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.
