The Notebook and Other Movies
Posted on March 6, 2005 by Ching under Movies.
Brian and I watched The Notebook before bed last night. It’s really good. You all have got to see it. If you’re female, I know you’ll love it. If you’re male, rent it for your girl. She’ll love it and you’ll get laid. Two reasons why I say that it’s good: Brian put it in the DVD player for me with the full intention of going to sleep as soon as it started. “We need to burn this movie so I can play it whenever I can’t sleep,” he commented right as the opening credits were rolling. He thoroughly believed that the movie would just bore him to death. Believe me, he really tried to fall asleep during the movie too. He lay in bed and turned his back away from me and the TV, he closed his eyes a few times in an effort to just sleep. Nothing worked, though, because he was with me to the closing credits. During the last few scenes, we were both speculating about how the story would end. Secondly, the movie made me bawl. Okay, so I’m a crier by nature.. I’ll let you in on something if you promise not to laugh: the endings of the first Shrek movie and There’s Something About Mary made me cry.. So this really isn’t that difficult of a feat to accomplish.. But I digress.. This movie made me cry halfway through it. And then it just kept making me cry and making me cry and making cry. It’s horrible – that the movie made me cry so much, not the movie. As I stated earlier, the movie is really good. So good in fact, that we’re getting it for both my mom and Brian’s mom. He’s like, “The three of you can watch it and bawl together.” Anyway, throughout the movie I kept thinking I’d seen this girl before. This girl being the actor who played young Allie. So I looked into it today and found out that I have. She played Regina in Mean Girls (which is also good by the way, even if all you get out of it is staring at Lindsay Lohan’s boobies). She looks slightly different with the blonde hair color she sported in MG but her face and those cute dimples are unmistakeable. And I would’ve been able to place her if I didn’t have a killer headache. This was a blind addition to our Netflix so I really had no clue who would be in it. I knew nothing about the plot. I never saw any of the movie trailers. I think I heard someone say it was good in passing and added it to my Netflix list. I knew absolutely nothing about this movie. It just came today as the movies normally come and we popped it in and watched. At any rate, while looking into movie details, I also discovered that this movie is based on a novel by Nicholas Sparks. And if you can recall A Walk to Remember, another movie that made me bawl, is based on another one of his novels. Anyway, I’m temped to watch Message in a Bottle, which is a movie adaptation of yet another Nicholas Sparks novel, but I’m not particularly fond of Kevin Costner so I’m not altogether convinced that I will enjoy it. Has anyone else seen it? Any comments?
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