I thought this was really damn sad

Those are the best words to describe what happened in this movie.

I have to say I somewhat agree. While I like all kinds of movies and don't necessarily automatically exclude any certain type of movie from my repertoire, I'm not generally a big romance fan. I have seen some I enjoyed, but certainly not any of the standard rom-com schlock that is pumped out of Hollywood on a depressingly regular basis.

But anyways, I actually found myself quite moved by this movie. I too watched this on a whim one early morning after I got home from a doctor's appointment, and I'm glad I did.

I'll admit there were a few scenes I thought were somewhat cheesy or a bit over the top, but nothing like the usual ridiculously unrealistic crap I see in most romantic fare.

I don't know entirely why it resonated so much with me; I know part of it is because of a vaguely familiar loss I had when I was younger. It was nothing of the long time span as this or depth of course because I was young, but it was still rather tragic at the time, and has stuck with me. It was a relationship with some similarities, we were close and had some kind of mutual attraction/whatever you want to call it, despite any other distractions or people. She too was hit by a vehicle, while she was walking across a parking lot not 1 minute after I had just left her to run back inside.

Anyways I'm just rambling a bit here, but seeing this movie reminded me so much of that, even if just because of a few similarities, and really brought back some memories and emotions that I didn't know were still so strong and stuck in my head some 10 years later.

But regardless of any of that, I think anyone who can appreciate a good movie, regardless of genre, will probably enjoy this movie as a welcome departure from so much of the typical cliche romance films these days.

My 2 cents.

I honestly wasn't expecting to be as affected as I was. I didn't go into ugly cry mode a la Titanic, but it did hit me in that spot which I prefer to let alone.

Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess were fantastic in it [despite Annie's accent, which by the end I barely heard anyway], and I enjoyed the whole one day concept.

I'll say this...I watch way too many movies but this movie especially has proven to me NEVER to watch a romantic film unless it has comedy attached to it. OMFG...I do not even know where to begin. I am a sucker for a love story and I would say I had absolutely no clue that this was going to end the way it did. I cannot honestly say it was worth the misery. I am not a trying to be a hater, like so many others seem to be, but I truly think the wrong person died...and maybe that's the point (I guess many would not have had the same visceral response had Dexter bit it). Call me a cynic but Dexter is one of the least redeeming characters I have watched in a while. He was a D.B. when they met and he was still a self-absorbed D.B. once she died. I do not see growth. He brought her down. That whole soliloquy about her making him better and in return he made her happy was shallow at best. I think she suffered from the same fate many of us have...she fell hard for him when she was young and for some reason never could realize there were much better men out there for her. The film was not bad I suppose but I need a damn happy ending in my love stories...unrealistic? Perhaps...but they serve their purpose of making me feel all gushy and ridiculously hopeful lol. I'm all sad and discombobulated after watching this...maybe I will watch Evil Dead I and II lol.