Fell in love with The Notebook

When it comes to romance movies, they tend to bore me. Unless of course it is a romance comedy. Generally the comedy keeps me interested in the movie and the story is just a nice add on. But “The Notebook” is one of my first true Romance movies I have seen in a long time. So I was a tad bit interested on how I will take this movie. And plus, Rachel McAdams is in this movie, and I have the biggest crush on her. More details after the jump.
The movie has a twist to a pretty old story. Like most romance stories, it has a strong “Romeo and Juliet” feel to it. We have Noah (Ryan Gosling), a poor country boy that falls for Allie (Rachel McAdams) at a carnival. After risking his life to get a date with Allie, they immediately fall in love, inseparable. Until Allie’s family disapproves of Noah because of his poor lifestyle and the family moves away. As time passes, Noah has bought a old run down house which he builds up just like the way he promised Allie years back. Allie has moved on and gets engaged to a wealthy soldier Lon (James Marsden). When Allie sees a picture of Noah and his new built house in the local paper, she meets him. Now she is left with a choice, stay with Lon or go back to her first lover.

Nothing more romantic than dancing in the streets.

The coolest part of this story, at least to me, is the fact that the story was being told by a cute old couple. Duke volunteers to read this great story to Allie, who suffers from dementia. This be a spoiler here, but the story will interrupt with a scene or two with Duke and Allie interacting. It gives hints on their actual relationship. Halfway though the movie I suspected that Duke was actually Noah but much later in life, and he is just retelling his story to his own lover. But when this was confirmed, my mind was blown. They sneaked this in so well, and I didn’t see it coming. Just gives the movie an extra layer, which is welcomed. Makes the final scene, when Noah is sleeping (I suspect dies) holding to Allie’s hand. Now I am not saying I cried, but I was conveniently chopping up onions at the same time I saw this last scene. Manly tears were shed.

I need to talk about the characters, because they were absolutely amazing. Kudos to the actors for selling their roles. It was just wonderful to see Noah and Allie be so in love, stuff we all see and read that can sometimes nauseate us, brings a bit of a smile to my face. Now I do love cheesy moments and this might lead to why I love the loads of ‘cutsey-lovey-dovey’ scenes. Now I can’t talk for everyone but this movie did bring up some of my more favourable memories of past relationships. So yeah, I did get a good feeling watching the movie. The butterfly would not leave my stomach.

Old people can love to right?

Not sure what else I can say about this movie. I liked the movie, surprisingly a lot more than I expected. And when I say that, I mean I usually watch action, brain dead movies that get my testosterone going. But it is nice to relax and get all cheesy and lovey while watching a movie. Not sure if I would recommend this movie to anyone I know (I’m scared to get teased) but for the few people out there that haven’t checked it out because it is a ‘girly romance flick’. Disregard that negative thought and totally check it out, I did and I liked it. Even though I wasn't part of the audience this movie was made for, and it probably discredits my 'street cred' (if I had any in the first place) but it's hard to ignore the fact this girly movie was great.

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