Should Fifty Shades Of Grey Be Condemned Rather Than Praised?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/sex/11402586/Three-reasons-women-have-to-watch-Fifty-Shades-of-Grey.html

Here is described as a 'Chick Flick' Why??????????

I have not read the book or had any wish to see the film, but what is all this hype surrounding 'Fifty Shades of Grey'?

As far as I can see it is nothing more than a mild form of porn, which is now showing to be such a problem amongst our young.

[Slapshot]

........but a little toastier since the film just premiered..... what's acceptable....easy, it's whatever you as an individual finds acceptable

[anotheoldgit]

Slapshot

/// ........but a little toastier since the film just premiered..... what's acceptable....easy, it's whatever you as an individual finds acceptable ///

Many things can be acceptable to some individuals, but certainly not acceptable to the general public at large.

[Fusion5]

From what was being said on Graham Norton Show last night it seems to be all S & M and domination type sex. The last time I got tied up was in my shed looking for my garden shears, I fell into a roll of garden netting, did nothing for me, so will give the film a miss {:0(

[Slapshot]

only because this country is still stuck in the dark ages with many things including it's attitudes to Sex and anything even vaugely related to it

[Prudie]

I don't really know what the question is here? I gave up on the book very early on but millions did read it and I daresay enjoy it otherwise why did she write 2 more? A colleague forgot to pick her kids up from so school she was so engrossed. It's easy to say it was a load of crap, much harder to admit you enjoyed it. It was just a 'beach' read and yes what I would call chick-lit.

[andy-hughes]

Every few weeks a new 'hype' arrives, be it a book, film, pop song, whatever, and the media goes mad over it, and a section of the public will follow.

The level of hype, and the level of success are absolutely no indication of the worth or value of the hyped subject, and once again this is the case.

It will run for a few weeks, die down and be superceded, and then forgotten.

Remember The Da Vinci Code? A lousy clunker with a silly story made into an indifferent film and hyped to be the greatest thing since Shakespere.

This is simply more of the same, with the added titillation that some sex is involved.

Critically the film has bombed, which means nothing in terms of public reception to book or film.

Should it be condemned? In terms of what? Lousy writing and filming? Probably - not read or seen so can't say.

In terms of pornography - no, this is nothing like what anyone watches on the internet - no-one goes to a public cinema to watch pornography these days.

So let it roll on, and rapidly into obscurity where it probably belongs - I just wish I had written the books - the money must be awesome!

[maera]

have no wish to read it, it's gone right down the listings, not so popular now in libraries and charity shops are refusing it. probably come to end of it's sordid life.

[andy-hughes]

maera - I suspect charity shops are refusing it because they have too many copies - why give shelf space to loads of copies of the same book when you can't shift them? Common sense really.

[quizzywig]

I started to read it only because my daughter put it on my kindle when I bought it. I found it utter rubbish and gave up after the girl kept saying "Oh my!" far too often! I usually refer to it a Fifty Shades of Soft Porn - definitely not chick-lit! Must admit I do find Jamie Dornan attractive but not in the trailers for the film.

[B00]

He was gorgeous in The Fall :-)

[albaqwerty]

one thing is for certain, it's making the author an awful lot of money. I heard the actor who portrays Grey has signed up to do the other 2 films in the trilogy and he'll make about 50 million in total (don't know if thats pounds or dollars) so if the actor is making that amount of money, what on earth is the author raking in?

[Fusion5]

I look at Jamie Dornan and see a serial killer. He seemed a nice guy on GN last night. Don't think he is particularly attractive, but love his Irish accent.

[anotheoldgit]

Funny I expected a more protesting response from our female ABers such as those shown in these three newspaper links.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/fifty-shades-of-grey-london-film-premiere-picketed-by-protesters-10043438.html

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/feb/13/fifty-shades-of-grey-domestic-abuse-campaigners-protest-london-premiere

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2950405/The-women-say-Fifty-Shades-glamorises-domestic-violence-plan-protest-film-s-UK-premiere-today.html

[Slapshot]

Nothing to do with domestic violence..... the book suggest a relationship between consenting adults...that's different. Some people will do anything to have a protest and a whine

[albaqwerty]

what 2 (or more) people get up to in the privacy of their home/hotel room/car, and it's consensual, then there's nothing wrong with it.

Some people like to dress up to spice their sex lives, others will do other things.

Some folk are offended just cos they like the sound of their own voices.

[jno]

one of the reasons it became popular was that it wasn't originally a book as such, it was fan-fiction based on the characters in Twilight; the author then put it on her own website, and finally got a book-publishing deal. So it's partly to do with growing hype and a breakthrough in self-publishing, which made it newswrothy. Normally I imagine it would be very much a niche product.

[pixie373]

It isn't offensive. I also only got halfway through. Boring, repetitive tripe with no imagination. I wouldn't bother watching the film, but some people might love it.

[boxtops]

I read book one because all my friends were reading it - they offered to lend me the other two but I was terminally bored by the end. No way would I see the film - and the reviews of it, and the fact that it's got a teen licence, confirm that it's not pornographic. There's more sexual vibrancy for the young in something like Dirty Dancing!

[andres]

Well now for those amongst us who would enjoy being handcuffed to a bed and blindfolded.To be spanked and have your 'inner goddess' (yuk)tickled and have hot steamy breath flow all over you. All this and more by a man who, doesn't like to be touched(problems in his youth) then this could be just the film for you! Personally I much preferred the romance and anticipation of courtship in the fifties .

[Hypognosis]

Typical of protestors, to hear, third hand, that the book is about BDSM and, via some unfathomable leap of logic, link that to a phrase which the rest of the planet understands to mean "wife beating".

Either that or they're using psychic powers to review the film's content before it's actually been screened.

ps There's a Father Ted episode to go with this situation. I do sometimes get blank stares when I quote from it but…

"Down with this sort o' thing"

"Careful now"

(on placards)