the things that sucks is that the director was massively interested in making the film be an exploration of the fact that grey is abusive- but e l james barged in and ordered her to change the script
that would have achaly been a good movie...………… Dame it JAMSE...……….. What then the Dome would have had to say the His story your story insult...…… Dame it I don't Care I jest want that version where it was about exploring the fact that Gray is scum
@SeriouslyNotNormal. It was the same with Twilight because apparently the original idea for the first Twilight film would actually have been interesting and good until Meyer asked for it to be more like the book which gave us the "acting" of Kristen Stewart. I have a feeling the original idea for the film would probably have shown Edward for the stalking, abusive, obsessive control freak he is rather than the "loving, "perfect and "overprotective" character Meyer thinks he is.
Kye Dysarthria Well if her boyfriend loved all of the offensive and astounding messages that the book conveyed, I think that’s a huge red flag at its finest
Watch The Fall, a series on Netflix. Jamie Dornan is also in it, and he pretty much plays the exact same character (minus the billionaire part). Seriously, the amount of similarities between the character he plays in it and Christian Grey are astounding, down to the mommy issues. The difference is that The Fall is well aware of the fact that this character is a psychopath.
Maybe a crossover called fifty shades of hell raiser, where christen obtains a mysterious puzzle box full of s&m bondage demons? As far as a good horror version of twilight goes you should check out "let me in".
As a fanfic writer, this series infuriates me because it enforces all negative sterotypes about fanfiction writers. Yes, there is a group who writes crap like this, but there’s also a large group who just wants to tell more stories with our favorite characters
As a fanfic enjoyer, beta-er, and hopefully future writer, these books piss me off so much. Of my top ten favorite stories, six of them are fanfics, and that's saying something when I'm putting them next to Princess Bride, Watership Down, Last Unicorn, and Plague Dogs. Like, if she had grown out of her fairly terrible writing practises, it would've been one thing, but she hasn't evolved in the slightest up to and including The Missus. At least with stuff like "Spiderses" or "My Immortal," they're at least entertainingly bad.
true. There is a lot of actually really great, well written, fanfiction out there with interesting stories, with or without explicit sex scenes. It's honestly annoying that the ones that get popular as published "original" books are always these terrible examples.
why not do both? Drive a Basilisk fang through it, then drop all the copies into molten lava....then mix the ash with sulfuric acid to make sure it's really gone.
I know I am a million years late to this, but there was one thing I need to say. You said she would have had bruises for a couple days if she had been hit by the bike - that is a common misconception which makes my life a LOT harder. About 15yrs ago I was hit by a speeding bicyclist. I displaced my pelvis, broke part of the head off my femur, broke two ribs, lacerated my liver, tore the nerves to my right arm, broke my jaw, tore my eustachian tube, shattered a bunch of my teeth, had a brain bleed, lacerated my liver, bruised my heart, collapsed my lung, and broke my elbow. Oh, and it reversed the curve of my cervical spine thus leaving me spinal cord disabled and a wheelchair user. I cannot tell you how many people have acted like I am nuts for being disabled by a bicyclist. But believe it or not, people die on the regular from being hit by bikes, I know so many stories of people being in comas for weeks or their lives changed forever - and unlike with cars, there is no insurance to help the victims when the accident involves a bike.
The book recap was 14 minutes, the book review was 29 minutes, the lost-in-adaptation video is 14 minutes, So pretty much a little over an hour of discussion of a series he never wanted to look at to begin with. ...Someone give this man a Klondike Bar.
His sweetness shows through. He’s not believable whatsoever that he’s into bdsm. He seems so disinterested. And really not believable when he says “I don’t blah blah blah, I f*ck.” Maybe it’s partially the fact that that the two leads don’t have much chemistry
Honestly the success of such an terrible book is such a shame to writers everywhere. There are probably thousands of writers who wrote better books than this and never achieved this kind of success and sales. I haven't read them but just reading some excerpts blew me away at how bad the writing was. I saw the first movie and it was a painful experience. It wasn't sexy in the slightest it just made my uncomfortable. Its not only a bad movie its a bad porno.
Loudmouth Reviews I hated when people I knew asked if my book was like fifty shades of grey only because there were sex scenes. Not knowing the plot or characters just because there were sex scenes. Trust me it’s not
Loudmouth Reviews It’s also a shame to the fanfic writers who don’t get the opportunity to make them actual books and films it’s a shame that this dumpster fire is the one that was chosen.
Okay, I remember noticing the name 'The Dom' having a relation to the theme but it never dawned on me that we're the 'subs' until it was pointed out in this review xD
it was these videos that introduced me to The Dom (now I'm a loyal Sub). I thought it was a BDSM Dom discussing the book. Not a dude named Dom. I'd like to find something like what I described because I know that 50 shades of shit is awful but I'd like to hear 'from the horse's mouth' asitwere
Another concern I notice that is scary to think about: Grey picks her up and literally carries her away down the street or through public places more than once and she is either drunk and clearly out of it or arguing and demanding he put her down.... yet no one ever stops them or follows them to make sure she’s safe
I only listened to the book (I watched someone read it, which is a weird sentence in itself...) and good god, movie Ana is so much better than book Ana. Because competent screenwriters wrote the movie, thankfully, not EL James.
Honestly, in my humble opinion (and yes I HAVE read all 3 books and seen all 3 movies) Anna's character is the OPPOSITE of a strong, independent, sexual woman. She's just boring, weak, uninteresting, whiny, and tries WAY too hard to get him to like her. What made me REALLY angry about the series was I don't think Anastasia's character is the poor helpless victim, caught in the web of Christian Grey. I don't feel sorry for her character. Why? Because while he is portrayed as an abusive ass with extreme emotional issues that are linked to his past with his crackpot mom and her abusive boyfriend, and that is why he doesn't initially allow Ana to touch him and he's not into "hearts and flowers and romance" as she calls it, and he is adamant about her signing his contract before he has this BDSM relationship with Ana....there are two things that redeem Christian as a character. 1) He makes it VIBRANTLY clear from the beginning that everything about their relationship is ENTIRELY HER CHOICE. Ironically, although he is the Dom in the relationship SHE has all the power....not him. She could have VERY EASILY said no to his contract and walked away when she found out the truth about him. At the end of the first book/movie, when he was "punishing" her, she ASKED for it. No...she BEGGED him for it. When he wanted to punish her, she said, and I QUOTE, "Show me...show me HOW MUCH it can hurt. Punish me. I WANT TO KNOW HOW BAD IT CAN REALLY GET". And then, when he does just that, SHE gets mad at him and storms off in a snit because she realized she couldn't handle the darkness that was Christian. And then in the second book, he ASKS her why she didn't use the safe words that he established for her in the contract (and that is literally all she would have had to do if she couldn't handle the punishment he doled out) and she simply said "I forgot" When she runs into his ex-sub in her apartment and sees Christian as his Dom persona with her, she AGAIN runs away. He REPEATEDLY tells her he's 50 shades of f-d up and she stays with him and goes back to him and lets him treat her like his sex slave. So no....I don't feel sorry for her. AT ALL. And she's not a strong character. In fact, the ONLY time in all 3 movies/books that I actually respected her as a character was when she found out she was pregnant and instead of submitting, she outright tells it to Christian like it is and refuses to abort the baby.
50 Shades is basically American Psycho if Patrick Bateman was portrayed as a good guy, without the dark comedy aspects and the satire on shallow 1980's rich people.
@@LuLu-Sil There actually was a CM episode based on this book... or like the fanbase around it. iirc, the unsub was a guy who found fans of the book (or rather, a parody that isn't "technically" Fifty Shades but it's obviously not anything else) and offered to have pseudo-BDSM sex with them and then strangled them with a rope (or something, memory isn't perfect). I'm pretty sure it was called "breath play"
To people who were introduced to BDSM through Fifty Shades of Gray, I have three key words to remember: SAFE, SANE, CONSENSUAL. The relationship in this series is none of those things and is a very poor and inaccurate representation of BDSM relationships.
E.L James wasn't pleased with this because it misrepresented her vision? Does she actually think people think is book is considered good by its own merits by anyone? The only people who like it are those who are mesmerized by the sex or maybe who just think its hilarious that someone actually sat down and wrote that poor excuse to kill innocent trees. No one, and I mean no one, thinks it's actually a good book meaning her demand for creative control probably just made the sequel worse.
the problem seems to stem from the fact booklet of bog paper she produced sold well, I dunno was it plenty of dares? who knows, but, she thinks that having descriptions that half sound like an underage person whos never done it wrote it are what people want, is real and how it all works.. Sure, there is a remote chance that someone with Grey's money and life could find her interesting, and that her naivety makes her put up with more than she should, but i tried to read this when it was out and frankly I got to the point of skipping half the sex scenes in the attempt to keep my sanity, for a book thats like 90% shag and 7% transitions and 3% story, it was a miracle they could make a film out of it..
E. L. James basically let glory go to her head. When it was fanfiction all the 14 year old's reading it raved how good it was and to publish it. This gave her enough of an ego to try it and when it meet with success sales wise she took it as a sign that her book was great and that any negative criticisms was due to jealousy.
As someone who has been through 2 extremely abusive relationships, it makes me sick that this movie and book romanticize it so much! No one ever should go through that sort of situation, and it scares me to think that teenage girls with watch this movie think that the abusive things that Christian does to Ana are okay and even romantic.
@@anna-flora999 Just seems weird to me. It reminds of men who get married/divorced three times. Like, was the first time you got half your assets taken away not enough of a wake up call? Sometimes the level of delusion people possess just to convince themselves they're an object of affection amazes me.
Yeah, the 'rewrite the first book from the man's perspective' idea is ALSO plagiarised from Twilight. Stephenie Meyer did it, but it was leaked onto the internet, so she never published.
She also wrote a retelling of Twilight where Bella, Edward and Jacob are genderbent (did i wrote that right) and as far as i know everything else is exactly the same except for that bit. So I'm waiting for E. L. James to do the same with her books.
Y'know, I was never a fan of Twilight, but after seeing just how dirty she was done... shit, man, I almost feel bad for Stephenie Meyer. Twilight might be generic trashy teen romance, but 50 Shades stands as a testament to how awful it could have been.
Complete with her having an OTT reaction to it being leaked by saying it was a violation of her rights as an author and a human being. When I heard about it I just thought to myself "Meyer, your rewrite of the first book was leaked but you're acting like you were raped."
I just want to point out, the scene where Ana uses her safe word and Christian ignores it was supposed to come at the end. Sam Taylor Johnson wanted to highlight Grey's lack of control. That's why she was fired
IIRC, Christian asked why she didn't use it in book 2 when they had dinner together. She was in so much pain she forgot it, and didn't consider using it.
It would be so easy to write this story properly. Some people find vulnerability a real moment of connection. If you have Grey be uncomfortable and somewhat rude toward Ana, but not do anything morally wrong during his obsession, it could lead to a touching moment of Grey realizing how much he's been traumatized by his own sex life, them realizing a romantic connection isn't healthy right now, and then sort of following each other into more and more intimate gestures in order to calm/apologize to each other, eventually leading to sex and Ana ASKING Grey to show her what his BDSM life is like. Like, doesn't that sound kinda sweet? Isn't that the kind of Hollywood exploitation of sexual ptsd that really sells?
Eliza-Victoria Batrin My middle school English teacher legitimately loved this book and admitted it mid-class... It was at that moment I lost faith in the education system.
alexandra galici God, I think we knew the same person. The one I met straight up confronted me at a party out of the blue with very little introduction to defend the book as "a touching romance with an emotionally damaged man." That's the mentality of the girls who read these books. Like.... * throws hands in air *
Oh, hello. Haven't seen you in a while. Also, there're people stupid enough to like this unironically? That's it. I've officially lost hope in the human race.
OMFG. I don't know whether to laugh to cry when you brought up about Anastasia not having a computer. I've recently finished all my university coursework last year, and I can confirm. No one in this day and age can get away without a computer (with wifi and most up to date operating system) to pass a college class. Most students are required to have a recent computer (ideally laptop) even if the teachers don't explicitly say it. All essays have to be written in Word unless the teacher says other wise. Old fashioned research with books is still fine and even encouraged, but these days its different. For some students who want to write on something a bit obscure, the chances of finding a book on the topic they're writing about might not be in a library.
Not to mention power-point presentations, online courses and quizzes, online practice exercizes, mails from professors, signing up for classes and tests online, online formularies, online applications... it shows EL James doesn't know how college works nowadays.
I use my laptop for everything, but I try to focus on books for research because reading online sources for too long makes me feel like my eyes are bleeding.
I survived for about a month in college without a working computer. I did most of my using books and did a lot of my writing on paper, and I made heavy use of the computers in the school library. It's certainly not ideal but it can be done. While a computer is definitely necessary for some things I always found research using books to be way more productive then researching online, though it may depend on the subject,
i think the reason E.L James got the idea of rewriting the first book from Christian's point of view because Stephanie Meyer did that for Twilight from Edward's perspective. It's called Midnight Sun and is unfinished because it was leaked before she was finished and she gave up. E.L James really just copied everything from Twilight except for the supernatural elements, an actual love triangle and having a trilogy instead of four books.
I don't think it's a desire to see you suffer, I think a lot of us can't get enough of people ripping this story apart. Even the ones that haven't read the book know how bad it is. The success of this story is a mystery, and it's like a horrible car crash where you can't look away, but don't want to stare directly at it. EDIT: And about the elevator doors...I honestly think that was carried over from the book as well. In the first half, there is actually a lot of talk about elevators, making out in an elevator, Christian wanting to have sex in an elevator, and of course, the book ends with her leaving with the elevator. I don't think someone would notice it without looking for it, but I suspect that E L James wanted to use the elevator as a reappearing theme because that's something good writers do, even if she didn't have a clue what the elevator is supposed to stand for, but then forgot about it halfway through the story.
"Hmm... Pizza." XD Anyway I told my friend who had read it and hated it that it was a Twilight novel, then she's like "Okay no wonder the writing is garbage."
Actually a stare down is a great way to stop a guy from harassing a girl. Physical intervention is almost guaranteed to start a fight, just making them self aware of what they doing is wrong, work as long as they are not total psychos. Works even better if you get a few people to stand side by side with you with crossed agrms, again to avoid them going nutty and starting a fight. Btw. This also how you do bouncing at volunteer bars, if you don't have beefy bouncers ;-)
"Twilight had a fight in the end" oh you sweet summer child. It happens off screen in the book. "Maybe this is why Jame decided to rewrite book 1 from his pov." Nope. This another thing she stole from Twilight.
I wish this book/movie would portray Christian as an actual abuser and show how me manipulates the girl (forgot her name). if it showed an accurate and intricate story of abuse it would have been so good. but no, it's some disgusting romanticised "story" by someone who has no idea what they're talking about. good video though!
That's actually something Dom mentioned in his book review. If it had been written as a cautionary tale, it would have worked much better. He even looked to interviews with E.L. James to see if she ever stated that was he intent. Sadly, it's her idea of a love story.
@Carl Rood. A story about Ana getting into a relationship with Grey thinking he's a nice guy and realising how evil he really is over the course of it would have been interesting. But instead we get shallow "It's true love because he's rich and good looking" shit.
14:00 ... now I feel the urge to make a movie just about porn-'plotlines' without the actual porn. The lady that can't pay for her car repair, various pizza-related things AND the answer to the agonising question WHY the heck there is hay on the ground.
Based on your analysis, I'm actually quite shocked with how this story had the potential of being absolutely amazing and empowering, if the bare bones of it had been passed on to a competent writer (and human being with a grasp of right and wrong) to be fleshed out. It would have been incredible if it had been a cautionary tale of an impressionable, young woman letting an emotionally unstable "dream man" manipulate her into the exact situations described in the book, under the guise of a kink that neither understand. As he pushes her bundaries, she becomes more aware of herself and she sheds her naïveté. Leading to a climax of the book wherein she realizes that she has let him abuse her and finally just simply telling him: "No." That would have been interesting and impressive. Alas... Thanks for these videos, they were great. These kinds of videos are the only good thing this entire trilogy (books and movies, eventually) have given us. I find it very entertaining to see intellectual RUclipsrs roast this "lovestory". Of course, after every video, there is this frustrating awareness that this woman, who fancies herself an author, has billions of dollars to inflate her ego. Whereas actual, capable and inspiring writers can't even live off their work, or even have their work published to begin with!
I agree that authors should be respected, however there's a limit. What a lot of authors do not realize is that writing a script and writing a novel are not the same thing. They also often lack the ability or talent to imagine if and how something would work from a purely visual standpoint in terms of frames and their composition. In most cases that should be left up to the screenwriters and directors. Considering the abominably bad writing of the books, I don't have any particular confidence that E.L. James is secretly talented as a screenwriter or as a director, so God knows what steaming piles of dung the next adaptations will be.
I remember your earlier talk about this book, and about Anna's "Inner Goddess" I have a feeling this movie would have been more enjoyable if they introduced a character who was the Inner Goddess that only Anna could see and hear, and the movie was about Her fantasies with Grey through Anna (because as a Inner Goddess she can't physically touch Christian, but Anna can)
My wife read the first book and I watched the film with her. I asked her about the differences and she told me that the films were much better as the books were, essentially, about a trauma victim who's become a psychopathic billionaire and playboy (mostly because he struck the genetic lottery) and a damaged woman who somehow manage to help each other start to heal. The films manage to portray Christian as damaged but more like a Beauty and Beast scenario than a "This man should be in jail with 10 therapists instead of shagging Anna the Idiot".
The Hobbit reviews are apparently going to be a collaboration between him and Calluna, so we won't be seeing another one until they can schedule time to be together again.
How sad is it that books like Twilight and 50 Shades are able to get movies that more or less faithfully adapt the source material. Yet even really popular books like Percy Jackson get screwed over.
I'm pretty sure the difference is in the audience, this book was made for adults (technically. Personally I don't think it was made for anyone) and Percy Jackson was made for children (technically. Personally I think anyone could and should read it) Hollywood cares more about getting details right for adaptations for adults but couldn't give a crap if the fans of the "dumb kiddie book" like their movie just so long as they could feed off the hope those fans have for the movie to be good along with the ticket sales.
You know this director was forced into this movie and went, "Well I want to have a job after this so I'm gonna polish this turd to the best of my abilities"
...My dad walked in right during the moment when Grey was climbing on top of Anastasia. Naked. Both of them were naked. Whyyyy (He didn't say anything; I don't even know if he saw. But he could have, and that's mortifying enough for me.)
It’s really sad how the one time an author actually gets the last word when it comes to adapting their work is the time where they shouldn’t have... Especially when thinking about today’s Earthsea video
It still disappoints me that Once Upon a Time lost the mysterious Huntsman/charming Graham to this cluster. I was ok with losing Jefferson to The Winter Soldier, but with this loss I can't help but imagine an alternate universe where some nameless schmuck got suckered into this while OUAT's depiction of the Underworld was more like a classical version and Graham the Huntsman served as the team's guide.
I don't think the timing meant that Jefferson was lost to the Winter Soldier so soon, but they really couldn't take advantage of the supporting cast on that show.
ztslovebird - two years later... Well he did end up in the series “The Fall” (I think I remembered that correctly), with Gillian Anderson. I need to rewatch it, but I found it to be damn good. He’s very good in it, and a villain. Should still be up on Netflix.
Bobbi A or uses cable ties! Those things are NOT meant for tying up humans. They only get tighter and they're pretty much impossible to get off without risking getting cut.
In Anastasia’s defense, cashiers are usually mentally checked out of what customers are buying. So the fact that it doesn’t come to her as suspicious, is accurate.
To answer your wonderment @ 7:16, more than likely she rewrote them from Grey's perspective because Stephenie Meyer actually began rewriting Twilight from Edward's perspective. It was called Midnight Sun but Meyer never finished it because before it was even finished, someone illegally leaked it. In my opinion, Midnight Sun is actually a better story than Twilight and it answers a lot of unanswered questions. However, Meyer basically said that she would never finish writing Midnight Sun because it was leaked. You can read it on Stephenie Meyer's official website 😊😊
"EL James steals all her ideas from things Stephenie writes. She announced that she had begun writing Midnight Sun again and two days later EL James announced that horrid Grey book" So does that mean that we'll get a terrible genderswap version of FSOG since Meyer released Life and Death 2 years ago?
Holy shit this comment aged interestingly lol I'm LITERALLY watching New Moon right now and have been on a Twilight book and movie binge ever since I finished reading Midnight Sun a few days ago since Stephenie Meyer decided to release it.And NOW The Dom is reviewing ALL of the Twilight books. Damn, a lot can happen in three years, apparently lol
One thing that I have begin to love with these reviews is the gags, I just love how low budget they're! And this one as my favourite one by far! Just because the sausage pizza was clearly placed below the screen so it would be less of a pain to edit, and I love it for it!
Dom is also a short form for Dominik and a german word for a cathedral/dome (Though considering the Neverending story LiA he probably doesn't speak german).
I don't know who you're referring to, considering Tom Williams is English and I'm Australian. Not quite sure what you think is going on here, but I'm aware (and I'm guessing Tom is too) that his name is Dominic. You'd have to be stupid to not figure that one out. We were making jokes, but I think they might have just flown over your head.
A.J Herbert apparently The DOM choose his name as a reference to scrubs character called The TOD, I'm not sure who that is as I've only watched a little bit of scrubs and never really followed it.
Woke up early to watch this, totally worth it. I'm gonna go back to sleep once this videos over, because I gotta get to school in 2 hours. Don't worry I have my alarm people. But the Dom posting a new video, that's what's worth me still being loyal to channel awesome. Long live the Dom and his awesomeness.
I adored the "played straight" cutaways, in the hardware store and with the pizza delivery. :) I could honestly watch a whole short film of the latter, going 10x harder on the absurdity, innuendo and double entendre only to have everyone respectfully leave each other be by the end.
I actually enjoyed the first part of the film, because he seemed like a total serial killer she would fall for but then eventually have to escape and defeat….but then I remembered this would follow the plot of the books, and I stopped enjoying it.
I've been waiting for this LiA for so long and you did not disappoint. You have my sympathy for having to spend so much time talking about this garbage. Between you and CinemaSins, I feel that I've watched more than enough of this movie. Also, these actors were so wooden during the sex scenes that you could almost see the director standing off to the side.
What if the film went for the deconstruction approach? I think it would be interesting for the film to criticize that kind of behavior in a relationship or at least offer a good case study.
Lunictd James would've been flipped. She thinks the book is actually "romantic", so a deconstruction would've pissed her off, and her being her, she might've sued.
@@darkhero-3097 She's one of those childish types who'd dismiss anyone pointing out the unfortunate implications and bad messages of her books as "haters."
The most painful part is having Ana be self-conscious about her looks, jealous of her roommate, and considered plain and unattractive....and she's played by Dakota Johnson, a fantastic and beautiful and talented actress who was forced to give one of the worst performances of her career not just once but three times.
Hey, I recently found your channel, and I know that this is a three year old video, but you're a good dude and It's pretty great that you made a separate video just pointing out how terrible the book was on a basic level. I appreciate ya
The moment where she says 'NO!' firmly, as the elevator doors close was the best moment in the entire film. That's where this entire saga should have ended and the woman truly gains her personal power back, but no, we've got two more installments where she basically gets hoovered back into the clutches of the narc/sociopath and the same expected bullshit.
The first time I ever saw your videos pop in my feed was your rant on Fifty Shades! So I thought you were a RUclips Dominant (your name is the Dom) who felt that the book/movie misrepresented what you do. I have no idea what your content COULD have been, but I was super surprised to see you as a book and movie reviewer.
"What is it with all the bloody elevators?" Well if I had to hazard a guess, it's the image of a pair of vertical doors opening and closing, looking very similar to that of a woman's lower anatomy. Yeah, that's the kind of mentality I imagine was behind this film.
You know, after the sheer rage from The Dom in the previous episodes, it seems weird how calm and collected he was for the adaptation. Granted he did say it was ultimately a dull movie, so that was probably a contributing factor. Anyway, it seemed like this movie wanted to have its cake and eat it too by having enough of the book to avoid 'in name only' criticisms, but then tried salvaging things to avoid seriously putting off the audience. Like you said, this was all pretty much a lose-lose situation. This reminds me of an old episode of your's where you said something to the extent of "if you're going to tell the author's story, tell the author's story. If you want to tell you own story, tell your own story" or something like that. The film team would've been better off doing the latter.
5:21 hey don’t joke about a bike related injury, those can be very dangerous... I mean look at peter Parker, his arm was bleeding after being hit by a bike messenger....
the single most awesome moment of this review, which brought a severe case of giggle out of me while watching it, was the end of the pizza scene. i was positively entertained by it and kept smiling half a minute at least!
I have no idea why 50 shades is so popular. It's pretty mild as far as BDSM goes and the writing is downright laughable. Which makes me wonder if anyone takes it seriously. Is it like stories in porn? Nobody really cares as long as the pizza guy delivers the extra sausage.
50 Shades is popular for the same reasons Twilight is popular. The 13-16 year olds who enjoy it have a skewed, unrealistic and sometimes unhealthy view of what love is like and fantasize about finding their Edward/Christian, middle aged people like the kinky parts, and everyone else hates it because they know how bad it is.
You know, this highlights one of the problems in our society: the people who bitch the loudest get what they want Most authors have little to no control over the adaptations without strong negotiators in their corner James complained loud enough that they gave her what she wanred
The "giving Jose an icy stare" instead of violently shoving him away from Anna was a direct lift from Twilight. It works for vampires (especially when they have golden eyes and growl menacingly), for a human, not so much. The selling her car without permission and replacing it was also a direct lift from Twilight, but at least Bella consented for Edward to replace her old worn out Chevy pickup when it gave up the ghost - which it promptly did... hmmm... In other words, James took bad parts of Twilight... and made them even worse and making less sense. ~sigh~ So glad I gave up on this one after reading the sample.
Dom, I am quite impressed with the fact that you stuck with this; you're a stronger person than I. Much as I despise this thing, your assessment of it is amazing and very much on point. Respect. You are my new favorite literary critic.
I have some friends who really liked this series, so much that they replicated getting into toxic and abusive relationships thinking it was a good thing to be mistreated by their partners, it made me worry who else it effected into thinking abuse = good.
The Twilight plagiarism is due to the fact that this dumpster fire of a book started out as a Twilight fanfiction called "We are the Lords of Time" I believe.
the things that sucks is that the director was massively interested in making the film be an exploration of the fact that grey is abusive- but e l james barged in and ordered her to change the script
Whether James likes it or not, Christian is an abusive person.
SeriouslyNotNormal it's funny this story works
As a horror movie
that would have achaly been a good movie...………… Dame it JAMSE...……….. What then the Dome would have had to say the His story your story insult...…… Dame it I don't Care I jest want that version where it was about exploring the fact that Gray is scum
@SeriouslyNotNormal. It was the same with Twilight because apparently the original idea for the first Twilight film would actually have been interesting and good until Meyer asked for it to be more like the book which gave us the "acting" of Kristen Stewart. I have a feeling the original idea for the film would probably have shown Edward for the stalking, abusive, obsessive control freak he is rather than the "loving, "perfect and "overprotective" character Meyer thinks he is.
Xehanort10 at least meyer grew out of this and I hears now hates those books XD
I had a boyfriend who LOVED these books. Loved them, and not even ironically. He made me read the first one. I broke up with him after that.
Queen Geek smart move
Kye Dysarthria Well if her boyfriend loved all of the offensive and astounding messages that the book conveyed, I think that’s a huge red flag at its finest
Red flags... red flags everywhere!
Good for you those were definitely warning signs.
You avoided ALL the red flags!
The only way to save this film would be to make it a blatant horror movie.
Well less a horror, more Thriller. The story is much more forgivable as a thriller plot
+Gerald Grenier- Can we just agree on Horror/Thriller?
Watch The Fall, a series on Netflix. Jamie Dornan is also in it, and he pretty much plays the exact same character (minus the billionaire part). Seriously, the amount of similarities between the character he plays in it and Christian Grey are astounding, down to the mommy issues. The difference is that The Fall is well aware of the fact that this character is a psychopath.
A psychological or a thriller movie thats how I see it
Maybe a crossover called fifty shades of hell raiser, where christen obtains a mysterious puzzle box full of s&m bondage demons?
As far as a good horror version of twilight goes you should check out "let me in".
As a fanfic writer, this series infuriates me because it enforces all negative sterotypes about fanfiction writers. Yes, there is a group who writes crap like this, but there’s also a large group who just wants to tell more stories with our favorite characters
As a fanfic enjoyer, beta-er, and hopefully future writer, these books piss me off so much. Of my top ten favorite stories, six of them are fanfics, and that's saying something when I'm putting them next to Princess Bride, Watership Down, Last Unicorn, and Plague Dogs.
Like, if she had grown out of her fairly terrible writing practises, it would've been one thing, but she hasn't evolved in the slightest up to and including The Missus. At least with stuff like "Spiderses" or "My Immortal," they're at least entertainingly bad.
true. There is a lot of actually really great, well written, fanfiction out there with interesting stories, with or without explicit sex scenes. It's honestly annoying that the ones that get popular as published "original" books are always these terrible examples.
whenever i hear someone talk about this book i just want to grab a basilisk fang and drive it through every copy of that book
Why not throw it off a cliff into molten lava?
Because cliffs are for rings and basilisk fangs are for books.
RubberyCat is there such a thing as non-molten lava? I mean, molten is kinda intrinsic to being lava.
why not do both? Drive a Basilisk fang through it, then drop all the copies into molten lava....then mix the ash with sulfuric acid to make sure it's really gone.
I'd try that on a copy or two.
I know I am a million years late to this, but there was one thing I need to say.
You said she would have had bruises for a couple days if she had been hit by the bike - that is a common misconception which makes my life a LOT harder.
About 15yrs ago I was hit by a speeding bicyclist. I displaced my pelvis, broke part of the head off my femur, broke two ribs, lacerated my liver, tore the nerves to my right arm, broke my jaw, tore my eustachian tube, shattered a bunch of my teeth, had a brain bleed, lacerated my liver, bruised my heart, collapsed my lung, and broke my elbow. Oh, and it reversed the curve of my cervical spine thus leaving me spinal cord disabled and a wheelchair user.
I cannot tell you how many people have acted like I am nuts for being disabled by a bicyclist. But believe it or not, people die on the regular from being hit by bikes, I know so many stories of people being in comas for weeks or their lives changed forever - and unlike with cars, there is no insurance to help the victims when the accident involves a bike.
Sweet Christing fuck... that sounds horrific.
That sounds like you may have been in a lot of pain, which really sucks. It's not fun to be injured at all.
I am terribly sorry that you suffered such traumatic injuries. And thank you for bringing awareness.
I know someone who broke her leg by stepping off a curb badly..... point is anything can (and does) cause serious injury that you may not expect.
New fear unlocked 😱
Sorry that you went through that! Thanks for sharing your experience!
The book recap was 14 minutes, the book review was 29 minutes, the lost-in-adaptation video is 14 minutes, So pretty much a little over an hour of discussion of a series he never wanted to look at to begin with. ...Someone give this man a Klondike Bar.
How about hard scotch?
plus what he did to research and cut of of the vids plus watching and reading the thing lmao
Vodka.
And lots of it.
The LiA is 21 mins and the review is 29. 29+21+14= roughly 1hr 4 mins spent talking about this shite, give or take a minute. Poor guy
I know the actor for Christian Grey absolutely hated it, and he seems like a sweet person overall. Like let the Irish lad be free from this
Just give the lad his potatoes.
His sweetness shows through. He’s not believable whatsoever that he’s into bdsm. He seems so disinterested. And really not believable when he says “I don’t blah blah blah, I f*ck.” Maybe it’s partially the fact that that the two leads don’t have much chemistry
Yes. Let him be fifty shades freed. I'm sorry, I had to.
just like robert pattinson with twilight
The irony is he played a serial killer in a tv show shortly after.
Honestly the success of such an terrible book is such a shame to writers everywhere. There are probably thousands of writers who wrote better books than this and never achieved this kind of success and sales. I haven't read them but just reading some excerpts blew me away at how bad the writing was. I saw the first movie and it was a painful experience. It wasn't sexy in the slightest it just made my uncomfortable. Its not only a bad movie its a bad porno.
Loudmouth Reviews I know, I've read better sex scenes and skewed relationships from POKEMON fanfic of all places better than this heap of shit 😒
Worst part: pornos have a better plot.
I'd wager ten's of thousands, based on his description alone.
Loudmouth Reviews I hated when people I knew asked if my book was like fifty shades of grey only because there were sex scenes. Not knowing the plot or characters just because there were sex scenes. Trust me it’s not
Loudmouth Reviews It’s also a shame to the fanfic writers who don’t get the opportunity to make them actual books and films it’s a shame that this dumpster fire is the one that was chosen.
Okay, I remember noticing the name 'The Dom' having a relation to the theme but it never dawned on me that we're the 'subs' until it was pointed out in this review xD
Erin Curran I'm surprised there wasn't a "May I have another" joke in the comments.
it was these videos that introduced me to The Dom (now I'm a loyal Sub). I thought it was a BDSM Dom discussing the book. Not a dude named Dom. I'd like to find something like what I described because I know that 50 shades of shit is awful but I'd like to hear 'from the horse's mouth' asitwere
...I'm scared now.
Another concern I notice that is scary to think about: Grey picks her up and literally carries her away down the street or through public places more than once and she is either drunk and clearly out of it or arguing and demanding he put her down.... yet no one ever stops them or follows them to make sure she’s safe
The movie's Anna is a stronger character? Jiminy Crickets, the book must be really bad.
I only listened to the book (I watched someone read it, which is a weird sentence in itself...) and good god, movie Ana is so much better than book Ana. Because competent screenwriters wrote the movie, thankfully, not EL James.
I've read fanfictions written by 12-year-olds that have better female leads.
It is... Oh it sooooooo is!!!
Honestly, in my humble opinion (and yes I HAVE read all 3 books and seen all 3 movies) Anna's character is the OPPOSITE of a strong, independent, sexual woman. She's just boring, weak, uninteresting, whiny, and tries WAY too hard to get him to like her. What made me REALLY angry about the series was I don't think Anastasia's character is the poor helpless victim, caught in the web of Christian Grey. I don't feel sorry for her character. Why? Because while he is portrayed as an abusive ass with extreme emotional issues that are linked to his past with his crackpot mom and her abusive boyfriend, and that is why he doesn't initially allow Ana to touch him and he's not into "hearts and flowers and romance" as she calls it, and he is adamant about her signing his contract before he has this BDSM relationship with Ana....there are two things that redeem Christian as a character. 1) He makes it VIBRANTLY clear from the beginning that everything about their relationship is ENTIRELY HER CHOICE. Ironically, although he is the Dom in the relationship SHE has all the power....not him. She could have VERY EASILY said no to his contract and walked away when she found out the truth about him. At the end of the first book/movie, when he was "punishing" her, she ASKED for it. No...she BEGGED him for it. When he wanted to punish her, she said, and I QUOTE, "Show me...show me HOW MUCH it can hurt. Punish me. I WANT TO KNOW HOW BAD IT CAN REALLY GET". And then, when he does just that, SHE gets mad at him and storms off in a snit because she realized she couldn't handle the darkness that was Christian. And then in the second book, he ASKS her why she didn't use the safe words that he established for her in the contract (and that is literally all she would have had to do if she couldn't handle the punishment he doled out) and she simply said "I forgot" When she runs into his ex-sub in her apartment and sees Christian as his Dom persona with her, she AGAIN runs away. He REPEATEDLY tells her he's 50 shades of f-d up and she stays with him and goes back to him and lets him treat her like his sex slave. So no....I don't feel sorry for her. AT ALL.
And she's not a strong character. In fact, the ONLY time in all 3 movies/books that I actually respected her as a character was when she found out she was pregnant and instead of submitting, she outright tells it to Christian like it is and refuses to abort the baby.
Book-Anna is basically a blank slate to fill in with your own fetish fantasies. Bland would be a much to hard adjective to describe her.
Dominic Smith, we (the audience) apologies for making you sit through the movie and book
Camime not me! lol XD
Nah. I don't feel sorry at all.
I, on the other hand, applauds him, and is if ever so grateful. Here's a heart.
Camime agreed
Camime I've read the book and see the movie it's ok the acting is ok
Trust me The Dom, it's not a subconscious desire to see you suffer.
At least someone can use the proper definition of subconscious. Heh-Hay!
Ferhog I have a feeling he used "subconscious desire" on purpose to play on Anastasia having no idea what it means from the last video
Alex Goldhill One might dare say, "The Dom has become the sub."
Nope. It’s a _conscious_ desire to see him suffer! /joke
No no. It is
If Grey wasn't a Billionaire and sexy, this would be an episode of SVU.
*Dun Dun*
50 Shades is basically American Psycho if Patrick Bateman was portrayed as a good guy, without the dark comedy aspects and the satire on shallow 1980's rich people.
Or Criminal Minds ... I'd LOVE to see Spencer explain everything wrong with that unsub.
@@LuLu-Sil There actually was a CM episode based on this book... or like the fanbase around it. iirc, the unsub was a guy who found fans of the book (or rather, a parody that isn't "technically" Fifty Shades but it's obviously not anything else) and offered to have pseudo-BDSM sex with them and then strangled them with a rope (or something, memory isn't perfect). I'm pretty sure it was called "breath play"
SVU would not shy away from sexy billionaires being rapists.
To people who were introduced to BDSM through Fifty Shades of Gray, I have three key words to remember: SAFE, SANE, CONSENSUAL. The relationship in this series is none of those things and is a very poor and inaccurate representation of BDSM relationships.
E.L James wasn't pleased with this because it misrepresented her vision? Does she actually think people think is book is considered good by its own merits by anyone? The only people who like it are those who are mesmerized by the sex or maybe who just think its hilarious that someone actually sat down and wrote that poor excuse to kill innocent trees. No one, and I mean no one, thinks it's actually a good book meaning her demand for creative control probably just made the sequel worse.
Or she's just a complete moron.
the problem seems to stem from the fact booklet of bog paper she produced sold well, I dunno was it plenty of dares? who knows, but, she thinks that having descriptions that half sound like an underage person whos never done it wrote it are what people want, is real and how it all works..
Sure, there is a remote chance that someone with Grey's money and life could find her interesting, and that her naivety makes her put up with more than she should, but i tried to read this when it was out and frankly I got to the point of skipping half the sex scenes in the attempt to keep my sanity, for a book thats like 90% shag and 7% transitions and 3% story, it was a miracle they could make a film out of it..
E. L. James basically let glory go to her head. When it was fanfiction all the 14 year old's reading it raved how good it was and to publish it. This gave her enough of an ego to try it and when it meet with success sales wise she took it as a sign that her book was great and that any negative criticisms was due to jealousy.
I say she clearly doesn't understand the adaptation process the way some authors do. The changes don't at all seem like much here.
Like Rob Walker said, "Well, of course, because they're trying to make it good."
As someone who has been through 2 extremely abusive relationships, it makes me sick that this movie and book romanticize it so much! No one ever should go through that sort of situation, and it scares me to think that teenage girls with watch this movie think that the abusive things that Christian does to Ana are okay and even romantic.
...How did you not sober up after the first experience? Did the second guy have really deep pockets?
Valeria Daneva Wtf is your problem?
@@ValD98 seriously, wtf
@@anna-flora999 Just seems weird to me. It reminds of men who get married/divorced three times. Like, was the first time you got half your assets taken away not enough of a wake up call? Sometimes the level of delusion people possess just to convince themselves they're an object of affection amazes me.
Valeria Daneva Bugg off bitch.
Abusive people have a way of manipulating people to thinking what they do is acceptable.
Yeah, the 'rewrite the first book from the man's perspective' idea is ALSO plagiarised from Twilight. Stephenie Meyer did it, but it was leaked onto the internet, so she never published.
It was published along with the original as an anniversary celebration
She also wrote a retelling of Twilight where Bella, Edward and Jacob are genderbent (did i wrote that right) and as far as i know everything else is exactly the same except for that bit. So I'm waiting for E. L. James to do the same with her books.
Y'know, I was never a fan of Twilight, but after seeing just how dirty she was done... shit, man, I almost feel bad for Stephenie Meyer. Twilight might be generic trashy teen romance, but 50 Shades stands as a testament to how awful it could have been.
@@midnightsun40 um, no it was not. It is just now coming out in August.
Complete with her having an OTT reaction to it being leaked by saying it was a violation of her rights as an author and a human being. When I heard about it I just thought to myself "Meyer, your rewrite of the first book was leaked but you're acting like you were raped."
I just want to point out, the scene where Ana uses her safe word and Christian ignores it was supposed to come at the end. Sam Taylor Johnson wanted to highlight Grey's lack of control. That's why she was fired
IIRC, Christian asked why she didn't use it in book 2 when they had dinner together. She was in so much pain she forgot it, and didn't consider using it.
Anyone else kind of like the broken handcuff look on The Dom? In a weird way, it works as an accessory, thanks to his sleeves always being rolled up.
YES! I'm a very happy sub to the Dom ;)
It would be so easy to write this story properly. Some people find vulnerability a real moment of connection. If you have Grey be uncomfortable and somewhat rude toward Ana, but not do anything morally wrong during his obsession, it could lead to a touching moment of Grey realizing how much he's been traumatized by his own sex life, them realizing a romantic connection isn't healthy right now, and then sort of following each other into more and more intimate gestures in order to calm/apologize to each other, eventually leading to sex and Ana ASKING Grey to show her what his BDSM life is like.
Like, doesn't that sound kinda sweet? Isn't that the kind of Hollywood exploitation of sexual ptsd that really sells?
Wow, I could actually read that Book.
I saw a girl at school reading this book. I had to make sure she likes it ironically, because if she hadn't, I would've been genuinely worried.
How did that conversation go?
Eliza-Victoria Batrin
My middle school English teacher legitimately loved this book and admitted it mid-class...
It was at that moment I lost faith in the education system.
alexandra galici God, I think we knew the same person. The one I met straight up confronted me at a party out of the blue with very little introduction to defend the book as "a touching romance with an emotionally damaged man." That's the mentality of the girls who read these books. Like.... * throws hands in air *
Oh, hello. Haven't seen you in a while. Also, there're people stupid enough to like this unironically? That's it. I've officially lost hope in the human race.
Wow. What miserable excuses for Human beings.
*Takes a deep breath*
Okay, let's do this.
"even the script is commanding suicide" 😂😂😂
OMFG. I don't know whether to laugh to cry when you brought up about Anastasia not having a computer. I've recently finished all my university coursework last year, and I can confirm. No one in this day and age can get away without a computer (with wifi and most up to date operating system) to pass a college class. Most students are required to have a recent computer (ideally laptop) even if the teachers don't explicitly say it. All essays have to be written in Word unless the teacher says other wise. Old fashioned research with books is still fine and even encouraged, but these days its different. For some students who want to write on something a bit obscure, the chances of finding a book on the topic they're writing about might not be in a library.
Not to mention power-point presentations, online courses and quizzes, online practice exercizes, mails from professors, signing up for classes and tests online, online formularies, online applications... it shows EL James doesn't know how college works nowadays.
I use my laptop for everything, but I try to focus on books for research because reading online sources for too long makes me feel like my eyes are bleeding.
I survived for about a month in college without a working computer. I did most of my using books and did a lot of my writing on paper, and I made heavy use of the computers in the school library. It's certainly not ideal but it can be done.
While a computer is definitely necessary for some things I always found research using books to be way more productive then researching online, though it may depend on the subject,
Even high school level students can barely get by without a computer
Heck, I had a laptop at uni in 2000. It had a floppy disk drive and dial-up.
i think the reason E.L James got the idea of rewriting the first book from Christian's point of view because Stephanie Meyer did that for Twilight from Edward's perspective. It's called Midnight Sun and is unfinished because it was leaked before she was finished and she gave up. E.L James really just copied everything from Twilight except for the supernatural elements, an actual love triangle and having a trilogy instead of four books.
Also like Myers, James wishes hot guys in her younger days would fight over her but it never happened she is the Plain Jane.
I don't think it's a desire to see you suffer, I think a lot of us can't get enough of people ripping this story apart. Even the ones that haven't read the book know how bad it is. The success of this story is a mystery, and it's like a horrible car crash where you can't look away, but don't want to stare directly at it.
EDIT: And about the elevator doors...I honestly think that was carried over from the book as well. In the first half, there is actually a lot of talk about elevators, making out in an elevator, Christian wanting to have sex in an elevator, and of course, the book ends with her leaving with the elevator. I don't think someone would notice it without looking for it, but I suspect that E L James wanted to use the elevator as a reappearing theme because that's something good writers do, even if she didn't have a clue what the elevator is supposed to stand for, but then forgot about it halfway through the story.
I would sub to the dom any day!
Drudenfusz 😂
Haha, you get a cookie for the joke
Sub to the dom as a SUBscriber! ;)
For... it's for not to... 😉
I feel morally obligated to like this comment.
"Hmm... Pizza." XD
Anyway I told my friend who had read it and hated it that it was a Twilight novel, then she's like "Okay no wonder the writing is garbage."
Actually a stare down is a great way to stop a guy from harassing a girl. Physical intervention is almost guaranteed to start a fight, just making them self aware of what they doing is wrong, work as long as they are not total psychos. Works even better if you get a few people to stand side by side with you with crossed agrms, again to avoid them going nutty and starting a fight.
Btw. This also how you do bouncing at volunteer bars, if you don't have beefy bouncers ;-)
Dom's American accent is pretty damn excellent!
I don't believe you but thank you XD
Ok it's not professional actor good but it's still more than passable
The Dom You should do Psycho.
The Dom Definitely better than Benedict Cumberbatch.
On a scale of Quincey Morris from BBC's Count Dracula to Gregory House from Fox's House, you're a solid 7!
"Twilight had a fight in the end" oh you sweet summer child. It happens off screen in the book.
"Maybe this is why Jame decided to rewrite book 1 from his pov." Nope. This another thing she stole from Twilight.
I wish this book/movie would portray Christian as an actual abuser and show how me manipulates the girl (forgot her name). if it showed an accurate and intricate story of abuse it would have been so good. but no, it's some disgusting romanticised "story" by someone who has no idea what they're talking about. good video though!
That's actually something Dom mentioned in his book review. If it had been written as a cautionary tale, it would have worked much better. He even looked to interviews with E.L. James to see if she ever stated that was he intent. Sadly, it's her idea of a love story.
The director wanted to that. but fucking James stopped her
@@herz5159 She really should have known better than to fuck someone that wrote this, then.
@Carl Rood. A story about Ana getting into a relationship with Grey thinking he's a nice guy and realising how evil he really is over the course of it would have been interesting. But instead we get shallow "It's true love because he's rich and good looking" shit.
"and a subconcious desire to see me suffer".
To paraphrase your previous minirant, THATS NOT WHAT SUBCONCIOUS MEANS.
14:00 ... now I feel the urge to make a movie just about porn-'plotlines' without the actual porn. The lady that can't pay for her car repair, various pizza-related things AND the answer to the agonising question WHY the heck there is hay on the ground.
People Asked: 93
Saw the film: 12
Read the book: 6
Well then...
also, "dude, you ever notice how elevator doors look like wipes?" "no." "well they do, and I'll prove it in this move!"
It feels good that RUclips does sometimes still recommend good channels.
I'll probably be binging your videos throughout the rest of the day.
Based on your analysis, I'm actually quite shocked with how this story had the potential of being absolutely amazing and empowering, if the bare bones of it had been passed on to a competent writer (and human being with a grasp of right and wrong) to be fleshed out. It would have been incredible if it had been a cautionary tale of an impressionable, young woman letting an emotionally unstable "dream man" manipulate her into the exact situations described in the book, under the guise of a kink that neither understand. As he pushes her bundaries, she becomes more aware of herself and she sheds her naïveté. Leading to a climax of the book wherein she realizes that she has let him abuse her and finally just simply telling him: "No." That would have been interesting and impressive. Alas...
Thanks for these videos, they were great. These kinds of videos are the only good thing this entire trilogy (books and movies, eventually) have given us. I find it very entertaining to see intellectual RUclipsrs roast this "lovestory". Of course, after every video, there is this frustrating awareness that this woman, who fancies herself an author, has billions of dollars to inflate her ego. Whereas actual, capable and inspiring writers can't even live off their work, or even have their work published to begin with!
A good adaptation of a terrible book. Kind of cancels itself out a bit there.
I agree that authors should be respected, however there's a limit. What a lot of authors do not realize is that writing a script and writing a novel are not the same thing. They also often lack the ability or talent to imagine if and how something would work from a purely visual standpoint in terms of frames and their composition. In most cases that should be left up to the screenwriters and directors. Considering the abominably bad writing of the books, I don't have any particular confidence that E.L. James is secretly talented as a screenwriter or as a director, so God knows what steaming piles of dung the next adaptations will be.
Example: Stephen Kings “The Shining”
Also, can't believe they let EL James take control, but then destroy Riordan's books
I remember your earlier talk about this book, and about Anna's "Inner Goddess" I have a feeling this movie would have been more enjoyable if they introduced a character who was the Inner Goddess that only Anna could see and hear, and the movie was about Her fantasies with Grey through Anna (because as a Inner Goddess she can't physically touch Christian, but Anna can)
Write it and get it to a producer, you might be able to make a better movie than this abomination.
My wife read the first book and I watched the film with her. I asked her about the differences and she told me that the films were much better as the books were, essentially, about a trauma victim who's become a psychopathic billionaire and playboy (mostly because he struck the genetic lottery) and a damaged woman who somehow manage to help each other start to heal.
The films manage to portray Christian as damaged but more like a Beauty and Beast scenario than a "This man should be in jail with 10 therapists instead of shagging Anna the Idiot".
yay! a new dom review 😁
When's he gonna finish the Hobbit?
+jwhaler82
Doing one film in a series doesn't make you obligated to do the others. I'm sure it'll happen at some point, though.
The Hobbit reviews are apparently going to be a collaboration between him and Calluna, so we won't be seeing another one until they can schedule time to be together again.
How sad is it that books like Twilight and 50 Shades are able to get movies that more or less faithfully adapt the source material.
Yet even really popular books like Percy Jackson get screwed over.
I'm pretty sure the difference is in the audience, this book was made for adults (technically. Personally I don't think it was made for anyone) and Percy Jackson was made for children (technically. Personally I think anyone could and should read it)
Hollywood cares more about getting details right for adaptations for adults but couldn't give a crap if the fans of the "dumb kiddie book" like their movie just so long as they could feed off the hope those fans have for the movie to be good along with the ticket sales.
If it makes you feel any better, Percy Jackson is getting a new adaptation and Rick Riordan is in the forefront of it.
Same with Eragon and the Eoin Colfer Artemis Fowl books too
You know this director was forced into this movie and went, "Well I want to have a job after this so I'm gonna polish this turd to the best of my abilities"
She dropped it right after this part, or perhaps EL James wanted her fired because she was trying to make the book heaps better.
...My dad walked in right during the moment when Grey was climbing on top of Anastasia. Naked. Both of them were naked. Whyyyy
(He didn't say anything; I don't even know if he saw. But he could have, and that's mortifying enough for me.)
Parents walking in at the worst times ha ha.
It’s really sad how the one time an author actually gets the last word when it comes to adapting their work is the time where they shouldn’t have... Especially when thinking about today’s Earthsea video
please do 13 reasons why. Netflix has just released its adaptation of it
Yes!
I'm just looking forward to when you're inevitably forced to compliment Twilight.
It still disappoints me that Once Upon a Time lost the mysterious Huntsman/charming Graham to this cluster. I was ok with losing Jefferson to The Winter Soldier, but with this loss I can't help but imagine an alternate universe where some nameless schmuck got suckered into this while OUAT's depiction of the Underworld was more like a classical version and Graham the Huntsman served as the team's guide.
ztslovebird I feel bad for our Graham.
I don't think the timing meant that Jefferson was lost to the Winter Soldier so soon, but they really couldn't take advantage of the supporting cast on that show.
Same tbh :P
omg thank you.
ztslovebird - two years later...
Well he did end up in the series “The Fall” (I think I remembered that correctly), with Gillian Anderson. I need to rewatch it, but I found it to be damn good. He’s very good in it, and a villain. Should still be up on Netflix.
I feel sorry for Jamie Dornan. He's a decent actor and deserves better.
Never get with a dom who buys their rope from a hardware store! o.o
Bobbi A or uses cable ties! Those things are NOT meant for tying up humans. They only get tighter and they're pretty much impossible to get off without risking getting cut.
In Anastasia’s defense, cashiers are usually mentally checked out of what customers are buying. So the fact that it doesn’t come to her as suspicious, is accurate.
To answer your wonderment @ 7:16, more than likely she rewrote them from Grey's perspective because Stephenie Meyer actually began rewriting Twilight from Edward's perspective. It was called Midnight Sun but Meyer never finished it because before it was even finished, someone illegally leaked it. In my opinion, Midnight Sun is actually a better story than Twilight and it answers a lot of unanswered questions. However, Meyer basically said that she would never finish writing Midnight Sun because it was leaked. You can read it on Stephenie Meyer's official website 😊😊
"EL James steals all her ideas from things Stephenie writes. She announced that she had begun writing Midnight Sun again and two days later EL James announced that horrid Grey book" So does that mean that we'll get a terrible genderswap version of FSOG since Meyer released Life and Death 2 years ago?
Did she not say that, if she'd finished it with her current mood, it would have ended with Edward getting ripped to pieces by the evil vampire dude?
andymac4883 Honestly, that would have been a better ending to that terrible book.
Holy shit this comment aged interestingly lol I'm LITERALLY watching New Moon right now and have been on a Twilight book and movie binge ever since I finished reading Midnight Sun a few days ago since Stephenie Meyer decided to release it.And NOW The Dom is reviewing ALL of the Twilight books. Damn, a lot can happen in three years, apparently lol
Why does the channel not have millions of subscribers? LOVE this guy!!!!!!!!
Shrek, Lost In Adaptation.
That should really cleanse the palate.
I never knew it was based on a book. That's awesome and would definitely be a nice respite from the 50 Shades videos.
One thing that I have begin to love with these reviews is the gags, I just love how low budget they're!
And this one as my favourite one by far! Just because the sausage pizza was clearly placed below the screen so it would be less of a pain to edit, and I love it for it!
The dom...
The sub...
Did you do that on purpose? Cause now I feel sorta grossed out and violated somehow. Haha
A.J Herbert in his Rant video he hinted at the fact he knows about bdsm Now we know why he's called the Dom
Because his name is Dominic?
Dom is also a short form for Dominik and a german word for a cathedral/dome (Though considering the Neverending story LiA he probably doesn't speak german).
I don't know who you're referring to, considering Tom Williams is English and I'm Australian.
Not quite sure what you think is going on here, but I'm aware (and I'm guessing Tom is too) that his name is Dominic. You'd have to be stupid to not figure that one out.
We were making jokes, but I think they might have just flown over your head.
A.J Herbert apparently The DOM choose his name as a reference to scrubs character called The TOD, I'm not sure who that is as I've only watched a little bit of scrubs and never really followed it.
I never realized just how many elevators were in this film. That supercut is glorious!
Only 6 read the book, of nearly 100. I am dying...
Woke up early to watch this, totally worth it. I'm gonna go back to sleep once this videos over, because I gotta get to school in 2 hours. Don't worry I have my alarm people. But the Dom posting a new video, that's what's worth me still being loyal to channel awesome. Long live the Dom and his awesomeness.
I adored the "played straight" cutaways, in the hardware store and with the pizza delivery. :) I could honestly watch a whole short film of the latter, going 10x harder on the absurdity, innuendo and double entendre only to have everyone respectfully leave each other be by the end.
"... a subconscious desire to see me suffer"
As a great dude once said, THAT'S NOT WHAT SUBCONSCIOUS MEANS.
Thanks for recognizing the Hylian immigrant population of the beautiful watchers.
Now if he could just recognize us Narnians... our day will come.
Hylian? Like...from Zelda?
I actually enjoyed the first part of the film, because he seemed like a total serial killer she would fall for but then eventually have to escape and defeat….but then I remembered this would follow the plot of the books, and I stopped enjoying it.
I've been waiting for this LiA for so long and you did not disappoint. You have my sympathy for having to spend so much time talking about this garbage. Between you and CinemaSins, I feel that I've watched more than enough of this movie.
Also, these actors were so wooden during the sex scenes that you could almost see the director standing off to the side.
What if the film went for the deconstruction approach? I think it would be interesting for the film to criticize that kind of behavior in a relationship or at least offer a good case study.
Lunictd James would've been flipped. She thinks the book is actually "romantic", so a deconstruction would've pissed her off, and her being her, she might've sued.
@@darkhero-3097 She's one of those childish types who'd dismiss anyone pointing out the unfortunate implications and bad messages of her books as "haters."
So like You?
The most painful part is having Ana be self-conscious about her looks, jealous of her roommate, and considered plain and unattractive....and she's played by Dakota Johnson, a fantastic and beautiful and talented actress who was forced to give one of the worst performances of her career not just once but three times.
Hey, I recently found your channel, and I know that this is a three year old video, but you're a good dude and It's pretty great that you made a separate video just pointing out how terrible the book was on a basic level. I appreciate ya
The moment where she says 'NO!' firmly, as the elevator doors close was the best moment in the entire film. That's where this entire saga should have ended and the woman truly gains her personal power back, but no, we've got two more installments where she basically gets hoovered back into the clutches of the narc/sociopath and the same expected bullshit.
The first time I ever saw your videos pop in my feed was your rant on Fifty Shades! So I thought you were a RUclips Dominant (your name is the Dom) who felt that the book/movie misrepresented what you do.
I have no idea what your content COULD have been, but I was super surprised to see you as a book and movie reviewer.
"What is it with all the bloody elevators?"
Well if I had to hazard a guess, it's the image of a pair of vertical doors opening and closing, looking very similar to that of a woman's lower anatomy. Yeah, that's the kind of mentality I imagine was behind this film.
You know, after the sheer rage from The Dom in the previous episodes, it seems weird how calm and collected he was for the adaptation. Granted he did say it was ultimately a dull movie, so that was probably a contributing factor.
Anyway, it seemed like this movie wanted to have its cake and eat it too by having enough of the book to avoid 'in name only' criticisms, but then tried salvaging things to avoid seriously putting off the audience. Like you said, this was all pretty much a lose-lose situation.
This reminds me of an old episode of your's where you said something to the extent of "if you're going to tell the author's story, tell the author's story. If you want to tell you own story, tell your own story" or something like that. The film team would've been better off doing the latter.
Could we just have a 50 Shades film, but with The Dom in every role?
Dude... snakes don't deserve having to deal with her
The way The Dom says “mmm Pizza” at 14:10 like an asthmatic gremlin while wearing women’s clothing cracks me up every time!
5:21 hey don’t joke about a bike related injury, those can be very dangerous...
I mean look at peter Parker, his arm was bleeding after being hit by a bike messenger....
I love when Terrance shows up in your stuff. You write and act him so well. :D
the single most awesome moment of this review, which brought a severe case of giggle out of me while watching it, was the end of the pizza scene. i was positively entertained by it and kept smiling half a minute at least!
Really appreciate your commitment to drag in this series 🤣 Keep up the good work for us!
8:52 *Heather Chandler voice* ooh myriad
Touka Kirishima This is so weird because I literally said that as soon as I heard myriad 😂
I have no idea why 50 shades is so popular.
It's pretty mild as far as BDSM goes and the writing is downright laughable.
Which makes me wonder if anyone takes it seriously. Is it like stories in porn?
Nobody really cares as long as the pizza guy delivers the extra sausage.
50 Shades is popular for the same reasons Twilight is popular. The 13-16 year olds who enjoy it have a skewed, unrealistic and sometimes unhealthy view of what love is like and fantasize about finding their Edward/Christian, middle aged people like the kinky parts, and everyone else hates it because they know how bad it is.
Bless the outtakes at the end, and you too Dom.
Now this is interesting, the Dom's satirical sketches are better that the shit he's basing them on. Also, hi Terrence - nice to see you again.
Drinking game: take a shot every time there's an elevator in the scene.
The elevator thing, and I'm NOT even kidding, I think is a literal representation of the term "going down". Yeah...subtle.
You know what? you should TOTALLY do Interview with the Vampire!!!! it's one of the few films I trully and deeply believe is better than the book xP
12:12 - So in the book, Grey used his Conqueror's Haki to ward Jose away.
"Get Lost"
You know, this highlights one of the problems in our society: the people who bitch the loudest get what they want
Most authors have little to no control over the adaptations without strong negotiators in their corner
James complained loud enough that they gave her what she wanred
The "giving Jose an icy stare" instead of violently shoving him away from Anna was a direct lift from Twilight. It works for vampires (especially when they have golden eyes and growl menacingly), for a human, not so much. The selling her car without permission and replacing it was also a direct lift from Twilight, but at least Bella consented for Edward to replace her old worn out Chevy pickup when it gave up the ghost - which it promptly did... hmmm...
In other words, James took bad parts of Twilight... and made them even worse and making less sense. ~sigh~ So glad I gave up on this one after reading the sample.
Oh god I can’t believe it took me so long to get it. You’re THE DOM and we’re your SUBScribers. I want to laugh and facepalm at the same time.
Dom, I am quite impressed with the fact that you stuck with this; you're a stronger person than I. Much as I despise this thing, your assessment of it is amazing and very much on point. Respect. You are my new favorite literary critic.
Thanks for being awesome.
I have some friends who really liked this series, so much that they replicated getting into toxic and abusive relationships thinking it was a good thing to be mistreated by their partners, it made me worry who else it effected into thinking abuse = good.
The Twilight plagiarism is due to the fact that this dumpster fire of a book started out as a Twilight fanfiction called "We are the Lords of Time" I believe.
FuronSpartan Master of the Universe. Ugh Why do I know that?
Hi Dom, I love your videos. I'd love to see a Lost in Adaptation on Hellraiser and The Hellbound Heart.
Definitely the Lost in Adaptation video he could for Halloween.
"This is one HUUUUGE sausage...." Lol.
I love that you asked almost 100 people, but the numbers are still the same as if you asked 20.