16 WTF Moments From Fifty Shades Darker
That Vin Diesel "cameo"...
Fifty Shades Darker is out now, long-awaited by fans of cringe cinema and bored middle-aged women the world over. It's a terrible movie, as you probably already know, but at least it's jam-packed full of hilarious, weird and downright dumb moments that make it nothing if not an extremely memorable experience.
A much stranger and, yes, darker, experience than the original movie, this sequel retains the same embarrassingly bad dialogue, wooden performances and tame sex scenes from the first, and bolsters it with some truly weird product placements, an abundance of decidedly un-sexy filler subplots, and of course, the inevitable sequel bait tease.
Whether viewers find it legitimately good or bad or some sort of ironic middle-ground, it's clear that the series is still doing gangbusters business with audiences, and even once next year's trilogy-capper is out, don't be surprised if Universal just reboots the franchise with a prequel or something. The gravy train won't stop anytime soon.
Save yourself two hours of your life and the price of a cinema ticket: here are 16 WTF moments from Fifty Shades Darker...
16. That Creepy Art Gallery Scene
The weirdness kicks off early in one of Darker's opening scenes, when Ana (Dakota Johnson) attends the art exhibit of her friend-zoned pal Jose (Victor Rasuk), which to her surprise contains numerous giant pictures of her he took for previously unspecified reasons.
Ana is clearly uncomfortable that he used the pictures in his exhibit without asking her first, and it's completely obvious to anyone with a pulse that he's still totally obsessed with her.
Things get even more uncomfortable moments later when Christian (Jamie Dornan) shows up and strongarms her into going to dinner with him to talk things through.