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Those two in it, are hot. And he, is especially hot. I'm waiting till the hystericals have finished going.
In any case, it's soft porn for women. Feminists hate it - what's new? I don't give a shit. It was interesting watching the Graham Norton show when they were interviewing the unkempt star, whose name I can't be arsed looking up, and Graham asked the women in the audience who had read the book. Most put their hands up. When he asked the men, a small handful put their hands up.
One of my neighbours read the book and in a couple of months dumped her husband and now lives in a D&S relationship. He was devastated. No doubt he is to blame somehow...
The sales of these badly written, but oh so popular books, proves women everywhere, wanna play.
The movie, looks good to me. Of course, I've had to hand in my Feminist badge, just till after I see it.
I enjoyed Fifty Shades of Eh In the Canadian weekly, Maclean's.*
http://www.macleans.ca/authors/scott-fes…
*Warning: it does involve Timbits.
Personally, I'd rather have a root canal than watch "50 Shades". I think I'll have a rewatch this week of "Secretary" where both splendidly-engaging actors ramp up arousal and anticipation. One of my RL/FB friends posted a link about the superiority of the latter film.
Next up on my cinematic journey: Hawking and Turing.
I'd rather see a full length movie about Christian Mann from "Verbotene Liebe". He's hot.
While individual films, like Gravity, fail the Bechdel test despite having a strong female lead, that is the exception to the rule. The Bechdel test nevertheless speaks volumes about the movie industry as a whole.
Me thinks you'all protest too much.
and you are the in the moment topic, guy.
this movie has been directed by the woman, who did Nowhere Man. A great movie about John Lennon's painful early life.
She's a talented Director. The girl in it, the daughter of Melanie Griffiths and Dan Johnson, is a treat. She may be Miss Innocent, but you can see she isn't going to be for long.
The actor, lovely man from the UK. New dad, and sexy as hell.
What's not to like. I don't know if the erotic content is good. Yet to find out.
Really, though- how many mainstream movies come out, that has erotic content.
How much mainstream erotica is out there. I've not seen a lot of good erotica in mainstream movies.
The Movie " In The Cut", has the best erotic content, I've ever seen.
And that's only part of the story, it's a murder mystery.
Another female director, from New Zealand. Starring Mark Raffalo and Meg Ryan. And some very steamy scenes. Not too explicit, but erotic.
Wolfe of wall St? A few moments.
Blue is the Warmest Colour.. A beautiful movie. Tainted by issues between stars and Director.
Seriously can't remember any.
Then, I'm not a big movie going person. My kids are into movies though, so I catch what they are watching.
Murder and mayhem.
So when a well made erotic movie comes out, I will go see it.
Christian Gray's romantic gestures can be seen as creepy (like sneaking into Anna's apartment, or following her when she goes out to visit her Mom) but they are no dumber than the kind of crap that gets written of as "romantic" when it happens in a film starring Hugh Grant.
The worst part about seeing it is that I am now obligated to defend it (even though I didn't like it) against people who have NOT seen it, but who insist that it glorifies sexual abuse. There are plenty of other reasons not to see 50 Shades, if you are looking for a film about sexual abuse, there are plenty of others that are far worse.
Frankly, I heard it was boring.
Also, the Bechdel test is a thought experiment and rhetorical device, it realy does not mean anything past that.
Citizen Kane? Nope.
Lawrence of Arabia? Out of the question.
2001 (or for that matter, anything from the oeuvre of Stanley Kubrick)? You must be joking!
(sigh)
On the odd occasion she has been GGG enough to come with me to see movies that are clearly not to her taste (Gravity, The Lego Movie, et al).
Luckily, we have been able to negotiate an "opening up" of our relationship such that she wouldn't begrudge me a cinema experience without her, if the show in question were sufficiently unappealing. It's a DADT thing.
I felt a bit like Tom Townsend in Metropolitan, who read literary criticism but not the literature it discussed, but I was curious about how the Slate crowd would review the film in their various articles (without personally giving half a fig for book or film, either fitting FTWL). A bad film about which the best thing they could say was that it was really about how all the male character needed was the Love of a Good, Strong Woman to turn him Vanilla seemed right up their alley.