The question wasn’t whether the hotly anticipated film version of pseudo-porn, BDSM for beginners novel "Fifty Shades of Grey" was going to be No.1 this weekend. That was a no-brainer. The question was, how big was it going to be?
The film is one of those “critic proof” movies, in that , it doesn’t matter what the critics were going to say about the film, people want to see it. Though it was pretty evident that it wasn’t going to be good. Universal didn’t screen it for the media anywhere, until the night before it opened, knowing what they had on their hands, and they were right. (One said: “I would just as soon plunge my face into a deep-fat fryer while bobbing…
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