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A Walk to Remember

A Walk to Remember

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Better Than Average, But Still Not Quite Right.
Review: While working at a church camp this summer, I heard a lot of talk from females (both staff members and campers) about the movie A WALK TO REMEMBER. They went on and on about how good it was, how it portrayed love in a realistic way, about it's positive image of Christianity, etc. They also said it's a very sad movie that made them cry. Well, right away I knew a major plot point (think big black dude with sickle).

Anyway, I've been curious to what all the hubbub was about and when my sister left for school I borrowed her copy of the film and watched it. The film is just about what I expected. It gets a lot of things right that Hollywood usually get wrong. For instance, it:

1. Portrays a very realistic love and romance.

2. Portrays Christianity in a positive light; both Jamie and her father seem like average, normal, real Christians.

3. The situations the teens find themselves in are very real and easy to relate. Landon and his friends swear and like to pull dangerous stunts, etc.

However, with all the positive elements the movie fails in one major point: it tries to pretend to be something it is not. The movie is simple a teen chick-flick with a positive, realistic look on life. When the film keeps true to this, it is charming. However, when it veers away from it's true identity and pretends to be something else: such as the cheesy scene where Jamie uses the apologetic explanation about faith--nothing against that argument, I believe it, but in that scene in the movie it's just out of place and doesn't fit; it looses it's charm and beauty. I was also bothered by the school in the movie: Landon punches another student and there are no adults around, the students keep leaving school in the middle of the day without family or school officials knowing, what happened to their graduation? I don't know why, but that stuff bothered me and kept me from suspending my disbelief.

Overall, a better than average teen-weepy that has a positive look on life. Even though I don't fully understand, I see why all those girls this summer were so enthralled with this movie.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Very good
Review: When I first heard of this movie, I thought it would be another sappy teen movie but when I watched it, I was completely touched. Jamie (Mandy Moore) played a preacher's daughter with inner beauty and dreams. Landon (Shane West) played a hot bad boy but was different from everyone else. They both were beautiful and at the end, I cried, but most people who've seen this movie probbly did the same, I bet. Me, being a normal teenage girl, has no problems with these emotions, so just let it all out, k? :*() I highly recommend this movie to just about anyone. Ladies, test ur men's hearts and watch this movie with them. Just don't be afraid to bawl like a baby hehe.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Fall in Love with Them
Review: A walk to remember has to one of the greatest Love storys of this time if not the greatest.
The begining starts off like a normal Teen Film, but half way through you really begin to feel for the charaters, and fall in Love with them. It's a brillant film, being funny, sweet, and sad. It makes you want to be a good person and live life to the full. Anyone who likes teen movies, with serious issues and sad but beautiful endings will fall in love with this film!!!

Warning: If you aren't in Love, or your loved one doesn't love you, this film may make you alittle deppressed, but it is well worth the feeling you get from watching.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Beautiful
Review: I watched the movie just yesterday, and I had to say that was the first ever love story movie I ever cried at the end of. It was deep, and you could feel the heart and soul between the main characters.

For a debut actor Mandy Moore did a very good portrayal of an innocent church girl who tames the whims of her bad boy interest. I found it to be very sweet and romantic and found it too far away from any romance I was used to watching or even reading. I haven't read the book, but I could tell that they brought out the story just as beautifully on screen.

I was just blown away and I think that it deserved well over five stars.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: the perfect couple
Review: hi my name is kristy from brooklyn and i just wanted to say that this was the best movie ever made. me and my boyfriend loved this movie i luv the part when he took her out to dinner and then he made her dreams come true like being in to places at once. and i liked that he didnt care what ne1 thought of them cause they were in luv

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Hollywood Finally Got It Right!
Review: What a wonderful, sentimental, loving, heart wrenching movie. This is not just another teen movie. My husband and I started watching this movie by accident while flipping through the cable channels a couple of weeks ago. He wasn't too keen on watching a teen movie but we were so pleasantly suprised 15 minutes into the movie to find it more than that. Needless to say, by the end of the movie we were both in tears and thankful we still had each other. Shane West and Mandy Moore did an excellent job of portraying young lovers who are totally committed to each other through the good times and the bad.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Pass the Kleenex!!!
Review: I read the book before I saw the movie, knew what the ending was, and how things were going to go and was STILL full-on SOBBING at the end. (And I don't cry at a lot of movies.) I was impressed with how the filmmakers stayed VERY true to the book and only updating what was absolutely necessary for time period's sake. Mandy Moore was great, and I wasn't that big a fan of hers before. Shane West (hubba-hubba by the way!) did a good job of the rebel-turned-nice guy...one of my girlfriend's sisters named her baby after that character. If you are a Mandy Moore fan then you'll love the music video on the DVD...otherwise, it's just a great movie. Enjoy!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: UNFORGETTABLE
Review: I read the book "A Walk to Remember." Shane West and Mandi Moore did exceptional jobs at making these characters come to life. For an acting debut, Mandi Moore was excellent in the role of Jamie and captured Jamie's innocence beautifully. Shane West shows enormous range as an actor in this role as he comes of age in this beautiful story. I am hoping to see him in many future roles. It is a movie that you will want to watch over and over again and in some way, will become a part of you. It will lift your spirits, and take your breath away.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Touching ,wonderful film with a real message
Review: This movie is one that at first I was afraid to watch because I thought it might be too depressing. But I'm so glad I did get to see it. It was refreshing to see a film that had a great storyline and yet had an innocence about it that I find sadly lacking in today's films. If we wonder why today's teens are so hardcore I think you can look to what's been shoved down their throats by our hollywood media, always trying to appeal to the most graphic animal instincts of teens instead of to their minds and hearts. This movie will appeal to your mind and heart. If that's what your looking for you will find it here.
I give it an "A!!!!" Thank you Nicholas Sparks for getting movie this made.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Beautiful
Review: With all the wild junk out there about sex, drugs, and violence, this is a very positive alternative. And it's amazing how great Mandy Moore can act! Usually I don't like singer-actors, but she just does so well in this one. Great for the family and young adults. It even has a slight Christian appeal to it. I do not reccommend this movie to those who hate "chick flicks" or "sappy" movies. But if you like those feel-good movies where you can shed a tear, this is for you!


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