Do We Need to Stage a Career Intervention For Rachel McAdams?

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Way back in June, Spyglass Entertainment debuted the first trailer for The Vow, the latest Rachel McAdams romance film involving memory loss. It was depressing to see our former Notebook sweetheart diving headfirst into another melodramatic title. Like McAdams’s Vow character though — who is struck with amnesia after a parked car accident involving an overplayed Meatloaf single — I forgot about the former starlet’s downwardly spiraling filmography…until today’s new preview for The Vow reminded me, it’s about time someone stages a career intervention for Rachel McAdams.

Exhibit A in the case for Rachel McAdams to stop and seriously re-evaluate the direction of her career: The trailer that incited this intervention.

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To paraphrase McAdams’s The Vow character, who pleads with her husband (Channing Tatum) to turn off Meatloaf’s “I’d Do Anything For Love” shortly before “the accident:” You do not like these kinds of melodramatic films, Rachel. Please stop. This is the second amnesiac romantic drama character you’ve played, who, over the course of a movie, must fall back in love with your husband. (Sure, most of the memory loss in The Notebook was left to Gena Rowlands, who played your older counterpart, but still!) One amnesia-torn love story is enough. It is not just that, though.

It is McAdams’s humdrum choices ever since 2004’s The Notebook and 2005’s Wedding Crashers, both of which pitted the actress in the kind of role she has never strayed far from: Charming upper middle class…

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