50 Shades of... wait, they're making a movie?!?

A few months ago, someone told me that 50 Shades of Grey was being made into a movie. The whole idea seemed so utterly ridiculous that I thought that they were joking. Alas, I was mistaken.

Google Trends can be really interesting to look at sometimes (it's also helpful for when I want to peek out from the rock I live under and check out the latest political scandal). I looked at it a few days ago, and was somewhat confused as to why '50 shades of gray' was the most searched topic that day. Then I looked at the attached article. 

I did a bit of a double take.

How the hell are they going to made 50 Shades of Grey into a movie? It's book porn erotic literature. And it's poorly written book porn erotic literature at that. How did the actors even audition? Did they just walk into a room and take off their pants?

While I could make a list about 20 pages long about all the reasons this book is awful, there's one big thing about it that confuses me.

Why are so many women suddenly attracted to overly-controlling and somewhat creepy fictional men? Double points if they have serious anger issues and are all around jerks! First, there was Edward Cullen from Twilight. Just like what seems like every other girl on the planet, I went through the Twilight phase. Oh, how I swooned when Edward revealed that he had been climbing through Bella's window to watch her sleep for the past 3 months. How I sighed when he told her how desperately he wanted to slaughter her, how her blood smelled like sweet ambrosia to his cold, white, and godlike nose.  

And now there's Christian Grey. I'm not going to go into too much detail, partly because I only managed to skim about 5 pages of the book before I started laughing, and partly because majority of his character development happens during sex scenes. But just by reading the back of the book, you can tell he's going to be another Edward Cullen.

Tormented by demons and consumed by the need to control? Sounds like my kind of man!