Oh God why

Rating: 3/10 (17 March 2015)

As probably many men before I was dragged into the movie by my girlfriend and a common friend of ours. At least I was paid both the entry and the tortillas with cheese sauce because otherwise I would have left the movie after the first 20 minutes.
Note I haven't read the book so I'm only rating the move here.
ACTING: I really find it hard to understand how the main roles can be cast so badly. Both Christian and Anastasia seemed to display no credible emotions until the very end. Beside that the few emotions Ana actually displayed were too cheese even for movies from the 60s. E.g. That constant lip-biting and leading the pencil to her lips can't be considered serious acting. This might have worked during the glorious times of Marilyn Monroe but today the image of a naive and innocent girl is just too outdated and not credible at all.
PLOT: What plot? After we left the cinema my girlfriend actually told me she missed some major plot. The whole movie resolves around how Ana meets Christian and is more and more subdued to him until she suddenly realizes he's a sick psycho when he hits her with his belt six time at the end of the movie as a form of punishment.
MESSAGE AND PG-RATING: I don't know about any other countries but the movie is rated 16 here in Germany. I seriously don't understand why. The movie clearly displays abuse of women because the obviously more sexually experienced Grey takes advantage of Anas naivety to virtually make her his sex-slave. There are several nude scenes involved where you can see bare breasts and buttocks. Just this alone should have called for an 18 rating. About the message of the movie? I don't know, but one has to be seriously naive in order to believe that a relationship like that one between Ana and Christian can actually work with one of them deciding over every aspect of their sexuality.
Wasted time, there's nothing else to say here.