Posted on 02/13/2015 8:32:42 AM PST by C19fan
Universal and Focus Features’ Fifty Shades of Grey kicked off its North American release at 2,830 engagements last night, racking up the second-highest Thursday night preview ever with $8.6M. The record holder for an R-rated preview belongs to Warner Bros. The Hangover 2, which made $10.4M in midnight previews before its Memorial Day weekend 2011 release.
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For a whole bunch of hype, pulling in 8 million is not exactly a big draw.
I think you are making a grave error in assuming the bulk of the audience for this are men.
You can probably find much better porn if that’s what you’re looking for, and a much better love story if that’s what you’re looking for.
I think you are making a grave error in assuming the bulk of the audience for this are men.
Penthouse is for men. Penthouse forum is for women.
Just another porn film to try to disguise the fact that Hollywood is all out of talent. I remember so many great movies that inspired me, made me laugh, made me cry, made me want to be a better person; and all without so much as a single profanity or any nudity. Those days are gone, I suppose. Writers today can’t manage a decent plot or story so they string together profanity and sex scenes and call it a movie. Pathetic!
Here Ode to My Father outperformed Selma, which bombed.
Wow. THe Hangover part 2 ended up grossing $245 MILLION.
Our culture is hopeless.
Is that one along the lines of “The Road Home”?
The title sounds like a similar theme.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Road-Home-Ziyi-Zhang/dp/B00005QFE5
ha, ha....Thanks for my first loud laugh of the day.
Anyone want to sit the theater seats afterward?.... yuck!
I think it is funny.
American Sniper.....liberals hate it.
50 Shades..............conservatives hate it.
Both sides need to settle and realize it is a movie. So far we are lucky to have the freedom not to go to the movies if we don’t want to. I did see American Sniper and won’t go see 50 Shades but I am glad for those that want to see it. What’s the big deal?
You would rather go to a film with 2 woman kissing or 2 men kissing? You seem to have an issue with heterosexual sex. I hope you are not a pro-gay marriage nut.
For a whole bunch of hype, pulling in 8 million is not exactly a big draw.
On a Thursday night.....only the second time in history to make that amount......get real! It is going to make American Sniper look like a bomb. It will make over 100 million by Tuesday morning. Am I happy about it? No. But to lie like you did needs to stop and be called out on.
That is pathetic as you know damn well you and I have had many conversations about homosexuality and it is you who defends it so why the childish comment?
Nah don’t bother replying as I won’t read it.
You failed to see American Sniper I take it. You know you are not going to dictate that they show your kind of movie every week. Other people want to watch their type of movie too.....what are you a dictator or something?
exactly. All the hype over this crap and all they get is that much.
The Hollywood crowd thinks they are going through the sexual revolution again and re-living the 60’s and 70’s.
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=odetomyfather.htm
Ok. I didn’t see Selma, but I knew you lied through your teeth when I saw your post. It make a TOTAL of over ONE MILLION DOLLARS.....Selma made over 47 million so far. Selma was made with 20 million dollars. What are you smoking???????? Your post was hideous in how outrageous it was.
“Any guy that REALLY feels a need to watch this should just go to Bing video search and type in some random woman’s name with safe search off. I’m sure he’ll find what he REALLY wants.”
No guys want to watch this. This is a movie portrayal of female porn.
As a kid I would read everything in sight and used to skim novels that family members would have sitting around the house. You couldn’t legally film many of the scenes in those books. The common denominator in the most popular male and female porn is the use and objectification of women.
The difference is that in male porn the man is irrelevant and sometimes not even shown. In female porn the man is buff, important and/or rich. It seems most women want to be owned but only by a man they deem “worthy” of owning them. They won’t say it since it sounds nuts but it obviously turns them on.
If an ugly, poor man brought a girl to his trailer and wanted to do the things in this novel he would be a “creep” and “rapist”. But for an attractive billionaire with a penthouse, most will willingly put on the leash.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carey-purcell/fifty-shades-of-grey-feminism_b_2395932.html
*I think I will go see American Sniper.... AGAIN!*
Me too just to piss them off.
And because it was a great movie about the EXCEPTIONALISM certain Americans.
Just get your Mom upstairs to run down and read it. She can explain it too you. My post was factual as you said you are sick of hetros kissing and it nauseates you. Obviously you would rather see other kissing.......sad.
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