Patriotic Love-In-War Story spoiled by Amanda

Rating: 6/10 (30 July 2010)

Any story by Nicholas Sparks is going to get soggy, but considering that most 2010 movies are either wise-Alec or born-stupid maybe soggy isn't so bad.
Imagine also a current movie with a patriotic tilt, made by today's thoroughly anti-patriotic Hollywood, like lighting a candle in a dark room. I found the basic story fine, the direction and photography just great, and I liked the character of John and also his father. The scene of the father riding in the car was exceptional, and I liked that his life's problem was undefined. What the film lacked was a female lead I could take an interest in.
Sure, Amanda Siegfred has long blonde hair, a pretty bug-eyed face and a slender body. Her acting isn't bad either. No, where she killed it for me was with her just-previous film (which we watched earlier in the week) the Lesbian-agenda movie, Chloe, where Amanda is slobbering all over (not a handsome guy, but) Julianne Moore. Any young actress ought realize playing scenes like that don't go down as a righteous Liberal victory against mainstream America, but rather it spoils, perhaps forever, the moviegoer's ability to identify with her in a male-female romance. Sorry, Amanda, but no romance with Yours Truly; and too bad you spoiled Dear John.