Flashed Forward Too Much...Felt Rushed ***spoilers***

I get that they were trying to cover a lot of years in a couple hours, but I have seen other movies do it so much better. I honestly had a hard time even rooting for them to be together and wasn't even that excited when they finally got together. Then they were suddenly engaged without us even seeing them get engaged. I just felt like the whole movie was a glimpse of their lives BETWEEN key moments, and we should have seen more of those key moments to feel more for their characters. By key moments, I mean things like their first kiss (not shown until the end), the first time they said I love you for real (rather than her just telling him "I love you I just don't like you"), the first time they make love, the proposal, her consoling him after his mother's death or after he and his wife broke up etc. etc. They also never really showed him finally telling her that she was the one he'd always loved even after all the women he'd been with. These were moments that would have shown us some deeper emotion. I mean some of these moments were talked about, but we never actually saw them, which made the movie rather boring and shallow I think. For me, it made me feel a little disconnected from the characters. I wasn't even that sad when she died...I mean it was sad, but I wasn't overcome with emotion like I should have been after watching 20 years of their lives together. Maybe the writer/director did that in an attempt to make the movie more original and less cliche. It just didn't work for me though, and this movie had so much potential. I'm sure I will get blasted for this, but it's just my opinion.

"The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that's wrong with the world."