I'll defend your man's taste in emotional pornography. For the record, I didn't mind "The Notebook." I thought it was a very nice movie. But, to be super critical, it is a little over the top. The movie is like a giant teddy bear kneeling on your chest, dabbing your eyes with Tabasco-sauce soaked cotton balls. CRY! CRY! CRY, DAMN YOU! GRANDMA AND GRANDPA DIE IN EACH OTHER'S ARMS!
Oh. Should I have written SPOILER ALERT?
"The Notebook" is on a mission to make you vomit tears. And unlike the romantic-comedies your dude might be into, this movie is nearly humorless. I am not saying that a movie has to leave you uplifted, and in a way, "The Notebook" ends with a lovely moral, that true love persists, endures, and lasts until the very last moment. Awwwww. But some people don't always enjoy existential truths in their entertainment.
Maybe your boyfriend doesn't like "The Notebook," because it made him feel uncomfortable. Maybe he really felt it. And didn't like being made to feel such intense, personal, and melancholy emotions. No one likes to feel manipulated. I mean, there's a flipside to your boyfriend. I've known plenty of women who will cry during movie trailers. They have hair-trigger tear ducts. They wear their hearts on their sleeves, on their heads, and around their necks. There are women who probably blubbered thirty seconds into "The Notebook."
They want to wail and weep. Your boyfriend probably doesn't. But who, in this scenario, do you think feels the heartbreaking drama on the screen more... sincerely? Feel, not enjoy.
I've never seen The Notebook. I don't know, it seems...boring. If you want to cry, see Toy Story 3.
Omg i know what you mean!!! I cried buckets when I took my nephews to watch TS3! lol
John, I have to say this is your funniest post ever. Although I never cried when I saw The Notebook.
There is a big difference between the 3 hour long love fest that is the notebook and fun romantic comedies like how to loose a guy in 10 days....they dont even compare ...and what does she even care ..chances are he doesnt give a crap about either movie ..ever
why do you care? seriously?
is that a real question?
I hate the Notebook. I've never felt the need to watch the whole thing through, and nor do I want to.
I'm one of those women who blubbered, not 30 seconds, but about 30 minutes into the movie... I mean body-wracking sobs, the unattractive-snot-dripping-hyperventalating-red-faced-sobs... it was pathetic... and I didn't have any want to even see that movie when it first came out... what's sad is the guy who I went to see it with, bugged me four weekends in a row to go see it... finally I said "ok" and he never asked me out on another date lmfao... anyway, now it's the movie I pop in the DVD player when I feel like flushing out my tear ducts and sinus cavities, or if I just feel like waking up the next morning with a headache and swollen eyes... damn you Nicholas Sparks...
I'm female and I hated the notebook
Yea, I don't like the notebook...I've watched parts of it. I find it boring and fall asleep....
Perhaps he watched a loved one slip away to Alzheimer's. And that watching that particular movie hits home on the feelings that it was painful to see Grandma not recognize him anymore. And that he may suffer the same fate one day.