Can I make a confession?

steph861 · September 2014

I've watched the 50 Shades of Grey trailer about five times today. I haven't read the books, nor do I have any desire to. The entire premise of the book bothers me.

But the trailer. That elevator kiss. My God. I may have to shame-watch this movie... Please tell me I'm not the only one feeling conflicted.

wrigleyville · September 2014

The book was awful. I've read erotica, good erotica, and this just suuuuuucked. Plus I wanted to punch both of them in the face.

I haven't watched the trailer yet, but my best girlfriends and I plan to have a couple drinks before going to see it. We aren't so rude as to snicker and make fun of it, since we don't want to ruin anyone's night out, so we're going to have a snarkfest afterward.

steph861 · September 2014

wrigleyville said:
The book was awful. I've read erotica, good erotica, and this just suuuuuucked. Plus I wanted to punch both of them in the face.

I haven't watched the trailer yet, but my best girlfriends and I plan to have a couple drinks before going to see it. We aren't so rude as to snicker and make fun of it, since we don't want to ruin anyone's night out, so we're going to have a snarkfest afterward.

Ha! My cousin and his friends did that with The Notebook, but worse. They brought a box of Kleenex and loudly pretended to cry.

hikebikebemerry · September 2014

So I watched the trailer (just now) to see what the dealio was.

I wanted to punch myself in the face.

The first part looked like it was for the next Twilight movie. The second part looked like it was from Hostel or American Psycho.

That trailer just reminded my why I am not reading the books!

I would like to add, I'm really picky about movies, and no part of me judges people for wanting to see this movie.

beethery · September 2014

Read Jenny Trout's recaps. They are hilarious, and will make you feel better about humanity.

steph861 · September 2014

hikebikebemerry said:
So I watched the trailer (just now) to see what the dealio was.

I wanted to punch myself in the face.

The first part looked like it was for the next Twilight movie. The second part looked like it was from Hostel or American Psycho.

That trailer just reminded my why I am not reading the books!

I would like to add, I'm really picky about movies, and no part of me judges people for wanting to see this movie.

It does look awful, there's no doubt about that. And having read the synopses for all three books, I absolutely want to punch both of them in the face.

It's that damn elevator kiss in the trailer, though. That's why I keep watching.

jdluvr06 · September 2014

The books were just terrible. I will not be seeing this movie. If the books were that bad imagine how terrible the movie will be? I'm so happy Charlie Hunnam dropped out of the movie. He is way better than that.

Ndelible · September 2014

Haven't read the book and have no interest in seeing the movie. And I'm an erotic literature fan.

Nope. Just can't.

LadyMillil · September 2014

steph11814 said:

I've watched the 50 Shades of Grey trailer about five times today. I haven't read the books, nor do I have any desire to. The entire premise of the book bothers me. But the trailer. That elevator kiss. My God. I may have to shame-watch this movie... Please tell me I'm not the only one feeling conflicted.

The books are fine if you want a mindless read and don't think about what you're reading. If you think about it, they are absolutely horrible. Ditto @beethery to check out Jenny Trout recaps

I'm really curious how they show all the sex stuff in the movie. I *may* need to convince some friends to have a few drinks before/bring a fun flask and go see this, but I don't know how successful that will be.

falsara · September 2014

Haven't read the books. Probably not going to see the movie, because I doubt that it will be that great. They've changed the actor 3 times and I think they've changed the actress at least twice. And these drop outs were in the middle of shooting so it's really doubtful that its any good.

lyndausvi · September 2014

The books were horrible. That said, while reading them I thought they could make a decent movie. Can't say this often, but I think this could be a rare case that the movie is better than the book.

JennyColada · September 2014

I've been recommended that book SO many times by my friends. I find it really distressing.

It's funny though, me and Fi do a little BDSM play, and our play room is refered to as the "red room" (the walls are painted red). I guess that's what the girl in the book calls his too. Ha.

AddieCake · September 2014

I'm newly annoyed by the books/movie. I've always been annoyed b/c I find BDSM for soccer moms disrespectful (for lack of a better word) to real BDSM lifestyles. Additionally, now they are going to make Anne Rice's Sleeping Beauty books into a TV series, and that just aggravates me so much because they are MUCH better, BUT they are not going to translate well for TV. Let's make BDSM cool and trendy and have everybody thinking they "get" it now! Ugh.

duhitsd · September 2014

hikebikebemerry said:

So I watched the trailer (just now) to see what the dealio was.

I wanted to punch myself in the face.

The first part looked like it was for the next Twilight movie. The second part looked like it was from Hostel or American Psycho.

That trailer just reminded my why I am not reading the books!

I would like to add, I'm really picky about movies, and no part of me judges people for wanting to see this movie.

To the bolded - Fifty Shades originally started as a fan fiction of Twilight. Once EL James decided to actually publish the book she just replaced all the names and tada, totally different story.

I agree that the book was not the best written piece of literature. Since Ana was originally Bella there are parts that remind you of twilight, like that interview in Christian's office.

A few of my girlfriends and I are planning to go see the movie but I think we are going to wait until after all the craze of the first couple weeks.

doeydo · September 2014

Really? I thoguht the trailer sucked. I thought it was supposed to be this ultra-cool guy that's practically perfect in every way, but they picked this nerdy looking guy. Don't get me wrong, nerdy guys can be cute, but not for Christian.

BreMR · September 2014

Thanks to @beethery I read Jenny Trout's recap about a month or so ago and it was the best passage of time on the internet I've had in years. I had tried to read the books and couldn't figure out why exactly I hated them.. .Jenny Trout put it to words exactly what I felt.

hellosweetie1015 · September 2014

duhitsd said:

hikebikebemerry said:

So I watched the trailer (just now) to see what the dealio was.

I wanted to punch myself in the face.

The first part looked like it was for the next Twilight movie. The second part looked like it was from Hostel or American Psycho.

That trailer just reminded my why I am not reading the books!

I would like to add, I'm really picky about movies, and no part of me judges people for wanting to see this movie.

To the bolded - Fifty Shades originally started as a fan fiction of Twilight. Once EL James decided to actually publish the book she just replaced all the names and tada, totally different story.

I agree that the book was not the best written piece of literature. Since Ana was originally Bella there are parts that remind you of twilight, like that interview in Christian's office.

A few of my girlfriends and I are planning to go see the movie but I think we are going to wait until after all the craze of the first couple weeks.

So.... y'all are gonna make major fun. But if you read the books, and if you've read Twilight, you can actually find phrases in Fifty Shades that were lifted WORD FOR WORD from Twilight.

The books were awful. I'm not even going to watch the trailer for the movies. I am a horrible creature who will read pretty much anything you give me, but I have a hard time supporting movies made from books I like, so there's no way in hell I'm supporting a movie based off a book I didn't.

chibiyui · September 2014

I don't advocate pirating of movies and tv shows, but this movie I would pirate, because fuck everyone involved.

smalfrie19 · September 2014

My bff and I are going to wait and rent it and watch it while drinking.

artbyallie · September 2014

doeydo said:

Really? I thoguht the trailer sucked. I thought it was supposed to be this ultra-cool guy that's practically perfect in every way, but they picked this nerdy looking guy. Don't get me wrong, nerdy guys can be cute, but not for Christian.

I read them only through Jenny's blog, but really? Christian is an abusive asshole and it's exactly the OMG-swoony reaction that pisses me the hell off about women who enjoyed those books. I mean, they're actually well-written if they were about an abuser and his victim, but they're explicitly intended to be romance and as such are dangerously poorly written.

Ana is also ridiculously infantilized by the author. Creepsome.

And, finally, Jamie Dornan is not remotely nerdy-looking. He's an insanely sexy Irishman. Om nom nom. (Although why he is playing a shitty American written by a Brit??? Desperate for work much?)

beethery · September 2014

Jamie Dornan was so fucking hot as Count Fersen in Marie Antoinette.

That said, the shrinking violet-omg I'm afraid to do life as a normal adult-but I can save you from your sickness, which is S&M* and being an abusive perineal wart, with my vag that will make you actually feel love-bullshit championed by this book makes me want to take battering rams to that lady's house.

S&M is not a sickness to be cured. It is not something to ~~~~save anybody from. I swear to god, she wrote Ana to be like Nell, who lived in the woods and had no exposure to anything. Except Ana was a college graduate that lived with a rich girl and still somehow had no life experience, hell she didn't know how to use a fucking CELL PHONE, like she grew up in Plato's Allegory in the God Damn Cave.

I know a girl who loves these books. She has said to me multiple times that she wishes her bf was like Chedward. Ok, you want a dude who will stalk you, fuck with your head, and eventually start physically abusing you with unsafe S&M practices and emotional abuse. That's what you want????

I was 3/4 of the way through the JT's recap of the first book and was just blown away by how lame they were, and that Chedward was such a worthless douche and Ana was a simpering moron. My friend said he got better throughout the books. I read through the recaps, and he most certainly did not.

Spoiler below (for those who give a rat's ass), highlight between the asterisks:

*So when she goes out with her friend, accompanied by her ~*security team*~, against Ol ChEddie's wishes, and Creep McGoo former boss breaks into the house and messes shit up, luckily she's not home when this goes down, right?

Fucking Chedward is somehow MAD THAT SHE WASN'T HOME, and goes "I want to beat the shit out of you." Because she wasn't home for the break-in as Chedward commanded. Yeah that's fucking healthy. Yup. He's gotten so much better. He sounds completely cured by her magical vagina.*

YEAH SOUNDS LIKE A FUCKING MASSIVE IMPROVEMENT. Excellent job everybody. Husband, significant other, general all-around person of the fucking year. We can all just quit trying, because he's clearly got it locked down.

This shit makes me rage, and I just want to just send flowcharts of his craptacularity to the imbeciles who want a person like that to spice up their lives. YOU DUMB.

Sorrynotsorry for the long post. It is late as hell and I hate the shit in these damn books.

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