Fifty Shades Messed-up

Rating: 4/10 (15 February 2015)

I came into the movie house yesterday night with low hopes. Unfortunately, the movie did not disappoint. The hype. The squeal of the girls (and maybe some boys) in the movie house was uncalled-for.
I don't know for those who have read the books and have then watched the first installment of the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy, but I believe the makers of the movie got it all wrong. I won't talk too much about the inaccuracies in the movie e.g. non-blonde employees of CG, the Escala which the movie portrayed as the "headquarters" of Grey Enterprises Holdings - wrong, the lake with small wooden pier scene - wrong (they were supposed to be in a restaurant in a small port in Seattle and that was lunch), and so much more. But then again movies based on novels are almost always like that. Inaccurate.
The movie, since it will be an apparent issue to some countries, should have not focused too much on the s**. CG is sweet.. is caring and is soft.. very subtly but he is. Where is that in the movie? all I saw are two small hills.
The first installment of the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy focused on two things (since Anastasia was, in the first two chapters of the book, an established character she did not need the character development too much n- at least in Book 1). 1) the fifty shades of F*****-up CG (which was evident in his taste was established by the fact that he is a dominant the book just vividly narrated how these are essential to CG) with the overt love for inflicting pain to his partner (the submissive) which most will call as sadism. 2) The character development of Christian Grey himself. Book 1 really emphasized on that because in the first book CG never opened up to Anastasia about his past and how his past affected his current taste (explained further in Book 2).
So I got disappointed because the makers of the movies should, instead, have focused on the #2 of the book not the #1. Movies are different from porn. Movies are art. Porn is something else and calls for a different discussion.
There were only around 10 characters that I was able to see in the movie. Where is Mrs. Robinson? Anastasia was very jealous about Mrs. Robinson. After knowing that Elena or "Mrs. Robinson for you" - CG. Email exchanges between AS and CG are mostly where the juice came from. Where was the part when AS got her internship at the Seattle Independent Publishing?
And if I am that stringent I would have loathed the fact that in the book it was only when AS graduated from college when she transferred to Seattle because that was the time she applied for an internship position at SIP (I don't know how that happened but that is the order in the book and not the other way around).
Lastly, Ana's best friend, Ms. Kavanagh, played a very important role in the story but she wasn't given the appropriate attention in the movie. I will say this again, the movie should have focused on the STORY rather than the sex between AS and CG. The movie did not give justice to how sweet, caring, and soft (yes he is) Christian Grey is. The movie was just sex here and there.
CG is messed-up but the movie was more messed-up...
I can probably sum up the movie with the note that Anastasia left with the model glider to Christian before she left and went home (which was the more accurate ending of the story) and I am pretty sure the people who haven't read the book and have watched the movie would not be able to understand and get. For those who read the book(s)... Am I right? we missed all those moments.