by this time next week. Not that the releasing company will care of course but the sequels if they are made will almost certainly be far less remunerative.

The budget was only about 40 million so it made that twice over in its opening weekend. The problem with the sequels, if you believe the rumours, seems to be the "author" of the books is demanding she gets to write the scripts for the next two which I don't think anyone at the studio is on board with. I'd assume the sequels would have been included in whatever deal she signed originally though.

Mr Freeze

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

The problem with the sequels, if you believe the rumours, seems to be the "author" of the books is demanding she gets to write the scripts for the next two....

Heard that too, and that Sam Taylor-Johnson is not returning due to conflicts with E. L. James.

Dornan supposedly out too.

Could just be tabloid nonsense stories for all I know, I just heard it on the radio, It's not a film series I will be watching.

Loughc

Mr Freeze wrote: »

Heard that too, and that Sam Taylor-Johnson is not returning due to conflicts with E. L. James.

Dornan supposedly out too.

Could just be tabloid nonsense stories for all I know, I just heard it on the radio, It's not a film series I will be watching.

Dornan signed on for three movies from the start I think.

Mr Freeze

Loughc wrote: »

Dornan signed on for three movies from the start I think.

That is what I would have assumed too.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

I suppose it depends on what exactly the contracts stated. The actors would have been tied down, excuse the expression, for all 3 but if there was specifics about writers/directors etc. Maybe they can get out of it.

FloatingVoter

Sequels will probably be straight to DVD with different actors. It's one thing getting tied to a Bond or Indiana Jones franchise. Quite another to turn a promising career into soft-porn typecasting.
There are plenty of half decent actors doing porn at the moment who'd probably look at 50 Shades part VII as a bridhe into straight drama.

Mr Freeze

FloatingVoter wrote: »

Sequels will probably be straight to DVD with different actors.....

After a Budget of $40 million and a Box office take of $409.7 million so far.

They will make 2 and 3 for a bit cheaper than 40m, with the same actors or different actors and still release it for a huge profit.

Even if they only do between 100 - 200 million, the studio does well out of them.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

I don't know about the sequels to be honest. This one had done huge numbers but like the books a lot of people went put of curiosity. Unless they were hugely impressed by the first one are they likely to go back a second and third time? Also will the sequels be able to generate as much publicity now we know the film version is actually very tame in terms of the sex and there's no big frenzy around it all?

tmh106

I haven't seen the film, or read the book, save for a few pages while waiting in the departure area of Dublin airport. But from what I have read about it I'd have thought there would be a lot of squeals.

tmh

JP Liz V1

Dakota Johnson and her mum Melanie Griffith had a bit of a "fight" about the film on Oscar red carpet, I think Melanie wont see it, Melanie has bared quite a lot of herself in past films too

rob316

Watched it last night what a terrible piece of crap. More like a comedy it was so bad.

Sleepy

Dornan definitely seems to regret signing on for it at all... from the sounds of things he just can't afford to walk away from it.

spacecoyote

Most entertaining thing I've seen come out of this movie :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqTFGUn4U8c

descheness

Sooo..is it worth watching?

conor_ie

Depends.. Have you read the books?!

descheness

I read the first and second and most of the third but I stopped reading because I found it a bit repetitive!

Bacchus

Might get a bit of insight in the movie thread...

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056696305

conor_ie

I've seen the movie with friends who read the books and they said it didn't live up at all.. I personally laughed through the first half of the movie and cringed when it got a bit naughty...

descheness

Hahah yeah I feel like it would be more funny for me if anything

descheness

that video is hilarious

Day Lewin

Not a great film. If you want to see good cinema, you can spend your ticket money better.

It's not the worst I've seen either, by a long chalk, visually speaking. But the script is achingly awful and the superficial treatment of adult subject matter is distasteful to many.

For a much more subtle and insightful view of a BDSM relationship between two women, beautifully filmed, go and see "The Duke of Burgundy".

reelsmash

I wonder why fifty shades of grey has been a big this year 2015 hit although for me it wasn't that good as a movie.. There are much more movies that has more substance than it is.. I even classify it as a softcore..

Frank O. Pinion

Watched this today. I haven't read the books, but judging the film on its own, I don't know what the fuss is about. Contrary to all the faux outrage from "feminists", everything shown between the two leads was consensual and there was no rape or unwanted "abuse". When the female asked the male to stop or leave her alone, he did.

It's romantic BDSM fiction, and most of the negativity it has received is from people who would never usually watch something like that, except for the hype. I felt it was like a glossy, Hollywood version of 2002's Secretary, a much better film.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

Did you guys see that yer woman's husband is going to write the sequels now? Amazing.

Robsweezie

Jamie dornan looked odd in all that makeup, watch him in 50 shades and then see him in the fall, much more natural and overall better performance.