One American reviewer was asked on Twitter when he went on "50 Shades of Freedom." In response, he asked why he was reminded of this, for him the future session is like going to the dentist.
I had a similar feeling, I didn't want to waste time on spineless mud, but I'm a surveyor, I have to go. I was absolutely sure that couples in love would run to the movie, or rather, the girls would drag the guys. But the hall was completely packed with girls, girlfriends packed up and came to see their film, an incredibly female film.
Even though I am a girl myself, I didn’t want to watch such films even after the first part, because there is nothing to follow, spying on other people’s relationships can not be the plot for a trilogy. It seems that the filmmakers think differently - and indeed gather their audience. When I think about how much work was put into these films, I get scared for my brain or for the brains of the huge number of people who tried to make such a movie was born and went through its life path.
After all, one woman once carried the idea of this story in her head, developed it, wrote three books, sent out to publishers, wrote a script, knocked out money for production, for post-production, casting and actors played this nonsense. I admire the human imagination when I see films that amaze with ideas, points of view, shooting, acting, staging, amazing soundtrack, and yes, I don’t understand how you can spend so much energy, time and money on something like 50 Shades.
I don’t respect films for purely male audiences, where there is latrine humor and vulgarity on all levels, but purely female cinema pushes me to shoot myself on the spot. It’s just a shame to work on such a picture, even to watch it is a test for a thinking person. . .
"50 Shades of Freedom" was like a glossy magazine like "Married to a Millionaire." A magazine without imagination, but with a confident product placement, I do not know who will not notice the Audi car, which is pointed in the eyes of the viewer. Only to buy such an expensive car, it was necessary to lure men to this film with something to be able to lure, few women earn so much and easily part with their earnings to rush to car dealerships “for a wheelbarrow like Anastasia’s.”
In the finale of the trilogy, the heroine marries Gray, and they begin a relationship in marriage. The most template romantic scenes, collected from world cinema, from their honeymoon, are cut, and then finally we see the set. How's the tie? The plot, i.e. events and logic - in general for "50 shades" is not the main thing, it is rather a video sequence for interrupting scenes of fuckers. Something like, "Oh, my God, we're haunted by some moron, we're such important birds, but we can't figure it out with all our security and money, let's go fuck," "God, I completely forgot about my friends, you remember that I had a friend who was chasing your millionaire brother, let's go fuck." In general, an expanded and less bold version of the porn film.
Since the films of the franchise cannot be perceived at least realistically, and this is just a film adaptation of the dreams of an average young woman, the world and all the characters are perceived decoratively. All except the main character, because everything that happens is her dream, trying to write her story about Cinderella. The fairy tale is known to everyone and loved by many, and like many fairy tales, has a competently built frame - the heroine is pure in soul, a bright and hardworking person, she is opposed by a vital, primitive in her desires opponent, familiar to many - stepmother, family relations - the pain of many people. At some point, Cinderella gets tired of oppression and begins to defend herself. A metaphor for her inner transformation becomes a fairy and miracles.
What is so good Anastasia and what her talents, we do not see, but only hear how she is praised. Even in sexual scenes, the active role of a man, i.e. Anastasia does nothing on the screen to show us what deserves attention. The idea of such stories is that any girl can get what she wants, but it is infuriating that this idea has a continuation - "get what she wants, not deservedly, doing nothing."
The fairy comes to Cinderella once, and around Anastasia she flies like a tether. What did the heroine of a heap of miracles deserve? What did Gray find in her? No one ever said no to him and Ana's reaction was so overwhelming. Why do people hang out with her every step of the way? Even dreams do not carry all perfect situations, and it is not surprising that the film absolutely do not believe, because it is all a fake, cardboard scenery, in which one girl played.
The main character also raises questions. To remind that he is oak, probably, no longer makes sense, but he is not yet whole, he simply does not correspond to his original psychotype, combining several men (most likely, E. L. James wrote Gray from fragments of memories of his friends, because men behave differently, and especially one man does not change so much).
What is it that Gray went from being a gloomy, introverted sadist to almost being the perfect husband? Apparently, this force of love for the average Anastasia invisibly influenced him, and then the beast turned into a prince. Another tale, which ineptly sideways tried to weave into a wildly weak plot.
About the heroines, whom everything comes on a platter and contributes to the fact that the character flaunts and revels in his own awesomeness, we can only say that they show off. We can assume that the idea was that the audience wanted to be like Anastasia, or brought their money to the producers and filmed something similar about them.
It is not interesting to look at such heroes, it is all some room conversations, dramas sucked out of a finger, words of wisdom from publics and dialogues, punching ha ha with their stupid straightforwardness.
It's how far you have to be from reality to take the text for a message from some educational material for teenagers of the 2000s: "Hi, girlfriend!" Shall we hang out tonight? "With pleasure."
What do you have to do to talk to your friends like that?
In general, here, that no step, you need a separate comment, why it is bad, funny, stupid, does not look, looks miserable. I have mentioned a few things to you.
James Foley, the director, who forever discredited himself with the second part of the “shades”, gathered almost the same squad of suicides in order to hit the final salvo from all the onboard guns and still overcome the box office mark of one billion deceased American presidents (before that, the first two parts collected about 750 million).
But his brainchild turned out to be weak even on the scale of the franchise created by an enterprising elderly housewife.
The second series ended with romantic sighs of overripe lonely princesses, when Grey offered his beloved a hand, heart and purse in unlimited access mode. The third begins with a pretentious wedding speech “in sorrow and in joy” with tears in the eyes of the target audience and slight nausea in people adequate. And then, up to the final credits, there are attempts to depict the difficult life and family relationship of no name girl with a young billionaire.
All two hours of the film does not leave the feeling that the creators themselves are tired of their offspring. If the first two series provided fertile ground for ridiculing the hopes and aspirations of the narrow-minded representatives of the beautiful sex, then the amount of such material in the final “shades” is negligible, and in its emotional feedback does not pay even the price of a ticket with popcorn.
On the faces of the main characters, a mix of weak acting and fear for their future is applied – now Gray and Nastya will have to leave the images in an attempt to find themselves in other projects. Claimed in the synopsis sex, apparently, for the entire period of filming took sick leave, and his sluggish understudy was not ready for a full replacement.
Lubricated BDSM, which is so famous for the printed source, by the third part generally ceased to respond to incoming calls from the director, so the notorious red room almost all the time remains behind the scenes.
The creators sketched in the plot fragments of different stories from the past - probably to better reveal the characters. As a result, they revealed the writer’s inability to make a full-fledged canvas out of puzzles and the inability to correctly portray the main characters even in six hours of general timekeeping.
One of the advantages of the first part was a quality game in shades of gray. But by the second part, the original operator realized that he had nothing to do in such a company, and went to shoot The Auditor with Ben Affleck and The Greatest Showman with Hugh Jackman. Replaced his colleague on the shop changed the video filters, making the picture more vivid, and shifted the emphasis in favor of scenes of luxury-style - yachts, mansions, social parties, in order to avoid unnecessary overload of the brains of one-year-old fools.
But the soundtrack - Danny Elfman - throughout the trilogy remained unchanged, so the music and the selected soundtrack is the only bright memory of the finally deceased franchise.
Although it's premature to rejoice. Cute Hollywood bosses for Terminator: Genesis drew a young Arnold. It won’t cost them anything to paint a young Kim Basinger and shoot a prequel about how she made a bdsm from a young Grey. It is not far from the restart.
I am a fan of books from the series '50 shades...', read all 4 books, no words. For those who love this story, I’m not talking about BDSM. A story about love, yes, at first not quite the one we are used to seeing, but about love! For Part 3, I prepared thoroughly, read all the books, reviewed the first two parts, immediately realized that the film with the book is very different. I liked it anyway, not 10 out of 10, but the actors are well-chosen, Christian is such a charm in the film, the book seems a little different, but the similarity is obvious. Ana in the film is quite great, conveys the book heroine well, although it is far from full disclosure to her, this is only because the film is limited. It is a pity, it is a pity that all the sidelines have been removed, they would have very well underlined all the changes that Christian has undergone. Women are such women, most of us want to be healing, pulling on ourselves 'complexities'. As they say, if a girl is cared for by 10 great guys, she will choose 11 and always with cockroaches or for the whole head.
Yes, this film will not reach 100% of the Oscars, but it is very possible to spend an evening with a friend (it is with her that you need to go, the men forcibly brought to the cinema are depressing). If anyone doubts to go or not, then go and see for yourself and understand yours or not. After reading the book, you will not regret it!! Read consciously, all these BDSM moments are not the main thing, their thoughts, feelings, the author tried. I think you have to be a very brave person to write this in such detail. It is a pity that the author did not become a screenwriter, she would have done better, although in the framework of the film it is difficult to show everything, and all the little things are important. My opinion is that the film is worth watching, and there are skeptics everywhere.
"Fifty Shades of Freedom" I confess right away, the first two films passed me by, but in the process of watching the third part, I realized that there was something in them. And then -- as my friend put it, "Not even one hair moved." Of course, everyone went to this movie for different feelings. Well, at least I thought so. Someone in anticipation of erotic scenes, someone once again let drool on the fairy-tale life of the heroes. What I think is so important in this story is that it is a fairy tale. Unfortunately, it's shallow, superficial. And if you cut the scenes 18+, it is quite suitable for teenagers. As adults, I think watching this movie is boring.
The main plus is that the actors who played the roles of Christian and Anastasia believe that there are feelings between them. Of course, every girl’s dream is a happy ending.
Unfortunately, after the film there is no pleasant aftertaste. I don't want to think about him. I hope one thing that couples who watched this film will take note of the expression “we are all discussing”, well, or how exactly, I do not remember. And like Christian Gray, men will try to turn the lives of their loved ones into a beautiful fairy tale. And there will be spontaneous sex in the parking lot, in the kitchen and not only.
Each couple has fifty shades of freedom.
It is always interesting to compare a book and a movie. In fact, that's the reason I ended up in the theater for 50 Shades of Grey. A beautiful love story of a rich man and a simpleton. Nothing special, except the "specific tastes" of the protagonist. But there was no hint of BDSM. Attribute? That's all. Just sex. Beautifully filmed sex. By the way, “50 shades of freedom” I liked in this regard.
It was said that between the characters there is not the same “chemistry” as in other parts. I didn't think so. They showed love in family life, not just love and passion, which was previously.
50 Shades of Freedom is more dynamic than the other parts. Somewhere you even worry about heroes, although this is alien to me.
Bottom line: If you’re an ardent fan of the trilogy, don’t expect everyone to show up on screen. The film only corresponds to parts of the book, but everything is shot beautifully and romantically. Rich, pretentious, vanilla. But sometimes you want to see vanilla.
“Don’t twitch, it will hurt” or how to make an erotic film on “half-six”
Yes, the most important thing while watching this erotic creation is not to twitch, or it will really hurt. It really hurts, first from laughter in the first half of the movie, and then from yawning in the second. I do not think that any other film can unite a disparate auditorium in such a way, when schoolchildren and pensioners, students and intellectuals laughed at the dialogue in the film, literally to tears, spitting out popcorn. These “genius” dialogues undoubtedly deserve the most thorough semantic analysis, to which, over time, more than one dissertation will be devoted. Only one pearl of Ana, which she tells Christian, struggling to wrinkle her Botox-cut forehead: “People respect you, and you respect them,” is worthy of serving as an Instagram adornment for any modern lady from Berdichev. But such ingenious quotes of the “Sages of Zion” on the film scattered dozens, if not hundreds!
As we remember, when in 2015 Erica James saw the results of the casting for the main roles and watched the final version of “50 Shades of Grey”, she became so furious that she demanded from the bosses of “Universal” full control over the filming process of new films. From the director’s chair was expelled “misfitting” Taylor-Johnson, and to steer the scripts and shooting of new films was “planted” husband Erica – Nial. As a result of such a close family tandem and “full control over the filming process”, the couple simply soaked with creative tension, but the films began to exactly correspond to the main storylines of the books. That’s only at the same time they became more “gray” with each new attempt, completely without any shades and came the day when the first film of the trilogy, in comparison with the third part, looks simply “Last Tango in Paris” by Bertolucci, and the second – “Basic Instinct” by Verhoeven.
But not everything is so sad – unlike the meaning and logic of life, eroticism in the final film became unrealistic. We will even see the two-second appearance of the bare breast of an African-American woman sunbathing on a private beach in Nice (best role in this film, bravo!), the snarling sports Audi R-8 of the latest model, the premium vibrators “LELO”, the golden “Vertu Ti Black” and, of course, the cherry on the cake – Ana’s 8-carat diamond ring. Mrrr... really, it all looked very sexy on screen. There was a spark running through his body. What about our super macho, Mr. Grey? Alas, with him in the film is very bad and with a shaved and unshaven version. Only he seems to have learned to extend the duration of sexual intercourse to six seconds by the third part, so here a new trouble piled up - without "toys" Mr. Gray can not do anything. How quickly killed in it all BDSM-instincts disgraced for a month family life.
Even before watching the film, I assumed that the total "anti-Vishtenization" Hollywood will not bypass this last line of girl dreams. We have already kind of forgiven Hollywood and the highest-grossing film of the year and the main nominees for the “Oscar” – 2018: “The Shape of Water” and “Bilboards...”, where the ball is ruled by unkempt aunts with “eggs to the ears”, against the background of completely devoid of these attributes and in general any manifestations of masculinity of weak-willed and dull men. And so hoped that even in “Shades of Grey” nostalgia for the remnants of the old days, when men were men and women were women. But a powerful tsunami of feminization swept over the Fifty Shades of Freedom. In line with new trends in the world of mass cinema, it is Ana, not Mr. Grey, who makes all the decisions for herself and for the guy. The girl famously drives a racing sports car, accurately shoots a gun, saves herself and her family and, of course, only she initiates previously devoid of fervor, and now completely dull family sex. And Mr. Gray doesn't sit at home idle, although he's good for a new family, like a bum anal plug. Well, at least I learned to charge vibrators by the middle of the film and very heartfeltly perform the complaining meso-soprano "Maybe I'm Amazed" Paul McCartney, touchingly accompanying herself on the piano. Finally, the circle closed. Total submissive.
Gone is the era... The last film of the trilogy “50 Shades of Grey” was released, based on the cult novels of E. L. James. I am sure that many will now express their disdain for this whole story, although it is completely folly to deny that books, thanks to colossal marketing, have made a significant contribution to the development of culture and industry.
Unfortunately, everything is coming to an end, and this year the final part of the trilogy, dubbed 50 Shades of Freedom, was released.
I will try to share my impressions with you briefly, and why it is worth going to this film.
One of my friends, who is not only a fan of the film trilogy, but also knows the source, notes that the whole story should be treated as a big, long commercial. In part, I agree with this statement: every film is interestingly shot, beautiful views, the beautiful life of wealthy people who can afford to fly on a personal plane to anywhere in the world, expensive cars, jewelry, clothes, drinks ... All this visual series, complemented by good music, creates a very pleasant impression and allows you to forget about the daily troubles and problems for several hours.
In general, the third and final film retained all the best prequels, adding to the plot of the action, which was so lacking in previous films. Yes, there is no sunpen or completely unexpected plot twists, however, it is more than enough for men – slaves of their own ladies, sitting in the hall with sad faces, somewhat animated and began to show interest in what is happening on the screen.
But there are a few things that upset me.
The soundtrack was somewhat disappointing. Unfortunately, after watching the film, there was not a single melody that I would like to add to my own playlist. If you are trying to recall the main musical themes of the previous parts, I will remind you. For the first film, a similar song was Beyonce’s “Crazy in Love”. For the sequel, released last year, ZAYN, Taylor Swift - "I Don't Wanna Live Forever" I can’t sing this song this time.
I also have a few big questions for the plot, the main of which concerns the elimination of weighty story arches from the film adaptation, associated not only with the childhood of the main character, but also, for example, the influence of a character like Elena, who appeared in the prequel. In the final part of the trilogy, she appears only in the video of one text message. Perhaps the creators did not want to spend the budget, inviting again Kim Basinger. Personally, I sincerely hope that next year we will see a prequel featuring Christine Gray’s childhood story cut from the film. It would be an ideal continuation of the film franchise, bringing the creators significant box office fees. In addition, the writers still have two books by the author, which can be easily and simply optimized for the shooting of new films.
In addition, when creating the script, especially explicit moments, described in detail in the original source, were again cut out. Guys, well, could give a memorable final chord, because still the film hung the rating “18+”, although, personally, I do not really understand why. I doubt that young people of the category “16+” at the sight of a naked tittle will faint, or have absolutely no idea how else you can use handcuffs, except chaining latrix in the monkey house. All this game of imaginary chastity and flirting with the Russian Orthodox Church will not lead to good. And so with sexual education, everything is bad, and any games, even in some way different from quiet squeaking under the blanket in the missionary pose, cause hysterical laughs in the hall. Let’s somehow develop in this direction.
In conclusion, I note that such films will be very missed on the eve of Valentine’s Day, although, of course, the studio next year will be thrown off the heels of romantic comedies, whose quality leaves much to be desired, but the story of the quality and scale of “50 Shades of Grey” is no longer necessary.
Tortured with a vibrator and smeared with ice cream genitals – perhaps this is all you need to know about what Christian Grey did with his new wife Anastasia in Fifty Shades of Freedom. In combination, these two scenes are the most spicy of the entire film, where eroticism still looks sterile, as if Dexter Morgan worked on it. This is hardly a good thing, although the movie seems to turn out bad in any case: even if director James Foley turned it into hard porn.
"Fifty Shades of Freedom" dances to the minimum on the same rake as the previous part, shot, by the way, by the same director. This partly explains why there is no growth in the characters or the narrative. Another reason is that the films were shot almost simultaneously, one after the other, in order to get a continuous coherent “plot”. The quotation marks here are for a reason: if the first part of “Shades” grew out of the fanfictions of “Twilight”, the third, which by the logic of things should become stronger and more adult, looks like these are the same fanfictions, but created by a complexed and insecure schoolgirl.
All these yachts, luxury life, beautiful bodies and social parties, on which the characters flit like butterflies (and along the way and sting each other, if you know what I mean), look like the dream of any girl, girl or woman – but, unfortunately, unrealistic, albeit more real than love with a vampire. On the other hand, Fifty Shades of Freedom is trying to get out of its comfort zone: less time is devoted to soft perversions here (and there is nothing left of BDSM at all but a meaningless “red room”) and there is an attempt to touch on the importance of family values. But this attempt is so ridiculous that in addition to the gesture “hand-face” can cause nothing.
The main problem remained in place: according to the assurances of both the author of the novels and the screenwriter, any conflict can be solved with the help of sex - sometimes with the use of toys, sometimes without. The conflicts themselves still look like teenage dramas, the behavior of the characters in them is no less cliched. “Cliche on cliché on cliché on cliché”, to paraphrase the famous Georgian singer from the label Black Star.
Dialogues in both these and other situations seem to be drawn from the public, where girls consider themselves goddesses and copulate with normality. More banal stories and phrases to find really difficult, they are sleepy, and not figurative.
So if you think that there are no pluses in the film, you do not think. Even the traditionally strong soundtrack has rattled here. Perhaps someone will consider the undoubted advantage of Dakota Johnson’s naked chest, which is dumped in front of the viewer already in the first five minutes and do not stop until the final credits, but only the one who does not know how to use Google.
Summing up: “Fifty Shades of Freedom” is a disgusting, talentless and simply tasteless creation, the creation of popular culture and modern trends, against which even the film adaptation of Dontsova looks more promising. And yet it has one plus: it's finally over.
1 out of 10
Half of the film stood in handcuffs, and in the title some shades of freedom. . .
I understand every person who scolds this movie (I'm talking about the whole trilogy right now). In fact, this is all a waste of time, because watching it you will not gain anything, neither morally nor spiritually, and you will not leave the cinema spiritually. You have nothing to lose if you don’t go to the movies. Unless, of course, you like to look at the naked breasts of a woman on the big screen. But here I hasten to disappoint you, because you will see the charms of only one girl throughout the film. And then, at some point, it seemed to me that the chest of the main character is even larger than that of the heroine.
But the fact remains that the excitement with the approach of the premiere grew and grew. It's a phenomenon. We all scold him and throw dislikes, but still crowds (couples) fall on the premiere and thereby provide the film with the box office and first places in the tops in fees. Here, of course, it’s all about the target audience, which is aimed at the female gender, and even on the eve of St. John’s Day. Valentine. If you want it to be like the movie, take the girl to this movie, otherwise she will hate you worse than the antagonist hated the main character, and still go to the movie with another single friend.
I'm sorry, except for Christian and Anastasia, I don't remember the names of the other characters. Yes, in principle and it does not matter, if you watched the previous parts, you will remember that the main sado-maso couple of our time is going to get married. And everything seemed to be going well, all those who hindered their happiness were eliminated. But only one obstacle remained in the form of the former boss Anastasia, who, strangely enough, had motives to take revenge on the couple. Of course, his motives didn’t convince me, after all, you have to be a stupid person to blame them for all your troubles. But someone had to play the bad boy and distract the couple from their favorite games in the red room. In general, it seems that when they adapted the script to the third part, they realized that the film lasts for half an hour maximum and in order to somehow increase the timing, sex, sex were added. In the parking lot sudden, in the kitchen spontaneous, in the bathroom obvious, in the shower ... but here you will not believe, the boy was not in the mood. Or maybe the other way around? They wrote all these erotic scenes and so that the viewer would not be aroused to indecency added all sorts of dialogue and even one chase, after which, of course, immediately there was sex. By the way, in addition to eroticism, there were small attempts at the detective component, although it was immediately clear what was what. But a couple of times in tension still held, which is a plus. There was another funny phrase from the mouth of Anastasia. When the guards asked each other who they had handcuffed (to tie the intruder), Anna said she had. The scene was funny.
I won’t say much about the acting of actors, I will only say that it is not so bad as to be nominated for ' Golden Raspberry'. Another thing is how similar they are to their characters in the book, here for each their own. As far as chemistry is concerned, I think it is. I really believe they love each other. The rest of the actors do not even want to mention, and their faces have almost forgotten. Okay, I was slying, of course I remember the sexy architect. Are there any real-life architects?
In the end, in order not to fool my head a lot, I will say that I personally do not have an aversion to this film. On the contrary, I am amused by this, I laughed a lot discussing scenes with my company and even amused myself by the comments of strangers sitting next to me. As a result, the film will again have a cloud of red reviews, but at the same time they will again gain a decent box office. But I hope this is where our happy adult tale ends.
“Fifty Shades of Freedom” is the culmination and logical conclusion of a surprisingly inept story about a completely ordinary and expressionless young girl Anastasia, who managed to win the attention and later the heart of a charming young billionaire Christian Grey.
Based on the erotic novel by the British writer E. L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey, despite the poor reviews of critics who were unhappy with the meager plot, unprofessional acting and so terribly staged erotic scenes shot so poorly that in some countries the film had a teenage rating PG13, the tape, at a budget of $ 40 million, grossed more than $ 500 million worldwide. Naturally, the producers of the picture, groping for the money, could not abandon the potentially successful, in cash terms, franchise.
Due to the fact that the film crew was confident that the subsequent films of the franchise will collect a good box office, the sequel and the triquel were shot simultaneously. Thus, the box office success of the sequel has already paid off all the costs of shooting the triquel. For the same reason, the third part of “Shades” turned out to be the same empty and talentless film as the second.
In the third film, a simple, as in other films, love story, which this time is built around the problems of haunting the past of the main characters. Heroes live a happy married life until the main character, Anastasia, begins to pursue and threaten the former boss Jack Hayd. The creators could build around this an interesting and tense thriller with elements of eroticism, but instead they did not put any effort into the script, knowing perfectly well that the target audience of Shades will not notice the obvious problems of the picture, for the cuteness and sexuality of the main actor, Jaimi Dornan.
There is absolutely no love chemistry between the characters of Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan. Their characters became husband and wife, but this did not affect their relationship in the film, except for the moments when people around her began to call Anastasia Mrs. Grey. Chemistry is not even in erotic scenes, which are not close to erotic, and the fact that it should also be scenes with BDSM themes, you can forget, because as in other films, BDSM is present only in words.
Over. Fifty Shades of Freedom is the long-awaited conclusion to the franchise, which turned out to be as empty and boring as all previous films, but this time the authors were able to find a place for appropriate humor in the story, ending it with a cheerful ending.
2 out of 10