The Notebook (New Line Platinum Series)

The Notebook (New Line Platinum Series)
by Nick Cassavetes

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Actor: Anthony-Michael Q. Thomas, Gena Rowlands, James Garner, Starletta DuPois, Tim Ivey
Director: Nick Cassavetes
Brand: GOSLING,RYAN
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 124 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-02-08
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: New Line Home Video

DVD Reviews of The Notebook (New Line Platinum Series)

DVD Review: Please give this movie a chance
Summary: 5 Stars

I was reluctant to watch this film because of the overwhelming mainstream adoration. Everytime I saw the cover of the DVD with Allie and Noah kissing I rolled my eyes and mocked.

I enjoy passionate movies, not cheesy love stories. I was CONVINCED this would be such. I did read the book many years ago and was certain this would be a watered-down disappointment.

One evening I happened to catch the last 40 minutes of the film (the scene in the boat with the white ducks swimming), I could not stop watching. I was completely infatuated with this film. I immediately rented, then purchased this movie.

I promptly made a date with my husband to watch the film. I was delighted by his enjoyment...Noah is enough of a "man's man" that men relate to him and empathize with him.

The Filmmakers did an amazing job of pulling the most beautiful scenes from the novel to project onto the screen.

If you ever hesitated watching this movie, based on principals which deny you from watching a favorite book turned to film...PLEASE WATCH.

This is the exception to the rule.

This is officially my favorite film. I do not know what to compare it to, as there is no other love story that moved both me and my husband to just want to hold one another and stay in love forever.

Thank you.

DVD Review: A VERY TOUCHING STORY
Summary: 5 Stars

This is a true love story of two people from very diferent backgrounds. His love for her kept him going seven years after they parted.An old house bought them back together and they married. When she developed dementia he read to her each day an on going love story about two people in love. She never recognized the story or the characters. One small minute she did and said that is our story and she slipped right back into her dementia. In the end they died together. Such a touching and moving story.

DVD Review: WONDERFUL movie 5stars
Summary: 5 Stars

wonderful love story from begining to end. people should be in love that way today and this troubled world would be a better place,to share such feelings.

DVD Review: Even the guys will like this one
Summary: 5 Stars

Even though my husband doesn't get into chic flicks, he said "The Notebook" was indeed, a good one. Great story line and acting. If you like to go back in time, you'll love the wardrobe, music and cars in this one. Definitely worth being in your DVD collection. Amazon has great service and products.

DVD Review: Almost completely generic
Summary: 1 Stars

Having heard over and over again how romantic and wonderful this film is, I finally bumped it up on my Netflix queue and decided to see it for myself. From everything I read and heard from others, I figured it had a good shot at appealing to my inner hopeless romantic and went into my first viewing with an open mind and a hopeful heart.

I was let down, big time. There's nothing remarkable about this movie at all. It's Hallmark movie of the week stuff from start to finish. The only thing in it that escapes pure banality is the pure saccharine of the relationship between the older leads, played by Gena Rowlands and James Garner. I admit, I got a lump in my throat watching them together, especially in their final scenes. However, the story is extremely lopsided, because the younger version of these characters, played by Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling, have no chemistry at all. If it weren't for the dedication of Rowlands and Garner, I never would have believed in this couple's so-called great love story at all.

And really, what's so great about this story? A poor boy lays eyes on a rich girl (how original) and pesters her to go out with him. They dance in the middle of a street. Suddenly they're in love??? Unfortunately, I couldn't buy it. I expected more from a talented actor like Gosling, but he seems completely unable to make this mediocre material work. Even Joan Allen can't manage to rise above this pablum. Meanwhile, this movie is supposed to take place in the South, but not a single actor manages to speak with a convincing southern accent. Some, like "Entourage's" Kevin Connolly, don't even bother to try. There isn't a single scene he appears in where he sounds like anything other than the New Yorker that he is.

The whole film is sloppy, poorly cast and useless -- aside from the compelling romance between the two elderly people, there is nothing here worth passing on, or recommending. The extras are nothing special either, although seeing Rachel McAdams in a screen test makes you wonder how awful the other nine actresses who reportedly tried out must have been for her to win this role. And hilariously, in the editor's commentary over the deleted scenes, he points it out when scenes were deleted in part due to bad acting. He's more diplomatic that that, of course -- he'll say something like, "Not the strongest performance" -- but the meaning is obvious. Let's face it: when even the editor thinks the acting stinks, there's a serious problem. The casting director for this film ought to be fired.

So -- one star for Rowlands and for Garner, and zero stars for the rest of this worthless mess.

Description of The Notebook (New Line Platinum Series)

A boy from the wrong side of the tracks falls in love with a rich girl, and it seems no one approves of the relationship.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 3-JAN-2006
Media Type: DVD

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 clich?s, 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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