Fifty Shades Of Grey: 10 Ways It Tricks People Into Liking It
The film has its haters, but not without trying hard to win them over.
Ever since it was announced, everyone's had Fifty Shades Of Grey pegged as a disaster. It's the mainstream-mandated adaptation of a repurposed Twilight fan-fiction, written by someone who doesn't know how to even hold a pen, notable only for its meticulously described sex scenes. What could it have going for it? Now you really shouldn't crucify a movie without seeing it. That's not saying you should go into inevitably dire movies expecting cinematic masterpieces, but you can't really know what makes a movie not work (nor to what degree) without actually experiencing it. And that really is true of Fifty Shades Of Grey. Because while Sam Taylor-Johnson's adaptation of E. L. James' novel is a terrible movie (and just so there's no confusion, it is absolutely atrocious), it isn't just the laughably bad bonk-fest its countless pre-empting detractors expected. The film is just coming off a record-breaking opening weekend and a play-room full of press coverage (all the major newspapers seem to be treating simply watching the film as a challenge, bringing in married couples and BDSM experts to relay their viewings blow-by-blow), and while reviews have been mostly negative, there's been some positive word, with many praising various disparate elements to conclude it's not all that awful. Many seem to think it simply being better than the book is cause for celebration, missing that better than s**t doesn't equal good. On RottenTomatoes it has a 50% audience approval, which sounds shaky, but considering how negative the film's press is across the board it's eye-opening - there's people out there who are, at the very least, satisfied with what is currently the leading contender for Worst Film of 2015. How? Well let's take a look at ten ways the film tries to trick you into thinking it's anything more than an aggravatingly bad movie.