Worst Movie Ever

Dear John is the absolute worst movie ever. This romantic movie tells the tale of a young girl who is recused by a strong, handsome man after she falls into the ocean. After their coincidental meeting, the two begin to fall in love, just in time for the man to leave her to serve his country. The male figure, or the popular heartthrob Channing Tatum, writes letters back and forth with his love but only finds himself getting “dear Johned” by her. Instead of waiting for her rescuer, the young girl decides out of pity to marry an older man with a terminal illness. She does this mainly to care for the younger children that this widowed man has, but the fact that the young girl seemed to have settled for someone else instead for the love of her life drove, and still drives, me crazy. To make matters worse, the man she did marry was not even that handsome. It may seem to be a sweet gesture, but is a disappointing ending. This movie might have romance and Channing Tatum, but it does not give the viewers the ending they want, leaving them frustrated and wishing they could somehow change the final scenes to relieve their discontent. Almost every woman who watches a romantic movie, whether it be romantic comedy or classic romance, can expect, and want, a happily ever after. Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and Snow White all show that these endings do exist, but the writer of this book and the director of the movie completely forgo this notion, and for this reason, I, a lover of romantic novels, movies, and comedies, have only seen this movie once and do not have a strong desire to view it again. There are many ways that this movie COULD have ended, where the writer and director could help the older man and still have the young couple end up together. In reality, the characters in Dear John truly do not end up happy because they lost the love of their life, and the many women watching this tragedy take place don’t end up very happy either. Until this issue is resolved, Dear John will have one less viewer and probably countless others.