50 Shades of Grey... THE MOVIE
Feb. 16th, 2015 09:49 am
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ropo, I've been making good use of your apple pie cough drops, as I've been sick for the last 5 days or so. -.- I wanted to eat them more like candy, but sadly they're being put to the use for which they were intended. (And I can't even taste them as well. :( )
This is the SECOND TIME in as many months that I've gotten sick. The first time was just a cold, annoying but didn't really drag me down. I was JUST getting over that when this new thing hit. My coworkers think it was the flu or strep throat -- it definitely wasn't just a cold. Usually the way these things progress for me is that the first day, I have a sore throat, which then turns into all the congestion stuff. This last one, I started with a funny-feeling throat, which turned into a super painful throat thing for like 3 days, before now finally devolving into the congestion stuff. Ugh. Seriously, getting sick twice in a row is particularly galling. -.- And definitely not what I needed given everything else going on in my life.
Anyway, I saw 50 Shades of Grey last Wednesday, but when I got sick I didn't have the will to make a post. :/ (I was already feeling under the weather that day, but then it got so much worse.) I'm not sure why I wanted to see it, but when D. invited me, I was definitely into it. It just seemed like one of those "event" movies. People would be talking about it, and I wanted to be informed. It also seemed like the type of movie that would be so bad it would be enjoyable to make fun of it in real time, with other cynical people (the movie critics we'd be with). As background, I wasn't a fan of the book. I wanted to like it on a guilty pleasure level, but it was terrible. And that's not me being book snotty. I have liked plenty of terrible things (see After, by Anna Todd, the series that started on Wattpad as a One Direction fanfic), so it's not that I felt 50 Shades was too lowbrow for me. (I do think I'm finally ready to face the fact that I just don't find BDSM sexy or interesting. It always gets very clinical, and none of the stuff actually does anything for me on any level. The idea of domination or submission, on an emotional level, is interesting, but when it comes to the physical stuff, I just find it... boring.) It was just so very badly written, and the subject matter didn't appeal to me, so the latter couldn't make up for the former. But! It's been ages since I read it, and the movie seemed like prime heckling material. :D
( The movie and the experience of watching the movie. )
ropo, I've been making good use of your apple pie cough drops, as I've been sick for the last 5 days or so. -.- I wanted to eat them more like candy, but sadly they're being put to the use for which they were intended. (And I can't even taste them as well. :( )This is the SECOND TIME in as many months that I've gotten sick. The first time was just a cold, annoying but didn't really drag me down. I was JUST getting over that when this new thing hit. My coworkers think it was the flu or strep throat -- it definitely wasn't just a cold. Usually the way these things progress for me is that the first day, I have a sore throat, which then turns into all the congestion stuff. This last one, I started with a funny-feeling throat, which turned into a super painful throat thing for like 3 days, before now finally devolving into the congestion stuff. Ugh. Seriously, getting sick twice in a row is particularly galling. -.- And definitely not what I needed given everything else going on in my life.
Anyway, I saw 50 Shades of Grey last Wednesday, but when I got sick I didn't have the will to make a post. :/ (I was already feeling under the weather that day, but then it got so much worse.) I'm not sure why I wanted to see it, but when D. invited me, I was definitely into it. It just seemed like one of those "event" movies. People would be talking about it, and I wanted to be informed. It also seemed like the type of movie that would be so bad it would be enjoyable to make fun of it in real time, with other cynical people (the movie critics we'd be with). As background, I wasn't a fan of the book. I wanted to like it on a guilty pleasure level, but it was terrible. And that's not me being book snotty. I have liked plenty of terrible things (see After, by Anna Todd, the series that started on Wattpad as a One Direction fanfic), so it's not that I felt 50 Shades was too lowbrow for me. (I do think I'm finally ready to face the fact that I just don't find BDSM sexy or interesting. It always gets very clinical, and none of the stuff actually does anything for me on any level. The idea of domination or submission, on an emotional level, is interesting, but when it comes to the physical stuff, I just find it... boring.) It was just so very badly written, and the subject matter didn't appeal to me, so the latter couldn't make up for the former. But! It's been ages since I read it, and the movie seemed like prime heckling material. :D
( The movie and the experience of watching the movie. )
