50 Shades of Grey (Trailer)

[Deion22 Member Find all posts View Profile Close Deion22]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4nJX8snP4s#t=128

What the hell? This looks like a bad porno. I had a feeling this was one of those books that wouldn't translate well to screen.

[Vance User Find all posts View Profile Close Vance]

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Wasn't the novel essentially a bad porno? This kind of feels like kicking a corpse in the ear.

[EdFury Member Find all posts View Profile Close EdFury]

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And 20 million women read it for book club. It will make money. It looks God awful, but it will make money.

[Alfred Parker User Find all posts View Profile Close Alfred Parker]

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I like how they spent 3/4 of the trailer trying to tell us... "See it's not really porn - it's an interesting/ high class story about a young woman's journey of discovery in a world that's foreign to her and..."

Then the last 30 seconds...

"Nahhh just kidding... it is porn."

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And 20 million women read it for book club. It will make money. It looks God awful, but it will make money.

Yes. This.

I like how they spent 3/4 of the trailer trying to tell us... "See it's not really porn - it's an interesting/ high class story about a young woman's journey of discovery in a world that's foreign to her and..."

Then the last 30 seconds...

"Nahhh just kidding... it is porn."

They talked about "elevating" the material.

I've read the books. I've read far worse books. But this just looks ... meh.

[Tochirta Member Find all posts View Profile Close Tochirta]

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But this just looks ... meh.

'meh' sells. consistently.

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'meh' sells. consistently.

That it does. In this case, it would have to be really, really, really awful to not sell, and even then people would see it just to see how bad it is. They really can't lose.

[christopher jon Member Find all posts View Profile Close christopher jon]

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I can't wait for redtube: the motion picture.

[Anointed Regular Find all posts View Profile Close Anointed]

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I can't wait for redtube: the motion picture.

lol, not like I know what redtube is.

[FoxHound Member Find all posts View Profile Close FoxHound]

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Why do these popular woman's books look so terrible on screen? It looks just as storyless as Twilight... Wait a sec, do these books even have a story?

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Just saw the trailer...

Yeah, it looks like Twilight. Gag.

Late Night Writer

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Why do these popular woman's books look so terrible on screen? It looks just as storyless as Twilight... Wait a sec, do these books even have a story?

Just saw the trailer...

Yeah, it looks like Twilight. Gag.

Late Night Writer

lol. You guys. The first book was Twilight fanfiction. Not joking.

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That actually looks much better than I thought it was going to be, to tell you the truth. Sparser than I'd imagined. I think the screenwriter (Kelly Marcel) may have managed to elevate it.

A sadist read me a slew of the "inner goddess" passages, knowing I'd have a fit. I'd envisaged the damn goddess dancing in an inset in the corner of the screen. That doesn't look like it'll happen given the look of this.

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I can't really explain why, but I was suddenly compelled to make a slight tweak to the trailer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLgCNA_D2NM

[Pasquali56 Member Find all posts View Profile Close Pasquali56]

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Not that it really matters for this film, but I find it interesting that they're releasing it in time for Valentine's Day. How romantic.