the Notebook

[beastieangel01]

there's this girl I talk to on-line who avoided that movie like the plague (as did I) simply because so many people gushing about a seemingly overly mushy chick flick turned us off from it. I know several other people who felt the same way.

Many that felt the way we did saw it and ended up liking it. Her and I were still shaking are heads.

Anyway, recently she got suckered in to finally watching it, and she LOVES IT!

I gave this very hollywood "NOOOOOOOOO!" (slow-mo head shake and all)

Shit is like invasion of the body snatchers, man.

[monkey]

watch it.

there are only two bone fide chick flicks i like. this one and love story.

[cosmo105]

i saw it on a plane. i'm a hardass when it comes to movies, especially big hollywood ones, but i was sniffling like a baby at the end of this one. and every guy i know that has seen that movie cried too. it's not particularly great, but it's just SO romantic, and SO emotional. you can't help but get all lovey-dovey.

[beastieangel01]

I TOLD YOU!

INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS!

oh my jesus. :( this may mean I have to watch it if both of you have good things to say. argggh!

[cosmo105]

keep a blankie, stuffed animal and/or boyfriend nearby.

[DroppinScience]

watch it.

there are only two bone fide chick flicks i like. this one and love story.

I've been meaning to watch "Love Story" for a very long time...

[beastieangel01]

I've been meaning to watch "Love Story" for a very long time...

I haven't seen that one either.

:o

[DroppinScience]

I haven't seen that one either.

:o

The director (Arthur Hiller) is from Edmonton. :D

Anyways, I don't see the appeal of "The Notebook." Looked very sappy and lame. But everyone raving about it (hell, ScarySquirrel loves that shit ;) ) almost makes me want to watch just to know what people are talking about... almost. :p

[beastieangel01]

Anyways, I don't see the appeal of "The Notebook." Looked very sappy and lame. But everyone raving about it (hell, ScarySquirrel loves that shit ;) ) almost makes me want to watch just to know what people are talking about... almost. :p

knowwhatimsayinnnnnn

[monkey]

i must warn you, watching love story and the notebook makes your testosterone drop a few levels. ok for girls... but can your masculinity take it? :p

[TAL]

I've watched Love Story a few times and I'm still a manly stud.

[cookiepuss]

I've been meaning to watch "Love Story" for a very long time...

come on, Love Story? That "love is never having to say you're sorry" line is crap.

love is all about occasionally having to say you are sorry and very rarely but occasionally: "gee honey I was wrong" and then having the other person gloat about the fact that they were right. love is ALL about that.

actually love is all about not fully understanding the other person, but accepting them regardless. I suppose that's what they mean with never having to say sorry, but I think it's poorly translated with that phrase.

[monkey]

^^but the story! not the line!

the entire story is a cryfest.

[DroppinScience]

i must warn you, watching love story and the notebook makes your testosterone drop a few levels. ok for girls... but can your masculinity take it? :p

When I have my tissue box marathon, could I squeeze in some Sin City in between Notebook and Love Story? I'd need something to cleanse my pallette for sure. ;)

Speaking of sappy romances, I hear that French movie "Un Homme et un Femme (A Man and a Woman)" was really good (it was made around the same time of "Love Story"). Think I should throw that one in for good measure? :p

[Mary-Kate]

I honestly didn't like the movie, but I'm not much for romance

[adam_f]

James Garner is in the Notebook. That alone makes me cry.

And I just recently understood how the bodies got snatched in Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Never understood it before. Idiot.

[Beth]

bobby and i watched that together.

then we tried to push it off on other couples too.

we loved it.

[HEIRESS]

I liked it, mostly because both (http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/movie/gallery/1133507/photo_12.jpg) the lead actors give me bonersss

[Paul Kemp]

I watched it because one of the girls I work with kept harassing me to watch it because she said I looked like the actor in it. It's not the type of movie that I would normally rent, but I actually did enjoy it.

[sheesh]

The Notebook is one of the saddest and best movies that I've ever seen. I watched it with my wife and it made me realize my own mortality and how short life really is. If you had tried to get me to watch in back in the day when I was in my twenties I would have told you to get lost but nowdays I think it's a great flick.

[monkey]

I liked it, mostly because both (http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/movie/gallery/1133507/photo_12.jpg) the lead actors give me bonersss

meee too!

their sex/kissing scenes... rrrrrrrrr

[QueenAdrock]

So I'm looking through On Demand from Comcast, searching through all the movies, when I see The Notebook. I think "Hey, Diana, you may hate romances, but even the female boarders who hate chick flicks like this movie, give it a try." And mind you, I'm PMSing, so I have the possibility of two emotions emerging from this film: sadness, or anger.

Total and complete anger. I can't help it. I'm angry I let myself be suckered in to watch a chick flick when I know that I hate wimmin movies. Angry at all the cliches and obvious plot turns. Angry I didn't check out Catwoman, because at least I knew that Catwoman got bad reviews and would get out of it what I expected.

Sorry, like I said, I can't help it. :o

If you're not into chick flicks, don't go see this movie. But I guess it was good for those who like well-done girl-movies, like Titanic or whatever. Good cinematography, setting, clothes, and stuff, I just hated the plot.

[cookiepuss]

so this new "friend" of mine on myspace is all about this movie. I don't get it....well and I haven't scene it...actually I think I started to watch it once but changed the channel.

I think if I did see it I'd be with Dianna. I think It would make me either angry or annoyed. Because very few movies portray an accurate or realistic look at true love. Most of the things that movies portray as true love are not at all my version of true love.

And like jessica simpson watched The Notebook and that's supposedly why she ended her marriage. WTF? I mean she's a moron, but fuck man, to end you marriage because it doesn't live up to a movie???? Lame.

and it makes me wonder...how many lame women have walked away from perfectly good relationships because the thought love should be more like it is in this movie?

[beastiegirrl101]

An Affair to Remember...now THAT'S a love story.

[HEIRESS]

I hated the "present day" bullcrap, ruined the movie actually
If they had just focused on the love story between the two people when they were young it would have been way better
the oldies acting just sucked, plain and simple

I think they recently broke up "for good" :( (http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/movieline/young_hollywood_2004_photos/_group_photos/rachel_mcadams21.jpg)

[g-mile7.5]

WHY THE FUCK DOES THIS THREAD HAVE SO MANY VIEWS? JESUS CHRIST.

[hpdrifter]

Ah, your new online friend, huh. That's why you never send me emails anymore!

*runs out of the room crying*

[cookiepuss]

Ah, your new online friend, huh. That's why you never send me emails anymore!

*runs out of the room crying*


but but, she means nothing to me! wait! can't we talk about this?

[Schmeltz]

Ha ha, I watched the first bit of this with my sisters one time and I figured out the plot twist and called it and it made them mad at the end.

[hpdrifter]

If you agree to watch the notebook with an open mind.

Just kidding.

I actually liked it. Same as most here I avoided it like the plague as I thought it would be a piece of shit, estrogen-drenched, Beaches redux cryfest. But it was more than that. The performances by Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling were great. The story was really nice, the photography was beautiful.

[cookiepuss]

I think maybe I should just read the book. then I might be ready for the movie.

[hpdrifter]

I never read the book. Its by Nicholas Sparks, or something, right?

Well seriously, give it a chance. See if Dan will watch it with you.

[cookiepuss]

Well seriously, give it a chance. See if Dan will watch it with you.

hahaha...unless a significant portion of the movie is devoted to Bass fishing or if someone gets their head loped off he will...otherwise....I think he'll pass.;) which is fine with me...I don't want him to like chick flixs...I want him manly. ha ha!

[beastieangel01]

An Affair to Remember...now THAT'S a love story.
I actually like that movie a lot.

The affair part kind of sucks though, for that other guy.

I finally watched the Notebook. It was kind of good I guess, for what it is. A little overly sappy but, old peope are cute! lol ;(