LFR loves 50 Shades of Grey.

[dutch508]

It opens Friday.

http://www.harkinstheatres.com/comingSoon.aspx

Lady Freedom Returns (8,208 posts) http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018723596

50 Shades of Grey is.....
if you have yet to go see it, is a movie where extra antiperspirant is a must!!! This is not a first date movie, luckily this was a 5th. date for me and my girlfriend.
Also, if you or the person you may wish to take, are not the risk taker type, then don't get drinks to sip on while watching. You or the person you take may have a spit take issue.

But I HIGHLY recommend this movie for those that like to spice it up a notch!

Celebrate Love, Libations and 50 Shades at Brio Tuscan Grille
http://www.shopwinterparkvillage.net/ai1ec_event/celebrate-love-libations-and-50-shades-at-brio-tuscan-grille/?instance_id=

When: 5Back to Calendar February 12, 2015 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm 
Where: Brio Tuscan Grille Winter Park Village, 480 North Orlando Avenue, Winter Park, FL 32789
 
Aiming to please. “Fifty Shades of Grey” will be shown at an exclusive, private pre-opening, only for guests of BRIO Tuscan Grille at Winter Park Village’s desirable “Fifty Shades” cocktail party. BRIO will be “raising the ordinary to extraordinary” at the soirée, where guests will indulge in sensuous libations and small bites featured in the movie. All are asked to leave vanilla ambitions at the door.

 

There are lot of people who have probably made up their minds in advance about Fifty Shades of Grey – that it's going to be bad, tacky or poorly acted. That it will be a trashy translation of a trashy novel. If they took the trouble to see it, they might be surprised.

Fifty Shades of Grey is not a pleasant surprise, however. It's quite a bleak experience in many ways. Director Sam Taylor-Johnson and screenwriter Kelly Marcel have turned E.L. James' overheated, annoying first-person narrative (the first novel of a trilogy) into a somewhat gloomy vision of expectations and desires, the story of a man's will for control and a woman's resistance. It has some of the trademark moments from the best-selling novel, enough to satisfy ardent readers.

It has an impressive performance from Dakota Johnson (daughter of Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson, granddaughter of Tippi Hedren.) But it doesn't really feel like a date movie.

Fifty Shades is the story of Anastasia Steele (Johnson), a literature student about to graduate, who meets by chance a man called Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan) a billionaire who is immediately taken with her, but also turns out to have an interest in bondage and submission. The book grew out of a piece of Twilight-inspired fan fiction, and there are some vestigial traces of the Edward-Bella tangle still evident, from Christian's sudden, impulsive fascination with Anastasia, to his piano-playing, to the fleeting presence of another suitor (Twilight's Jacob becomes Fifty Shades' Jose.)

Christian has a proposal for Anastasia: it involves a non-disclosure agreement and a contract that specifies a relationship of sexual domination and submission. Anastasia is prepared to hear what he has to offer, even experience some of what he expects her to do, but she has something more in mind. He doesn't do "the romance thing", she's been schooled in 19th-century fiction. It's going to be a struggle, and there will be a winner and there will be a loser.

Anastasia's infuriating narrative voice – all "double crap" and "holy crap" and unnecessarily detailed descriptions of objects – disappears altogether from the screen version. Taylor-Johnson and Marcel have streamlined the story, removed a subplot about her search for a job, but have seen a latent feistiness and self-deprecating sharpness in her character, and made her a more interesting, complex figure. And Johnson strikes just the right balance of diffidence and assertion.

Christian is another story: he's a solitary, uptight figure of wealth and power, used to getting his own way, gradually unbending as Anastasia forces him to give ground. He's a little bit Mr Darcy, a little bit Don Draper, with a touch of Scott Tracy from Thunderbirds. Dornan (best known for his role as a serial killer by night, grief counsellor by day in TV's The Fall) does his best, but has less to work with. And no one can make the trademark phrase, "Laters baby," sound anything but ludicrous.

As a filmmaking team, Marcel and Taylor-Johnson are an interesting combination. Marcel's previous screenplay was Saving Mr Banks, for Disney. Taylor-Johnson is an established video artist and photographer who made her feature debut with Nowhere Boy, a biopic about a young John Lennon. And in the arthouse anthology film Destricted, she investigated taboos alongside the likes of Larry Clark, Richard Prince and Marina Abramovic.

Here, she has less room to move: the sex scenes aren't as explicit or as numerous as they were in the book, and Beyonce's songs on the soundtrack do a lot of the heavy lifting when it comes to atmosphere. There is a genuine issue with the presentation of bondage and domination, in that Christian Grey's use of it is clearly bound up with childhood trauma: his "playroom" of whips, crops, floggers and accoutrements isn't quite Bluebeard's chamber, but it's haunted by ghosts from his past.

It was a sucky book. I did manage to drag myself through all three of them... barely. The payoff at the end was hardly worth the pain... but at least there was sort of a happy ending.

 

[JakeStyle]

I hope one of the other dumbasses asks her how she saw a movie that hasn't been released yet in a theater.

[Skul]

I hope one of the other dumbasses asks her how she saw a movie that hasn't been released yet in a theater.

If the dead can vote,
LFR, can view unreleased movies.

[thundley4]

I hope one of the other dumbasses asks her how she saw a movie that hasn't been released yet in a theater.

If the dead can vote,
LFR, can view unreleased movies.

Aiming to please. “Fifty Shades of Grey” will be shown at an exclusive, private pre-opening, only for guests of BRIO Tuscan Grille at Winter Park Village’s desirable “Fifty Shades” cocktail party.

Okay, so there was a chance for people to view it. But honestly, does anyone thing that the back alley blow giver would be invited to a private screening?

[dutch508]

Okay, so there was a chance for people to view it. But honestly, does anyone thing that the back alley blow giver would be invited to a private screening?

This pre-showing is on the 12th. I bolded it for you.

[thundley4]

This pre-showing is on the 12th. I bolded it for you.

I'm going on a lack of sleep and reading comprehension today.

[JakeStyle]

This pre-showing is on the 12th. I bolded it for you.

It's also in Florida.  Here is the only one that I could find in the Tucson area

The Range: The Tucson Weekly's Daily Dispatch

Sunday, February 8, 2015
Do This! / Cinema
Get Your 50 Shades of Grey Passes (Or Win VIP Seating Tickets)
Posted By Mari Herreras on Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 12:32 PM

We are giving away passes for you and a friend for the whipping cinematic experience you've been waiting for — "50 Shades of Grey." The screening is Wednesday, Feb. 11, 7 p.m. at AMC Foothills. You can come by our office at 7225 Mona Lisa Rd. Ste. 125; or dear readers, you can also pick up passes at Jellywink Boutique, 418 E. 7th St.

There's also a chance to win VIP reserved seating, too (Because the closer you experience the world of Christian Grey, the better, right?)—if you answer a question correctly, we'll put your name in a drawing and let you know by Tuesday that those seats are yours.

http://www.tucsonweekly.com/TheRange/archives/2015/02/08/get-your-50-shades-if-grey-passes-or-win-vip-seating-tickets

[Carl]

It's also in Florida.  Here is the only one that I could find in the Tucson area

The Range: The Tucson Weekly's Daily Dispatch

Sunday, February 8, 2015
Do This! / Cinema
Get Your 50 Shades of Grey Passes (Or Win VIP Seating Tickets)
Posted By Mari Herreras on Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 12:32 PM

We are giving away passes for you and a friend for the whipping cinematic experience you've been waiting for — "50 Shades of Grey." The screening is Wednesday, Feb. 11, 7 p.m. at AMC Foothills. You can come by our office at 7225 Mona Lisa Rd. Ste. 125; or dear readers, you can also pick up passes at Jellywink Boutique, 418 E. 7th St.

There's also a chance to win VIP reserved seating, too (Because the closer you experience the world of Christian Grey, the better, right?)—if you answer a question correctly, we'll put your name in a drawing and let you know by Tuesday that those seats are yours.

http://www.tucsonweekly.com/TheRange/archives/2015/02/08/get-your-50-shades-if-grey-passes-or-win-vip-seating-tickets

Tue Feb 10, 2015, 05:58 PM

Lady Freedom Returns (8,205 posts)

Good night DU!! I got to get ready to pick up my date!!

I am taking her to Poca Cosa to eat and then to see 50 Shade of Grey! So Good night DU! I am going to have some fun!

On edit,did not pay attention to the day of the week so yeah,it is still all a make believe story.

[FaC]

When did LFR start switch hitting?

"I am taking her..."

[GOBUCKS]

I hope one of the other dumbasses asks her how she saw a movie that hasn't been released yet in a theater.

"I am taking her..."

No one can touch her.

Criticizing a homo means instant loss of Dump cred. That's why she's putting in the lezbo stuff.

[freedumb2003b]

There are lot of people who have probably made up their minds in advance about Fifty Shades of Grey – that it's going to be bad, tacky or poorly acted.

Early reviews say this is wrong.  It turns out the actual movie is  bad, tacky AND poorly acted.

[HawkHogan]

Why do Dummies love 50 shades?
 
Isn't the protagonist humiliated and abused by her boyfriend? 

[Big Dog]

Why do Dummies love 50 shades?
 
Isn't the protagonist humiliated and abused by her boyfriend?

Is he a Kennedy?

[Chris_]

When did LFR start switch hitting?

"I am taking her..."

When you look like that, you'll take what you can get.

Did you miss the sockpuppet "girlfriend" last year?  High comedy.

[Skul]

When you look like that, you'll take what you can get.

Did you miss the sockpuppet "girlfriend" last year?  High comedy.

I missed the "girlfriend" part.
I was kind of out of touch for several months.

[Chris_]

Sorry, I forgot about that.

Hope you're feeling better.

[Big Dog]

I missed the "girlfriend" part.
I was kind of out of touch for several months.

Her sock puppet was a bike dyke. Amber wanted us to believe that her 260 pound ass rode bitch for some romantic trips into the desert.

[Mr Mannn]

LFR has a girlfriend because there were no inflatable indians at the thrift store.

Diabeticman has no idea his wife is cheating on him.

[Mr Mannn]

Wait a minute...can lesbians really enjoy a movie where a man dominates a woman?

[Gina]

Wait a minute...can lesbians really enjoy a movie where a man dominates a woman?

  interesting

[Carl]

Why do Dummies love 50 shades?
 
Isn't the protagonist humiliated and abused by her boyfriend?

When the book was the rage someone explained to me the basic plot and I said "So women are fawning over a book,written (poorly) by another woman that basically lives on all the stereotypes of what a weak,emotional wreck women can be?"

[obumazombie]

LFR was able to see 50 shades with her spit swapping partner because she watched Hot Tub Time Machine first.

[dixierose]

I never read the book; and I have no desire to. I also have no desire to see the movie. From what I've heard about the movie/book, it seems to celebrate a woman submitting herself to a man in every way. It sounds like an abuse situation to me.

I'm surprised the screech brigade over at DU hasn't raised hell about this movie....

[Vagabond]

I never read the book; and I have no desire to. I also have no desire to see the movie. From what I've heard about the movie/book, it seems to celebrate a woman submitting herself to a man in every way. It sounds like an abuse situation to me.

I'm surprised the screech brigade over at DU hasn't raised hell about this movie....

I remember reading somewhere a while back that scientists or someone, had conducted a study trying to find out who watches what in terms of pornography.  It turned out that the main consumers of BDSM porn and rape porn was actually women.  As weird as it sounds, the reason that DU feminists aren't complaining is that they are already standing in line to see it somewhere.

[dutch508]

It's not the well written. It's like a bad teen romance book.

The first one is so dumb it was almost laughable. It is as if the writer had no knowledge of how real jobs, life, or relationships really work. AND the writing was similar to reading freshman creative writing projects. Not college. High School.

The second one sucks worse than the first- the main female lead sounds and acts like a 13 year old girl. I found out later it started on a movie fan page for the glittery vampires on Twilight.....

The third one was so bad I had to force myself to finish it simply because I had too... I hate quiting.

Finally the whole BDSM angle isn't done well either. I won't bore you with the reasons why that community came out against the book other that to say the author's understanding of BDSM is almost as good as her understanding of real life, relationships, and writing.