Yar, you be here: A Walk to Remember > Customer Reviews

A Walk to Remember Customer Reviews (22 - 24 of 110 Reviews)

A Love Story That Is Well Worth The Time Spent
While not a perfect movie, this teenage love story is appealing and well worth watching. Shane West (at the end of the film) and Mandy Moore are the characters I wish I would have been in high school. Their romance is refreshing and ends the right way, unlike 99% of Hollywood movies these days. The minister could have been portrayed a bit less stereotypically, but he could have been portrayed worse, too. I knew nothing about this movie when I bought it and am glad I stumbled upon it.

Dad's passing
My Dad passed away 3 years ago this month. It was the worst time in my life. My sister and I cried so much that we thought the pain would never go away. Then the last day of his funeral we came home and wanted to watch something distracting and lighthearted. My sister rented "A Walk to Remember," which I was vehemently opposed to watching. I thought it was going to be another mass-produced mindless teen flick w/a teen pop star. But as a favor to my sister I watched it.

And Loved It-- Its Christian message was EXACTLY what we needed to hear that day from God and from Dad. We cried bec it was like God and Dad were telling us everything would be okay, answering our doubts about life after death, about what really mattered in life. The movie wasn't about that, but it did address matters of Faith in God and in people, Forgiveness and Miracles. My sister and I had asked God for a sign to take away the pain, and this movie was His Answer.

A dissapointing adaptation of the book.
Very Disappointing. If you have read the book, please do not spoil the lovely impression by seeing the movie.
I guess that a movie that's "based on a novel" really has a lot of leeway. Regardless, if you forget the fact that they ripped the plot to shreds, reinvented the characters, and placed it in the wrong time period, this movie was just plain bad. Of course, the novel itself was not a masterpiece, but the things that made it charming and entertaining were missing from this film including the heart of the story, which focuses on how West and Moore's character's relationships effect each other; the movie fails to show how this relationship is established and instead skips ahead to the hand-holding and terms of endearment. The appeal of Moore's character Jamie rests in her ability to be completely naive, believing that everyone is inherently good and devoting herself to helping everyone she can. Of course, since no one is really like that, Jamie's personality was tweaked to make her seem more believable. The viewer is already in a fictional world, so why do the characters have to be changed to seem more real? Mandy Moore, while talented in other realms of entertainment, comes off as a mediocre actress. The role doesn't stray far from her image as a sweet girl-next-door. West, a regular in teen films, did a decent job with the material he was given. The thing that probably bothers me the most about this movie is that, like other pop stars in their first starring role in a major motion picture, the first words that come out of their mouths are sung (i.e. Lance Bass in On the Line and Britney Spears in Crossroads.) They rave about how they are trying something new that is separate from their music careers and all they end up doing is singing.

Previous Page

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37

Next Page