Dear John (2010)

Absolutely Brilliant!

It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

I thought it will be great movie, one of the best that I watched, until I saw the end. The end was bad. So, my rating is 9.

Nicholas Sparks writers another novel that was adapted for film production entitled Dear John.It stars Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried together with Henry Thomas and Richard Jenkins which tells the story of a romance between an idealistic woman and a male soldier who gets deployed at different places.Only the love letters they exchanged with each other starting "Dear John" sustained their romance.John Tyree is a young soldier that is currently serving on the U.S. Army Special Forces.He is currently on leave on spring vacation.He meets and falls in love with a college students who is full of idealism named Savannah Curtis.Things start to become worrisome in their relationship when they could barely see each other due to John's increased overseas deployments.They sustained their romance by exchanging letters.But their inability to see each other led to fateful consequences with Savannah as she started seeing Tim.This was made painful when Tim was known to have a terminal disease.Savannah become married to Tim and took care of him until her husband died.In the end,we get to see John,who is no longer part of the army after his father suffered a stroke and now a civilian citizen,re-unite with Savannah.Well,this was basically a romantic story wherein the viewers are treated to a U turn in the end when both lead romance couples John and Savannah had to go through with some respective incidents in their life before they could go through their happy romance in the end.Some may find it funny and a bad soap opera especially coming from Nicholas Sparks as viewers are normally treated with many of his novels that get adapted on film.But for others looking for a love story,they will definitely enjoy it especially those who are still hopeful in their relationships that have ended.

dear viewer , army wants fresh meat for keep the machine going , so Hollywood put the recipe down and made us one , its a classic drama like advertisement , with pretty staff , beautiful people , good images , a silly side story and a mellow main one , just what it takes to make a threatening real life scenario look nice on screen and get hopeless people join .for sure it is not the only one , there are many , some of them are made for your children , to feed them with stereotypes and get them not to question anything and to comfort , some are from the weapon industry , to advertise new killing technologies , some are for the women ,and some are for the men , but all are for the masses . it is not a request , it is just part of your guidance , we cultivate people to be ready for that. we feed them by the tube .

I never read the book, but I've watched the Notebook before. This cannot compete with the Notebook both in terms of plot and characters. The romance between John and Savannah is very disappointing. Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfield lacks chemistry together. And because a lot of the scenes are through letter reading, it can get boring real quick. The letter reading also meant a barrier in showing raw emotions.What's more memorable for me from this entire movie was the father-son relationship between John and his father. The scene when John was reading his letter to his father in the hospital was very powerful and heartbreaking. Kudos to Tatum in delivering such heart-wrenching performance. If you are watching this movie, that is the scene you should be watching for.