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Box Office: ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ Explodes With Record-Breaking $81.7 Million
Variety ^ | February 15, 2015 | Brent Lang

Posted on 02/15/2015 4:01:30 PM PST by C19fan

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To: Drew68
I had never heard of Hot Tub Time Machine 2 (or HTTM 1 for that matter). Not having seen it, I would still guess that it isn't as creative or funny as the Japanese comedy Thermae Romae which involves time-travel between 2nd-century Rome (reign of Hadrian) and modern Japan.
21 posted on 02/15/2015 4:55:35 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: C19fan

How sad.......sign of the times.......


22 posted on 02/15/2015 4:55:49 PM PST by Guenevere
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To: Ingtar

“I make no claims to being a Puritan.”

Why not? America needs more Puritans. If we had more Puritans, there would be fewer trashy movies like this, fewer out of wedlock births, fewer divorces, fewer crimes, fewer slackers and @#!*% , and a healthier, more stable society.


23 posted on 02/15/2015 4:56:47 PM PST by heye2monn
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
Dave Barry wrote a column about Fifty Shades of Grey last spring to spare the rest of us from needing to read it. It was reposted here a few days ago. Classic Dave Barry.
24 posted on 02/15/2015 4:58:08 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus
I had never heard of Hot Tub Time Machine 2 (or HTTM 1 for that matter).

HTTM was a reasonably entertaining John Cusack-led comedy where he inadvertently discovers a (hot tub) time machine back to 1987 to repair romantic transgressions of his youth.

The very end of the film (I think the credits) have the supporting characters using this time machine to do cool stuff like invent Google and whatnot.

Several years later, some producer got the wise idea to ditch Cusack and make a sequel with the (more entertaining) supporting characters and all the cool stuff they "invented" with said hot tub time machine.

Looked funny to me!

25 posted on 02/15/2015 5:13:37 PM PST by Drew68
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To: C19fan

Just goes to show how low today’s society has sunk.


26 posted on 02/15/2015 5:16:56 PM PST by patriot08 (NATIVE TEXAN (girl type))
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To: Drew68

What I know about it (not too much) sounds exceedingly boring.

If I want porn, I’ll watch porn. Otherwise I want plot, acting, script etc.

I recall watching Sex and the City. OK at first, then it just got tedious and annoying.

You want a really good movie, watch the original *Swedish* “Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”. NOT the US remake.


27 posted on 02/15/2015 5:19:14 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there....)
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To: C19fan

American society has become a moral sewer.


28 posted on 02/15/2015 5:21:02 PM PST by Unam Sanctam
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To: heye2monn

Some of my best friends are Puritans! LOL!


29 posted on 02/15/2015 5:29:50 PM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: VanDeKoik

Yeah...great pre-date question....Did you read or see ‘Fifty Shades?” If so....well...you know what you’re dealing with


30 posted on 02/15/2015 5:48:32 PM PST by goodnesswins (I think we've reached PEAK TYRANNY now.....)
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To: C19fan

ugh


31 posted on 02/15/2015 6:06:00 PM PST by yldstrk
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To: Drew68
I've seen real porn films with better acting and dialogue

That's funny.

Next they will make the same movie but with homosexual characters. No depravity is too deep for Hollywood.

32 posted on 02/15/2015 6:06:22 PM PST by matt1234 (Slay the beast.)
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To: heye2monn
Why not? America needs more Puritans.

No thanks.

33 posted on 02/15/2015 6:12:14 PM PST by Drew68
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To: ChildOfThe60s
If I want porn, I’ll watch porn. Otherwise I want plot, acting, script etc.

Exactly. Youporn.com doesn't steal 3 hours of my time and $70 (once I calculate the cost of tickets, concessions, babysitter and travel time). And if I want a movie with a lousy plot, acting, script, etc., I'll watch The Expendables. At least it has stuff blowing up.

This film had nothing.

34 posted on 02/15/2015 6:26:52 PM PST by Drew68
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To: heye2monn

*blink* I mentioned something about it missing their projections. I think you misclicked in your reply.


35 posted on 02/15/2015 6:31:14 PM PST by Ingtar (Is this the Ebola and rumors of Ebola mentioned in the Bible?)
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To: C19fan

civilization is finished


36 posted on 02/15/2015 6:41:36 PM PST by GeronL
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To: Chad_the_Impaler

I haven’t seen the film, and probably won’t be seeing it. I’m only reacting to the manner of some people who have seen it.
Do you intend to check it out?


37 posted on 02/15/2015 6:47:37 PM PST by lee martell (The sa)
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To: goodnesswins

Great way to screen your dates


38 posted on 02/15/2015 6:51:21 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there....)
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To: C19fan

No, I haven’t read the book and don’t plan on seeing the movie but, from everything I’ve read, it encompasses everything we don’t want our sons and daughters to idealize in a relationship.

http://www.bonbonbreak.com/letter-children-fifty-shades-grey/

The liberals and Hollywood are doubling down on “bread and circuses” to keep the masses sated. From my lips to God’s ears that some people will wake up to what’s being sold to them as the good life.


39 posted on 02/15/2015 7:03:28 PM PST by TMD (Behind enemy lines.....)
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To: C19fan

I will go out on a limb here......

I only read an excerpt of book one. Very poorly written.

BUT.... I did see the movie last night with my husband. I liked it. So did hubby.

Basically it’s a love story with some kinky sex thrown in. That’s it.

Everyone who is having fits about this is over thinking this movie.
It’s basically the same as most modern chick flicks.
Premarital sex in a budding relationship.

If a person tolerates movies with premarital sex in them, then in my opinion that person is a hypocrite for hating this movie for it.


40 posted on 02/15/2015 9:42:35 PM PST by Aurorales (I will not be ridiculed into silence!)
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