A very, very, very rare thing has happened.
I liked this movie more than I like the book.
I think the main reason why is because in the book Amanda seems a lot more selfish and I really did not like her character.
I also kind of liked the idea of his friend getting shot over him seeing the weird ghost of the doctor guy.
I agree its very rare to like the movie more than the book. I am not sure yet what I like more. I like the movie and they change few a things for the book. But I think it was good for the movie.
shareI agree. Very rare, but I liked movie way more. The book was not true to his style of writing it seemed rushed and forced and lacked emotion. The writing was not very good in the book. The movie changed a lot of things. They kept the characters and even added some, then changed almost all the story. That usually would make me beyond angry button this case it saved the story. They did a great job making this film!
shareDuring the movie I was thinking, "I want to read this book!" Until the horrible ending happened. But I'm curious, can you please tell me what was different in the book?
shareThe book was not true to his style of writing it seemed rushed and forced and lacked emotion.I never read the book, but how can you say that the movie didn't feel rushed, forced and didn't lacked emotion, emotion towards the characters love?
I guess I don't feel the same. I didn't think the movie was rushed. I felt the emotion. To each their own.
shareI guess I don't feel the same. I didn't think the movie was rushed. I felt the emotion. To each their own.You never saw their relationship grow though. They were just all of a sudden in a relationship and also in love and very quickly.
A very, very, very rare thing has happened.I don't know how the book can be worse than the movie since the movie was awful.
I liked this movie more than I like the book.
Me too!!
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The book and the move share merely a title and some characters names. THEY CHANGED EVERYTHING in the movie. I am about half way through and I am thinking of quitting the movie it is so awful. These are the same people who liked Dear John which also changed the major point of the book. The Best of Me wasn't one of Nicholas Sparks better works but it is way better than the movie.
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Actually, I did turn it off. I read the book, and liked it (not loved). I think the kid they had play a young James Marsden LOOKED NOTHING like James Marsden would have as a teenager. I mean it is like they did not EVEN TRY! The actor that played young Dawson is SIX years old than the actress that played young Amanda, and he looks it.
And they left out so much of the book...specifics...and things...my God.
Anyway, I ended up forgetting to take the movie back and I, being bored, turned it back on. What a colossal waste of time.
For one thing, Dawson told her he had had relationships. NOPE. In the book he had not had ANY relationships. No women. He was messed up over her! For twenty years.
The movie made you think that Amanda and Tuck had a friendship when Amanda was young, but that relationship didn't even begin until several years after she graduated and left town.
It was Amanda's mother who wast he a$$hole, not her dad.
There was no water tower climbing, and anyway, nobody climbs a water tower in the broad daylight DOWNTOWN.
Did they try to make James Marsden completely unattractive? He didn't look good at all until near the end when they got back together at Vandemere and he started really smiling.
Dawson did NOT kill Bobby. I can't even remember for sure if there was even a Bobby in the book. On the other hand, the Tommy story was better than the Ghost story in the book.
Tuck did not let his garden go to shyt while he was alive.
The garden in the book was tons more beautiful than the one they showed on the movie. That was a shame.
They did not have sex as teenagers at the cabin in Vandemere.
They had sex the first time I think on the banks of the river behind Tucks house. (If my memory serves) The only time they had sex at the cabin in Vandemere was when they were adults.
Young Dawson? He gave me the creeps. Older Dawson was cast pretty good.
Amanda did NOT get divorced. Her husband started acting better.
I think a good actor to play young Dawson would have been a YOUNG Scott Michael Foster, but he was too old I figure.
http://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/scott-michael-foster-289993/
One positive things: I could live at Vandemere. Every day of my life.