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.

BORINGNESS

Touching but in need of fine-tuning, particularly towards the end.

F*ck you John.

"As mid-winter sudsers go, you could do a lot worse than Dear John, an unassuming and mildly endearing adaptation of the Nicholas Sparks's novel of the same name." - Matthew Connolly

I thought it was dull dull dull. So did my wife. Perhaps if we cared about the characters it would've been better.

popcorn, story, (Amanda S)

Entertaining although flat and cliche. Sad and poignant, but a relatively smart love story. Romantic, but unnecessarily suffering and not funny or interesting enough to move it into the 80s grade range.

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.

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.

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.

Awash in mawkish sentimentality, Dear John still will move you deeply - if you're a 12-year-old girl.

Oh, terribly predictable, commonplace and tender story. Despite all of these I enjoyed that movie very much.

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Built from many of the same ingredients as other Nicholas Sparks tearjerkers, Dear John suffers from its cliched framework, as well as Lasse Hallstrom's curiously detached directing.

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

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.

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.

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.

Amanda Seyfried is cute. That's the best thing I can say for this film. Honestly this film plays like a slide show with voice over. And Nicholas Sparks needs a needs to shake things up. I feel like there is no variety in his "films". I don't read the books he's writing, but all the films feel the same and feel like their getting worse every time.

There were only about two plot points in the movie that were NOT VOICE OVERS! I think it must rank in the cheapest love movies ever made.

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.