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Published: Friday, Feb. 5 2010 12:00 a.m. MST

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cassy bells

i thin that dear john is going to be a fantastic movie. me and my boyfriend are planning on seeing it and we hope that its going to be a good movie. but hes only seeing it cause i wanna see it. and its our first movie together so we picked to see dear john [cough cough] and we hope its not disapointing. /cassy

It will be...

disappointing. I haven't seen the movie but you really don't have to see this one to know it's some pretty standard Hollywood romantic garbage. I don't have a problem with any movie labeled a chick flick or romance just by default, but I do have a problem with movies that are horrible. Based on this author's previous works (especially the horrible, horrible "The Notebook", which makes a disease that's taken a number of my family members look like a cute romantic plot twist) this is going to be horrendous. Boooooooooo to everybody involved in this movie, boooooooo.

m with cassy

i thin that dear john will be an fantastic movie, or great, mmmm at least it will be better than 'when in rome' [hack hack]. but i m only seeing it because she wants to and then she'll have to go to percy jackson with me. the yolks on her, eh?

to cassy and her boyfriend

I "think" its spelled "think", not "thin".

Just saw this movie

OMG LIFELESS INDEED!!!!!!!!!!!! I love all other movies based on his novels.. but wowee. this should have stayed as just the novel..... pretty unimpressive

cassey

Are you 12 years old? just wondering.

neno

I thought that Dear John was pretty good. There was Army action and tender relationships too. I think most movies could be better. Just be entertained and enjoy the fact that your life is better, and think how the movie could have been better.

KF

Okay, my wife dragged me to this movie and there were so many things wrong with it that two stars was very generous.

Let's start with the UPSIDE DOWN epaulets on his Army uniform, or the fact that his rank changed from SGT to SSG to SGT over and over again. Also, after serving in the Army for 20 years, I can assure you that no one serves in a forward location for seven or eight straight years.

That's just the beginning. There's more, but I don't want to give away the plot, but let's just say I left the movie completely flabbergasted at the third act of the movie.

cassy bells

l know that think is spelled with a k at the end. i just messed up. and no im not 12 im 13 and turning 14 pretty soon. and i went to go see dear john and i loved it people say its disapointing but i really enjoyed it. think about all the hard work it took to make the movie. if it made people cry then its a good movie. the actors were pretty good at acting just at some points in the movie you would wanna scream ans tell them the right way to say the line. everyone thati saw it with hated it=] ha ha ha ha ha but i really liked it and i would see it again. butonly when it comes out on dvd. i hope new moon comes out soon! [idk why i just said that]

Anonymous

Shouldn't there be an age limit for people making comments?

Anonymous

Yes. Anybody over 15 should not be allowed to comment. This movie was mindblowingly good. I'm 2.

ashley<3

That was an amazing movie! i loved it! it was amazing and really cute!!!! its one of those movies you could watch over and over again. it was almost as good as the notebook!

KF Right On

My wife also dragged me to this movie. I didn't get interested until the scene where KF very correctly noted that the rank insignias on the epaulets are upside down for half the scene, then mysteriously change directions. That was the only good part of the movie. I guess nobody in Hollywood caught the error. Dumb-da-dumb-dumb.

Cindy

Who cares if the movie isn't that great??? At least you have Channing Tatum to stare at for 2 hours. It doesn't get better than that. lol..

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