I'm a guy who had zero desire to see this movie, but I'll be honest.

Rating: 5/10 (17 February 2015)

First off, I've never reviewed anything on here as far as I can recall but to give you a little insight on my tastes and the general level of quality I view, It's rare I watch anything below a solid 7 on here. I'm the typical TV-Drama kind of person who likes Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, Homeland, True Detective, Game of Thrones, etc... in other words not the person who wants to watch Fifty Shades of Grey.
Now that we got that out of the way, I was asked to see this with my FiancÃ© for Valentine's Day and while I put up a fight about it for a while I realize I can sacrifice 2 hours for her on that day -- At least we had a nice Dinner beforehand.
I'm going out on a limb here and giving it a 5/10 though... a 1/10 seems just too predictable for a bad review and almost comes off as trolling to me. Don't get me wrong, I did NOT like this movie and have no desire to ever watch it again but I'll try and stay within the realm of honesty here.
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1. I was uncomfortable seeing this in a theater filled to a sold-out crowd of strangers, luckily we got one of those 'couples' seats which had no other seats next to us and that helped me out a bit -- I went into this knowing it would be awkward watching this content with someone I've never met on one side of me and everywhere else... Crisis averted.
2. The two main characters didn't really bother me like some reviewers are saying, I wasn't a big fan of them or their acting but it didn't seem much different than any other average movie and I think some people are being a hair overly critical of this. They're both attractive people as well, she's got nice eyes that's what I noticed most of the time.
3. I could appreciate some of the Cinematography... because I am into this stuff as a creative person myself, the shot of them reviewing 'the contract' in the office during sunset was visually pleasing to me for example... there was some decent camera work, set design and so on in that department but most any movie these days has a little.
4. The movie was far less "Rapey" than I was expecting, yeah at the very end of the movie was literally the only spot I ever felt like it really became somewhat 'abusive' throughout the entire thing it was tame and both parties seemed on board with everything going on... I think this was wildly blown out of proportion by social media and the reviews I have read. I am guessing that the 2 subsequent stories and/or movies may get worse I have never read any of them and have no desire to.
From an 'abuse' standpoint this is really mild and not anything the level I was expecting from comments on Facebook and the general hype based criticism following the story/film. I feel like I am defending the story or film here which is not the case I am just trying to be reasonable and honest here, there are either a TON of overly sensitive pussies out there or I'm missing something.
5. The Sex scenes were decent, totally soft-core but I've always thought the whole being bound thing was hot way before anyone ever thought of this book or movie. Nothing felt "rapey" again like I said earlier, the only abusive thing was the very end of the movie otherwise she enjoyed everything she got. I know the whole BDSM community is offended by this story/movie, whatever as well -- I don't think it's really so terrible enough to get in a tizzy about it but I think they're just more annoyed by all the 'newbies' thinking this is what it's all about.
6... The best thing about the movie was all the idiotic women giggling over the obvious carryovers from the book, certain lines or reactions and even some of the sex scenes had giggles coming from everywhere and uncomfortable dudes pretending to yawn... I know how that works guys, you weren't yawning you were uncomfortable.
I'm going to end this right here, it's the most poorly executed and written review because I haven't proof read anything and just word vomited... but hey, it's Honest.
I feel like I should relinquish my man-card by giving it a 5/10 and not 1/10 like all the other cool people but what the hell... I'll just go back to my quality viewing habits and everything will be just fine.
Fin.