First of all, I’d like to say one thing before I start writing my review.. I DO NOT WATCH CHICK FLICKS! I don’t think I can ever get into chick flicks at all. Well okay, I think there was one time when I watched The Notebook with my buddies.. But that was because I had read the book which the movie was based on and really liked it, and Rachel McAdams was just too damn cute in that movie. The book was very well-written, so when the movie came out I’d thought I would just give it a shot. Aaand as I said before, Rachel McAdams was in the movie. So that was perfectly reasonable.
I never wanted to see Dear John. Never ever. I even made fun of my co-worker who was sooo looking forward to seeing it, she even put it up as her Facebook status. When I saw the trailer for the first time, I was like wait a minute.. Is that Duke from GI JOE making out with Dakota Fanning??? I honestly thought that blond girl who was Duke’s love interest was Dakota Fanning! Later I found out her name was Amanda Seyfriend. Apparently she was one of mean girls in Mean Girls (remember that Lindsay Lohan’s movie that came out years ago?).
It was never my intention to see Dear John (okay this is the second time I wrote it here). We were doing our Sunday Movie Buffet (you go to the theater and see two to three movies back-to-back, but only pay for one) and just as we finished our first movie (The Wolfman), we were going to sneak in to another theater next door only to find out there was a theater attendant standing by the entrance, checking everyone’s ticket. We were like, shittt.. Let’s wait for a few minutes. We assumed he’d be gone after 15-20 minutes. Apparently not – he was still standing there, and we honestly thought he’d be standing there for another half an hour. So I was like, okay this is way too long. Let’s just sneak in to another theater. We can’t just hang out here for another 15 minutes, someone will get suspicious. So I checked the movie schedule on my BlackBerry, trying to see which movie that was playing around that time or within the next 5 minutes or so.. And sure enough, all other movies would not start for another hour, except for………DEAR FU*KIN JOHN. CRAP!
Dear John was based on a book with the same title, written by Nicholas Sparks. It’s about a story of a soldier who falls in love with a college student while he’s home on leave. It’s a pretty romantic story; I assume the book is probably much better than the movie. It kinda felt pretty entertaining and relaxing to watch a romantic drama, especially when you had just finished watching a suspense thriller movie where it showed a lot of decapitated human limbs. Both Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried really had great chemistry in the movie. I thought they really nailed the characters down pretty well. I really loved her beach house.. Gosh I wonder when I’ll be able to afford to have something like that. A house by the beach.. A real beach, I might add. I also loved the guy who played as Channing’s dad. Can’t remember his name though.. But I’ve seen this guy many times in comedy movies. Too bad he didn’t have a lot of lines in this movie since he was playing as an autistic guy (who collected coins and made freakin’ lasagna every Sunday.. Come onnnn!). Even though Amanda Seyfried acted really well in Dear John, I kinda wished that the producers would’ve picked another girl for the character. Somehow every time I saw her face, she really reminded me of Dakota Fanning. I wish they had cast Jennifer Love Hewitt.. Oh that would’ve been so much better!
The movie was pretty sad – just like other movies that were based on Nicholas Sparks’ tear-jerker novels. It was romantic and sad, but not depressing though. Thank God I didn’t shed a tear – but I assumed 99.9% of the audience was probably crying at that time. I definitely recommend this as a movie to watch on a Valentine’s Day or a first date. It’s a mighty chick flick, but it can get you lucky with your date afterwards.
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