trailer break: ‘The Last Song’

Must be a bitch to work around the child labor rules to shoot a movie starring an underage performer.

Are there pervy guys awaiting her 18th birthday the way they drooled over the Olsen twins a few years back? I shudder to think, but you know they've got to be out there.

Must be a bitch to work around the child labor rules to shoot a movie starring an underage performer.

You're not serious, are you? Miley Cyrus is hardly the first person under 18 to have a lead role.

I was appalled from the first commercial. Like Brian, I also thought about how young she was. This looks like an adult love story with Miley interjected into it simply for the cash grab. Creepy.
Nathan, it's not a lead role. It's about a lead role in a LOVE story. She just seems awful young to be in this type of movie.

I guess it's creepy to me because it's not a Disney movie, or a silly rom-com. It appears to be a saptastic lovefest. She just seems too young yet to be in such a movie. I won't go anywhere near it, so I suppose it really doesn't matter. Moving on...

These comments baffle me. Cyrus was sixteen during filming, and she plays a teenager. So what?

Better not ever watch Taxi Driver. It'll blow your mind.

Wait; cancer, war, Nicolas Sparks...

Didn't this movie already come out a few months ago? Wasn't it called "Dear John"? Hell, it's playing in theaters in my country RIGHT NOW!

[Insert boilerplate comment on Hollywood's lack of originality and cookie cutter movies]

Oh, no, I do not find anything objectionable about Ms. Cyrus being in this film, or anything else about it. If anything, that's what Nicholas Sparks seems to be all about: absolutely inoffensive in every way.

I was just thinking out loud about the child labor law thing, and it was not one of my more profound or well-developed thoughts. I know they've got very well-defined procedures for such things. No, the only thing I was grossed out about is the completely independent thought that there must be pervy guys out there counting down to her 18th.

And I love Taxi Driver. :-/

Okay now... I have no objections of Miley Cyrus being in this movie. Even if she is 16 during filming... who cares. It is a great movie and if you don't like it then fine don't watch it but don't hate Miley, anyone else in or behind the scenes in this movie. Yes the law may say something but she is the only teenage girl that I would personally put in this movie to have that lead role. So who cares about that... she is amazing as well as all the other members are amazing!!! This is the best movie ever!!!

markyd, a teen girl being in a love story creeps you out? Weird. Whatever you do then, avoid video of her performance at the Teen Choice awards. On a side note, that's also her real-life boyfriend in the movie with her.

What the hell did I get myself into? lol. I'll never ever watch this, so I really don't know why I am even commenting. I just can't stand manufactured crap, and that's exactly what this is. No one cares about telling a good story. It's about sticking Miley into a movie to sell tickets to gullible girls. That's it.
I know most movies are made in a similar manner, but this just reeks of it.
Plus, I can't stand the whole actress/musician/I can do ANYthing! thing going on. Pick one thing and stick to it, damnit.

maryd, that is where I agree with you. Plus it's Nicolas Sparks, who is an absolute creep. He did an article recently where he compared himself to Hemingway and the Greek masters. He also told the reporter that his favorite coming-of-age story was his own book A Walk to Remember. When asked who his favorite authors were in his own genre, he said, "There are no authors in my genre. No one is doing what I do." Psycho.

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