![]() Plus the film, like the first book, has a cliffhanger ending and is a direct tie-in to the sequel (Fifty Shades Darker, 2016). It’s one thing to read the books in the relative privacy of carpool line, but quite another to watch the film beside a middle-aged guy munching popcorn the whole time (trust me). ![]() And because he seems creepy, we feel pervy for sitting there watching them. Any self-respecting virgin would run a mile. Add to this a rushed history of how the couple enters into their kinky relationship, and Christian just seems like a creep. The sex is necessarily tamer, of course - though Johnson’s nipples should get their own billing, we see them so often - but the chemistry between the leads is also lacking. Not that you won’t be able to follow the plot, such as it is, but the film offers a watered-down version of the story, which tells how sweet Ana (Dakota Johnson) falls into an S&M relationship with hot and powerful executive Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan), a man with a tortured past. Do I have to read the books to see the movie?Īlways a better bet, especially in this case. This book was stocked in full view, everywhere, so you could grab it - preferably after-hours, when your dentist was at home flossing after dinner - tuck it under a copy of The Economist magazine, and flee the scene (after paying, of course).ģ. James’s books you were keen to be titillated, but not as jazzed to be recognized by your dentist while browsing the “Erotica” section of your local bookstore, which has been stocking similar and better soft-core porn for years. Of course you did! If you were like most consumers of E.L. You would’ve put the book down after reading the character’s name on the third page: Anastasia Steele? Puh-lease! If you had any interest (chaste or otherwise) in the books, go see the movie. If you had wanted story you would’ve picked up Tolstoy, or something above a sixth grade level. I read the book(s) for the story, not the smut. To celebrate, here are common truths and fallacies surrounding the Fifty phenomenon:ġ. ![]() As long-awaited as that elusive orgasm is today’s cinematic release of Fifty Shades of Grey, starring Dakota Johnson as virginal college graduate Ana, Jamie Dornan as mogul-fetishist Christian Grey, and our own Vancouver as Vancouver, Wash. ![]()
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