Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, and this week with Marianne Cassidy and Grace Duffy, The Bottom 100 is a subset of the fortnightly The 250 podcast, a trip through some of the worst movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users.
This time, Sam Taylor Johnson’s Fifty Shades of Grey.
Show Notes:
- Recorded 25th August 2018.
- Note: Darren misremembers Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex as the work of Theodore Sturgeon rather than Larry Niven.
- Fifty Shades of Grey at The Internet Movie Database.
- The IMDB Bottom 100 as it appeared at time of recording.
- Read Marianne’s blog at Massive Hassle.
- Follow Marianne on Twitter.
- Follow Grace on Twitter.
- Read Grace’s reviews at The Mary Sue.
- Elyse Graham at The Oxford English Dictionary on “birbspeak”, October 2017.
- Eliza Thompson at Cosmopolitan wonders what is the deal with Taylor, February 2017.
- Aja Romano at Vox delves deep into the world of My Immortal, September 2017.
- Caitlin Dewey at The Washington Post on “rule 34”, April 2016.
- Zeynep Yenisey at Maxim on the allure of incest in contemporary American pornography, March 2018.
- Gareth May at Vice ponders why porn involving invest is so popular, February 2015.
- Nathalie Atkinson at The National Post on how porn briefly captured and shortly lost mainstream acceptance during the seventies, August 2013
- Richard Corliss at Time Magazine on the brief era of “porno chic”, March 2005.
- Elsa Keslassy at Variety on France’s relaxed PG-12 rating for Fifty Shades of Grey, February 2015.
- The Malay Mail reports on the banning of Fifty Shades of Grey in Malaysia, February 2015.
- Kim Megson at The Independent on the censored Vietnamese version of Fifty Shades of Grey, March 2015.
- Kevin S. Sandler at Cinema Journal on Showgirls and the failure of the NC-17 rating, Spring 2001.
- Gary Susman at Rolling Stone on the challenges facing NC-17 movies like Blue is the Warmest Colour, November 2013.
- Sam Taylor Johnson talks to The Hollywood Reporter about her inspirations in filming Fifty Shades of Grey, February 2015.
- Arielle Tschinkel at Bustle on rumours of tension between Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan, April 2016.
- Jamie Dornan explains to The Guardian that fans won’t be seeing his “todger” in Fifty Shades of Grey, November 2014.
- Stephanie Meyers talks to MTV about her opinion of E.L. James, May 2012.
- Alexandra Altar at The New York Times on the Fifty Shades of Grey fan fiction that has emerged, February 2015.
- Constance Grady at Vox on why fandom is so anxious about fan fiction, June 2016.
- Gavia Baker-Whitelaw at The Daily Dot on the fan fiction origins of the Mortal Instruments series, February 2017.
- Monika Bartyzel at The Week on the connections between Mortal Instruments and fan fiction, August 2013.
- Victoria McNally at Revelist on the female origins of Star Trek (an hence contemporary multimedia) fandom, September 2016.
- Maria Jose and John Tenuto at StarTrek.com discuss the history and origins of Spockanalia, October 2014.
- Rosie Fletcher at Digital Spy on the “men only” cut of The Last Jedi, January 2018.
- Julie Bosmanat The New York Times on Fifty Shades of Grey‘s popularity with women, March 2012.
- Meredith Bennett-Smith at The Christian Science Monitor on trying to figure out the appeal of Fifty Shades of Grey, March 2012.
- Jessica Kean and Timothy Laurie in The Sydney Morning Herald about the conversations sparked by Fifty Shades of Grey, February 2015.
- Alyssa Rosenberg at The Washington Post on the themes of boundaries and responsibilities in Fifty Shades of Grey, February 2015.
- Emma Green at The Atlantic on the issues with the portrayal of bondage culture in Fifty Shades of Grey, February 2015.
- Genevieve Koski and Keith Phipps discuss the impact and scale of Fifty Shades of Grey at The Dissolve, February 2015.
- Deirdre Donahue at USA Today on how Fifty Shades of Grey upended the publishing industry, August 2012.
- Callie Bost at Business Insider on the spike in rope sales around the publication of Fifty Shades of Grey, June 2012.
- Andrew Buncombe at The Independent on the increase of sex toy sales following the publication of Fifty Shades of Grey, February 2015.
- Christopher Ingraham at The Washington Post on how sex toy injuries surged after Fifty Shades of Grey was published, February 2015.
- Liz Ohanesian at L.A. Weekly on the controversy around Twilight at Comic Con, July 2009.
- Amy E. Bonomi at The Huffington Post on the thin line between kink and abuse in Fifty Shades of Grey, October 2013.
- Danielle Turchiano at Variety on how the women in the writers’ room on Barry called out the protagonist’s creepy behaviour, June 2018.
- Julie Beck at The Atlantic on how romantic comedies condition us to equate stalking with romance, February 2016.
- Megan Garber at The Atlantic on how Hollywood blurs the line between romance and violence, November 2016.
- Richard Brody at The New Yorker compares Fifty Shades of Grey to A Star is Born or Pretty Woman, February 2015.
- Roxanne Gay at The Rumpus on the very familiar story being told in Fifty Shades of Grey, May 2012.
- Scott Sistek at KomoNews on Seattle’s depressing winters, February 2017.
- Larry Niven wonders about superhero sex in Knight, December 1969.
- Charlie Jane Anders at io9 on the infamous Hancock sex sequence, November 2008.
- David Katz at GQ on The Asylum, the company responsible for “mockbusters” that rip-off popular major releases, July 2013.
- Randall Colburn at The A.V. Club on the modern wave of faith-based blockbuster counter-programming like PureFlix, March 2016.
- Ignatiy Vishnevetsky at The A.V. Club on Old Fashioned as an evangelical answer to Fifty Shades of Grey, February 2015.
- Kevin Doyle at The Independent on Ireland’s blasphemy laws, May 2017.
- Follow The 250 on Twitter.
- Subscribe to The 250 on iTunes.
- Subscribe to The 250 on Stitcher.
- Listen to The 250 on Soundcloud.
Filed under: The Bottom 100 | Tagged: abuse, blasphemy, bondage, capitalism, christian grey, el james, fan fiction, feminism, fifty shades freed, fifty shades of grey, kinks, possessive, sex, sexuality, stalking, stereotypes, violence, women |
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