Thursday Movie Picks: Letters

Are you ready for some cheesy romantic movies? Because this week's theme for Wandering Through the Shelves's Thursday Movie Picks is letters and all I could come up with are movies driven by love letters — I hope this is not the first symptom of me falling in love. Anyway, without further ado, here are my picks. And grab some Kleenex if you decide to watch any of them. 

Dear John (2010)

While on summer leave, a US Army soldier, John (Channing Tatum), falls for a college student, Savannah (Amanda Seyfried). But then 9/11 happens, John signs up again and the two start exchanging letters. Or at least that's what I remember about it as I saw it almost 10 years ago. I cried, of course, because I was a sucker for romantic movies back then. 

The Lake House (2006)

A lonely doctor (Sandra Bullock) moves to a lake house and soon starts exchanging letters with the house's previous owner, a young architect (Keanu Reeves). There's a problem though, she is in 2006 but he is in 2004, and when they decide to meet in a future date, he doesn't show up. I haven't seen this in years so I don't know how I'd feel about it today, but I've seen this plenty of times in the past and cried every single time. I convinced my brother to watch it once but he gave up because, according to him, the different timelines were confusing. Go back to shitty Stallone and Schwarzenegger movies, then. 

P.S. I Love You (2007)

When her husband, Gerry (Gerald Butler), dies of cancer, Holly (Hillary Swank) is wrecked. On her 30th birthday, much to her surprise, letters from Gerry starts arriving. I don't remember much about this either, only naked Neegan — oops, I mean Jeffrey Dean Morgan —, the way Gerry pulled it off and that I cried. A lot. 

P.S. Netflix has all three so expect to see them reviewed on the blog soon. Especially my third pick as I've been meaning to rewatch it.