I LIKED this movie, LOVED the book.

Rating: 8/10 (14 January 2017)

I've read all three books, so I had to see the movie. The books are INCREDIBLE, but so much of the book was left out of the movie! I guess I can understand why some of it would have to have been cut out, so they could get an r-rating, but they didn't leave enough in for people who are meeting Anastasia and Christian for the first time. I think, if you haven't read the books, you won't really understand what the relationship means to each of the characters or how it changed who they were as people. I can only imagine what I'd have been thinking, while watching the movie, if I hadn't "met" the characters in the books before hand. I don't think I'd of liked the plot or storyline or chemistry between the two lead actors either, like a lot of viewers who have written reviews about this movie. I'm hoping the second and third movies are better at showing the personalities and characters of the two leads and better at showing what this relationship really is and what the relationship means to them each. The movie, "Fifty Shades of Grey", made it seem as though Anastasia was this fragile, nieve, stupid little girl. It made Christian seem like all he is, is this rich, "I get what I want, when I want it" kind of axxhole, who only cares about himself. In the book, you can see how this relationship changes how they see themselves. The movie doesn't fully explain how the relationship has made each of them, in completely different ways, stronger people.
Like I said, I loved the books, but the movie left me upset and wanting, no needing more. I will still be going to see the next two movies, when they come out, even though I really do not expect them to be any better. Well, I don't know, the third book really doesn't have a whole lot of sexual stuff in it, so now that I think about it, I think the 3rd movie will actually be great.