I went to a fo.cus group last night. For $75.

[Deleted]

I am not supposed to discuss it, but it was for 5.0. Sh.ad.es. of .Grey.

We watched various trailers and judged them.

The commentary was hilarious.

Then we looked at six options for the movie posters.

Some of those were terrible, too.

It was for one hour.

Some chick named Barb sat next to me. She was eating the free refreshments and burping. She was so frumpy and had so many opinions.

I started to wonder why I was asked to be in the group with olds.

In fact, the first group came out while we were all waiting. They were younger (college kids).

I joked: "make room for the olds!" and one chick next to me laughed. Others didn't find me as funny.

[lilafowler]

How bad were the trailers? I can only imagine!

[spitforspat]

Ooh. I'm intrigued.

[silva]

screw the people I want to hear about the trailers!!!!

[wambam]

I must know the deets of the trailer. Must.

[Champagne Supernova]

Oooooh, tell me more!

How was Jamie Dornan?

[orangeglow]

Please give us a little something.  

I went to a parody of the books last year and I almost peed myself laughing.  But then I realized I would react the same to the movie most likely because some of the "parody" was just like the books.

[Saint Monica]

I would LOVE to do this.

[cinderbella]

I did this for Captain Phillips last year - it was so fun!

[cutecloud]

I need to know all the details. I skimmed the book and it was at least 75% sex and them emailing/texting each other so I'm really morbidly curious how that becomes a movie that can actually be shown in theaters.

[Deleted]

It was underwhelming.

My response to one of the trailers was: She looks like she needs a victim hotline. Tired eyes, nothing Hollywood.

She seems like a bad actress.

He was hot but it was all very Lifetime Movie Network.

[cville]

I did this once for a movie with Ewan McGregor that was so bad all of my comments were like "wow, that's bad. Really bad. Whoa nelly, BAD."

And then there was the part for how can they improve it and I just wrote a question mark.

I don't know that I ever saw it released in theaters. You all can thank me for that.

[Champagne Supernova]

May 22, 2014 10:55:59 GMT -5 cville said:

I did this once for a movie with Ewan McGregor that was so bad all of my comments were like "wow, that's bad. Really bad. Whoa nelly, BAD."

And then there was the part for how can they improve it and I just wrote a question mark.

I don't know that I ever saw it released in theaters. You all can thank me for that.

 Which movie? I love Ewan.

[Saint Monica]

I would probably pay $5.00 to participate. lol.

[cville]

May 22, 2014 10:57:41 GMT -5 Champagne Supernova said:

May 22, 2014 10:55:59 GMT -5 cville said:

I did this once for a movie with Ewan McGregor that was so bad all of my comments were like "wow, that's bad. Really bad. Whoa nelly, BAD."

And then there was the part for how can they improve it and I just wrote a question mark.

I don't know that I ever saw it released in theaters. You all can thank me for that.

 Which movie? I love Ewan.

I have no idea.  It was years ago and it was so bad I really made a concerted effort to erase it from my memory.