Dear John Movie Reviews
February 6, 2010 by Trend PK
Filed under Entertainment
Dear John Movie Reviews, This week’s literary movie is “Dear John,” a 
tear-jerker adapted from the book of the same name by the King of Tear-Jerkers, Nicholas Sparks (who’s a high school track coach in his spare time). It’s a love story interrupted by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Practical Army guy (played by Channing Tatum)meets idealistic girl (Amanda Seyfried), he abandons her to fight Osama, and a “Dear John” letter follows. (Here’s the trailer and official site.) Sparks’ novels have sparked other romantic movies, including “The Notebook,” “Night in Rodanthe” and “A Walk to Remember” — “Dear John” appears to be another weeper. Here are excerpts from reviews for the new movie:
San Fracisco Chronicle — Sure, it sounds corny. But director Lasse Hallstrom (“Chocolat”) and screenwriter Jamie Linden give the whirlwind romance an appealing, straightforward decency, and Tatum and Seyfried click rather effortlessly. They’re not Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams from “The Notebook,” but they’ll do.
New York Times — [T]he latest attempt to bring his warm, earnest, therapeutic sensibility to the screen, falls in the upper middle range of Sparks film adaptations. the latest attempt to bring his warm, earnest, therapeutic sensibility to the screen, falls in the upper middle range of Sparks film adaptations.
Miami Herald — “Dear John” is at its date-movie best in the first half; it’s the sort of pretty weeper that will draw young women in droves. Later on the film gets a bit bogged down in its noble ambitions.
Los Angeles Times — What we don’t really have is an actual film but a very long music video with lots of montages of John and Savannah “moments” as they read their letters in absentia, which means neither the fans nor the foes of “The Notebook” are likely to be satisfied.
Variety — Ultimately, the story feels as if it’s killing time before throwing the next hurdle at the couple, seizing on a favorite Sparks theme that in matters of love, life isn’t fair.
Reuters — The mad passion at the center of the movie raises the temperature not one degree, and all the sentimentality that surrounds the movie — an autistic child, a shy, emotionally stunted father, a wounded vet and later a character with a stroke and another with cancer — feels like so many tugs on the heartstrings.
John King will replace Lou Dobbs on CNN
John King will replace Lou Dobbs on CNN, CNN president John Klein said Thursday. CNN has tapped John King to replace Lou Dobbs as the network’s 7 p.m. anchor.
The veteran reporter will move into the 7PM ET slot vacated by Dobbs, who abruptly resigned from the network on Wednesday after 29 years of service.
“The program will reflect what CNN is all about: straight facts from our anchors and the widest range of opinions from across the political spectrum,” CNN president Jonathan Klein said in a statement Thursday morning.
King has been at CNN since 1997, and its chief national correspondent since 2005. He really emerged during the 2008 campaign as a political expert and gained attention for using CNN’s “magic wall” to display voting patterns and information during the run-up and through Election night.
“There is a lot of noise and conflict in our political discourse,” King said in a statement, “which is fun to cover but I’m convinced from my travels that people also thirst for more details as well as insight and context.”
CNN officials announced King was getting the job the morning after Dobbs stunned the TV world by revealing that after nearly 30 years at CNN, he was leaving for good.
John King will replace Lou Dobbs on CNN was first posted on November 12, 2009 at 11:28 pm.
Tom Sparks Dies On Set at “Wipeout” Contestant
Tom Sparks Dies On Set at “Wipeout” Contestant, On ABC’s reality competition Wipeout died earlier this month after suffering a stroke on the set of the series.
Tom Sparks was rushed to a local hospital complaining of knee pain and shortness of breath on an obstacle course on the show, a production source blabbed to TheWrap.com this week.
Tom was later transferred to Cedars Sinai Medical Center, where doctors reportedly performed multiple brain surgeries to save his life They were unsuccessful and Tom passed away on Nov. 5.
According to The Wrap, Sparks was participating in the show’s Japanese game show-style obstacle course when he began complaining of knee pain and shortness of breath. The producers told him to stop competing and he was taken to a nearby hospital. Spark was eventually transferred to Cedars Sinai Medical Center, where he underwent several brain surgeries.
However, Sparks’ father Bill has told friends and family that Tom suffered from APS, or antiphospholipid antibody syndrome, a disease that causes unnatural clotting of the blood, which may explain the stroke and brain surgeries. APS is not something that would come up in a routine physical, such as one you would undergo to appear on “Wipeout.”
The family has asked for donations to be made to the APS Foundation of America in lieu of flowers.
Tom Sparks Dies On Set at “Wipeout” Contestant was first posted on November 12, 2009 at 11:59 pm.
