Realism? Ha! Who needs it!

Rating: Null/10 (15 August 2011)

To review this film, I have the following questions:
The "love of his life" flies to Houston from New Mexico to see him. She arrives at his house by taxi.Q:what kind of a guy in love does not pick up his main squeeze at the airport? Blake crashes his 31 year old GMC, rolls it over, and suddenly it is back in primo condition a couple of weeks later. Q: if he is so "down on his luck" where did he get the money torestore it? If he had full insurance, the insurance company would total it, and give him a couple of hundred bucks.
Jean is a reporter for a newspaper. She meets Blake, and a couple of interviews later, she is sleeping with him. Q: does this add to her creditability as a news reporter? Most news outlets would fire her, or at least cancel her project.
Come to think of it, what does she see in this old, ugly, drunk anyway?
The film makers appear to be cynical enough to think that C+W fans will like the music, and ignore the plot, and the "chick-flick" (sorry about the characterization) crowd will just care about the cliché and predictable love story. Unfortunately, many viewers do not fit in either group