#E. L. James

[veryslowreader]

Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James

Hart of Dixie: "Lovesick Blues"

#fifty shades of grey #fsog #E. L. James #hart of dixie #jaime king

[gwydionmisha]

A Short History of Naughty Literature and Zane

#Naughty Literature #Zane #Anais Nin #Anne Rice #E. L. James #Youtube

[pastelghostvl]

James, E. L. (2012) - Cincuenta Sombras Liberadas, p. 191

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James, E. L. (2012) - Fifty Shades Freed, p. 191

#fifty shades trilogy #fifty shades of grey #E. L. James #Cincuenta sombras de Grey

[adamwatchesmovies]

Fifty Shades Darker (2017)

While I didn't enjoy this film, that doesn't mean you won't. No matter what I say, the people involved in this project did it: they actually made a movie. That's something to be applauded. With that established...

It’s hard to say if Fifty Shades Darker is a better film than the first. Large chunks of it undo the conclusion of Fifty Shades of Grey or reiterate what we already know. On a technical level, it’s probably worse, but I enjoyed it more. Does it matter? This is a bad second film and I’m sure it’ll be followed by an equally lousy third.

After assuring her that he’s ready to open up about his traumatic past, Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan) convinces Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson) to have a second go at their relationship.

On paper, Darker sounds like it’ll be worth a damn, particularly if you already wasted your time with the first film. There’s a helicopter crash, a transparently evil creep after Ana, we finally get to see the often-mentioned “Mrs. Robinson” (Kim Basinger) and there’s even a part where someone is threatened at gunpoint! Those tiny blips seem to indicate excitement up ahead, but unless your mental capabilities are impeded by significant blood flow towards your nether regions, don't bother. That helicopter crash? It’s so ineptly shot there isn't a second of tension. Worse, it’s so unnecessary it could’ve, and should’ve been, excised from the plot.

As a whole, this story is messy. Ana’s boss Jack Hyde (Eric Johnson, whose character is so obvious it’s pathetic) does things that in hindsight don’t make much sense. Characters like Christian’s mother, Grace (Marcia Gay Harden), and Ana take some shocking betrayals either way too easily, or in a way that makes you wonder if they didn’t know all along and are being overly dramatic to put on a show. There still isn’t any chemistry between the two planks of wood that are Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson, though at least she seems to be having a bit more fun in her role as Ana flip-flops between inviting her boyfriend’s sexual deviancies and chastising him for being a weirdo.

The film begins by undoing the ending of Fifty Shades of Grey and sprinkles hints of a plot in its first half-hour via some new characters. Then there’s a whole lot of nothing until the last half hour. At this point, director James Foley hastily drops a couple of bombshells to warm us up for chapter 3. In between, there are exactly two good scenes. The first has Ana and Christian playing a game of pool that might get you steamed up. It’s a sensual moment where the winner will decide what kind of fleshy display awaits us. The other takes place on a boat and shows us our couple smiling. It doesn’t sound like much, but briefly, they make you think maybe these two people could be in love, instead of pretending to be for the sake of this idiotic storyline.

If you stick around for the end credits of the Unrated version, you get a sneak peek at Fifty Shades Freed, which I’m certain will deliver more boredom than eroticism. I do hope the three sinister characters in this picture will band together in a Legion of Doom-style alliance, that could be fun. Nothing I can say will deter the cultists from calling Fifty Shades Darker even better than the first. For the rest, there are many other better, shorter, more exciting, more sexy films available to you. (Unrated version on Blu-ray, January 26, 2018)

#Fifty Shades Darker #movies #films #movie reviews #film reviews #James Foley #Niall Leonard #E. L. James #Dakota Johnson #Jamie Dornan #Eric Johnson #Rita Ora #luke grimes #Victor Rasuk #Kim Basinger #Marcia Gay Harden #2017 movies #2017 films

[lazyasriel]

I’ve been picking my little sister up from school recently and don’t 100% know how to talk to a 13 year old. So far I have:

1. Ranted about the development of the vampire diaries and the differences between the books and tv show

2. Sung most of the Hamilton sound track with her

3. Played her the first few episodes of the Magnus archives

4. Played her 3 of the mechanisms albums

We also got coffee bc I’m not afraid to bribe her for love

I’m excited for the future

#I really don’t know how to talk to 13 year olds #I want to engage in her interests and share mine #I just want to be a good big sister #tma #the magnus archives #jonathan sims #the mechanisms #jon sims #Hamilton #alexander hamilton #Hamilton musical #hamilton memes #the vampire diaries #tvd #damon salvatore #e l james #sister shit

[lannee]

something's got a hold of me lately .

#the gentlemen #the gentleman netflix #theo james #kaya scodelario #eddie horniman #susie glass #eddie x susie #i haven't done gifset in ages #but for THEM #i'm way too deep in L O V E

[balanc3d-p3nguin]

✨🐠 [beach boy & orange zest ]🍊✨

[i'm losing my mind over our life i cried so hard during Reflection and basically throughout the rest of the game]

#art #fanart #digital art #artists on tumblr #our life #our life: beginnings & always #our life fanart #olba #ol:ba #cove holden #cove james holden #our life cove #our life mc #i played through all of it in one sitting #then immediately got all the dlc #THE WEDDING DLC RUINED ME #it is pure criminal that this game isn't more appreciated #the amount of l o v e in it is gut wrenching

[mr-merlin]

merlin photos 34/∞

#bbc merlin #merlin #arthur pendragon #colin morgan #bradley james #merthur #tv #mr-merlinedit #brolin #behind the scenes #bts #merlin fandom #my post #<333 #a d o r a b l e #the way bradley's looking at colin #*cries* #merlin photos

[likesummerrainn]

IMPACT Bound For Glory | 10.21.23

#IMPACT Wrestling #impact bound for glory #Trinity Fatu #Mickie James #my gifs #marie #THIS MATCH!!!!!!!!!!! WAS SO MUCH FUN!!!!!!!!! AND SO EMOTIONAL?????????? #i love them so much they were so good Trinity is literally the best thing to happen to impact ohmygod #and the way she just. embraces every opponent of hers in the ring the way she always takes a moment to just #hug them shake their hand hold onto them and thank them for the match #there is L I T E R A L L Y no one doing it like her!!!!!!!!!!!

[papa-evershed]

Rob James-Collier VERA

#rob james-collier #robert james-collier #rob james collier #robert james collier #vera #vera: cold river #richard #richard notgrimes #mine #shout out to my brain for choosing him #these gifs are shit but who cares when his thighs are right there #i really need everyone to understand how absolutely feral a soft belly makes me #h e l p

[veryslowreader]

Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James 

Cuckoo: "The Homecoming"

#fifty shades of grey #fsog #e. l. james #cuckoo #greg davies #helen baxendale

[adharastarlight]

So, I have proof that the universe (or at least magnum) ships jegulus:

#im here for it #i made my mate stop in the middle of the street so i could take this #im obsessed #dangerously obsessed lmao #anywayssss #marauders #regulus black #james potter #jegulus #dead gay wizards #james x regulus #starchaser #SEE ITS CALLED STARCHASER #FUCKING C A L L E D STARTCHASER #ugh i Wish the other one was sunseeker #but still #this is fucking brilliant #sunseeker #james sunshine potter #sirius black #remus lupin #wolfstar #james fleamont potter #regulus arcturus black #marauders fandom #we're insane #all of us

[shikariiin]

😤ok

Villain Edward meeting James

“…Aren’t you supposed to be dead?”

WAHOO what’s supposed to be a simple lineart becomes a colored piece HWWHEH

I’ve redesigned my Villain!Edward and I’m quite happy with this current one! Though some people really liked the ‘exposed chest’ aspects (cough cough) so I might make that somewhere in the future LMAO.

#I DROP YOU L O R E #ttte #thomas and friends #ttte edward #thomas the tank engine #ttte humanized #ttte human au #ttte james #ttte fanart #digital art #villain au #villain #ttte au #ttte james x edward #ttte jedward #ttte jameward #ttte 2x5 #2x5 #choo choo bitches

[adamwatchesmovies]

Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)

While I didn't enjoy this film, that doesn't mean you - the person reading this - won't. No matter what I say, the people involved in this project did it: they actually made a movie. That's something to be applauded. With that established...

Every time I see Fifty Shades of Grey I like it less. Say what you will about the first Twilight (the book or the film), which inspired author E. L. James to create her own series of books (I’m being nice. This series started as a fan-fic). At least it had stuff going on. Twilight creates its own spin on vampires, contains a mystery, has villains and stakes. Fifty Shades of Grey is what you get when you take out everything exciting about Stephenie Meyers’ novel and replace it with entry-level BDSM and nudity. This whole film should’ve lasted AT MOST 45 minutes, not over 2 hours!

Twenty-one-year-old Anastasia Steele (no, really, that’s the name of Dakota Johnson’s character) is smitten by the handsome, aloof billionaire Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan). When they begin dating, is she prepared for Christian’s singular and very distinct tastes?

To buy this story, you’ve got to suspend your disbelief so high up it’s prone to get sucked right out of Earth’s atmosphere. There’s nothing romantic about this tale of two beings so mismatched they kind of deserve each other, lest they ruin two other people’s chances to be happy. The concept of a mousy, self-doubting woman who can’t picture herself as a sexual being is taken to such an extreme it's borderline hysterical. When given the chance to research Christian Grey’s bedroom preferences, she doesn’t. When he explicitly tells her what he isn’t comfortable with, she pressures him into them. Time after time, Christian Grey tells Ana there are certain things he likes, and that while they may be "unusual", that's his thing. She is unable to wrap her mind around this concept. We see her graduate from college. This requires a certain amount of intelligence, so why is our protagonist stupider than everyone in the audience?

Lest you think I’m siding with the guy, Christian Grey is nothing but a rich creep who is just a couple of bad days away from shooting snuff films while hanging out with Patrick Bateman. The man does things no one would ever forgive, and not even to be cruel. He doesn’t realize he’s a maniac. He's just the type of weirdo that will show up when he thinks you're "in trouble" (code for "doing something he doesn't approve of"). If you don’t think what he does is that weird, I dare you to cast someone who looks like me in the role, or have Grey’s “thing” be cropophilia. Suddenly all of his speeches will have you running for the hills.

If you can separate the sex scenes from the characters engaged in them, the film is just ok. It’s well shot and the cinematography is professional. The problem is that the foreplay just doesn’t have the sensual quality that makes you want to run out of the theatre so you and your date can tear each others’ clothes off. Not helping is that all the BDSM we see is junior-level stuff, or the kind that looks flashy but ultimately, isn’t real. Fifty Shades of Grey isn’t interested in delving into the psyche of spanking and handcuffs, it’s just there to make middle-aged women who would be too shy to try it out for themselves go wide-eyed.

Fifty Shades of Grey might've still worked if only Anastasia and Christian had a reason to be into each other. They don't. Their entanglement happens because the plot demands they do. It’s an unconvincing romance that leaves you cold and while there is plenty of nudity throughout, it's no substitute for buildup and the chemistry. When the story of a century-old vampire becoming infatuated with a highschooler is more convincing, your movie is in trouble. (Unrated version on Blu-ray, January 25, 2018)

#Fifty Shades of Grey #movies #films #movie reviews #film reviews #Sam Taylor-Johnson #Kelly Marcel #E. L. James #Dakota Johnson #Jamie Dornan #Jennifer Ehle #Marcia Gay harden #2015 movies #2015 films

[bougiebutchbitch]

House: 👉👈 🥺 or... or I could be your girlfriend...

#house md #greg house #james wilson #hilson #house x wilson #wilson x house #gregory house #oh my GOD he is SO PATHETIC #SO BABYGIRL #p l e a s e #liveblog

[frodo-of-the-nine-fingers]

I just missed it. Our life then when he was alive. I can feel myself forgetting it and I don't want to forget it. This place, this life that we've been living here, it doesn't feel like living anymore.

#black sails #⚰️ #james flint #miranda barlow #flintmiranda #H E L O V E D H E R O K