Yep, very nice lady.

I'm glad she is my new friend, cause it looks as if my friendship with Gemini Cricket has reached its end. :)


That's cause I thought The Notebook was a damn fine sudser. Nothing wrong with it, and the two leads were hotness of their respective genders (both of which, as some here may know, I happen to have a thing for).


I am currently watching Young Adam as I type, and my reaction thus far is :confused:

I have liked Nick Stahl for a while. Before he was old enough to like, really. Heh. But his character appeals to me on a purely sweet, platonic level on Carnivale. It might be because of the man beefcake that is Aww Schucks Jonsey, who went from getting no play for a few years, to TONS of COOCH PLAY! in this latest year of his life. I just love that scarred up country man. Yes, indeedy. When he's around, I hardly even notice Ben's cuteness. But to answer your question, he's actually beefed up a bit this season and does look really, really good. Though his ears stick out as much as ever. All part of his charm.

I'm *totally* with you about Kate and Sawyer. I must see them twirl their tongues together again. MUST MUST MUST. More drinking games and tongue twirling. And solving the mystery of LOST together.

It's not the end. You like me, you like me, you like me. :D
Okay, here we go. I've gotten a PM or two about this already. To quote our GD:
Nothing wrong with the eye candy, I'll give it that. Ryan Gosling is great. Now if that gosling actually were a mature gander, he'd be a much better actor. Watch him act in this film and count how many times he looks like he was going to laugh while she's pounding on his chest or shoving him against a truck in anger. He's worse than Jerry Seinfeld and Roseanne during their own shows.

I'm still not clear if the lead actress has ever had her heart truly broken or knows how it feels. Nothing in her performance dictates to me that she has. She also wasn't defined very well at the beginning. Why do we like her? Because she's pretty? Nope. It's gotta be more than that. If it doesn't need to more than that 'Gigli' would have worked.

I believe that the performances here needed to convey the message that the stakes are high for these two. I didn't get that from them.

Okay, it's the LoT so I'll dwell on the positive here:

I love these kinds of stories. Against all odds, love against the will of elitist parents and rekindled love. I love love love these films.

The love scene at the beginning was great. The whole neurotic thing while they tried to get their groove on rocked. Gosling and Marsden were finer than frog hair. Gorgeous.

:)

So, how did you meet her?!?!?!?!?!?! Gossip to me, dammit! That's awesome.



My message is not too short, LoT. It's just long enough!

So, as luck would have it, Ralphie didn't mail 'The Notebook' back to Netflix. So, I watched the rest. I still say bleh. But to illustrate my point about high stakes, there were 2 performances in the last 3/4 of the movie worth mentioning.
James Garner reacting to grown up Allie getting a shot while she had a fit. Very well done. He knows where it's at. His face told it all in two seconds that Gosling's couldn't in 2 hours. He wishes he could grow up to be Garner.
The woman who played Martha was very good, too. You could hear her heart break when she realized Allie was inside the house behind Noah. That was well done, too.

Don't get me wrong. My heart's not made of ice. I cried at the end of 'Goblet of Fire' for crying out loud. But I couldn't buy much of this movie. The lake filled with swans, bleh. The discovery that Garner was Noah, bleh doy. The nurse finding both of them dead in bed, bleh.

For me, if a movie starts off wrong in the first 15 minutes, the rest of the movie ain't worth watching.

I will take our Ally's advice and read the book. I am interested to compare the two.

Anyway, I just thought I'd talk some more about this film seeing as I just finished it.

:)

I crammed in 3 episodes of Lost last night. I've still got a DVR full of stuff to go through since I was away for 2 weeks though...

On my travel odyssey I saw -

Wimbledon: not bad. Paul Bettany is cute.
Last Shot: weird humor. I laughed out loud at some parts, then felt bad because most people were sleeping.
Shall We Dance: J. Lo's character seemed really weird to me. Not a bad flick though.
Ladder 49: Travolta's clenched-jaw delivery really gets old, but if you've got a firefighter fetish, you'll love it.

:evil: Bwahahaha!!! I had a crush on him when he was like 12. And I was....um....lots older. And he wasn't even that CUTE. I started crushing on Elijah Wood when he was younger than twelve. Look out Mary Kay LeTourneau, there's a new pervy lady in town!

Confession: I didn't like The Notebook....didn't finish it. Originally my mom and my sister wanted me to go with them to see it in the theater and I laughed them out the door. No way. I kept quiet about that until now....I must speak up. I wanted to barf about a half hour in when my sister forced her DVD on me. I grudgingly read Nicholas Sparks books (passed on to me by my mom and my sister) if they're at my house for a year or so....watched Message in a Bottle two years after it came out and I'd read the book, but I still wanted to barf. I love the book A Walk to Remember, even if it's cheesy, but I can't bring myself to watch the movie.....although Courtney would like to since I let her read the book not long ago (she bawwwwwled). I thought Ryan Gosling was a terrible actor and I couldn't stop giggling at him.....not appropriate.

I'm not sure I'll ever give it a fair shot.....sorry!!! Although the North Carolina scenery was beautiful.....I couldn't watch the entire thing. And that's pretty much the only reason I read his books. They usually take place either in the town I lived in, or within an hour of there. That's how my mom and sister got hooked.

huh, i liked the notebook, wife liked it more, but I didnt think it was too bad