Yes. What a terrific movie. Gosling was superb.


The plot would have been completely unbelievable ... had it not been based on a true story!

Last night I saw two of the best performances I have seen in a long time. My Judi and Cate Blanchett in Notes on a Scandal.
Wow.
This movie was wonderful.
Judi Dench was amazing in this. She played that character with the right amounts of anger and loneliness. She could have made the character just a madwoman but instead portrayed her as being smart, flawed, lonely, depressed, angry and likeable all at the same time. Wonderful.
And Cate Blanchett is just amazing to watch. So very pretty with them big sad eyes.
Bill Nighy is terrific. Everytime I see him I love him.
I bought this film when it was first released to DVD and hadn't opened it. I watched it last night after revisiting Ladies in Lavender. Judi plays 2 completely different characters. So amazing.
See it if you haven't.

"We are bound by the secrets we share."

Funny you should mention that-- I just said (on the board where I moderate) that among a dearth of potential icons, Gosling and his lady-partner McAdams could blow the lid off this town.

Oh, my! I forget that sometimes those who often share your opinion (like GC often does mine) can disagree sometimes. Notes was definitely not a fave.

Not recognizing Ms. McAdams' name, I dutifully went to imdb (I've seen a couple of her films and remember one of the characters well enough to say that I liked her). The first thing listed...Time Traveler's Wife, slated for a 2008 release!

I LOVED Notes on a Scandal ... and prodded GC to watch it when I learned last week he'd had it unopened for months. Gak. It's Dame Judy's absolute best performance, imho.



Who's this McAdams women (who already gets points merely for being attached to the lushiousness that is Ryan Gosling)?

She hasn't done a ton, but she was the chick in Wedding Crashers (a surprisingly good movie).

Oh, I liked her in that. And I was surprised at how The Wedding Crashers didn't absolutely suck.

I'm a big fan of Rachel McAdams. I liked her a lot in Mean Girls. I also like Gosling in Half Nelson. But as I mentioned before somewhere in this thread that the Gosling and McAdams pairing in The Notebook did nothing for me. I like them both but despise that film. Blechk!

She was also great in the otherwise-not-terrific "The Family Stone," as well as the I-admit-I-sobbed-in "The Notebook." Also "Mean Girls."