A Walk to Remember

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Summary: "A Walk To Remember" that you won't soon forget...
Review: After just having review "Message In A Bottle" and slamming it, I'll end up eating my words. I watched this movie before I started reading Nicholas Sparks. This movie prompted me to start reading his work. I started with "A Walk..." the book. And even though it's a lot different from the book, I appriciate both for being great stories. Both of them are good stories, and I think the adaptation of this one rings true to the book. They are different time settings - the book and the novel - but most of what Nicholas wrote stays with the movie. You'll be blown away by Shane West and Mandy Moore. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll find yourself being moved. The movie makes you fall in love with it's characters and leaves you longing for more...

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Summary: a movie to remeber always
Review: I really love this movie. i have already bought it, my husband bought me the soundtrack for my birthday, and i just ordered the book. i found it to be not only entertaining but inspirational and thought provoking. a teen movie with values. it is totally awesome. i feel like my life is much richer as a result of this movie. i am a very religious person and this movie made me feel closer to G-d and to nature. i even look at the stars more and appreciate them more. i think this is one of the greatest movies ever made.

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Summary: A Walk To Remember!!!
Review: Okay, I know the title to my review is lame but, go with me here. Shane West (Lifetime's Once and Again) and Mandy Moore (Teen Pop Sensation) come together to deliever the most exciting movie of the year! The movie deals with all things teenager's deal with and the problems in their lifes and not just ours. So, what makes this movie different? You may ask? Well, Shane West and Mandy Moore bring together the story of Bestseller's "A Walk To Remember," by Nicholas Sparks. This movie is a very uplifting movie and I hope you go out and see it if you haven;t already!

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Summary: Simply Beautiful
Review: What more can I say? The movie is beautiful from beginning to end. Mandy Moore is simply wonderful in this movie, same with Shane West. Such good sensitive performers.

More movies, please, starring the two of them. They look great on screen. Such chemistry!!!

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Summary: One of the better "teen" movies.
Review: This movie is actually very sweet. I figured that Mandy Moore was just another one of those pop princesses, but in reality she can actually act and sing. The movie doesn't require much from the viewer. This is a good pick if you are looking for a film to watch with your pre-teen/teen daughter, granddaughter, or niece. There are no scenes that would make one feel "uncomfortable" watching it with a parent or young child. I think they touched on faith just enough that even a non-church goer wouldn't feel the need to roll his/her eyes.

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Summary: what can i say? the book was good, the movie [was bad]
Review: the movie 'a walk to remember' is nothing like the book. it follows the same plot and all, but there are many things that are different. first off, there's an awful lot of kissing & sensual content in the movie that was not in the book. when people say 'modernizing the book', they mean adding more sex even though the characters in the book are not supposed to be like that. the characters are nothing like they are in the book.
so what's the movie about? well, it's basically a knock-off of 'love story', where guy [landon] falls in love with girl [jamie] after she specifically tells him not to fall in love with her because, gasp, she has leukemia! [he finds this out close to the end.] the movie shows how she impacts his life by making him a better person [she's a preacher's girl, he's a bad boy] and how that makes him fall in love with her.

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Summary: This Is Really 'A Walk To Remember'
Review: I love this movie. This movie shows what us teens really go through. I mean this show a lot of how we will act around someone alone and then act totally diffrent around them when were around others just so we can fit in. It deals with per preasure(and we all know how that is) and most of all love.

This love story is amazing. Two people from two diffrent worlds falling in love. It's something thats hard to imagine. I mean first you got the popular, high school hunk and than you got the unpoplular, shy, outcast. Than you see when they do come together the difficulties facing them.

I wish I had a guy like Lnadon Carter to do thoughs kind things for me like he did for Jamie Sullivian. And i just loved it when he... well i wont say, but belive me youll love it.

This movie will make you laugh and cry. But mostly you will cry. You should definetly watch this movie. I love it so much when I rented it the next week I went out of town and saw the book version(the book was written first and the movie was based on it) and I bought it right off the bat. Of course the book is diffrent. It always is. But I love them both.

Belive me you will love this movie and the book. Go get them.

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Summary: Simple Love Told So Well ...
Review: "A Walk To Remember" is a special film for that special romantic. Rarely does a film like this come along, relying on simplicity and emotion to capture the soul. Shane West does an amazing job portraying "Landon Carter," the school hotshot who transforms into a sincere individual and transforms those around him along the way. West can be found in nearly every scene, and never loses that realistic image of someone struggling to turn his life around.

Mandy Moore is stunning in her first lead role, showing how someone's feelings for her character can affect her own strength and confidence. Moore goes from self-disciplined and confident to passive (upon receiving a gift from "Landon"), to fragile (after a school prank) to eventually accepting of someone's love. Moore's simplicity in her role is heartfelt and believeable, leaving the viewer wishing that he/she could have had the opportunity to see Moore's and West's characters spend their last summer together.

The soundtrack is absolutely wonderful, and shines from the contributions of Mandy Moore and the band, Switchfoot. I raced out and bought the soundtrack, as well as the DVD, after only one viewing of the film on HBO. Ironically, the only song that doesn't fit the mix is the one provided by Shane West's band.

Fans of the movie will love the DVD's special features. There is Mandy's outstanding video for "Cry", weaving the film's theme into the track, as well as audio commentaries. I prefer the one provided by author, Nicholas Sparks and screenwriter, Karen Janszen, who give fine insight regarding why the film's storyline was altered from the novel, and the special meanings of several scenes. The other commentary, provided by West, Moore, and director, Adam Shankman, is quite humorous, but the three have a tendency to refer to several scenes as "cheesy", which actually discredits the film.

Why the critics pass on gems like this is a mystery to me. They pan these films, which rely on faith and the power of simplistic love, and rave about bizarre storylines filled with violence, sex and anything else with shock value. "Moulan Rouge", "Chicago", "Monster's Ball", and "The Hours" may be loved by the critics, but none of them met box office expectations. "A Walk To Remember" grossed approximately $40 million. Not bad for a film which cost $10 million to make, featured actors with minimal Hollywood exposure, and was passed up by The Academy for being a teen film. I'm 39 years old and have now watched it close to three dozen times. You don't have to be under 20 years old to have a deep love and respect for this film.

I only hope Mandy Moore doesn't fall into the teen comedy movie syndrome, though I have read she has a couple of such films opening later this year. It can't be helped, I imagine. Its hard to start at the top, which she has done after giving such a powerful performance in "A Walk to Remember."

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Summary: Oh he didn't.....oh my god, he did!!
Review: This movie has Up-ed the standerds I look for in a boyfriend (sorry boys, you got to do more to impress me :p). This movie was able to feature a "fantasy boyfriend" without making him overly sappy. Mandy Moore was just absolutely adorable. Shane was...*drools*. Haha, you get the point. The whole story was just gush....it got me slightly teary-eyed (Remember, I NEVER cry in movies, so that was a huge achievement). Eek! My reviews were usually more constructive then this....Now I sound like some love-struck teenie...*Sigh* The things a good movie can do to you..

I also read the book. Both are very different from each other. The premise is still the same. The book better showed the growing love these two had, since there was more dialogue. Something I believe we all wish the movie had. Didn't any one think the 'love' Landon developed for Jamie was rushed? It was like after he saw her in the play, he went "Oh she's hot, I like!" Hmmm...I wished they had more touching moments and a gradual liking that would then lead to love, but that would have made the movie too long/sappy. Read the book if you loved the story! You will get more out of it!

Btw, if you got a few bucks to spare, get the soundtrack! It fits the movie so well.

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Summary: Jamie and Landon are so cute!!!!!
Review: "A Walk To Remember" is such a good movie...I absolutely loved it, it's about a boy, Landon Carter goes out with his friends to meet up at this cement factory, and they lure this guy Clay Gephartz to jump off this ramp and he does but he ends up very hurt because he hit a pole in the water, the teenagers got caught by an officer and they notify the police the others get away in time but Landon didn't and was taken to jail, then when he goes back to school, the principal say in order to make up for what happen at the cement factory and what happen to Clay Gephartz he have to do these things: He has to help the janitorial staff before and after school;On Saturday mornings, he has to tutor delinquents at their sister's school;Finally, he has to be in the Drama Club final event, the spring play, and when he does these things he encounters, the shy,sweet,Jamie Sullivan, the reverend's daughter, that would change his life forever.