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Tuesday, April 23
The Indiana Daily Student

Amnesia would be welcome

the vow

Half an hour into “The Vow,” my boyfriend, startled awake and said, “I didn’t even know I was tired.”

I wish I could have done the same.

“The Vow” was spectacularly bad.

What the previews depicted to be a feel-good romance movie turned into a two-hour trailer with each scene feeling more awkward and misplaced than the last. This is not what I was promised.

I was promised to see Leo (Channing Tatum) cutely try to make Paige (Rachel McAdams) fall in love with him again after she lost her memory.

No — Leo tries maybe twice to regain her love before taking the backseat to the second “plot,” centered around Paige’s relationship with her controlling parents.

Instead of giving us any feeling of what it’s like to live in that cliché situation, McAdams barely cracks a facial expression in the entire film.

Way to make us feel warm and gooey for Valentine’s Day, Ms. McAdams. After seeing your latest, I wish I had memory loss.

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