Masterful Movie

It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

This story is so predictable, I can't believe they took the effort making it. By the way, non-native English speaker here, is that accent of Travis even real? It seems so over the top. Plus, and this is neither here nor there, but what is up with the helmet hair of Travis? They seem to blow dry it in the same shape as Queen Elizabeth.

Honestly I had high hopes for this since I enjoyed the book but I hated this movie. I feel like the main characters had no chemistry whatsoever and it felt like they had known each other for a nanosecond before Travis was adamant that he loved Gabby. At least in the book their relationship was developed more so you actually could believe they were in love. I found it hard to get past Travis' ridiculously overdone southern accent, everyone else in the movie has a relatively normal sounding accent that is believable. It sounds like a stereotypical hillbilly accent and was just so off putting. Also, when Gabby's dog has puppies, the newborn 'puppies' were clearly at least a few weeks old. Anyone who has actually seen newborn puppies know that those dogs looked nothing like they should have. With a budget of millions it's ridiculous that they couldn't find some actual newborn puppies to put in the movie. Ridiculous error aside, I thought this movie was boring and completely unbelievable. They could have spent more time on actually developing the characters and made the movie a little longer. Even my Mom who is a sucker for sappy romances and all things Nicholas Sparks thought this movie was awful. This is definiteley one of the worst renditions of a Nicholas Sparks book I've ever seen.

It's safe to say that I will love most any movie with Teresa Palmer and if it's a romantic movie; all the more so. My reason for posting this though is to see if anyone else noticed what seemed quite obvious to me. With Gabby in a coma, the dog finds her wind chime which inspires Travis to build a gazebo at their special place along the beach. I say inspired but he was more obsessed at doing this than inspired. Suddenly after completing it, the chimes begin chiming and he is off to the nursing home. We see on his phone that he has missed several calls. He gets there and finds her awake and she tells him he is late. That's it. He never explains why he is late, what he has built for her nor how that helped him continue to be positive. Surely they cut a scene at the end where he shared this information with her, no? Yes, they end the movie at the gazebo but not one word about how it came to be built or as I mentioned, what caused him to miss all of those calls. It seems such a scene would have been one of the most romantic scenes in the movie. Instead of her telling him in the backyard that she heard him while in a coma, that dialogue would have been even better had he taken her to the beach and surprised her with the gazebo and how he came to build it.

Wonderful feel good movie about love and choises in life.