Disappointed.. :/

Rating: 4/10 (11 April 2010)

I went to this movie hoping that even though it had Miley Cyrus in it, it would bring out the certain jena se qua of the book. At first the movie seemed OK. Ronnie was fairly cold to her brother and she almost looked goth. Then around the time of the fair everything started tumbling down.. The way Blaze met Ronnie, the little details... It was all changed. This changing of practically everything continued for quite some time it seemed.. Ronnie wasn't as mean to her dad about the piano, and her romance with Will seemed very out there compared to the romance in the book. Then at the wedding Marcus' crashing of the party wasn't anything like the book, basically just appearing at a high class party. Another thing was that Ronnie didn't hate to play the piano, she played it a number of times in the movie, and I felt this was too out of the main story of the book. It just seemed like they wanted her to show off her piano skills, if it set off the story or not. Then after Jonah left with his mom to go back to NYC I felt that they left too much out. In the book Steve and Ronnie had a lot of father-daughter moments together, but in the movie they didn't spend that much time together and as for the time when the window was installed, Steve got to see it, sure, but it still bothered me. Another thing that was left out was Blaze getting caught on fire, which was a big part of the book.
All in all, this movie was disappointing, and no match for the writing of Nicholas Sparks.