![]() ![]() In one grimace-worthy scene, Savannah and John swap painstaking letter-writing rules. All they had were their promise and their letters. By that fall, Army Ranger Tyree was in combat. ![]() ![]() He flashes back to his great spring-break romance, when he met the fair Savannah (Amanda Seyfried of “Mamma Mia!”) and life was filled with promise. It celebrates simple virtues and values - letter writing, patriotism, chivalry, people willing to do the right thing, no matter if it hurts.īut Lasse Hallstrom’s film of it is as bland as unseasoned grits.Ĭhanning Tatum is John Tyree, a Charleston youth who is shot, in combat, in the film’s first scene. “Dear John” follows Sparks’ lucrative formula with elements familiar to anyone who knows “A Walk to Remember,” “The Notebook,” “Message in a Bottle” or “Nights in Rodanthe.” It has the beaches of Carolina (South Carolina this time), a slow-paced and generally chaste romance, love, longing and loss. And the movies made from his books are cinematic sand castles - sappy, old fashioned and utterly forgotten by the next time the tide rolls in. Nicholas Sparks writes “beach novels” for people whose vacations are too short for anything heavy and whose tastes are pretty far from the cutting edge. ![]()
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