The Notebook, Eat Pray Love, Dear John

#1 -THE NOTEBOOK

Stars -Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams, Gena Rowlands, James Garner

Director -Nick Cassavetes

Memorable Quote -"If you're a bird, I'm a bird!"

Review - I put off watching this for so long because I had heard that it was a total sobfest, but eventually one day when I was feeling as though I needed a little more Gosling in my life I went out and bought it on a whim. I have to say I am glad I did: as far as love stories go, this has to be the Titanic of  the2000s, a romance of which any woman would be jealous and any man would dream of as it sweeps Ally and Noah off their feet and along before it like a whirlwind. I could gush about the script, the filming style, the rain scene, the dialogue, the script – but I will just let it all rest with a simple instruction that any female readers who have not seen this should absolutely go and see it now, and then accept the reality that no man is ever going to measure up in real life to the way that Noah is in this film and everything is ruined for you forever. 5/5

#2 -EAT PRAY LOVE

Stars - Julia Roberts, Javier Bardem, Billy Crudup, James Franco

Director -Ryan Murphy

Memorable Quote -"Sometimes to lose balance for love is part of living a balanced life."

Review - The film is neatly divided into three parts – the eating, praying, and loving which the title suggests – and really one could almost imagining that they were watching Julia Roberts trying to remake her acting career and try something different rather than watching the storyline as it really is. One reason that you should watch this film is the advice given in one scene, in which Roberts’ character asks another if any man has ever complained once they saw her body, and which many, many girls out there could benefit from thinking about in order to stop them from worrying quite so much about diets and exercise and getting those perfect thigh gaps or flat stomachs. On the other hand, not much really happens in most of the film, so this is more the light Sunday viewing type of movie than something to really watch again and again and put deep concentration into. 3/5

 

#3 -DEAR JOHN

Stars - Channing Tatum, Amanda Seyfried, Richard Jenkins

Director -Lasse Hallström

Memorable Quote -"The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all."

Review - Honestly, if you hate yourself and/or have just gone through a really horrible break up then I absolutely recommend watching The Notebook, PS I Love You, and then this film all in a row. You will cry so hard that you may never cry again. What strikes me more than anything about this film is how it could all have been avoided, and exactly how much time the main characters needlessly waste when they had the chance to be happy together. Ultimately it is a film about sacrifice – whether it means literal sacrifice in the name of your country, or the sacrifice of love in order to allow someone else to be happy. It is a tear jerker, but ultimately frustrating as you just want to bang their heads together through most of it. 3.5/5

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