Damn, I saw this movie, to be totally honest, I don’t remember crying that hard in 20 years. It ruined me for the night and half the next day.
Maybe there is something wrong with me, but I could sooner sit through the first 27 minutes of “Saving Private Ryan” (the first four minutes of which are horribly, terribly sad) a hundred times than endure"The Notebook" one more time.
The movie simply rips your guts out.
I think it’s the best movie I’ve seen in years. I have a crush on Rachel McAdams (she belongs in the hottie thread) and a man crush on Ryan Gosling.
Edit: To me, the movie is far more uplifting than it is sad. I find a lot of peace at the end of the movie. Not sorrow.
Tom,
I saw “The Notebook” last weekend and loved it, but I really like smaltzy movies. Every time they switched from the young couple to the old couple I wanted to stay but I was so glad to see the old couple again. It was one of the warmest, most loving movies I’ve ever seen.
But last weekend I also saw “Before Sunset” It’s a part two of a movie made nine years ago; “Before Sunrise”. I never saw the first one but I had read about the two of them in the Woodstock newspaper so I knew the story, but they did a good job of catching you up as the story unfolds. It’s just two characters and great dialogue. It should be an off-broadway play. It’s with Ethan Hawk and a beautiful actress who’s name I can’t remember. I never thought Ethan Hawk could be so good. I thought he was just the guy who used to eat breakfast with Uma in our local pancake restaurant. He was great! She was great! And that’s the whole movie. Oh yea, and they are in Paris.
apparently i’m the only guy still left on this forum. that is the worst movie i’ve seen in years. a total chick flick and no guy should ever see it.
my sister is sitting here agreeing with me. she can’t believe anyone would cry their eyes out over that movie.
sorry tom…
Thank you thank you - I am not a lovey-dovey movie person, but a friend told me to watch it. I think the last 1/2 hour of that movie was the most I’ve cried in 5 years - I’m not talking about any sissy balling either - we are talking full blown tears-streaming-swoll-face crying. I returned it immediately after I watched it - I couldn’t even look at the case without getting all choked up. I was trying to tell milk the story on the treadmill today and I got to the part where he tells the kids “that’s my sweetheart in there - your mother is my home” and I almost lost it again. I feel very validated now though — merci beaucoup --zoe
Yeah, it either speaks to you or it doesn’t.
For thisbetc621 it obviously didn’t mean much, but for me, it felt autobiographical. It just hit too close to home. Immensly sad.
Maybe sometimes it is good to hit the emotional circuit breakers and kind of “reset” the system. Perhaps the areas of the brain that are not used becasue these memories are too painful just need to be somehow “exercised” or woken up and then they are purged.
The first scene in “Saving Private Ryan” is so awful- not the combat. That is just, well, violent. Nothing particularly surprising or gut wrenching about that. When people get hit by flying steel they come apart. Duh. But the part where the guy returns to the cemetary, the cemetary filled with his friends lying in state, and has to accept the responsibiltiy that he somehow survived when they did not- the weight of that is like being condemned. And the distance between he and his friends who died- an expanse that can never be closed. In that instance the significance- or utter insignificance- of his entire life is called into question. Nothing is more… minmizing. You suddenly know hat you have amounted to nothing whatsoever of significance. When the weight of the people who have died for you settles on you, it is unbearable. That is another set of visual imagery I can’t stomach. I can;t imagine how those men who actually lived it came to grips with it. Incredible. just seeing the movie is traumatic.
But last weekend I also saw “Until Sunset” It’s a part two of a movie made nine years ago; “Until Sunrise”. I never saw the first one but I had read about the two of them in the Woodstock newspaper so I knew the story, but they did a good job of catching you up as the story unfolds. It’s just two characters and great dialogue. It should be an off-broadway play. It’s with Ethan Hawk and a beautiful actress who’s name I can’t remember.<<
Julie Delphy
Until Sunrise was really good, though cut kinda close to home. And, most of the dialogue was unscripted. There was an idea of where to go, but they mostly just made it up as they went along.
clm
Actually, the movies were “Before Sunrise” and “Before Sunset” - and the actress is Julie Delpy (also of Krystof Kieslowski’s “White”, “Killing Zoe”, and a bunch of other things that never hit the North American mainstream market).
I knew it was going to be a bad weekend when I let my wife con me into the movie deal of the weekend. I got ‘Friday night lights’ for the Friday night choice only if I would watch ‘Notebook’ with her Saturday. Damn, the lunch time 10x50y on the :45 set must have mushed my mind.
But seriously, the movie was way to close to home. My grandparent were married for 63 years.The morning he passed away was one of those days our family will never forget. After eight years with the same disease as the women in Notebook, he sat up, talked to my grandmother and mother like nothing had ever happened and passes in his sleep. It was the first time in a year since he had recognized anyone.
I could even talk by the end of the movie.
Steve