Of course, there's only really one reason why people are aware of the film. So it's somewhat ironic that after everyone has put so much emphasis on the sex scenes in recent months that in the finished product they're horribly bland. Those who are actually going to Fifty Shades Of Grey to watch some sex (which feels an incredibly odd reason to watch a film in 2015) are no doubt let down when they realise the steamy embracing only constitutes a scant fifteen minutes of the run time, but it's how defunct they feel to the movie they feel that makes the fuss so perplexing. This is a movie that exists purely because of its titillation, but even though theres erotic moment after erotic moment in this movie about erotic moments, none of it feels necessary. Thats not really surprising given the source, but theres not even an attempt to make them worthy digressions. It's all shot with the same operatic cinematography and scored to the same pop-styled soundtrack, meaning they each end up being white noise. You learn nothing about the characters from them and they do little to advance the plot. Like a sports movie tends to show very little of the sport in question, a movie intrinsically about the morals, motivations and psychology of sex doesn't need to feature endless bonking. Of course Fifty Shades Of Grey the cultural phenomenon couldn't get away with that, but it could have tried to at least tried to give narrative cul-de-sacs worth. Of course, sex sells and the fans don't seem to care. How utterly dreadful did you find Fifty Shades Of Grey? Debate the bonkbuster down in the comments.
