It’s all the more frustrating because there’s not much the filmmakers could do to film more sex without getting slapped with an NC-17 or just becoming a porno.īut it’s hard to swallow when comparing to any number of movies recently released containing violence. It’s a sexual tiger that’s been defanged, declawed, and put in a sweater, and the movie suffers for it. One almost feels an Austin Powers moment is imminent, where a breakfast sausage or banana will pop up next to conceal Christian’s penis. There’s less seeing what the movie does accomplish sexually, and much more seeing what the movie makes sure doesn’t reveal. One constantly watches these intimate scenes unfold and sees how the filmmakers constantly toe the line of what the MPAA deems acceptable. Which ends up being the movie’s biggest problem. And it’s all brought to life in this movie, in all it’s glorious R-Rated way it can be. It’s not the scenes in between the sex that have most readers of the book upon which the movie is based talking about. The main draw of this movie for the majority of people who have any idea what Fifty Shades of Grey is all about is, of course, the sex. The seesaw can get tiresome, but let’s be honest here. The two want each other, but not in ways that either will be satisfied with. After the shoot and coffee that seem to go well, Christian pushes Ana away, and sets in motion the push and pull that will seesaw the audience for the remainder of the movie. Christian tells Ana he’s staying at a hotel in town and he’s willing to do a photo shoot for the article. She helps him to find some cable ties and rope, and the audience giggles because we know the reason for these purchases but pure, innocent Ana has no idea.

It’s not creepy, stalker-behavior at all because Christian is a billionaire and well dressed. The next day Ana goes to her job at a hardware store (where most English Lit majors work) and Christian pops up. It’s perfunctory, but not entirely titillating. What charges, exactly, are in the scene? Not much. Ana enters the office building dressed to the nines in some thrift shop drapery, and begins the sexually charged scene. By the end of the movie’s two-hour runtime, there’s a good chance you will have long ago stopped caring whether or not Christian Grey retrieves Ana’s inked name.įifty Shades begins with Ana agreeing to interview Mr. In most movies with a relationship as a core or even secondary plot, there’s a big, “Will they or won’t they end up kissing/dating/hooking up in any number of various ways?” In FIFTY SHADES OF GREY, the main question to answer is, “Will or won’t Anastasia Steele sign a contract agreeing to be sadistically whipped and sexually tortured?” Riveting stuff, the pursuit of that signature. Tweetable Takeaway: WSex scenes that don’t sizzle and stalker storylines surprisingly bore in Fifty Shades of Grey.

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