Weekend box office: 'Fifty Shades' punished with 73% drop in ticket sales

LA Biz ^ | 2/23/15 | Annlee Ellingson

[Seruzawa]

At times like this I am soooo happy that my wife doesn’t like chickflicks very much. I’m never forced to go to this crap.

[MasterGunner01]

Oh, what a pity! A POS movie about a British lesbian's S&M fantasies goes down in flames over movie ticket sales? Boo hoo. I guess I'll have to do something important now...like organizing my sock drawer.

[A_perfect_lady]

oh, I know, you're "conservative" and you're a "patriot" and undoubtedly a "Christian"....oh, and I should throw in that you're a "family" man...

You're handing out judgments far above your paygrade.

[omegatoo]

Wait, There’s a SpongeBob Movie??!!???

Woo Hoo!

:^D

Love, O2

[billys kid]

Say what? I’m confused!

[GeronL]

Why would anyone want to watch their daughter in porn?

[GeronL]

bump!

[GeronL]

so terrible that some people have standards

[Forward the Light Brigade]

As they say in the industry—Its got no legs—It will be on DVD in a few weeks. Ever remember that Swedish film “I am Curious, Yellow?” Another sex driven flash in the pan. A mistake from the get go.

[OneWingedShark]

so terrible that some people have standards

Indeed, but there's ways to object w/o being offensive...or pointing out how ridiculous it is.

[USARightSide]

‘__________like animals itching their behinds__________.’

If I may, might you have meant ‘scratching’ - - ?

[pepsionice]

When you look at the simplicity of the story....it’s basically a eight-line story that someone flipped to 300-odd pages. As bad as Howard the Duck was written....I’d consider it a better movie script than Fifty Shades.

[I still care]

I was pretty sure this was how it was going to play out also. It was just too creepy to appeal to mainstream America - we aren’t quite that far gone yet. Overseas perhaps they are crazy enough.

I thought, all the kinks will jump up to see it and drive it the first week, but it’s probably not a very good movie (how can it be?) and it will drop off.

I saw one write-up where they were gloating that it passed “The Passion”. I thought, “You wish”.

[spokeshave]

God is Great...Beer is good and people are crazy....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKpQRjj_WbU

[Gaffer]

Yeah....I guess the movie shot its w@d.

[newfreep]

Anyone seen comments from Dakota’s father - Don “Miami Vice” Johnson?

[Caipirabob]

[woodbutcher1963]

Dave Barry wrote a very funny article about this book. I can not post a link to it from my Kindle. His humor is always a delight to read. He basically said that if this guy lived in a trailer park or some place like that, he would just be a run of the mill pervert. However, because Mr Gray was a billionaire is was Ok.

[Vermont Lt]

The box office is ALWAYS right.

[ClearCase_guy]

Yup! I knew I had heard that comment, but I had forgotten that it came from Dave Barry. He’s a wit.