fofe_mome Add to the list of best romantic movies I've seen.

guhadyutiparna I love films.I have watched films from various genres,from thrillers to dramas to mindless action films, I've probably watched it all. I have watched and loved teen films too,I'm a fan of John Hughes and I've watched (and liked) some supposedly cheesy teen dramas too. But this film was so so badly written that it definitely trumps all. High-school rebel Landon( Shane West) and social outcast Jamie( Mandy Moore) meet and fall in love but there's a classic twist in the plot, she has cancer and is dying. Now, the problem is not that the idea is not new, the problem is that the writing is as uninspiring and lousy as you can imagine. There's little to no character development, in fact all the characters, specially the leads, feel like nothing but cardboard cut-outs, and consequently failed to make me feel anything at all when I was supposed to cry my eyes out; and it's not that hard to make me cry, I cry at films almost regularly. Somehow, the writer(s) has just taken the laziest stereotypes and made them even lazier,hollow and superficial. Along with the atrocious and flat writing, the acting isn't good either. Mandy Moore tried but failed,Shane West maintained a painfully constipated face throughout the film and the less is said about the other high-school characters, the better. I did feel bad about Darryl Hannah though it seems like she was just collecting a paycheck. I've never been a fan of loud background score and annoying soft rock music, and this film reassured me of that. I believe that good or bad, a film has to make you feel something. You can be amused at a good film or disgusted by a bad film, it has to at least affect you in some way. But I didn't care about this film at all. I would've never cared if this film didn't exist just like I don't care that it does. That's,I think, the worst thing that can ever be said about any film that has ever been made. P.S: "I thought my heart would never open again" is the most god-awful dialogue I've ever heard in my life. Even a teen soap-opera has better dialogues than this.

studioAT With a plot not too dissimilar in places to the far superior 'She's all that' this adaptation of Nicholas Sparks' novel isn't that great unfortunately.It starts very slowly, but picks up the pace, but is largely held together by a likable performance from Mandy Moore.Full of clichéd moments, and paper thin supporting characters, this is a walk to forget.

sadija91 I just read a couple of the bad reviews of the people that "hated" this movie and I'm complety shocked and I just had to write my review. The first time I watched this movie, I was maybe 12-13 years old and since then I have watched it countless times and I've still stayed memorized by this movie to this day. I am a 26 year old female and this movie is on my top 3 list of favorite movies. I admit that there are a few flaws in this movie like the fact everything happens so fast. First, out of the blue - Landon asks Jamie to help him with his lines even though up to that point, he ignored her and made fun of her. There's probably somebody else he can ask for help, but it just had to be Jamie - the girl that's just the complete opposite of everything he is and does.Second - just after spending a little bit of time with her, he realizes that he loves and he's willing to fight with his friends and not speak to them because of her (even thought I applaud the way he stood up for her in the cafeteria when he punched his friend for sending half-naked pictures of Jamie around school). And third - barely legal, Landon proposes to Jamie even though she's going to die. I mean, I understand that he loves her so much that he wants to make all her wishes come true and help her fulfil her "list" but marriage just out of high school?! Not that believable. I mean this isn't some third-world country where you get married at the age of 12. But in-spite of the few flaws this movie has, it has so many more amazing things about it. I loved that Landon asks Jamie's father if could take her out after Jamie told him that she wasn't allowed to date. I loved the way he helped her fulfil her list by taking her to the border and showing her that she can be in two places at once or giving her a sticker-tattoo..just simplifying everything and making her realize that things aren't as hard as she may have made them out to be. Maybe somebody will say that this movie is corny and lame and a cliché and maybe it is but that fact that this movie shows that complete transformation of a young bad-boy who doesn't care about anything or anybody up until he his in close range with a girl he's known his entire life, but never befriended. She shows him the simplicity of life. The believing in God. The goodness a person can have inside them in-spite of the bad that others throw at them. This movie mesmerized me because you see a young boy transforming into a grown young man just by befriending a girl that's different from him. She shows him all the simple, beautiful things in life and you realize that one person can make a difference in someone's life. What would have happen to Landon if he never befriended Jamie? Would he have made up with his father? Would he have gone to college or gotten into medical school?!I highly recommend this movie.