Horrible portrayal of a Wonderful book

Rating: 1/10 (25 January 2002)

Let me start off by saying that Nicholas Sparks is my favorite author. I have and have read all of his books, including his most recent, A bend in the Road. I have read A Walk to Remember, twice. I cried every time I read it and LOVED IT. However, I can not say the same about the movie. If you read the book, you understand that characteristics of the characters, what they say, do, wear, the location, time period and feelings toward other characters DEFINE the book. In the movie, it's like they took the characters and the main "part" of the book and used it, but forgot about everything else. It was a horrible portrayal of the book. The book was wonderful, I loved it. But the movie was just lacking. I am not saying it was horrible in the acting criterion; it was horrible in terms of following the outline of the book it was based on. If you do want to see the movie, please pick up A copy of the book before you see the movie. It does makes all the difference. I do not mean to bash the director or writer, but I think that more of the components of the book should have been portrayed in the movie of the same title.