I just don't get it....

Rating: 1/10 (28 June 2004)

Okay, first off, I didn't much care for this film. My significant other wanted to see it so I had to go. Now, I have no problems with romantic movies, I think Serendipity and Sweet Home Alabama were great movies. But this Notebook fluff? I got bored from the beginning while they were on their first date. Lying in the middle of the road? WTH? "Me and my dad used to lay here and watch the lights." I'm thinking, the girl should say "What the hell is wrong with your family?" But anyways....
I just don't get how people are claiming how great this movie was when the story was just so...ummm...dumb?
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And the letters, all 365 of em. So Allie is so hung up on Noah but she never tries to check the mail once out of a whole year??? Aw cmon!! What a load of crap. And towards the end, Allie's mom drives her out and tells her daughter about the secret love she had/has. At this point, I'm thinking, why is she doing that?? Does she have regrets? All she says is that she loved/loves this bumpkin yet she still truly loves Allie's father. So this is the same lady that pulled her daughter away and hid letters for a year? Is she telling her daughter to go with Noah or not?? And if she is, shouldn't she had done that after she saw 365 letters??? That must mean something if a guy writes your daughter 365 letters.
FINALLY, the whole way the story was told from the nursing home and the "Notebook." This will sound like 50 First Dates, but here it goes. Instead of reading that whole damn book to her over and over just to have his wife come back for "minutes", he shoulda just made a video tape, showing who he is and who she is and who their kids are. Bam, that would straighten her up in 15 minutes.