{"id":7328,"date":"2012-02-15T13:54:12","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T19:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flovalleynews.com\/?p=7328"},"modified":"2020-01-15T22:07:37","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T22:07:37","slug":"inspiring-story-the-vow-script-fails-for-rachel-mcadams-channing-tatus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flovalleynews.com\/?p=7328","title":{"rendered":"Inspiring Story, &#8216;The Vow&#8217; Script Fails For Rachel McAdams, Channing Tatus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>By Maggie Scott<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>On a dark and snowy Chicago street, a dump truck rear-ends a car containing the snuggling Leo (Channing Tatum) and Paige (Rachel McAdams), spinning the auto into a pole and hurtling Paige through the windshield.\u00a0 Although her battered body eventually reclaims its normal functions, Paige\u2019s traumatically injured brain refuses to \u201cwake up\u201d its memories of the last four years as a happily-married wife and on-the-rise artist.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Director Michael Sucsy\u2019s romantic drama <em>The Vow<\/em> is \u201cinspired by\u201d the unique love-lost\/love-found journey taken by Kim and Krickitt Carpenter, as recounted in their autobiography.\u00a0 It must have seemed a no-brainer to pitch the idea of turning their inspiring story into a can\u2019t-miss movie.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, somewhere in the transition from the tragedy and triumph of the people who lived it, to the triteness and treacle of the actors facing insurmountable odds to convey that tragedy and triumph, a profound experience was lost in translation.\u00a0 With a more competently crafted script than writers Jason Katims and Abby Kohn jinx her with here, McAdams can give a wow performance.\u00a0 But, their adaptation is so stunted and Sucsy\u2019s direction is so devoid of nuance, that McAdams is stuck with three modes of expression: gushing grins (the most incessant mode), puzzled pouts and crocodile teary-eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Poor Tatum, on the other hand, can\u2019t even catch that much of a break.\u00a0 All Sucsy seems to have demanded of him is to project a stoic burliness; without appearing to care that Tatum\u2019s dialogue seldom varies from a lock-jawed delivery for a distinctly unappealing effect.\u00a0 Result: He fails to project anything convincingly resembling passion, or fear, or love or charm.<\/p>\n<p>As a man determined to inspire love in a woman who can\u2019t remember she once loved him, this failure by Tatum turns high hopes in viewers for a romantic tear-jerker into a very glum experience, indeed.\u00a0 Moving from Tatum\u2019s failure to McAdams\u2019&#8212;it becomes painfully obvious that her performance will do little to differentiate the \u201cbefore Leo\u201d from the \u201cwith Leo\u201d Paige.<\/p>\n<p>Before Leo, she\u2019s unsuccessfully pursuing a law degree and dealing with an inadequate boyfriend (Scott Speedman).\u00a0 Fleeing law, boyfriend and parents (Sam Neill, Jessica Lange) who have failed her in some mysterious way, Paige becomes an Art Institute student, a waitress and a city-dweller with her own studio.<\/p>\n<p>Marriage (in a museum gallery) to Leo after a whirlwind courtship (complete with \u201cMove In?\u201d spelled out with blueberries) soon follows; and \u201cwith Leo\u201d life appears idyllic (in montage) and moving towards planned parenthood, when the accident occurs. It turns back Paige\u2019s mental clock to the days she ate meat and would upset mommy and daddy if she got a tattoo or voted Democrat.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, after much frustration, Leo stops trying to force love: What if he simply quits pushing so hard and lets nature take its course? It doesn\u2019t make for the most convincing turnaround on film, but there is still enough of a spark of interest left for us to feel a bit of a tug at our hearts. Narrative dullness gets the occasional jolt of male nudity (Tatum\u2019s sculpted posterior) and feminine dainties (Paige and Leo strip down for a dip in Lake Michigan).\u00a0 Rating: PG-13.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Maggie Scott On a dark and snowy Chicago street, a dump truck rear-ends a car containing the snuggling Leo (Channing Tatum) and Paige (Rachel McAdams), spinning the auto into a pole and hurtling Paige through the windshield.\u00a0 Although her battered body eventually reclaims its normal functions, Paige\u2019s traumatically injured brain refuses to \u201cwake up\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ocean_post_layout":"","ocean_both_sidebars_style":"","ocean_both_sidebars_content_width":0,"ocean_both_sidebars_sidebars_width":0,"ocean_sidebar":"","ocean_second_sidebar":"","ocean_disable_margins":"enable","ocean_add_body_class":"","ocean_shortcode_before_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_after_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_before_header":"","ocean_shortcode_after_header":"","ocean_has_shortcode":"","ocean_shortcode_after_title":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_bottom":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_bottom":"","ocean_display_top_bar":"default","ocean_display_header":"default","ocean_header_style":"","ocean_center_header_left_menu":"","ocean_custom_header_template":"","ocean_custom_logo":0,"ocean_custom_retina_logo":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_height":0,"ocean_header_custom_menu":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_family":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_subset":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_size":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_unit":"px","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_line_height":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_unit":"","ocean_menu_typo_spacing":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_unit":"","ocean_menu_link_color":"","ocean_menu_link_color_hover":"","ocean_menu_link_color_active":"","ocean_menu_link_background":"","ocean_menu_link_hover_background":"","ocean_menu_link_active_background":"","ocean_menu_social_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_links_color":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_color":"","ocean_disable_title":"default","ocean_disable_heading":"default","ocean_post_title":"","ocean_post_subheading":"","ocean_post_title_style":"","ocean_post_title_background_color":"","ocean_post_title_background":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_image_position":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_attachment":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_repeat":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_size":"","ocean_post_title_height":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay":0.5,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay_color":"","ocean_disable_breadcrumbs":"default","ocean_breadcrumbs_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_separator_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_hover_color":"","ocean_display_footer_widgets":"default","ocean_display_footer_bottom":"default","ocean_custom_footer_template":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"ocean_post_oembed":"","ocean_post_self_hosted_media":"","ocean_post_video_embed":"","ocean_link_format":"","ocean_link_format_target":"self","ocean_quote_format":"","ocean_quote_format_link":"post","ocean_gallery_link_images":"on","ocean_gallery_id":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment-travel","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Inspiring Story, &#039;The Vow&#039; 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