On Tuesday night, I saw The Vow (so you don’t have to) courtesy of Gilt City Chicago. They offered a free cocktail hour and free popcorn before the movie. Below are some of my thoughts.
Highlights include:
- The backside of a naked Channing Tatum (I might not like his face, but from the neck down, he does have a nice body)
- An argument about cilantro in the first 5 minutes of the movie
- A shot that was clearly an outtake made it to the final cut (Rachel McAdams spits food in her hair during a date scene)
- Free wine and popcorn (it counts even if it wasn’t part of the movie right?)
Lowlights include:
- Everything else.
So basically what happens is Paige (McAdams) and Leo (Tatum) are married. One night they go to the movies (yeah Music Box!) and on the way home they stop to do it in the car, but they get smashed into by a snow plow (that is for some reason missing the plow part). Paige goes through the windshield (she was not wearing a seat belt because they were gonna do it) and suffers a brain injury that causes amnesia. She wakes up and does not remember the last 5 years of her life.
As Paige gets ready to leave the hospital to try and restart her life, her parents show up to take her to their home, despite the fact that she has a home with her husband, Leo. Oh, Mom and Dad didn’t know Paige had a husband? Oops. Let the fighting ensue.
Let’s see what else is there:
- The last thing Paige remembers is trying to order toasted ravioli at Cheesecake Factory
- Paige was engaged to Jeremy (yummy Scott Speedman)
- Paige and her sister have an old friend that no one talks to, but no one will tell her why and she (of course) can’t remember what happened
- Paige is an sculptor, but only remembers the time when she was a law student.
Throughout the movie, Paige struggles with trying to figure out why the life she remembers is so different from the life she had right before the accident. She’s unsure which one is the right one for her. Eventually she makes the same choices all over again.
Would I have paid to see this movie in the theaters? Probably not. It would have ended up in my Netflix queue and when I finally got it in the mail I would have put it on as background noise while cleaning or doing laundry or some other mindless task. I didn’t hate the movie, but I’m glad I didn’t spend any money on seeing it.
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