Posted on 02/14/2015 6:50:26 AM PST by Kaslin
You answered your own question. There is a difference between fantasy when it's consensual, and having someone force themselves on you.
Having said that, someone else can make the producers of that movie rich. I'll find something else to spend my money on.
Absolutely hilarious and devastating review. I read it twice.
Mommy Porn
It's like the SNL skit "Sexual Harrasment and You"
Announcer: See? It can be done. You can have sex with women at work without losing your job, by following a few simple rules:
Be Handsome..
Be Attractive..
and Don't Be Unattractive.
But the schools are free.
bkmk
Porn by another name.
I’m glad someone posted that. It seems like the perfect review & plot synopsis for someone unwilling to read the book or watch the movie.
What a great review for a movie they say is better than the book (an odd sort of observation for fiction).
My prediction: after the initial onslaught of weirdos, the movie will languish, as do copies of the books cluttering the shelves of my local library, unwanted and unloved.
It’s like the gun thing. They all hate guns in Hollywood, yet they make movies where guns do things people who use them in real life know they would never do and would never even try to use them for.
Their lack of experience on the subject leads them to fantasize about it and become mesmerized about it, but also hate it. It’s sort of strange. Normal sexual relationships ditto. They don’t know what they are. I’ve noticed gay men often portray women the same women. They don’t understand them at all, they portray a twisted fantasy of them that doesn’t exist.
I actually read the book, simply to see what the fuss was about and because I read a ton of stuff. I’m not a porn reader. But it’s basically porn about how a defective man seduces and abuses a young, inexperienced girl, and the writer tries hard to make it seem like he is being “understanding” and she is trying to “help” him - but he is really intoxicating her with liquor, making her sign a contract to not tell anyone, etc. You step back from it, he’s a classic abuser. It’s a bad story made intoxicating. Not good for the soul.
Australian review of 50 Shades of Gray (Lisa Wilkinson’s Review Absolutely Destroys 50 Shades Of Grey):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMh-ou0TKXk
A psychiatrist’s view of the books/movie:
You've come to the same conclusion as the psychiatrist in the link I posted in #32 above.
How could the movie be any good when the book it's based on is total garbage?
For some reason, this reminds me of all the hype about the movie Titanic. I was so eager to see that movie, and then the story turned out to be so shallow—it was a romanticized account of a one-night-stand, basically.
From everything I have heard about it, Fifty Shades of Grey doesn’t have enough substance to it to make it worth seeing, even if it was free.
My take as well. I'd add "neurotic". The very last thing a real D/S practitioner wants is to be involved with somebody who is as mentally unstable as these people are.
It's just the new frontier of titillation for a jaded Hollywood in search of the next sensation. We're lucky it isn't cannibalism. Yet.
Sounds as if you found the book as much of a bore as I found the movie, “Raging Bull”. I tried to watch it three different times on TV and it put me to sleep every time. For some strange reason the two gay boys called it the greatest movie of the eighties. Maybe it is if you can stay awake through it.
Yes, it would seem that this “story” is yet more proof that if you appeal to people’s prurient interests they’ll put up with or otherwise overlook the fact that everything else about it is garbage.
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