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[James S Cassidy]

Fifty Shades of Grey: The movie.....Fifity Shades.....of Grey.....the movie.

http://www.usmagazin...an-grey-2014186

"We won't fund Ghostbusters 3, but we will fund Fifty Shades of Grey"
-Hollywood.

[TouKen4Life3g]

I love that scene, especially how literal it is. Anyway...god help us all.

[Konohakitten]

I still can't get over that it was a Twilight fanfic at first.

[Mik3]

I still can't get over that it was a Twilight fanfic at first.

 

 

I'm not surprised

[sushi.]

I still can't get over that it was a Twilight fanfic at first.

And Twilight was bad in itself.

[Inferno180]

Really.....

Wow, standards have fallen haven't they?

This makes more night shyamalas the last airbender look like a decent movie just from this announcement.

Maybe they should have Gilbert Gottfried narrate it?

[Nate River]

Really.....

Wow, standards have fallen haven't they?

This makes more night shyamalas the last airbender look like a decent movie just from this announcement.

Maybe they should have Gilbert Gottfried narrate it?

Fallen? I've suffered through Tank Girl, Half Baked and anything produced by Kevin Smith. Those preceded this and were even worse. So the fall was long ago. The book was very successful and Hollywood ran out of ideas ages again. No surprise.

[shadow_Uzumaki]

Isn't anything new.  Charlie Hunnam from Sons of Anarchy and Pacific Rim was supposed to play the main guy before (wisely) backing out a year ago.

[KnS]

The book was very successful

 

Yes, and what a sad testimony to the lurid tastes of humanity.  The only reason it was successful was due to the shameless setup of an inexperienced girl being exposed (literally) to BDSM by a sexual predator as a "plot."  

 

It's considered neither inspired nor well-written, and only found an audience because of its prurient subject matter. 

 

Best news of all?  It's supposedly the first installment of a trilogy.  

[questdrivencollie]

 

Yes, and what a sad testimony to the lurid tastes of humanity.  The only reason it was successful was due to the shameless setup of an inexperienced girl being exposed (literally) to BDSM by a sexual predator as a "plot."  

 

It's considered neither inspired nor well-written, and only found an audience because of its prurient subject matter. 

 

Best news of all?  It's supposedly the first installment of a trilogy.  

I guess it's true that sex sells.

[KonaKonaFan]

Hollywood has been making popular books into movies for a long-ass time, for better or for worse. This really isn't anything surprising or new. However... I'm really interested in what this film will do to the NC-17 rating, since pretty much no mainstream films have attempted the rating since Showgirls, successfully at least. I might see the movie out of curiosity? I mean, I'm not embarrassed by the fetish stuff (it's all romanticized anyway), and this movie MIIIIIIIIGHT have the potential of making film history, especially since the 50 Shades of Grey book made young adult novel history. I mean, it'll be awful either way, but still.

[TouKen4Life3g]

True about Hollywood. Still...why! That money...could have gone to anything else. Why!

[Konohakitten]

Hollywood has been making popular books into movies for a long-ass time, for better or for worse. This really isn't anything surprising or new. However... I'm really interested in what this film will do to the NC-17 rating, since pretty much no mainstream films have attempted the rating since Showgirls, successfully at least. I might see the movie out of curiosity? I mean, I'm not embarrassed by the fetish stuff (it's all romanticized anyway), and this movie MIIIIIIIIGHT have the potential of making film history, especially since the 50 Shades of Grey book made young adult novel history. I mean, it'll be awful either way, but still.

 

I want to see what they rate it too. I read through a few pages at random when I was at the bookstore and there is no way it can just get an R rating. If it did then why bother making it into a movie? Hollywood has been making a lot of books into movies, and it gets to me because you'll have people who don't read love the movie but right our refuse to read the book. However I have seen people get so hyped that they read the whole series so that they know what is in store for them, so I guess it's a double edged sword. I also saw a trailer for the Giver the other day and I said to myself  "Wow just about any book is up for grabs now."

[Iwantbuns]

This movie is going to be frightening. I can feel it. *shudder*

[Strangelove]

Well...I shall now add that to the list of movies I will never see.

[KonaKonaFan]

 

I want to see what they rate it too. I read through a few pages at random when I was at the bookstore and there is no way it can just get an R rating. If it did then why bother making it into a movie? Hollywood has been making a lot of books into movies, and it gets to me because you'll have people who don't read love the movie but right our refuse to read the book. However I have seen people get so hyped that they read the whole series so that they know what is in store for them, so I guess it's a double edged sword. I also saw a trailer for the Giver the other day and I said to myself  "Wow just about any book is up for grabs now."

Apparently there will be an NC-17 rated one and an R rated one? Most people will probably see the NC-17 one though.

[dylanrivers10000]

i never seen it though i should

[rikakim94]

 Heres the official trailer for the film.

 

Edited by rikakim94, 25 July 2014 - 05:06 AM.

[Lid]

Is Hollywood really out of ideas? Absolutely not. There are tons of original films, and plenty of good ones, too. This list below shows some of my favorite films that were original concepts since 2011. They were well excecuted and/or a lot of fun to watch.

 

• Pacific Rim
• The World's End
• Her
• Nebraska
• Inside Llewyn Davis
• Prisoners
• Snowpiercer
• Gravity
• Midnight in Paris
• The Artist
• Inception
• Django Unchained
• Chronicle
• Magic Mike
• 50/50
• Martha Marcy May Marlene
• Warrior

 

That being said, it's easy to see why people think that Hollywood is out of ideas. There are a lot of remakes, book adaptions and sequels. The reason for that, though, is that most people, mainly general movie audiences, enjoy or at least prefer seeing something that is familiar. Cabin in the Woods was a great satirical horror film and made just over $66 million world wide. Paranormal Activity 4 made over $142 million world wide. You do the math.

 

Fact is. Hollywood has a lot of originality. There are a lot of original scripts out there. Go to any film festival around the country. There are tons of fine original movies. The fact is, most audiences (judging by box office results), want the things that are familiar and within their comfort zone, like a comfort food, if you will. The people who are willing to take a chance when at the theater and see the more original film is a minority. Even with the movies I listed, which were good original films, they either had to rely on a known director (Pacific Rim) or get Oscar buzz (The Artist) to have any success.

 

The point is, studio execs realize that people have movies that are like comfort foods. They can hire a director and writers who can come up with a new movie based on something or a sequel to something and do it easier than coming up with something original, and they know it will break even. So of course they will go with that direction. It's guaranteed money.

 

So in this case, we have Fifty Shades of Grey. Studio execs saw that there was a ton of buzz for it, they knew it would have an audience, and they know they can bank on it. So of course they jumped on it. It's not a question of originality, it's just about making money.

 

In regards to the level of standards, there have been movies at the bottom of the barrel which rely on the lowest common denominator in other genres for a while, Grown Ups 2 in comedy or the later Saw movies for horror are good, recent examples. It has simply now spread to the romance based on books genre.

 

Now, as for thoughts on the movie? It looks terrible, like a Lifetime movie that snuck its way onto Cinemax.

Edited by Lid, 25 July 2014 - 06:16 AM.

[KonaKonaFan]

Oh god, watching the trailer just made me realize how much I don't want to see the movie. Unfortunately, I work as a server at a dine-in theatre, so I'll likely have to watch at least some of it.