Fifty Shades Freed wins the box office weekend!

Yeah I went hiatus reporting these movie figures and now, I'm back OT!

1. Fifty Shades Freed - $38.8 Million (new release)
2. Peter Rabbit - $25 Million (new release)
3. The 15:17 to Paris - $12.6 Million (new release)
4. Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle - $9.8 Million
5. The Greatest Showman - $6.4 Million
6. Maze Runner: The Death Cure - $6 Million
7. Winchester - $5 Million
8. The Post - $3.5 Million
9. The Shape of Water - $3 Million
10. Den of Thieves - $2.8 Million

Took the girlfriend to go see one of those Fifty Shade movies and it bored me yet again -_-

But anyways, if it were up to me, I go see Peter Rabbit despite it's a disgrace to the childhood book and horrible adaption. Nothing really stood out from this weekend, but I think we all know Black Panther is gonna win next week, so no surprise to see it being number one next week.

February 9-11 mojo's box office weekend

Ew.

The men who take their significant others to see this are the real heroes.

Most be alot of dirty minded middle aged woman out there.

I honestly still can't believe a BDSM Twilight fan fiction has come this far. We truly live in an unfair world.

WTF kind of name is that? "Freed"?

Ironic how a movie about a sexually abusive relationship and non-consensual sex is the biggest chick-flick blockbuster in the #MeToo era.

these dirty minded women are nasty looking a lot of the times as well.... why can't they just go on porno sites and find their niche like everyone else... why the gotta contaminate theater seats even more than they already are? Like , imagine if Shrek 8 plays in the same screening room after 50 shades finishes up, you want your kids sitting on those thrush infested seats?

Well... I guess we need to remember that Fifty Shades did start out as Twilight fan-fiction apparently >__________>

So this is the level of sense we're likely to be dealing with. Just like with Twilight books, Fifty Shades books was so popular among woman alike and it's why the movies are getting more and more appealing to younger females out there.

it's only controversy if the author was a male

I really don't like the precedent that the Fifty Shades franchise sets for consent in sexual encounters... and how easily accepted it is by women as "okay". It doesn't help that it's such a poorly written piece of fiction as well.

for someone unfamiliar, why exactly is 50 shades so popular? ... like i heard things but not sure how true they are.... do sexually starved virgin women read this since no man will give them the time of day, let alone be in the same room or bed with them, like they can't get laid.. so as recourse they read these books, and after each "exciting" part they manually please themselves? is that pretty much it? please explain.

My GF is a fan of the Fifty Shade books and I hardly know of it, but I'll explain why it got so popular. 50 Shades of Grey originally started out as a Twilight fan-fiction. (in my opinion, not a very good one) It's set in an alternate universe where Edward is a multi-billionaire who's into (terribly misrepresented) BDSM, and Bella is a college student. To avoid copyright infringement, Edward was renamed Christian Grey, and Bella was renamed Anastasia Steele. Many people, especially those in the BDSM community, are hugely opposed to it because the relationship between Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele has many markers of abuse, she describes him as intimidating, frightening, and cold, and he disregards her boundaries when she says "no" to sexual or BDSM activities (note that ignoring non-consent is rape, so he basically rapes and tortures her throughout the book). While this would make an intriguing thriller or murder mystery, for some reason it is depicted as romance.

Like I said, it's poorly written twilight fan-fiction re-skinned into a "romance" novel about an abusive relationship masquerading as BDSM. I think the short answer as to why it's so popular is because it stars a bland and blank slate of a female character with nothing to really distinguish her and this is relate able to many women. Then you have the strong, handsome and smart man who is always in control and normally would never be interested in this woman, but he sees something special inside of her that nobody else does. Of course that thing isn't really there and it's all fabricated, but many women love that shit.

In other words, blame Twilight for starting this mess in the first place.

Still don't understand how it became such a phenomenon when there is better material out there for free.

I am assuming you are male, and asking why this movie is popular is like asking why women are women.

But as someone said it´s ironic that a movie like this is so popular among women in these #metoo times.

@Jacanuk: I have a girlfriend who has zero interest in the movies or books lol but I do see what you're saying.

If women think 50 shades is deviant sex, they have not been visiting the same sites as I have...

It should escalate in the same way it does for normal people who consume porn. First movie is vanilla and by the final chapter it’s all donkey shows.

I went to see the 15:17 to paris i have so much respect for the guys who stopped this attack but a 90 minute back story is just to much and the acting between these guys feels real awkward at times.

Yeah, no kidding. Your avatar is the perfect reaction to this travesty.

The men who take their significant others to see this are the real heroes.

Hopefully they were rewarded for their sacrifice.

Horny middle-aged marriage-without-sex women fled to movie theaters. Easier and more catch worth title to describe the results of this weeks box office.

Let's not pretend we all haven't seen infinitely more depraved stuff than that.

It's basically female porn. Atleast that's what my sister told me rofl. It's riddled with 30+ year old woman tho.

And as much as girls like to do a dump together, they also love to see this junk together.

Yet you like Citrus, when the 2 girls first hated each other w/emotional abuses, then turned out that they became lovers in the end :P

@multiplat: That last was definitely wasn't appropriate. Let's keep the borderline X-rated descriptions off the boards.

lolwut....... i remember what I posted, it was more focused on Fungus and Infectious Disease (Candida Albicans), unless your thinking of the back of the bus comment, which is like way more benign than some of the other posts here. whatever,... to each her own.

@Gatygun:"And as much as girls like to do a dump together"

lol

-Byshop