Lasse Hallström at his cheesiest with a non-charismatic lead couple that recite the dialogue as if it was a school rehearsal. Channing Tatum looks constantly stoned.

Poprawne romansidlo ;-)

Mistakes - 1) When John is asking Savannah what to do in a scene in a park, a microphone can be seen. 2) When Savannah pours the wine during supper the glasses are around 1/4 full and when the angle changes the glasses are about 3/4 full.

Theres 2 hours I'll never get back! The uniforms in the story was filled with flaws and I'm pretty sure I also saw a mic somewhere. Of course it couldnt have a completely sad ending - no they had to hug in the end... Also John had to give the bitch who left him, while overseas, a coin collection worth millions... Title should have been Stupid John.

Wartime romance beginning in the spring of 2001 (you know what's coming) and stretching up to the present, staggeringly basic and banal in its specifics, turning on a senseless withholding of information for the sole purpose of contrived misunderstanding and revealed nobility. It issues from a novel by Sparks, always a harbinger of goopy absurdity, and the chief function of Hallstrom, at one time a halfway serious filmmaker, is to pour sunlight, moonlight, and firelight over it like syrup.

Quite like love in real life: the beginning is giddy and joyful, the break-up depressing, and the afters complicated and difficult. I can't say that Dear John is a brilliant film, but it's well-made in the very safe hands of Lasse Hallstrom, and I have to at least give it credit for attempting an honest, no-holds-barred portrayal of a relationship, without the usual distractions present in such a genre.

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Romantic drama about a love affair that begins between a soldier home on leave, and a college student on spring break, and is sustained in ensuing years by a continuous stream of love letters. There is something emotionally exhausted about 'Dear John'.... This isn't a love story, it's a misery story that drags on, not to a dramatic conclusion but a tepid moment.

Two horrible (in different ways) people fall in love and blah blah blah........

It's the cinematic equivalent of a plastic-covered couch under a "Bless This House" sampler. And that's not a bad thing, for audiences who have a high threshold for sentiment and a low one for dramatic conflict.

There were only about two events in the movie that were NOT VOICE OVERS! I think it must rank in the cheapest love movies ever made. Short Version: Dear John is the best slide show I've ever seen!

Tough guy with the wiggerish stride and drawl falls for spoiled suburbia queen whose boredom finds refuge within her need to create sentimentality in all the "wrong" places. Cack. I'm disappointed in this new crop of up-and-coming actors. Channing Tatum has no talent, and as long as he's restrained from any demanding roles, I'll continue to gratefully not give a shit.

I actually thought it was a really sweet story and that being said, the tragedy is in the direction and acting. It's beyond terrible. Channing just wondered around for a long time looking like he was on opiates and literally 30 minutes of the movie is montages. But at the same time, this isn't trying to be some revolution in film. It's an honest romance that'll make your idiot girlfriend cry and you'll get laid afterwards. Enjoy.

Maybe I should give it even less. Amanda's character is so badly-written. Channing is a very bad actor, albeit handsome if he isn't smiling that is. It's difficult to believe that the story came from the same person who wrote The Notebook, which is a very believable story. Dear John is terrible.

Sometimes you see a man in a bad relationship, infatuated with someone who just isn't right for them. I believe its wrong to watch another person suffer in this vicious spiral. Hence I think that you, Lasse Hallstrom, need to give up on Montage. She may have been a perfect match in film school, or those home videos you showed your mother. But now she is hurting you, and me, and everyone who watches your films. Montage isn't the only problem in your film making, but you have to start somewhere.

The acting in this is Quite Bad. Sparks is the master of melodrama.

Montage: the movie

Dear Johntage is another Channing Tatum film full of the same repetitive bullshit. Mix in some Nicholas Sparks, and you really got yourself a melodramatic swirl of horsecatdogbullshit.