Last month, I went to a movie theater with my daughter’s other mom and my daughter (she is old enough to attend an R-rated movie) and we saw Fifty Shades Darker. My daughter’s other mom and I had seen the first movie together, 2 years ago now, and it was a good movie but a bit lackluster in some areas - the acting needed to a realness to it - it was lacking. But, we wanted to try on the new movie for size so we made an afternoon of it.
We paid the $23.00 for 3 tickets and $5.00 for one large drink to share. Then, we headed to the small theater - upon entering there is only 4 people in there so we were excited there wouldn’t be a ton of people to contend with noise wise. We chose aisle seats in the middle of the theater and settled into the plush, red, velvet, reclining chairs.
The previews were enthralling - we laughed and sat lost in them, it was the best trailers I had seen in a theater previous to now. Girls Trip with Jada Pinkett-Smith, Queen Latifah, Tiffany Haddish, and Regina Hall. We laughed so hard I’m sure the other people in the theater were wondering if we were okay. Next was The Zookeeper’s Wife with Jessica Chastain - we were so lost in what was on the screen in front of us, I could have sworn we’d all fallen asleep. I can’t wait to see both of these movies.
Then the movie started. It picked up close to where the first one left off but not at the exact moment it left off. Dakota Johnson’s acting skills had improved and she was much more real with her expressions. They gave her some great one liners as well. Jamie Dornan smiles a good amount in this movie, it was nice to see his character is human.
Now at this point, I should mention that I haven’t read the books (my daughter and her other mom gave me shit the entire time about that because I always read the book before watching the movie), but I wanted to see the movies first, so that when I read the books I only have to fill in the blanks instead of trying to get what’s going on the majority of the time. I normally don’t feel like that, but The Fifty Shades Trilogy isn’t in my normal reading wheelhouse. So, I am trying it out a different way.
Okay, back to the movie - the cast was done well with some of the old characters and some wonderful new ones. I have always liked Kim Basinger in most of her roles - but she did so well in this role that I actually found myself hating her. Her character was just a shitty, self-entitled human being - but she played it well!
There were a few parts of the movie that could have been done a little better such as the him coming home after his plane crashed or didn’t crash - who knows. They were hearing on the TV that he was found as he was walking through the door, that’s just unrealistic in this day and age and how fast the media gets their information and sends it out to the world. But, the scenery during the crazy flight is awesome, I will give them that (no, not the plane itself, I mean the background).
All around, this movie was a good one, but better done than the first one. Now to wait until like 2019 for the 3rd one to come out, then I can read the books! (LOL)
I didn’t want to give away too much in my review, but this is a short and simple review giving you my main thoughts on it.
I will try to give more reviews on different things soon! If anyone has any ideas on things I can review, please let me know!
Remember, when pants are required, you have far less fun!
No Pants Required by Mandy Zani
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