50 Shades of Grey Trailer Review

Written by Jessica Hill

Well, this isn’t going to end well for anyone.

It’s been a couple of years in development hell but now, at long last, we can dust off our old 50 Shades puns and start all over again. Have you heard that Christian Grey was fired from his company after a salary scandal? There were 50 Grades of Pay. Apparently he went bankrupt and had to work on a farm to pay off his debts. He had to harvest 50 Bales Of Hay. After that, he had to be very frugal when it came to buying new bondage equipment. He had to be Thrifty Shades Of Grey.

But that’s not what we’re here for. We’re here because the first global trailer has been released, and we owe it to you and ourselves to take a closer look and make a few guesses about the final 50 Shades of Grey movie, when it’s released in 2015. On Valentine’s Day. Yeah, perfect first date material.

Here’s the trailer, just in case you’ve been trapped in an elevator for the past week and missed it. In fact, if you have been trapped in an elevator for a week, you’ll feel right at home with this trailer. Elevators feature quite heavily.

And there we have it. 2 minutes and 20 seconds of women looking nervous in elevators and men looking absently out of windows. And a dinner scene with the in-laws. Raunchy stuff.

Let’s recap what we’ve seen.

We meet Ana Steele straight off the bat, looking like the unlikely offspring of Anne Hathaway in The Devil Wears Prada and Zooey Deschanel in everything Zooey Deschanel has ever been in.

Anastasia has a couple of questions for Mr. Grey, so she wanders into his reception – which is apparently staffed entirely by Aryan Fembots from the future.

And soon, Ana is led meekly into Grey’s office. He stands, looking intensely out of the window. This is another recurring theme with Mr. Grey: Ana has her elevators, Christian has his windows.

Then the trailer teases us with shot after shot of out of focus Grey’s…

And then… BOOM. Moneyshot. You have to hand it to them, after auditioning just about every man in Hollywood, the final Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan) is pretty on point – maybe because there’s just a hint of Colin Firth about him.

Obviously, Ana is thunderstruck straight away, as you can tell from this shot of her getting into an elevator.

And before you know it, Cristian is trying to suck Ana’s eyes out. In an elevator.

And the rest is history. There’s some other stuff in the trailer, for example this shot of Christian piloting a glider and very literally turning Ana’s world upside down, which is a bit heavy-handed for a trailer.

So what can we learn about the finished film from this trailer? Well, there’s good news, and there’s bad news. There’s not an inner goddess, an “oh my” or a “laters babe” anywhere in sight. Hurrah, that’s good news. And on the whole it seems like the filmmakers have done justice to the source material without just blindly following it. 

The shattered sphere sculpture, the moody, listing ships, the chair deliberately chosen to make Anastasia look small, it’s all very clever scenery and it shows that, whatever the final movie is like, it’s going to be close in tone to the book.

Very promising. Also promising is the little glimpses we get of the Red Room and of the sex scenes.

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SILK ROPES

BONDAGE KIT

On first impressions, then, the sex scenes look pretty good – as long as you consider the sex scenes in the book good, of course. They appear pretty accurate, relatively explicit, and created by people who know what they’re doing. In fact, we know that the filmmakers were experts, because they chose the LELO Intima silk blindfold. Christian Grey really DOES have class.

In Conclusion…

Whether you love the 50 Shades series or hate it, you can’t deny that one of the major outcomes was that it opened up conversations all over the world about sex. Every generation has its sexually-defining piece of media, 50 Shades is ours and whether it’s done more harm than good is still up for debate. But that’s part of the point: the fact that it’s generating debate at all is a progressive sign.

I guess we’ll have to reserve judgement for now. In the meantime…

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Less Slap, More Tickle: A Whip & Teaser Comparison

Sex is all about sensational sensations, intricate intimacy, emotional motion and, most importantly, mind-blowing pleasure. At LELO, we’re known for a very specific kind of pleasure: the orgasmically vibrating kind. But we offer so much more than that, and today we’re going to look at and compare two of our products you might not have considered before: the LELO Sensua Whip and the  Feather Teaser.

The fascinating thing about the Sensua Whip and the feather teaser is that they’re simultaneously very similar, and yet completely different. Used together, they become more than the sum of their sensual parts.

The LELO Sensua Whip

About The Whip

With a cool, transparent handle and a 10 inch fall in the cow suede tails, the Sensua whip brings together an intense blend of sensations. It’s light and well-balanced in the hand, providing enough leverage and control to offer a warm sting but not a heavy thud. The suede is leather on one side and coarse on the other for an impact that soothes and stings at the same time. It’s a complex sensation, which is why it’s so popular.

What’s The Attraction?

The attraction is the beautiful material, the feel against the skin, and the intimacy of indulging in kinkier, more daring avenues of pleasure between trusting couples. This little flogger is every bit as much a pleasure product as everything else we offer.

How Does It Feel?

How it feels depends on how it’s used. Blindfolding your partner and tracing the tips of this flogger over their neck, their sides, their knees and their toes generates a feeling of massaging warmth. But restrain your partner (we have a very sexy light-bondage kit for exactly this purpose) and use more energy, and the whip becomes a valuable tool for dominance and submission. Don’t be fooled: as a flogger, the Sensua is relatively small, but it punches above its weight thanks to the heavy suede. It will leave marks, but it won’t break the skin. It’s the perfect balance for heavier BDSM players.

About The Teaser

Ostensibly similar in form to the whip, the Teaser is entirely different in function. The teaser leaves up to its name: it teases, making it an exceptional companion during exploratory tantric foreplay. It’s smaller than the whip, and its long, fluffy down feathers are incredibly soft. No sting or thud here: the teaser is designed to be drawn slowly over skin, over the curve of the elbow and the back of the knee for a long, indulgent sensation.

What’s The Attraction?

The attraction is the time you can spend exploring each other’s bodies. The feather teaser is for couples who want to spoil each other. Such a luxurious pleasure product is firmly in the domain of those who know how to tease before they please – the perfect way to get the pulse racing in excited anticipation.

How Does It Feel?

The feeling of being stroked with the teaser is one of almost unbearable torment: you want to be touched, you want it now, but the delicate lightness of the feathers on your skin forbids it. Add restraints and a blindfold and watch your partner writhe and moan under your touch. Mix up the sensations with a few sharp spanks, or even with the Sensua whip.

Whether you crave the flick of the feather or the lick of the leather, these two sophisticated pleasure products offer the best of both worlds. They can be kinky, or sensual, or neither, or both: it’s up to you to imagine how to use them.

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