50 shades of gay

Rating: 3/10 (19 February 2015)

For the past 20+ years I have watched one or two movies daily from various genres. I have watched some very low budget films that were pretty good, some blockbusters that were not as good as expected. Then I watched 50 shades. If this were a low budget, I'd say it was a good effort to make a mainstream film. The fact is that this movie costs 40 mil. to make, and I wonder, what on earth did they do with the money? They certainly didn't spent in on a skilled screenplay-writer, director or good actors.
That being said, if you watch the movie with a set of mind with very low expectations and not taking this film too seriously, it can still be entertaining. The first hour or so I really did en effort to look beyond the 4/10 rating IMDb has given so far, and not having read the book I was kind of interested in were the movie was going to. Unfortunately, after that hour I completely lost interest and I couldn't care less about the superficial characters that looked so hallow and uncomfortable and made me want to slap them in the face with a chair.
Near the end I had the feeling I was watching "50 shades of parody". It wasn't romantic, it wasn't dramatic, it was empty in every dimension. If you just wanted to see the movie because of the theme, I can advise "Shame" or "Nymphomaniac", but please don't waste your money on a movie like this.