A disappointing version of a beautiful novel

Rating: 2/10 (28 August 2018)

I'm not even halfway through this movie and I'm already heartbroken. It's unbelievable how much they changed of this story. It is a lackluster version of one of my favorite books. They took the heart out of it. Removed characters. Shortened relationships. Changed personalities. Dawsey is not the same person he was in the novel. Juliet is nosy and annoying. Amelia is hard and cold. Half the characters are missing. It's almost as if they took a few the characters from the book and changed the story they had. Why add or remove things from a story that was already perfect? I can imagine the second half of the movie won't be any better than the first.