'Fifty Shades Of Grey' Spanks Box Office With $30.2M Friday!

[garyoak99]

Anyway, it was indeed the “best day ever” for fans of Fifty Shades of Grey as well as anyone with a financial stake in the movie, as the much-discussed erotic drama began its box office domination with a (a)rousing $30.244 million Friday debut, including $8.6m worth of Thursday previews. Among R-rated movies, it’s the fourth-biggest debut behind American Sniper ($30.6m), The Hangover part II ($31.6m) and The Matrix Reloaded ($42m), both of which oddly enough were Thursdays. This is a smashing start, the biggest opening day in February history, to a most unusual would-be blockbuster.

Fifty Shades of Grey is an R-rated would-be franchise starter featuring a female as its lead and explicitly targeting adult women as its prime demographic. It’s directed by a woman, written by a woman, based on a book written by a woman. Anyone of those details would make it abnormal it today’s landscape. All of them combined are almost a statistical impossibility. So yes, regardless of whether you like the film and regardless of whether you approve of its content, its unqualified box office victory is a huge deal and a net-positive for those like me who whine about gender parity in Hollywood.

To wit, the Dakota Johnson/Jamie Dornan film is written by Kelly Marcel and directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson, and of course its adapted from E.L. James’s book which began life as Twilight fan-fiction.

'Fifty Shades Of Grey' Spanks Box Office With $30.2M Friday

[Malee]

It could have been directed and written by a man, and let's face truth the women going to see this movie aren't going for the female lead, and it still would have made a crap ton of money. A built in fan base, including the twilight fandom, were driving the profit of this movie.

[Faustine Liem]

If I wanted to watch porn I would watch porn.

[Malee]

Faustine Liem

If I wanted to watch porn I would watch porn.

It can only wish it was porn.

[Very Horrorshow]

You know what the worst thing about this movie was; it was BORING. Talking up what's supposed to be a porn level sleazefest, and what we get is a held-back cut rate version of "The Secretary" with a male lead that couldn't dominate a paper bag.

It's bad, and not even in the entertaining way.

[SHINee_501]

domestic violence being passed off as BDSM. The people I have spoken too agree this is nothing like BDSM and is disgusting.

[azulmagia]

So, is it a good thing or a bad thing that Emma Watson was not cast in this?

[Malee]

blacklivesmatter

domestic violence being passed off as BDSM. The people I have spoken too agree this is nothing like BDSM and is disgusting.

The frustrating part is when you try to point this out to people they get all defensive and accuse you of not liking kink or not understanding BDSM.

[Alexander J Luthor]

Malee

blacklivesmatter

domestic violence being passed off as BDSM. The people I have spoken too agree this is nothing like BDSM and is disgusting.

The frustrating part is when you try to point this out to people they get all defensive and accuse you of not liking kink or not understanding BDSM.

what pisses me off is I was watching the news the other day and they were talking about how the theaters here were all sold out and some idiot woman comes on claining to be a nurse and she was just like: "well I've worked in the emergency room and with abused patients and it was never like this, so..." as if because she's never seen this before that it doesn't happen.

[Hadronyche]

Malee

blacklivesmatter

domestic violence being passed off as BDSM. The people I have spoken too agree this is nothing like BDSM and is disgusting.

The frustrating part is when you try to point this out to people they get all defensive and accuse you of not liking kink or not understanding BDSM.

Even though I am in the BDSM scene, I get accused of this all the time whenever I try to explain why 50 is simply trussed up domestic abuse.
It's pretty dangerous to go into the BDSM scene half-cocked, only getting your information from a badly written fanfiction. There are a lot of bad people who find refuge in this scene because we're very accepting of kink and we as a community do our best to steer newcomers away from them, but there is only so much you can do.

[David2074]

blacklivesmatter

domestic violence being passed off as BDSM. The people I have spoken too agree this is nothing like BDSM and is disgusting.

Yeah, a couple of my FB friends are into BDSM, including one who is an author and has published books with that theme. In general they are rather peeved at what supposedly passes as BDSM in 50 shades, particularly in the movie version.
Can't really say myself. Not my scene and have not read the book or seen the movie. Neither interest me.

[N3bu]

garyoak99

Fifty Shades of Grey is an R-rated would-be franchise starter featuring a female as its lead and explicitly targeting adult women as its prime demographic. It’s directed by a woman, written by a woman, based on a book written by a woman. Anyone of those details would make it abnormal it today’s landscape. All of them combined are almost a statistical impossibility. So yes, regardless of whether you like the film and regardless of whether you approve of its content, its unqualified box office victory is a huge deal and a net-positive for those like me who whine about gender parity in Hollywood.

If your willing to consider poorly written smut with no artistic integrity a win for the gender, then I'm not sure you really believe in it.

[SHINee_501]

David2074

blacklivesmatter

domestic violence being passed off as BDSM. The people I have spoken too agree this is nothing like BDSM and is disgusting.

Yeah, a couple of my FB friends are into BDSM, including one who is an author and has published books with that theme. In general they are rather peeved at what supposedly passes as BDSM in 50 shades, particularly in the movie version.
Can't really say myself. Not my scene and have not read the book or seen the movie. Neither interest me.

literally if you're into erotica just read a Zane book. She's been writing urban erotica for YEARS. Fifty Shades is bullshit. I can't believe folks are buying this s**t

[SHINee_501]

Alexander J Luthor

Malee

blacklivesmatter

domestic violence being passed off as BDSM. The people I have spoken too agree this is nothing like BDSM and is disgusting.

The frustrating part is when you try to point this out to people they get all defensive and accuse you of not liking kink or not understanding BDSM.

what pisses me off is I was watching the news the other day and they were talking about how the theaters here were all sold out and some idiot woman comes on claining to be a nurse and she was just like: "well I've worked in the emergency room and with abused patients and it was never like this, so..." as if because she's never seen this before that it doesn't happen.

ugh honestly this is so disgusting. folks are buying it because its vday but has anyone actually read about BDSM like seriously this doesn't even come close jesus

[David2074]

blacklivesmatter

Alexander J Luthor

Malee

blacklivesmatter

domestic violence being passed off as BDSM. The people I have spoken too agree this is nothing like BDSM and is disgusting.

The frustrating part is when you try to point this out to people they get all defensive and accuse you of not liking kink or not understanding BDSM.

what pisses me off is I was watching the news the other day and they were talking about how the theaters here were all sold out and some idiot woman comes on claining to be a nurse and she was just like: "well I've worked in the emergency room and with abused patients and it was never like this, so..." as if because she's never seen this before that it doesn't happen.

ugh honestly this is so disgusting. folks are buying it because its vday but has anyone actually read about BDSM like seriously this doesn't even come close jesus

I think a lot of Americans are content to accept the "Hollywood" version of a lot of things.
Kind of like how a lot of folks think the Kama Sutra is just a manual of sexual positions.