Safe Haven

[canadian_turtle]

Meet the Filmmakers at Apple Store on Regent Street in London on 19 February, 6:30 pm.

Join Josh Duhamel, Julianne Hough and Nicholas Sparks as they discuss their new film, Safe Haven.

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An evening with Nicholas Sparks at WATERSTONE'S PICCADILLY
Wednesday, 20 February 2013, 6:30PM

To celebrate the release in cinemas on March 1st, the bestselling author will be discussing his novel 'Safe Haven', alongside the stars of the film Josh Duhamel and Julianne Hough. Due to time constraints only Nicholas Sparks will be signing books after the event. For further information please contact the shop.

Further details: 0207 851 2400

Tickets £5 / £3 for Waterstones Cardholders including a cocktail on arrival. Available from the shop, 0207 851 2400 and events@piccadilly.waterstones.co.uk

[kevinknapman]

Spoiler conversations are going to be so much fun when people start seeing this. It has the dumbest twist I've seen in a film in a long time. It has two actually but the first is rather mundane and fairly obvious within the 30 minutes. The second one is off the charts bonkers and totally laughable.

The central relationship is likeable enough and when it's concentrating on that it's fine. Neither Hough or Duhamel are remotely convincing as an abused wife or a widowed father of two but they have a decent enough if slightly bland chemistry. It's when it has to deal with the 'Sleeping With the Enemy' style thriller element that it falters. That and the aforementioned twist, which many will probably figure out half way through and spend the rest of the film hoping the filmmakers aren't going to go somewhere that insane. Then they do. It's clearly supposed to be moving and emotional but most of the people in the screening I was in howled with laughter.

[canadian_turtle]

Don’t miss @SparksNicholas and the cast of #SafeHaven signing this Thursday @westfieldlondon at 4pm. More info here: http://www.foyles.co.uk/Public/Events/D ... entId=1811

First 10 people in queue also get a pair of tickets to see #SafeHaven at Vue @westfieldlondon at 6pm courtesy of @SafeHaven_Movie

[Beate]

Bit of a shambles at May Fair Hotel. The meet and greet with Nicholas Sparks was supposed to start at 6pm, followed by the film screening at 6.30pm but by 6pm the room was only half empty and people still trickled in after 6.30pm so it was either that or Sparks not being around yet (maybe held up at Westfield) that they decided to change the order and do all that plus book signing after the film. This was just as well as it's a 2 hour film and I was dead tired. They handed out various sweet packets to keep us awake but considering how much trouble I had obtaining tickets to this screening (many thanks to yinster) it was grating to see so many empty seats. I had been sitting in the first row with martadelas, funthing29 and canadian_turtle and the moment the screening was over I leapt up and fled, running full pelt into Sparks & Co waiting in the wings.

The film is basically junk food. You know it's not good for you but you kind of enjoy it anyway, with a bad conscience because you know it's just empty nutrition. God, it had so many plotholes! Why would a woman fleeing her old life in terror rent a place in the middle of the woods that is as unsecured as they come, never even shutting the windows? And someone breaks into a house to listen to an answerphone message that comes with a display of the number it was made from? WTF? I am not even going into the insane twist at the end. We should all make a stand not to support rubbish like this and I will do so as soon as I have eaten all my Minstrels, M&M's and Revels.

6/10

[greece]

-.- I didn't get any sweets -.-

6.5/10

[Livi92]

-.- I didn't get any sweets -.-

6.5/10

Me neither...

Gonna say something quite shocking.. but I actually enjoyed the film, maybe because its quite similar to his previous films (Notebook/ The Lucky One/ A walk to remember) and I loved all of them.. I found the film strangely compelling and was engrossed. The twist totally got me too.. I did not see that coming at all.
The nice eye candy didn't go amiss either

Gonna give it a 8.5/10

[Beate]

Oh blast, I missed you two again!

[funthing29]

Predictable and cliched as is the norm with Sparks' adaptations. This one distinguished itself with a weak lead actress, cringeworthy moments and ridiculous plot 'twists'. The definition of soppy melodrama. 4.5/10.

Q&A with Sparks was brief but he is unbelievably smug and patronising.

[Livi92]

Oh blast, I missed you two again!

Awww I know. I don't know how we keep missing each other
Will you be at the comedown screening tomorrow night in Hackney? x

[Beate]

No, I had tickets but told them I can't make it. Seeing Brave at WIQ instead.