50 shades of grey is surprisingly okay

Yesterday we went to see 50 shades of grey. And we must say – not as bad as we thought. We guess we should’ve written spoiler alert for that already.

We have never read the book 50 shades of grey, because books about S&M, which turn the world around for women everywhere, are not our cup of tea. Or coffee.

Seeing the trailer and being unable to escape all the turmoil about the movie we thought it would be the most stupid movie of all time. We thought it would be some tasteless erotic movie about sex slaves. We thought we'd be holding our face in our hands and covering our ears with our feet, so we don’t see or hear what they’re doing. We guess you could tell our expectations were pretty low.

But this movie surprised us – it was actually a pretty romantic movie with a few sex scenes, which we used wisely to go to the bathroom to pee, since we drank about 1 liter water before the movie started. As a summary – not a bad movie, but also far from good. It was an okay movie. And that’s the dream after all – to spend your Sunday evening watching a romantic S&M okay movie.

Spoiler alert (kind of):

It’s the classic romantic story. Boy meets girl. The girl is pretty normal – funny, pretty and not into weird stuff. But the guy is a good looking rich psychopath with a a lot of emotional baggage and a room full of whips, chains, rabbit tails and porcelain dolls. Okay maybe there weren’t rabbit tails and porcelain dolls. But there were definitely fox tails and what does the fox say? Ringdingringdingdingyding.

So because the girl starts to like the psychopath, she thinks she can change him, help him with his emotional baggage and be happy with him. Because in the end, that’s the purpose of a relationship – make both parts happy. But psycho says “No, no, no” and starts to move his hips like he’s in a Destiny’s Child video. Psycho just doesn’t want to be happy. He knows she would make him happy, but he’s just used to being a psycho. In the end they’re both unhappy. Like we said – a classic.

So what should we take away from this movie? It’s simple: If you see a sign that a guy is a psychopath (like a room full of whips, chains and furry tails), run away. As fast as you can.

How about you? Did you see 50 shades of grey? What did you think of it? And more importantly do you have a room full of whips and chains?