...because there will always be negative critics

Rating: 9/10 (14 February 2015)

After reading all three of E.L James's erotic novels, I fell more in love with the "love story" even more then the sexual encounters that the two characters experience throughout their journey. Needless to say, the movie encaptured just that!
Leads Jamie Dornan, and Dakota Johnson were a terrific pairing for portraying Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele. The novel very intricately describes Christian Grey as a brooding handsome billionaire entrepreneur who invests most of his time in his work and not being very social, having little to not many friends, just acquaintances. Having an obsession for S&M due to being victimized in his youth he knows nothing more, but comes to find love in the end. The same goes for Dakota Johnson's character of Anastasia Steele, whom unlike her devastatingly handsome co-star, has never been introduced to the dominant and submissive lifestyle and for that matter had never even experienced the touch of a mans hand. Always having her head in a book and living her life out as a college student day by day, her character is thoughtful, humorous and witty.
For the women and men whom have read the novel and prepared to witness the on- screen attraction between these two characters, this is DEFINITELY a factor! These two co-stars seemed very much into each others characters as well as portraying their own with remarkable ease. To be able to bring the love story to life must have been (I am assuming) an easy task for director Sam-Taylor, due to the fact that she had chosen to fantastic leads! However, for an rated "R" film with more than a million in attendance from the novel alone, to grasp the extremities of the sexual encounters that these two characters experience must have been a task not so easy to portray on film. Between "vaginal fisting" and "nipple clamps" with much more detail in explaining these many sexual acts throughout the NOVEL, I'm sure bringing this to life on the BIG SCREEN must have been a challenge and would be for any director trying to capture that experience. For most women, we just want to feel loved in every way by a man, whether that means sexually and/or emotionally. I believe this film held its bargain to producing BOTH!
There will always be those who want more out of a film, but being able to portray these acts on a movie screen would be much more like pornographic film than anything else, and I don't think that this was E.L James's intentions when she created the story! Yes, things do most DEFINITELY heat up a bit, but in the long run, the story that is unfolded is one of love as did the novel (if you have read these novels, you would know this). I do agree with some critics that they could have carried out more scenes from the novel on screen, however for a 2 hour film, capturing the essence of both the "sex" and the "attractions between the two characters" was perfection, classy and tasteful for being a film based off of an S&M novel.
I am extremely happy with the way this film resembled the novel and am hoping that future critics will look more into the love story behind it rather than a film strictly all in response to sex and the acts of sex and nothing else, for this is not what the true readers know and adore about their 50 shades of Grey.