PS. I don't love this movie

Rating: 1/10 (3 December 2008)

I had been told by numerous friends that this was a great movie and about how they all nearly went through a box of tissues with it. so naturally I was preparing for an emotionally engaging tear-jerker. but that was not what I got. at the end of the movie I found myself sitting there with my unused box of tissues thinking "jeez i really need to get some new friends with decent taste in movies!".
I don't know what it was but I just found this movie unbelievably boring. all throughout it i found myself getting distracted and resorting to things like rolling around on the floor and sticking my finger in the pedestal fan to alleviate my boredom. I wish that I had stuck my head under that fan instead of sitting through the whole thing. I know, I could have turned it off, but I didn't want to. I suppose there was just some sadomasochistic part of me that wanted to continue, with a vague hope that it might get better even though deep down I suspected that it wouldn't and surprise, surprise - it didn't.
I also found the acting in this movie terrible. Whether it was the actors themselves or merely the characters they were playing I don't know, but the combination certainly wasn't good whatever it was. The filming wasn't too bad pretty straight forward. One thing I could not stand though was the opening scene it went forever before they actually put the title of the movie up and began the opening credits which dragged on as well.
the worst part about that opening scene was that it really didn't establish anything, except that they love each other which we might have figured from the title. it also set up the annoying character that Hilary swank was going to be for those painful 121 minutes. can't even understand why he loved her so much. I think a better start to the movie would have been the scene were jerry is dying, then the credits, then the funeral or something, I dunno. At least this way his death wouldn't have been so mysterious.
I mean one minute he's there then a few minutes and what felt like a life time of boring credits later he's died? what's with that? show us how he died. You think that us viewers aren't clever enough to figure out that in a film named "PS, I love you" the leads love each other, but we can figure out how he died. Yes I know we hear later that it was a tumor, but I just don't think it should have been done like that.
this was not the movie I expected, it was much, much worse than i could have ever possibly anticipated. it hasn't left me with tear stained cheeks or a desire for such a romance for myself as I suspect it intended to do. rather it has left me with nothing more than a full tissue box, an angry demeanor and a sincere wish that I had stuck my neck under the fan.
PS. In case you hadn't guessed, I didn't love this movie - I hated it!