Fifty Shades of Grey–Hot or not?

I’m still leaning towards not.  I think someone chickened out when faced with the reality of the explicitness of the Fifty Shades of Grey novel.  Whether it was Universal Studios (my guess in an attempt to hedge its investment) or the actors or the director, or choose your own culprit(s).  If it was Universal, the irony will be that they could possibly have actually hurt themselves more than help themselves.  Ask anybody who has read the book: Cleanliness is not next to Godliness in this case.

Possibly at least one actor could be a fly in the ointment as well which makes you think that because of Charlie Hunnam’s unexpected departure, they were forced into signing Dornan with not much time to consider too many alternatives. 

In a recent interview Jamie Dornan came off as a stodgy really uptight prude to the point where he had it written in the contract not to show his penis on film.  So he’s going to have to be one helluva actor to be convincing as Christian Grey.  In a key role, Dornan may be a huge mistake.

 

Dakota Johnson on the other hand, at least has a hint of being Anastasia Steele and appears to be willing to go the distance. 


At any rate, Universal’s Focus Features will try to convince you with this trailer that Fifty Shades is going to be really hot, even if they did clean it up for the mass consumption of audiences while crapping on those who made the book a phenomenon in the first place.  But I’ll let you decide for yourself.  Trailer 2:  Hot or Not.

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part One Trailer

I’m sure no one will put this up will they?  Here it is anyway.

Here’s the Fifty Shades of Grey Trailer which premiered today.

Because gee, it’s not like anybody else will be posting it.

The Stupidest Trailer/Teaser I’ve Ever Wasted My Time On: Disney’s Live Action Cinderella

Disney’s live action version of Cinderella is not due to hit theaters until March of next year.  But they decided to put up a teaser anyway. 

Disney sent me a link in my email, and YouTube has the clip as well. 

From Variety:

“Downton Abbey’s” Lily James stars as Cinderella with Cate Blanchett as her step-mother. Richard Madden, Stellan Skarsgård, Holliday Grainger, Sophie McShera, Derek Jacobi and Helena Bonham-Carter also co-star.

The film is directed by Kenneth Branagh (“Thor”), exec produced by Tim Lewis and produced by Simon Kinberg, Allison Shearmur and David Barron. “Cinderella” is inspired by Disney’s 1950 animated film.

And that’s all the information you need, and that you’re going to get at this moment in time.  So will the Teaser get you all excited and want to head to the theater next spring?  No, but it might make you think about taking a stroll to the nearest shoe store.

The video consists of a shoe, twirling and spinning around.  That’s it.  Nothing more.  So if watching one minute and fifteen seconds of a glass shoe is your idea of fun, have at it.

First Hunger Games Catching Fire Teaser Trailer: It’s A Good One And On My Must See List For This Year.

The White House is Down, But Apparently Not Out.

Director Roland Emmerich is at it again.  He destroyed the White House in Independence Day.  He then froze it over in The Day After Tomorrow.  And just for good measure, he took it out again in  2012.
And now, he places it under attack again with the movie White House Down which stars Channing Tatum, Jamie Foxx, and Maggie Gyllenhaal.  IMDB describes the film this way:

While on a tour of the White House with his young daughter, a police officer (Channing Tatum) springs into action to protect his child and the president (Jamie Foxx) from a heavily armed group of paramilitary invaders.

I'm not one to be posting much in the way of videos anymore. Every time I go through my old posts, all I see is those dreaded words "this video is not available" for whatever reason.

What really pisses me off though is when they are on YouTube, but the powers that be won't let you embed them on your blog.

This happened on my West Side Story review. I had about three videos that I found on YouTube when I originally wrote it and they worked fine. When I checked it this past week to make it my movie pick of the week on my Facebook page, the videos no longer worked unless you went directly to you tube. So I just edited the review and took the videos out which is probably what I'll do whenever I have time on some of the others. But I won't be using too many videos when I can keep from it.

But whatever. The White House is Down. Let's hope Emmerich isn't flushing it down the bad movie commode.  Maybe I’ll review one of those previous efforts before June 28.  We shall see. 

Release date in the United States is scheduled for June 28, just in time for the Fourth of July. That figures. Having practically destroyed the planet, at least now it appears Emmerich has narrowed his focus somewhat. We shall see.