The Notebook (Limited Edition Gift
Set) starring Ryan Gosling, Rachel
McAdams, James Garner, Gena
Rowlands
Warm Romantic Movie
When you consider that old-fashioned tearjerkers are an endangered
species in Hollywood, a movie like The Notebook can be embraced without
apology. Yes, its syrupy sweet and clogged with clichés, and one can only
marvel at the irony of Nick Cassavetes directing a weeper that his late
father John--whose own films were devoid of saccharine sentiment--would
have sneered at. Still, this touchingly impassioned and great-looking
adaptation of the popular Nicholas Sparks novel has much to recommend,
including appealing y oung costars (Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams)
and appealing old costars (James Garner and Gena Rowlands, the
directors mother) playing the same loving couple in (respectively) early
1940s and present-day North Carolina. He was poor, she was rich, and
you can guess the rest; decades later, hes unabashedly devoted, and shes
drifting into the memory-loss of senile dementia. How their love endured is
the story preserved in the titular notebook that he reads to her in their
twilight years. The movies open to ridicule, but as a delicate tearjerker it
works just fine. Message in a Bottle and A Walk to Remember were also
based on Sparks novels, suggesting a triple-feature that hopeless
romantics will cherish. --Jeff Shannon
Well..I was first advised by my little sister,Rachael, to watch this amazing
film. Shes 16 and she saw the movie with her friends. Well, I found out that
the movie was going to play one night on ABC Family and I planned to
watch it then. I watched it and I must say I was shocked! The story was so
heartfelt and Allie and Noah seemed to be meant for each other. You can
see the chemistry and the oneness of their relationship! The Bible says
that a man and woman were meant to be one and well Allie and Noah truly
displayed that oneness!
The movie made me wonder if Ill have an everlasting love relationship like
them. Im dating someone now and our relationship has lasted for a year
and two months so far. Its going on three!Anyway, my mother was with me
and she said that Rachel Mcadams and Ryan Gosling were good actors
and I agreed! This film is truly for any romantic, one that desires
true,everlasting love or one that hopes that their own relationship
progresses into that.Im just now reading the book to this film because if the
movie was that good and it was done in two hours then the book is
wonderful as well. I know that the book and the movie is something Ill be
reading and watching over and over again to remind myself of the
pleasures of true love that I want so much for myself.
I watched this film again with my grandmother and she believed that the
movie displayed what true love is and it means staying with someone for
the rest of your life. Thats what Noah showed in his relationship with Allie.
She was the only girl he ever loved and thats basically what love supposed
to be for men and women, not going from one lover to the next.Even when
Noah was with another woman, Martha, in the film when he couldnt be with
Allie, he didnt feel the same love for Martha as he did for Allie.For me, I
hope Ill have someone that will stay forever with me. Now,I dont have a
copy of this film yet but I plan on buying it soon and as for the the book, Im
going out to Barnes and Noble to buy it! Right now, I just borrowed it in the
meantime from the library. So..buy this film! You wont regret it!
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