Yes, I finally saw it. Was I impressed? Not so much. Perhaps it's one of those movies that just has so much hype (hello, half the girls born after 1970 are named Jennifer!) that there's no way it can live up. Or perhaps it's cheap melodrama.Look, it has some positive points. For instance, there was obvious chemistry between O'Neal and MacGraw. I loved all their witty banter in the beginning. The part of the story when they were falling in love was much better than the part about their marriage and aftermath.
And the (Oscar-winning) score was lovely. But redundant. Seriously, there were shots that seemed to last for five minutes with the same few bars playing over and over again. The score was just repetitive, and the use of long shots was not effective. Combined... yikes.
If you're looking for some romance that ends happily until the tragically-ever-after, you're better off watching a movie based on Sparks—Message in a Bottle, The Notebook, A Walk to Remember, even the not-so-great Nights in Rodanthe might be better than this one.
Sorry, all you ladies who were my age in 1970. I just don't see how it became a classic.
Rating: 2.5
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