Were there people talking and getting on their phones in your theater?

My theater was only half full, but there was lots of laughter. Some of it came from this guy behind me, who would give a running commentary during the sex scenes. But there was laughter from serious scenes, probably because they fell flat, leaving the audience feeling more than a little awkward.

Take the scene when Christian falls on his knees. That drew the most laughter in the entire movie. The whole thing came off so ingenuine. Again, the proper reaction was missing and we have this strange action that was over as quickly as it began. The audience was robbed of why that was supposed to be a momentous moment between these two characters. They should've played with the lighting to show just how long he sits like that, in a trance, scaring the $hit out of her. But it came off like nothing. Then she touches his chest, and if I never had read these books, I'd be like 'wtf just happened?'

The problem here was, there were too many of these inconsistencies spread through out. It's things like this that tank the movie. I think Darker had even more of these awkwardly transitional scenes than FSOG.

~Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable~

The theatre was packed at my screening, but there were two couples, both diagonally in front of me, who were filming the spicy bits of the film on their mobile phones.

I'd normally get annoyed and probably get a member of staff but the film was soooo laughably $h!t that I found this funny as well and let it ride.