Dear John

Well, I am pretty excited about this movie as this is directed by one of my favorite director, Lasse Hallstrom. I still remember one of his earliest works, a Swedish Film known as " My Life as a Dog". I was so touched by the details and the scenes that the director created for the main character that I was crazy enough to order from Amazon.com when I saw there are copies of the film sold in US.
Though the film is one of my projects, my groupmates and I absolutely love the film so much so that we re so dedicated to the film report and we got an A for it. Because of that, we formed an amazing friendship that lasted us through the university days and till now, though we din take much modules together after that.

Okie, I must apologised I digress drastically....I was brought back into memory lane.

This movie transformed from a book by Nicholas Sparks, another author who wrote heart-wrenching novels. I supposed this is going to be a teary movie for me so arm to the teeth with the maximum packets of tissue that my bag can hold, my friend, Val and I went to watch the show.

At the end, I feel so terribly empty. I was only touched when the male lead was opening his heart out to his dying autistic father in the hospital. Other than that, it was so average.
The editing wasnt so fantastic. Alot of repeat scenes which I am not sure if the original novel has it written that way. But I must say the trailer did the BEST job.
Why?
It manage to capture all of the best shots in the movie and convinced me to watch it in theatre.
But a lot of close up shots on the actors.
I felt that the casting may not be a good idea as the emotions displayed wasnt that obvious. The inner turmoils and the eyes..did not betrayed that heart wrenching feelings. I must say that Channing Tatum is part of the reason why I went into the cinema watching the show. lol.

Ahh...a lot of product endorsements in the movie. So deliberate to let the screen capture the brand of the products.

It is an average show for me.

BTW, I was nearly killed by my friend that day as I unwittingly bought the tickets scheduled at 0420AM. luckily there are still seats available and the ticket lady allow us to change. HENG ah!
Otherwise, my friend would have slaughter me alive....
Whew!!!
What a day!