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Channing Tatum, Amanda Seyfried, Henry Thomas, Richard Jenkins, Keith Robinson
A soldier home on leave falls for a conservative college girl. Instead of returning home to her, he reenlists after the attacks on September 11th, 2001. Time and distance begin to take a toll on the y...( read more 
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This was so disappointing!!! Horrible and the acting was just mediocre. The only part of the story I enjoyed was the story between John and his father....the movie should have just been between them, forget the girl and sappy love story. DEAR JOHN, I AM A JERK!! I do not recom...( read more)mend this movie to anyone.
This movie was fuckin retarded, It frustrated da fuck outta me how stupid these characters were. Stupid fuckin movie.
So, I read the book and fell in love with it. I know Tatum and Seyfried aren't the best actors, but I wanted to like them and went along with it. Of course, it could've been better, but I appreciated it for what it was.
It's a story of a soldier, John Tyree (Tatum), while on ...( read more)leave meets this innocent college girl, Savannah (Seyfried) and in two weeks, they fell in love. While he returns to his duties across seas, they promise to write eachother as much as they can. Then, life happens.
COME ON! Somebody please do something about this Nicholas Sparks character. And no more Channing Tatum. Channing you were miserable as Duke in GI JOE.
What is N. Sparks and his obsession with writing letters in these movies? Letters every day! Lets number them so we can ...( read more)have them in order! Lets use them for toilet paper if the world has a paper shortage due to us writing so many letters! Bah!
OK - I was forced to watch this over the weekend as part of the annual Valentines day penance. I spent two hours in a chair with NO popcorn hoping this thing would be at least partially as good as the Notebook (which is fair if you are forced to watch). No luck.
I will take back the Channing comment from my pre watching comment. Tatum and his interaction with his Autistic father was, to me, the only part of this movie worth watching. The only part that didn't feel contrived and cliched and was not a copy/paste from previous N. Sparks books.
As the credits rolled, I said loudly, "Thank God!" The Male portion of several couples surrounding us chuckled appreciativly. The female portion laughed louder when I recieved a elbow in the gut.
SPOILERS AHEAD!
I said WTF at least 3 times in this movie. 1st was the breakup. Not just a breakup but dumped because miss perfect is engaged. blah blah blah, 7 years go by or something. No intereaction. Chan goes home when his father is sick and looks up Savannah, finds out she married Eliot from E.T. and is now drinking (just some wine with meals) and swearing, WTF? Turns out she married him because he was sick? You couldn't have just been his friend? Got him a dog? Help with his son because you are a friend? Nope lets get married, dump the guy I love madly because you need to get me in the sack ET style. Was this the authors convoluted way of showing that time changes everyone? The choices you make when you are young follow you throughout life? Who knows and my head hurts that I even tried to understand it.
....Then later after Eliot phones home, you can come back to me like nothing happened. sound good? Not hardly.
Does this convoluted mess sound even remotely logical to you ladies? Arrrrgggghhhhh!
I actually just read a professional review from a guy at the Las Vegas times that made me laugh: Dear John may seem like a tearjerker romance aimed at the demographic that left piles of wet tissues at screenings of The Notebook, but it's not. It's a morality tale that demonstrates the consequences of c**k-blocking
Not bad. Started slowly but then was quite moving and particularly between father and son in the hospital. Nothing really new here though between the guy and the girl though. Good performances though.
I thought it was sooooo great! What an uplifting movie it is so great to get once in awhile a goood old fashion loving movie. I thought it was just so sweet and decent! FANTASTIC! GREAT MOVIE! ONe of the BEST in a long time!
I'm being generous here; 3 stars for the gorgeous shots of North Carolina, the incredible father/son scenes, and the horses :)
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