Fifty Shades Collection

Drama

Romance

Thriller

Fifty Shades of Grey

Universal Pictures

Focus Features

Michael De Luca Productions

Trigger Street Productions

United States of America

English

Dakota Johnson

Jamie Dornan

Jennifer Ehle

Eloise Mumford

Victor Rasuk

Luke Grimes

Marcia Gay Harden

Rita Ora

Max Martini

Callum Keith Rennie

Andrew Airlie

Dylan Neal

Elliat Albrecht

Rachel Skarsten

Emily Fonda

Anthony Konechny

Bruce Dawson

Tom Butler

Christine Willes

Chris Shields

Anna Louise Sargeant

Megan Danso

Jason Cermak

Brent McLaren

Steven Cree Molison

Elise Gatien

Reese Alexander

David Orth

Julia Dominczak

Brandi Alexander

Raj Lal

Lucas Wegnez

Kelly Marcel

E.L. James

Sam Taylor-Johnson

Sanna Seppanen

Thomas J. O'Connell

David Arnold

C. Scott Baker

Eliza Hooker

Niall Fraser

David S. Clark

Darren Sunny Warkentin

Alicia Stevenson

Diana Ascher

Peter Kohn

Geoff Wallace

Russell Hawkes

David Crone

David Kurvers

Bryce Munro

Lara Sargent

Doc Kane

Bret Kiene

Vanessa Giles

Sean Oxenbury

James Kohne

Tami Treadwell

Mark DeSimone

Cheryl Kurk

Patrick Dunn-Baker

Roger Fires

Karen Vassar Triest

Laura Harris Atkinson

Cara Brower

Tina Charad

Lee Gibeau

Graham Stumpf

Elena Dresser

Drew David

Andrea Brown

Melissa R. Stubbs

Danna Rutherford

Stuart Haggerty

Kurtis Reeves

Kirk Johns

Gayle Wesley

Alex Burdett

Dan Sissons

Victoria Down

Codey Blair

Julian Andraus

Bill Higley

Guy Adan

Mark Noda

Ivan Lehner

Roger Morris

W. Robert Millar

Elaine Fleming

Brenda McClellan

Doug Hardwick

Steve Wright

David Marks

Ryan Young

Hans Bjerno

David Buckley

Larry Tardif

Jess Platt

Mike McLeod

Libby Umstead

Mike Kirilenko

David Jobe

Roger Vernon

Mark Curtis

James Wright

Bryan Litson

James Forrester

Jason Bell

Louis Phillips

Michael Hilow

Mark Bridges

Dana Sano

Angie Rubin

Bill Abbott

Sandy Reynolds-Wasco

Anna Behlmer

Lisa Gunning

David Wasco

Terry Porter

Chuck Zlotnick

Michael De Luca

Becky Sullivan

Dana Brunetti

Danny Elfman

Anne V. Coates

Seamus McGarvey

Jeb Brody

Marcus Viscidi

Debra Neil-Fisher

Kerry Lyn McKissick

Andres Gomez

Honestly, it has been a long time since I've watched such a bad movie.

The script is just ... stupid and the dialogues even worse. The characters are not believable. I mean, when you watch Twilight, you just swallow the whole thing because it is fantasy and ... OK, it is just a stupid vampires story but, this is just toooooooo bad.

I've not read the book but I suspect the fail is not just in the movie but that it is adapting something that is already bad from the beginning.

The worst is that I kind of liked Dornan in his role in Fallen but this movie has made me realize what a short range of performing resources he has. Dakota Johnson is not too bad, though. The acting is OK, it is just that you hate such an stupid character.

One more to my very narrow list of movies in which I have seriously thought stop watching by the middle of it. I wasted the second hour too, though.

My fiance is a big fan of the movies...and I only mention that because she is worse than me when it comes to sniffing out mainstream erotica. So, you know, totally hit her radar.

On my end, I brought the book at LAX one night to read on a layover, and I stopped when Grey picked up his phone to call for a helicopter and started using trucker jargon. "Breaker, breaker, two-nine..." NO! Not reading any more!

I honestly didn't even want to watch the movie after encountering that.

However, let's be honest, you aren't sitting down to watch the film because of dialogue or plot.

You're watching it because of sex. And, out of all the movies, this one actually delivers the most on it. AND, unlike all the sequels, it doesn't claim to be about anything else. It advertises itself as a movie about kinky sex and it delivers as being a movie about kinky sex.

So ten stars. It is exactly what it claims to be and delivers on that.

CinemaSerf

Now I never read the book, and the DVD of this has been sitting in a box for years until recently when, discovering it did actually get both an Oscar and a Grammy nomination, I thought I would give it a go. It's all about "Anastasia" (Dakota Johnson) who goes to interview hunky gazillionaire "Christian" (Jamie Dornan) in his plush office. A bit of flirting ensues as he makes it quite clear that he is interested - but boy, is she in for a surprise when she discovers that all belts and braces does actually having another meaning (as does butt-plug!). What now follows is, I felt, a really tame exercise in soft porn that is about as sexy as putting out the wheelie bin. Dornan is very easy on the eye, but otherwise we are all subjected to a dull, ploddingly produced series of poorly lit scenes that drag on interminably. There's no point evaluating the acting nor the script, they don't matter. This is just a poor attempt to entertain or shock or both that does neither, remotely. Titillatingly tantalising? Nah - just dull. Nice helicopter but the song didn't win either award.

<em>'Fifty Shades of Grey'</em> is exactly what I expected it to be. I was hoping it wouldn't be too cringey, but it most certainly is just that. In total fairness, it's not one I'd class as it being awfully bad, though that's only thanks to the two leads and the (now well known) music.

There is enough chemistry between Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan, they are good actors so are able to alleviate the many mundane moments. The only issue I hold for either is Dornan's accent. I know him and his Northern Irish voice, so the American chatter took me out a bit.

Of course this is a movie largely about the sex, I guess parts of which are OK but too much made me cringe or raise my red flag (as intended for the latter, I hope). The run time should've been trimmed, it does feel like the characters go in circles for large periods - 90min movie all day.

The music is solid, to be fair. Admittedly I already knew and liked the songs from Ellie Goulding and The Weeknd, nice to link them to the movie that made them though. So all in all, not for me. I am curious to see how they managed to stretch this out for a trilogy, mind you.

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Dakota Johnson

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Jennifer Ehle

Eloise Mumford

Victor Rasuk

Luke Grimes

Marcia Gay Harden

Rita Ora

Max Martini

Callum Keith Rennie

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