Fifty Shades of Grey

It took me 2 months and $2.65 to finally see this $400M movie.  Yes, that's its worldwide box office gross to date.  Success?  How could anyone say otherwise?

The Dollar Theater now costs $2.65 on Saturday night.  And Cinemark Movies 6 was really as nice as any theater I've been to recently.  New seats, not too crowded for these non-family friendly movies.  I think that if you wait to see a movie there, you really want to see it before it goes down the video/PPV hole.



Disclosure - I read the book, liked the book.  There was not that much shocking in it.  And the film version follows.  Christian Grey is a rich, successful, good-looking young man.  He finds a young, inexperienced college student Ana (Dakota Johnson) and a glamorous courtship ensues.  But when he discloses his secret desires, she tells him of a situation which he sets about to remedy.

Modern day courtship ensues by way of contract negotiation.  The boardroom scene is a good one.  And that dress! - a Pretty Woman moment.

Some of the sexual spanking is a bit over the top.  But the regular sex?  Very welcome in a time when sex is scrubbed out of mainstream movies (women wearing tops in bed, butt shots of men).  The nudity is a welcome change.  Everything old is new again.

* * * * of 5

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