I contributed my $10 last night!

Didn't like it though. :/

I thought the editing and pacing was awful. The fucking montages every five minutes killed me. The soundtrack was way overdone and melodramatic, along with having no consistent theme and then having actual songs just in the sex scenes. Taylor, despite being a sweetheart irl, seemed all over the place and mentally unstable as the character. Zac had so little to work with that he might as well not been there. That scene you're talking about, they filmed it like a stage monologue which was a BAD choice. I think that was the worst Nick Sparks movie I've seen tbh. It wasn't Zac's fault though, which I am thankful for, it was a bad script and bad editing. There was potential too, it just wasn't executed well at all.

The sex scenes were hot though. And I swear to God I saw boob sucking!

Yeah I am really happy to be moving on. I'll probably see it again to try to enjoy the good parts. But oh well, what can you do?

Sorry, I don't know how to hide comments.

This film is an example of how you can with the bad stuff (the book), to make good material for filming, and then spoil all the good editing it.

But ... I liked the film because Zac did his job well. He is surprised me! It was interesting to look at him, and I believed him. It was very good!

But I agree with many of your opinions.
For a spoiled movie I put the blame on the director and editor. It was very bad.

Unfortunately, signing a contract, Zac and all the other actors playing roulette. Cause after work, the film will make hundreds of people. And you do not know what will happen in the end...

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Yeah, it wasn't Zac's fault at all, it was just bad editing unfortunately. Which is frustrating but hey it made decent money, he got and experience out of it, and now it's over lol. But yes I agree with you.

Well tell us how you really feel, BB! (-: I mean, I despise sentimental romances, girly music, and chick flicks but even I didn't disparage it that much. (Btw, I'm just giving you a hard time. (-; )
Seriously, however, I'm interested in hearing what you found wrong with the pacing.
While I didn't read the book, I skimmed through it at the bookstore to grasp the general plot and characters and noticed the war scene was not part of the novel. Also, while Sparks has a - dare I say it? - a pleasant writing style, the first chapter contained too much character exposition, a big no-no when it comes to fiction writing. In addition, the bad dude (whats-his-face) was a stock "bad" character. The movie gave him some dimension at least.
Now what I am wondering is if in the transposition of book to film the weaknesses of the novel became weaknesses in the film. Sparks developed his characters too early in the book - the idea is to slowly reveal them over time. Consequently, the plot came after the character development.

I agree about the sex scenes though - that shot of Zac's half-covered butt undulating in the doorway made my girl bits contract!

Now THAT I would love a .gif of!

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lol I'm notoriously picky. *shrug*

I wish they had spent more time developing Logan's PTSD because I thought those were the scenes Zac did the best in and he really could have made something out of it if he had more to work with. I felt like they tried to put too much in, started with Logan's ptsd, then going onto all of Beth's issues with her brother dying and her ex, you almost forget about Logan's issues until the picture comes back up and then it wraps up too fast. For the middle of the movie it felt like Logan became a background character because he had nothing to do but play with dogs, have sex, mumble, and be cute with the kid.

None of this was Zac's fault. The editing was awful, truly it was. They picked awkward versions of his line deliveries as well in a few cases, which really didn't help.

I think it had potential. If Nick Sparks hadn't been involved as much maybe they could have deviated from the book and made it into a decent film, I do think the novel's weaknesses translated to the film.

I know Zac's all about working with directors right now, but he really needs to get a good producer on his side.

One of the problems with the book is that Sparks jumps from one character's point of view into another, often without signalling the transition (a new chapter, for instance.) I found this head hopping a bit like that Denzel Washington movie, where the evil demon/devil would jump from one host into another, simply through proximity.
If you happen to be Tolstoy and you're writing Anna Karenina (or Matthew Lewis and you're writing The Monk), then this transition from one character group to another is okay - after all, it's a Russian novel set in old Petersburg society; plus, it's at least 300 pages. But Sparks does it on such a simple book, and what happens with all this head hopping is that characters get "dropped" until they come back into play.
That's pretty much what the movie did. It started out as Logan's story, but ended up being Beth's story, because the only character that changed in the end is Beth.

Nice candid of Zac. Loving his outfit, hair, glasses combo. His food doesn't look half bad either. lol

Dude, I wasn't expecting the interviewer in the first video to look like that. "Back in the old days" Look at Zac talking like he's more grown up. "emulsify" (': & YES! He mentioned The Paperboy going to Cannes. I enjoyed that interview.


I'm rather enjoying the fact Zac likes barbecue.

I was expecting the BO numbers to go down for TLO for the second weekend, so I'm not too bummed. It still did alright for it's second weekend. Kind of surprised it beat Five-Year Engagement and The Raven tbh, so plus for TLO.

I wasn't expecting a great holdover, but 10 mill is still good. It should cross the 50 million mark so that's good and it's international numbers are climbing so in all TLO is a success, which is all I could hope for. Now what I really wanna see is Liberal Arts and The Paperboy.

BTW is it asking too much for them to Easy Money out of pre-development?

with the first version of the script that got turned in, i'm glad they've waited on that project. it was painfully and blandly derivative of the original. part of the problem is wb wants to shoot for pg-13 which is so absolutely boring compared to the swedish version. i can't imagine a pg-13 version that isn't just watered-down rubbish tbh.

Hmm that's interesting, I had no idea they were going for a PG-13 rating. Honestly I can see where it could work, but they would defiantly need to work the hell out of that script, and the acting/directing would have to be damn near perfect. I just would love to see it, but I want it to do justice to the original for sure so if the first script was garage then I'm willing to wait.

"Interesting" is the wrong word. Why would WB option a dark thriller and then try to turn it into a bland PG-13 romp? I will never understand studio executives.

Thank God no one sold The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo to a major studio for Americanization.

Regularly a lurker, but Zac looks great in that candid! Thanks for all the updates on his career!

Hi and no problem! :D

First Off Like the New Candids Of Zac he looks good. 2: With the Lucky One Felling to Number #4 at The BO Not that bummed I was expecting the BO numbers to go down for TLO for the second weekend. A least it had a great Opening weekend that's all that matters.

It's lame that I got sad because I no longer eat red meat and won't be making his recipe, lol.

Womp womp @ that candid.

Oh he looks good in blue. <3

Yesterday in the Internet appeared pirated copies of TLO.
I think this also will reduce the revenue at the box office next week. : (
I really want to TLO got at the box office two its price. It may be 70-million... I want to believe ...

Big poster of Liberal Arts. If need it to someone.
http://www.kinopoisk.ru/picture/1873281/

I'd like to see this movie.

punk'd was freakin funny as shit and that recipe sounds delish!