tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7294499213897153104.post1472134628353760716..comments2024-03-27T09:00:32.195-05:00Comments on The Signal Watch: Regret Watch: Fifty Shades Darker (2017) - Pumpkin Spiced SoftcoreThe Leaguehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04836241071795980225noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7294499213897153104.post-19928328073237750292017-02-17T13:11:54.585-06:002017-02-17T13:11:54.585-06:00When something is a runaway success as this has be...When something is a runaway success as this has been, for whatever reason, and I think you're absolutely right as to why it took off, it's worth trying to figure out how it works in the larger social context. If we can do this with cowboy and superhero movies, this sort of fantasy movie needs a review as well. Because if the book is this big of a deal, and the movies have big opening weekends and follow-through, then we should try to get at - beyond the hooting and hollering - got us here and what the characters are telling us. It's one thing for a writer to put themselves out there, and something else when the public eats it up like Sunday afternoon at the Golden Corral.The Leaguehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04836241071795980225noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7294499213897153104.post-78253453390617524082017-02-17T12:26:53.145-06:002017-02-17T12:26:53.145-06:00I think you hit it on the nose, that there's w...I think you hit it on the nose, that there's way better content for people to read if this is the genre of content they want.<br /><br />However, I'm afraid that, with the general stigma around this content, this may have been the first "for the masses" work to have gained real public notice, allowing those who want this kind of thing to find it. I know, I know - "it's just a touch away on the Internets", but there's so much low quality work out there, or work that goes into the too-racy areas that it might turn people away. The two major works that I can think of off the time of my head, Anne Rice's <i>Sleeping Beauty</i> series, and Pauline Reage's <i>The Story of O</i>, would probably be too hard core.<br /><br />Also, with all the talk about the book - people on TV were reading snippets and making fun of it - it made for a good cover when people read it. Kind of the hipster "I'm reading it ironically."<br /><br />But I don't know. The furthest I've learned about it was from the "Gilbert Godfrey audio book" joke ad.Groboclownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00516458842732596083noreply@blogger.com