The Notebook | Tim Ivey, Gena Rowlands | One of the best love stories of all time, period.

The Notebook | Tim Ivey, Gena Rowlands | My Favorite Movie

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The Notebook

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highly recommended

When you consider that old-fashioned tearjerkers are an endangered species in Hollywood, a movie like The Notebook can be embraced without apology. Yes, it's 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 young costars (Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams) and appealing old costars (James Garner and Gena Rowlands, the director's 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, he's unabashedly devoted, and she's 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 movie's 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

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One of the best love stories of all time, period.

I watched this movie again on cable for the umpteenth time recently, and I just have to comment on the one editorial review by Bruce Diones of The New Yorker:

He says "the film is as bland and sentimental as a greeting card."

Mr. Diones clearly is not in possession of a beating heart in his chest. If he has been so lucky as to have a woman love him, I feel sorry for her. And if that sounds harsh, then so be it.

This film delivers on so many levels. It is obviously an incredibly romantic story - as others have noted, the chemistry between Gosling and McAdams was fabulous (and of course we found out subsequently was the makings of a real-life romance), but pay attention to the cinematography, the editing, the soundtrack... All magnificently well done. Some of the scenes are absolutely visually stunning, such as the sunsets, and when Noah takes Alli on the lake and all of the white ducks are swimming around them.

The only scene that I find hard to take - and which might have been overdone a bit - is towards the end when Noah and Alli are dancing in one of her lucid periods and she lapses back into dementia and doesn't recognize him again. It is painful to watch and I thought that they could have made the characters be not so intensely emotional and still been effective.

Other than that one minor criticism, it is a film that is truly a love story for the ages, and one that I will continue to watch again and again as the years go by; and if I am lucky, with someone I love.

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My Favorite Movie

I love this movie and have watched it over and over again since receiving it. An excellent buy and I am completely satisfied.

The most beautiful love story ever......

I don't know why I missed it at the theater, but a friend gave it to me to watch one evening. My 14 yr old daughter watched it with me and we both cried all through the movie - not because it was sad, but because it was so beautiful. The kind of love this movie portrayed is the kind of love we are all searching for. This movie is for everyone who believes true love really exists. This is the kind of love worth waiting for!

It's all about when, where and with whom

I realize that there is much that can be ridiculed about The Notebook. The movie practically begs you to find holes. It has the depth of a soap opera. And yet...when I watched it with someone who is so incredibly special to me - the both of us wrapped up in our own personal life miseries, but being great friends and pulling each other through each other's difficulties - and we sat there, quietly sniffing, gently laughing, and shifting in our place next to each other on the couch as the emotional impact of the movie ebbed and flowed, I let the critic go and embraced the moment. At the end, we simply collapsed against each other in tears and the hope that somewhere, sometime, we would find what Allie and Noah had. I loved the movie. I loved watching it, letting my romantic nature gush forward without apology, and I did not care how predictable it was, I did not care how believable it was, I did not care about anything but the fact that true love - the kind of poems, plays, movies, tv shows, novels, and songs from the dawn of man - is so vital and enriches our lives so much that little can compare. In choosing, as many of us will or have already, between practicality and our hearts, the path our heart wants is the best. To the dreamers, the lovers, and the hopeless romantics, enjoy this movie. Watch it with someone special and allow yourself to feel alive. I won't give up my beliefs and I hope you don't either.

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Chick Movie - Buy it for your wife if you want time to yourself

This is my wifes favorite movie. I think it sucks! This movie is one of the only things that shuts her up, I guess its not all that bad.

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