tashinaknight

This was the movie equivalent of a Danielle Steel novel and that's not a compliment. It was simplistic and didn't have much of a plot. The opening scene is at a hospital so it's no spoiler that there is something medical and it's not believable in the slightest. The movie spent a good part of the last third in blatant misdirection. Come to think of it, the whole movie could have been shortened to 30 minutes without losing anything and even then there wouldn't be enough plot to make it interesting.

I can only assume these Sparks movies are like Hallmark movies where everyone knows what to expect and only a certain type of person would like them. Those people are rating it 9 or 10 and the rest of us are giving it much lower ratings. I gave it a 4 only because I liked the settings for the most part and I enjoyed the sister of the main male character.

I don't even know what to say. This was one of my favorite books of all times. For most of the movie, I thought this was a rushed version that stayed pretty true to it. I think the casting was quite good and I think they managed to do pretty well for having to have so much time compression. The primary issue is that so much of the book was what the characters thought, and it's quite hard to show that in a movie where you can't see thoughts.

This is for fans of the book. I don't want to give any spoilers, but let's just say that the last 1/3 of the movie does not follow the book at all and my head was spinning because the first 2/3 of the movie was so true to the book. Try to go into the last 1/3 without any expectations at all (probably impossible). I'm only giving it a 5 because I don't think I'd watch it again. I think I'll go read the book again just to get it fixed properly back in my mind.

I thought the male lead was quite good in this. Sure his part didn't make any sense at all, but I watched it all the way through because he was such a consistently believable nice guy. The little girl was cute, a decent actress for that age, and her singing was nice.

The female lead, on the other hand, was booooooring. Wow. She wasn't given much of a script to work with, but it's like she didn't even try. Also, the script had her be mean one minute and then nice the next minute, not interested and then super interested, acting like an adult then a teen. And she was passive aggressive and had no communication skills. It's just not believable that the male lead is interested in her at all once she does a few of her intense mood swings. He'd be running the other way!