I always thought that there’s something about a serious
actor (meaning an actor who always has a serious face regardless of the movie
he’s in) who does a romantic movie. I don’t know, I think that the mysterious
kind of face just adds to the whole story… and this were my thoughts exactly when
I first saw the trailer of The Vow.
Channing Tatum rarely smiles in his movies, but he did such a good job on Dear John that I thought putting him together with
Rachel McAdams, who did exceptionally well on ‘The Notebook’ by the way, would
be just perfect.
The wife who suffers an accident and loses her memory. The
husband who has to fight so she will fall in love with him again. The whole
thing based on true events. It was the perfect love story… except the movie
didn’t tell it right.
I must say that it wasn’t all I thought it would be. The
husband doesn’t get many chances to show his love for his wife. The wife kind
of gets on my nerves. There isn’t enough romance and the ‘chemistry’ between
them was not quite there.
So, what do I do after watching the movie? I googled the
real story, the one the movie is based on and guess what?
They have very little in common, which really added to my
disappointment.
Here are a few things that are different between the movie
and the real story:
Movie – They move in together and have sex before getting
married
Real Story – They don’t sleep together until they are
married and only live together after the wedding
Movie – They get divorced (oops, have I said too much? lol)
Real Story – They only get separated, but never divorced
Movie – God is not mentioned at all
Real Story –
Both husband and wife are Christians and live according to their faith in God… But
Hollywood would never include that one, would they?
It’s an ok movie but will not go to my list of favorites.
