Movie Review: Dear John [No Spoilers]
There really isn’t a whole lot to say. It wasn’t a complex story, and I had not read the book so had no preconceived expectation of how it SHOULD be (unlike The Lovely Bones), so it fit the bill for romantic chick flick. Nice looking people.
Sweet story. Nobody gets blown up, no flashing action sequences (well, maybe a couple of minor ones). People are kind and loving to each other. There are some days when a simple story of love is plenty. Sometimes you just want to be carried away on something pleasant for a while. Like the old days of Hollywood when films were made to take you away from the unpleasantness of war and other things of the day (even though war and military are in the backdrop), to let you dream of a different life…not solve problems, view murders and watch battles with flashing lights.
So yeah. I dug it. And maybe it took Avitar’s number one position for the same reason that I liked it. Simplicity and kindness. I’m sure as Simon Cowell would say it is “utterly forgettable”, but I still enjoyed it.
