Loved the movie, hated the editing and some casting

Rating: 9/10 (4 November 2006)

This is one of my all time favorite movies. I have watched it a zillion times and I am drawn into it each time. The casting of Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams was brilliant. They made me want to be 17 again enjoying the emotions of first love. However, there are some aspects that drove me nuts. As much as I love James Garner he is obviously not what Noah would have looked like as an older man. To show pictures of a younger James Garner and Gena Rowlands to represent Noah and Ally was absurd. Who thought of that? It was like a different movie at that point. Some of the editing and script were inconsistent. When Noah asks Ally what she does for fun he says that 'I 'always' thought...he just met her....how could he 'always' think of her as anything? When Finn sees her in town the day after the carnival he says to Noah 'look isn't that the girl from the carnival'....he was the one who told Noah at the carnival that her name was Ally and her father had more money than God...why would he say 'that girl' when he knew her name? The battle scenes were totally irrelevant. Maybe I'm being picky but it was so good and could have been so much better.