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| Topic | Ranking the TV shows and movies I watched in the year of lockdown |
| SeabassDebeste 06/03/21 4:14:32 PM #32: | Movie 25. The Notebook (2004) The Notebook has been a meme for how tear-inducing it is for a while. I can get really emotional with art - most recently, Hunter x Hunter, Minari, and The Corrections had moments that wrecked me - but I was also pretty aware that The Notebook was also memetically cheesy. I wasn't sure which sensibility would strike me more. Turns out, it's... neither? I was mostly just disgusted. Ryan Gosling (an actor I've never liked) takes the classic, despicable "dogged nice guy" approach. He winds up "winning" and being a good husband which I guess is supposed to justify it, but the path to getting there is pretty awful - it turns out that this is a movie that As for the parts of the movie that are supposed to be legitimately tear-jerking, I think if the love story were any more likable, convincing, or less outright despicable, I think it could have worked out. The framing device was a little cheesy but felt real and painful, though with its brighter moments. But the backstory narrative absolutely killed any thrust there for me. --- yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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