Boring. Just as I thought.

Rating: 2/10 (17 March 2015)

The only real reason I ever considered watching this movie was solely because everyone was talking about this movie. I could not see why, as I too have been plagued with the pain of reading the so called book. I could just leave you here with these words, plenty to warn you about this film, but since IMDb has a restriction of minimum 10 lines, I have to go on about this pitiful excuse for a movie. So here I go. Sigh.
Started out as a Twilight fan fic. I noticed that, throughout the whole book, not because of the characters, even though Grey is obviously Edward. (yep. just throwing that out there.) It was both poorly written and (yes, I am saying this) WORSE than Twilight. I know. Nothing can be worse than Twilight, right? That's what I thought too. But this pitiful excuse for a book AND movie really lowers the bar for Hollywood films.
Then again, I never understood why someone would even want to take the time and effort into making the very hard to adapt book to the movie theaters, because the writing is awful and painful to read. I could only imagine how painful it would be to watch this. Honestly I think the writers just gave up on the movie and let it be. There's no chemistry (then again, why should there be?) between the characters, there's absolutely ZERO rememberable plot points or scenes, there's no interest in it whatsoever. Then again, the book stands for what many feminists hate. How can you justify such a psychopathic character like Christian Grey? Oh, he was raped as a kid. Wow. That makes SUCH a difference. Then it's okay--- Am I the only one to think the logic is flawed? ugh.
A lot of people have responded to my views on this film that "You're a guy. It's not made for you." BULLCRAP. I watch a lot of chick flicks, and admittedly, cried to a lot of them. I'm not afraid of watching chick flicks and I proudly admit that I do enjoy a lot of them. But a movie like this is NOT acceptable. I don't even want to call this a movie. It's a freaking soft-core porn video with BDSM theme. The sex scenes are just awkward. They're not even a little bit arousing. They're not giving in anything to the plot and the chemistry is just... well, there is NONE.
The actors do a horrible job. Especially the guy playing Christian Grey. I mean, at least convince us you're an intimidating guy... well, okay, he kind of had a creepy look in his eyes. But that's about it. Then again, I don't blame the actors, there's really not much to work with the source material and all.
The only reason this one got a 2 star rating was the musical score, the film features a lot of good music and that is the only thing I really liked about the adaption. And also, I would like to give the director some praise for trying to adapt such a horrible book. Surely it must have taken hard work to do. Now I have to live with the fact that two other movies will be released. I will not be watching them. I already read the other books and I hate myself everyday for that. Beware of this piece of crap.
2/10 avoid at all costs unless you're brain dead.