The notebook would be better without the notebook

Rating: 8/10 (7 January 2012)

I finished watching this without any other thought that how good this could really be if there wasn't a notebook at all, kinda Blue Valentine but happy and less gritty. We've seen this corny, retrospective method a thousand times and I hate they used it here. A great film spoiled. Someone should cut all 'they're old' scenes out like Tarantino fans did with Pulp Fiction and then see how it looks like. Bet a lot better than original. Seriously.
Other than that it's wonderful and so effortlessly acted by Rachel and Ryan. Eight is what it deserves without mentioning 'old people's house scenes', with them it should go point lower.
Meh, they were so close in making such a great film and blew it. Such a shame.