I saw this movie yesterday and it was one of the best love stories I've ever seen. I cried like a baby several times through it and about a half hour afterwards. This is definitly on my list of movies to buy.

I recommend this to anyone, even all you males out there.

any titties?

Nope. And if you havent read the book, i heard it was about 25 times better than the movie. But thats jsut what i've heard

I hope I don't offend any of the women here, but I really didn't think too much of the movie. My younger sisters are all crazy about it and told me I'd cry and break down and everything at the end, and they told me it was the best love story they'd ever seen. I watched it, and I just couldn't wait to get out of there. To me, it dragged on and on and oooonnn. The acting wasn't spectacular, but it didn't seem like the actors were really given much to work with. The characters were just there, there was nothing memorable about them or their personalities at all. I really, really think it's sweet how it relates to the nursing home and the man is telling the story, but I won't give anything away. I do think it's a cute story and I thought the ending was sweet, so it was definitely worth watching, but I thought it was too long and a little bit repetitive at times.

I've read Nicholas Sparks before too, and I doubt I would like this one because I really can't get attached to his style, or lack thereof. In my opinion, he is much too dull, he doesn't elaborate at all on any of the elements you'd expect him to find important, there is hardly any character development, and he bores me terrifically. I haven't decided whether he writes like a kindergartener or a day-time soap writer.

Don't read the book - see the movie. Again, it's just my opinion, but I really don't think the book will be worth your time. If you want to see something cutesy, don't waste your time on the book, watch the stupid movie.

Sorry Spiked no titties.

PM - Wow, I'm really surprised on your opinion but I can respect it. I'm a pretty sensative girl. Hell I cried for like a half hour after I watched Finding Nemo.

I still think everyone should check this movie out though. It's a beautiful story, IMO.

I'm actually a very sensitive person and it is probably one of my greatest weaknesses, while it doesn't have to be that way on everyone. I didn't sit in front of the television stubborn, I was just completely unconvinced by the portrayals of who could have been fairly complex characters by these actors and assumably, their writer. Something else that takes away from this is the fact that I've basically seen this movie before. Who hasn't read a story or seen a movie about a rich, young woman whose parents want her to be part of high society and strongly disapprove of her lover or boyfriend because he is poor, and then they have to stop seeing each other and in the end, love conquers all... And yada yada yada! This was probably the premise of a few godawful movies, and a few great ones.

If you're going to recycle a storyline, I think you should at least make an attempt at originality. The ending could not save this from being bland and plainly ordinary.

I'm unbelievably sensitive, but when I actually physically cry it's typically because I'm spotlighted. When I want to cry, like when someone I really, really love dies, I can't do it. A close teacher-friend died the same week my good friend's father died and Mitch Hedburg died. I was so beat by all of it, but I didn't cry. When I'm trying to avoid it when I have people's focus on me, people talking about me in front of me, I break apart and cry. That's more nervousness, I think.

Don't get me wrong though, I do cry once in a great while, and I've been doing it much more frequently recently. In my life to now, I've cried in a few movies, and some are Schindler's List, An Affair to Remember, and Finding Nemo. Yes, I did the same, over an animated feature. I think the themes in Nemo were very real and the emotions were, forgive me for saying this, but were well-performed in a way. That kind of hit close to home for me, imagining James as Nemo. That part of the movie where Marlin and Dory are in the whale and Marlin is trying to get out through the whale's mouth and he shouts, "I have to find my son! I have to tell him how old sea turtles are..." And then he falls back down onto the tongue and that great score comes up and makes the emotion perfect. You remember - and I cried at this part too - the moment when he discovered the only egg left uneaten by the barracuda, and that theme played. It's so beautiful.

Schindler's List - I was actually crying out loud, sobbing uncontrollably and was definitely beyond just tears falling down my face, at the moment when Schindler (Liam Neeson) was leaving the Jews to escape getting caught and they gave him the ring they made and he started crying, "I could have got more..." Of course, I wasn't thinking about it at the time, but that was a really spectacular performance because he was so human. It sounds kind of ironic, but it really was fantastic. That had a really haunting and somber score to it and that really pushed the emotions higher. The violin sounds so dreary, and you realize that Schindler sacrificed so much and would never become better than he was. And then they had the actual Schindler Jews come out with their corresponding actors and it was really a great moment in cinema and in humanity.

I go nuts at the end of An Affair to Remember. Cary Grant is so bitter and accusing when he comes to see Deborah Kerr, and she is just sitting there and can't get up because she can't walk because she's crippled. That ruins me. I'm like Rita Wilson in Sleepless in Seattle when I explain this movie, ahahahaha! She's too proud to tell him that she's crippled, and he's too proud to tell her that he just waited on the top of the Empire State Building for her the day she was hit. And then he sees the picture he painted and he knew that it was sold to a crippled woman, and then he comes back, and he looks at her, and they just hugged! It was so beautifully done.


If The Notebook had all of these aspects - maybe a good score under the simple characters - it might have had more of an impact. It really didn't have anything that set it apart from anything else like it.



It is a beautiful story. However, I was not in the least convinced by the performances of the main characters and the fluff behind each individual. The old man and woman is what made that story better - otherwise, it was Romeo and Juliet.

It was a pretty good movie - as long as you turn it off 5 minutes before the actual ending, which nosedives off the cliff of 'too hoaky'.

I disagree about the book. A friend of mine got it because I said I liked the movie, and I feel bad she wasted the money. I read it when she was finished, and it's just terrible. It's all over the place, dry as a desert, and Sparks has an annoying tendancy to tell us what the characters AREN'T doing. That's a BIG mistake in story writing, as far as I'm concerned. Writing a line like, "He picked up the book and put it under his arm, but didn't look in it." Is counter productive, because whether the 'didn't' is there or not, the reader is still going to picture the character doing it. It would have been better had he not mentioned it.

The same thing happened with "A Walk to Remember", which is one of my favorite movies, but the book was HORRID. Maybe Sparks should quit writing and just pitch sappy-PMS movie ideas.

Nicolas Sparks was HUGE a few years ago, especially among teenage girls and some teenage guys.


It always seemed to me like the people who read it would talk about it as if it was masterful literature and they would endlessly sing his praises. I read a few chapters of one of his books and it was pretty meh.

He comes up with great story ideas, but his writing lessens the impact of them. The characters are sort of one dimensional and he has a very straightforward, literal approach.


I haven't seen the movie, but it seems like a lot of people like it.