Movie lacked depth and creativity

Rating: 4/10 (25 February 2015)

I had read the books and found them addictive! The character and relationship development, in my opinion, had made the books as successful as they've been.
I thought the casting was on mark with both Ana and Christian believably played. The trailers gave you just enough to get you hooked. Unfortunately, the whole movie could be a series of trailers clipped together.
Key scenes and events were all hit: interview in the first minute of the movie, hardware store, bar, graduation, meeting the parents for dinner, boathouse, trip to Georgia and the final leaving scene. But the lack of detail going into tying it all together was sorely disappointing.
In the opening scene, the interview, the opportunity to look at the art in Christian's office to begin to develop her character and generate a common interest is not include. This strips the scene down to awkward questioning from her and ends with him submitting an emailed response to Kate for all of the questions (which is factually incorrect.) The hardware store has the potential to develop her character as the naïve college student who has no clue she's attractive or more than a genderless blob. It suckers you in with the super steamy blood pumping, I never thought I'd see you again shopping scene. But then it continues on to end with a really odd scene where Christian is supposed to be upset about the brother Paul who appears no more than as a cameo in one shot.
This odd adaptation continues through the whole movie. No whisking her into a locker room for an answer. No chicken pox discussion when meeting the parents. Which leads to a very blunt they're burns convo versus a scene that had the potential to be moving with her sickening realization that they're burns and not pox marks. No boathouse getting her panties back scene. No make-up sex in Georgia. No character development with Toxic playing in the car to learn more about the crazy ex-sub. No breakfast at Ihop. No development with the 1st class upgrade.
You strip all of the little details of the book out and what do you have? A random assortment of awkward scenes with some bondage sex thrown in to make you wish you saw more of him from her angle and less of her tits. Dismal adaptation and hopeful that the following movies are written by E.L. James as rumored.