The Lucky One: Movie Review

I know medyo late na dahil this movie has been off the screen for months now, but hey! You can’t blame me for waiting for the DVD release bago ko mapanood. As much as I want to turn watching movies and writing about it into my full-time job, I can’t. I have an 8-hour job that leaves me with just about 4-6 waking hours away from work each day.

*sigh* But, enough about me. Let’s dive into the movie.

Nicholas Sparks novels are my guilty pleasure. Kasi may tamang dose ng self-loathing akong nadarama every time I finish one of his books. He has this formula pagdating sa pagsulat na paulit-ulit-ulit lang sa mga libro niya. Parang nag-iiba lang yung pangalan, pero halos pareho din yung plot. Naiinis yung poser na critic sa loob ko, pero yung girlaloo naman, pumaparty.

 

I read the novel before I saw the movie. And even if I wasn’t as excited about it as I was with The Notebook, A Walk To Remember, or Dear John, I thought it was okay. Kaya nga lang, dahil I read it around the time when they first released the movie poster, Na-associate ko na agad yung characters sa mga artistang gaganap. I didn’t think it would affect my reading adversely dahil nag-enjoy naman akong imaginin na si Channing Tatum si John sa Dear John before, pero mabilis kong pinagsisihan na ipares ang mukha ni Zac Efron kay Sgt. Logan Thibault. This brings me to the first thing I didn’t like about the movie.

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