I confess to having gone to the movie, all in the interests of a sociological analysis of my fellow man and woman. It’s a book that has sold 100,000,000 copies since it was published in 2011, in comparison with the paltry 30,000,000 for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest in all its years of publication.
There are some things I am happy to comment on, and other things I would never say a word about. This is of that second type. However, I came across this at Drudge, Fifty Shades of Grey: Rowdy women glass man at Valentine’s Day screening of sexy film which apparently occurred in Glasgow and was published in the Daily Mirror in the UK. And to my amazement, in the middle of this online British newspaper story, there was a video of the above review by our own Lisa Wilkinson at Channel 9, with the heading, “Is this the best review of Fifty Shades of Grey ever?”. Whether this is merely for us in Oz, or they saw this in the UK as well, I cannot tell. Tempted though I am to say what I thought, there would be no possible good that could come of it, although I will say that the sociologist in you might consider seeing what attracts 100 million readers in this day and age.
Rotten Tomatoes:
– Critics 26%
– Audiences 50%
IMDb: 4.0 (out of 10)
Law of Markets 