50 Shades of Grey Trailer

[matttaylorr021]

Posted: 7/24/14 at 11:45am

The trailer for the new 50 Shades of Grey movie is out. I wasn't expecting much from this movie but it looks good! The two leads seem to fit the role, although he had to grow on me a bit. I'll definitely be seeing this when it comes out.
Trailer Here

[HorseTears]

Posted: 7/24/14 at 2:31pm

I'm sure it's going to be relentlessly silly and I would have zero interest in seeing this one if Jamie Dornan wasn't starring. He is a fantastic actor and preternaturally beautiful. If you still need to warm up to him, I highly recommend checking out his performance in The Fall, the British/Irish miniseries on Netflix in which his performance pretty much dares you not to fall in love with a serial killer.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 7/24/14 at 3:40pm

This is going to be so ridiculous and I can't wait!

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 7/24/14 at 4:03pm

It looks (and sounds, in the trailer) like a perfume ad. I'm surprised they didn't go with a redband trailer--it's not like they're marketing this towards kids (though I assume it will get a lot of teenaged girls...)

[wickedfan]

Posted: 7/24/14 at 4:56pm

Whoever the marketing team is for this movie is doing a killer job. This has to be one of the toughest source materials to advertise for. It's not literary genius, hell it's barely pulp. But it did tap into the zeitgeist of many of the women in America. How do you advertise a movie where everyone knows what it's about, nobody respects it, and its subject matter can't be clearly displayed publicly due to it being "taboo"?

You go for less. You hint and you tease. And you wink knowingly. The first teaser image, the teaser for the trailer, and the trailer itself all have that. I have no intention of reading those assembled scraps of paper calling themselves books, and I had no intention of seeing the movie. But I have to say that this advertising is killing it.

Disney has no excuse now for its lack of advertising for Into the Woods. That movie is cake in terms of subject matter compared to Fifty Shades of Grey.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 7/25/14 at 12:12am

Agree. Great trailer for something that will be ridiculous.

Count me in.

Updated On: 7/25/14 at 12:12 AM

[binau]

Posted: 7/25/14 at 5:07am

I am obsessed with that new arrangement of "Crazy In Love".

[Roscoe]

Posted: 7/25/14 at 9:08am

Looks like crap. Might be worth a look on HBO or something.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 7/25/14 at 7:30pm

I was thinking more Lifetime--they had better trailers for Flowers in the Attic. How is this a great trailer? What exactly is enticing about it? The fact that everything is so clean?

[Eris0303]

Posted: 7/25/14 at 8:41pm

I have no interest in seeing the film but I can't understand why any one would call him ugly. That man is HOT. Seriously.

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 7/25/14 at 9:58pm

The spirit of Zalman King lives!!

[wickedfan]

Posted: 7/25/14 at 10:47pm

Eric-It's great in terms of how it approaches the material. Is it enticing? No, because the source material it's based on is the opposite of enticing. But it does what a trailer is supposed to do (though not always does). It's honest about what they're advertising, provides the audience watching it with a sense of tone and atmosphere, and drums up interest in the (sadly) legions of fans this series has.

What makes it so clean to you? Is the trailer supposed to be raunchy? How is this cleaner than any other trailer for a * supposedly * steamy movie? You can't ever actually SHOW the acts, you can only hint at it. And I think that this trailer does that while also winking at the fact that this movie is probably going to be ridiculous, if only because the books are.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 7/26/14 at 4:48pm

I don't know--I just thought, given what everyone knows about it, they would have gone for a red band trailer and showed some skin. Then again, maybe they don't want to give away one of their selling points.

[strummergirl]

Posted: 7/26/14 at 5:41pm

If this destroys the lovely Dakota Johnson's career, I'll be upset. I liked her a lot on Ben & Kate. Never read the books but Dornan does not look the dark and mysterious kind although he is certainly good looking. I probably should check out The Fall but I am really surprised the trailer let's the freak flag fly on this film and almost nothing on the dark past (never said I didn't read the Wiki entry) that really annoyed people to the point of actually calling the franchise sex-negative. Matt Bomer was a popular choice during the casting rumors process and I could buy him in the role.

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 7/26/14 at 6:09pm

This looks like more materialism-porn than sex-porn.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 7/26/14 at 8:00pm

That's being true to its source--which (I've only read the first novel) name drops appliances as much as it does sex moves.

[javero]

Posted: 7/26/14 at 9:55pm

I apparently live in an alternate universe as I know nothing of the 50 Shades of Grey franchise. The trailer reads 'The Bella & Edward Story For Grownups', so I get the appeal of the movie at least.

What I find interesting though is that the source material is another novel that was roundly rejected by the literati only to later attain massive commercial success.

Apparently highbrow doesn't always translate into success in the marketplace. And I believe that male editors, publishers, screenwriters, directors, consumers, husbands, lovers and bff(s) don't always get what's going on in the hearts and loins of the distaff side.

[ScottyDoesn'tKnow2]

Posted: 7/27/14 at 2:40am

Great…another doormat female character who will "grow" and gain her voice. The whole "there's nothing to tell…just look at me" to him saying something about not being into romance…

I'm happy we're getting more successful material from female writers, but I feel like we're (or the authors) are trapped into this whole self-proclaimed plain, loser girl who is really better than she is and it takes a man to bring it out (I read Divergent). This trailer really shows that 50 Shades of Grey is a young adult novel that so happens to have S&M.

There were so many YA-genre cliches in that trailer that I really had to laugh at the whole thing. I get why young female readers would be into it, but I wish adult women didn't still feel like they were Bella Swans (and characters like her). But I guess they do for a myriad of reasons. It is why Elphaba resonated with so many people. Fiyero knew how beautiful she really was…blah blah blah.
Updated On: 7/27/14 at 02:40 AM

[billygoatgirl300]

Posted: 7/27/14 at 12:45pm

The reason why it looks like a YA movie is because the book was Twilight fan fiction. The author just changed the names of all the characters when she decided to publish it.

[Jungle Red]

Posted: 7/27/14 at 1:13pm

I can't see Jamie without a beard. It's so weird.

And the song is awesome.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 7/27/14 at 1:52pm

"I apparently live in an alternate universe as I know nothing of the 50 Shades of Grey franchise. The trailer reads 'The Bella & Edward Story For Grownups', so I get the appeal of the movie at least. "

You know it started off as Twilight fan-fiction, right?

[javero]

Posted: 7/27/14 at 2:01pm

"You know it started off as Twilight fan-fiction, right?"

Nope...had no clue. Thanks for sharing!

[HorseTears]

Posted: 7/27/14 at 2:14pm

I didn't realize Jamie Dornan was a musician.

[SweetLips]

Posted: 7/27/14 at 3:10pm

Could eat my dinner off that !

[HorseTears]

Posted: 7/27/14 at 3:11pm

Forget dinner, I'll go straight for the cake(s).