'Fifty Shades' to Dominate Valentine's Day Box Office

Guys were pretty gaga over Basic Instinct when we were in high school, also those two Mickey Rourke films.

 

Too philosophically sophisticated to compare. "If you're not first, you're last." 50 Shades has nothing on that.

Maybe, but I like to pretend that fat old women have no sexual inclinations.

I think you nailed it. And now that you've said it I'm surprised I didn't think of it before.

Yeah but there is more shame associated with that. We're supposed to feel bad about it. We don't watch that out in public like one would watch/read 50 Shades, nor do we casually talk about it at work the next day after watching a great scene the night before.

Good point. But I was 5 when Basic Instinct came out so I didn't catch on to the buzz it garnered.

 

Cause most guys had never seen a vajine.

 

Damn Mitch, I thought you were older than that. I might actually know you if you went to creek and graduated '06.

 

I get that a lot (in real life). I don't know why.

Graduated '05 from Creek.

 

Ah I graduated in 8 but had a sister that graduated in 4.

 

What makes this story is the witness' name is Michael Bolton.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/201...grey-glasgow-violence-arrests-_n_6691226.html

Fifty Shades Of Grey Screening Sees Three Arrests In Glasgow Cinema On Valentine's Day

A Valentine’s Day screening of Fifty Shades of Grey ended in chaos when police entered the cinema to arrest three members of the audience.

The film adaptation of EL James’ bestselling erotic novel was being aired at Glasgow’s Grosvenor Cinema on Saturday.

But the raunchy tale of S&M-loving billionaire Christian Grey and his lover Anastasia Steele was rudely interrupted when a fight broke out.

A man is believed to have been glassed after he asked a group of "rowdy" women to keep quiet, the Daily Record reports.

Witness Michael Bolton, 33, told the newspaper: “Besides being the worst film I have ever seen, three women were getting arrested and put in a police van when we arrived.

“A woman came out the theatre and said a guy had been glassed. One woman was in handcuffs and another two women were in tears.”

Bolton said he watched the cinema staff wiping the seats clean of blood ahead of the next showing at 8.20pm.

He added: “There were also several incredibly drunk women vomiting in the aisle and corridor and several complaints from the other screen about drunk and rowdy folk.”

A spokesman for Police Scotland confirmed to Huffington Post UK that officers attended a call at the Grosvenor Cinema on Ashton Lane at around 8pm.

He added: “Three women were arrested for alleged disorder offences. Inquiries continue to determine the full circumstances surrounding the incident.”

Herald Scotland reports no one suffered serious injuries in the incident.
The film is a smash hit commercially, taking £4.6million in the UK on its opening night alone - the highest ever box office takings for an ‘18’ certificate movie.

 

Haven't seen the movie or read the book, but it sounds like it's just a remake of 9 1/2 Weeks?

 

I will admit to actually listening to the audiobook and honestly there's been far better writing and more erotic on the old usenet groups. EL James delivers on the pain as the writing and dialogue is so stilted my ears were in pain, and not in a sexy way.

What people need to understand is that the books and movies are targeted to a very middle brow audience who has not had any interest in S&M and is too shy to go out and read or watch outright p*rn. 50 Shades is basically a safe way for them to get titillated with a story that isn't just straight up kinky sex but provides another fantasy. Grey is a 29 year old billionaire who looks like a Abercrombie Fitch Model (as opposed to Mark Zuckerberg) who takes an interest in a college undergrad virgin. That is the most fantastical part of the story.