Fifty Shades of a great beginning.

Rating: 7/10 (19 February 2015)

Spoiler alert. Please stop reading if you haven't seen the movie or read the books. Fifty Shades of Grey was okay. How can anyone expect a great movie if you look at the source material? It is like watching a comedy and expecting a drama.
I have read all three books. And what I liked about the books was the brutal honesty. I would say in my opinion that, that is also why it is so popular. Readers are allowed to see Ana's most sacred thoughts without it being filtered or censored. The brutal honesty is what draws people to the story. I would conclude that this is also the reason why 'The Twilight saga', 'The Hunger Games series' and 'Divergent series' are so extremely popular. Fifty shades of Grey is no great literary achievement that will stand the test of time. Will we remember it in 10 years? No!!!
The movie stays quite close to the book. And I can't believe I am saying this, but I wish it didn't. The dialog between the characters were cringe worthy in the book, and even more so in the movie. The professional screenwriters hired to write the screenplay could have totally improved on the mediocre house wife vocabulary. And I expected more.
The beginning of the movie is a complete mess. The story was disjointed, and didn't gel at all. It felt like a badly acted high school play. Up until the bar scene, I was contemplating should I leave or stay. They should have re-shot all of those scenes and stuck to maybe 2 of 3 scenes, not so many mini scenes. Jumping from the apartment – roommate is sick, to her driving to Seattle, to her entering Grey Enterprises, to the reception scene, then the interview (badly done, but a necessary scene), the elevator, returning to the apartment, the hardware store (liked this scene), the photo shoot, the hall scene, the coffee shop, the almost run over by a bike scene. Even going from Christian posing with Jose asking him to smile, and then the he asked me for coffee chat between the roommates were off. (Were these scenes even shot on the same day?), then writing her last exam, to Jose helping her to open her car door (random), opening the gift from Christian, to her roommate helping her apply lip-gloss. It's a mess okay.
Then the actual movie starts, and it goes from blah to entertaining. The rest is worth watching. Maybe skip the first 20 minutes of the movie.
The acting improves. The chemistry between Ana and Christian comes out of nowhere. This is where you realize the movie is about a girl meeting a broken man and deciding to fix him. She is maybe inexperienced, but any normal girl would run when they saw the Red Room, it looks like a torture chamber. When I read the books I imagined a room that had a bed, couch and a weird wall rack thingy. Everything else was in drawers, not on display, like a tool shed. I imagined a fancy dressing room type room, where everything was neatly packed away. Maybe I have selective comprehension when reading books like that. I was shocked, and was thinking "RUN ANA RUN". The biggest problem with this story is that it ended at the wrong place, nothing was resolved. In the second book Christian realizes that what he does to woman is wrong, and that becoming a submissive at the age of 16 was wrong. What that woman did, was psychological abuse. He came from an abusive childhood. He was physically abused before he was adopted. In his love for Ana he realizes that he was made into something, that wasn't who he really was. Ana teaches him intimacy. And love. And that is a really important part of the story. Without it, he just looks like a sadistic animal. The "hiding" he gives her is pretty tame. And I would never call that abuse. She was in control, one word and he would have stopped. She asked to see the extreme. In my opinion it didn't look like he enjoyed it. He felt her pain, and he witnessed the impact it had on someone he loved, and he realized that is was wrong.