'Love Rosie' Movie Review

This Tuesday(2-9-15), I had the most amazing and incredible experience, of watching the movie, Love, Rosie, in theaters. And let me tell you, it was just about as magical as the book.
Love, Rosie (2015)
Starring: Lilly Collins, Sam Claflin, Christian Cooke, Jamie Winstone, Suki Waterhouse, and Lily Laight.

Synopsis: Rosie and Alex are best friends until Alex's family moves to America. They gamble everything to keep their love and friendship alive over the years and miles.

Again! With the terrible synopsis's! Argh, I'll make this one quick.

Rosie and Alex have been best friends ever since they were just tots. As they grow older, they both realize they have feelings for each other, though neither of them ever have the guts to say it. They put everything into their relationship, trying to keep it alive throughout the years and miles, and waiting for the moment where their feelings catch up with them.

So let me tell you, around summer '14, I saw the trailer for this movie, speechless by the 3 minutes of glory that I endured, I almost jumped for joy when I found out it was based on a book. Naturally, I put it on hold and read it (Where Rainbows End, By Cecelia Ahern). It was my all time favorite, I was screaming at the thought of seeing the movie. So I endured, months and months of zero talk about the movie, until coming January, the date for the release of it in theaters, came out. Long story short, I endured another month of wait, until I could see it (In select theaters, to my dismay)
I begged my mom to take me (By the grace of God, it was playing at a theater a couple minutes away), and though it felt like we never were going to, the day came and we found a time that we could.

THIS MOVIE WAS INCREDIBLE. My opinion on it can definitely be stated as biased, seeing that Lilly Collins and Sam Claflin are two of my favorite actors, and the book is my favorite, but either way, I will highly suggest that you see the movie

Anyways, onto the actual movie, the quality, acting- goodness; everything, about that movie was incredible. Though, like all movies based on books, a TON of things were changed. But seeing that the book takes place over a 35+ year time elapse, I would say they had to cut somethings out and make changes.

First I would like to go on about the cute and hilarious friendship between Rosie and Alex, it's a relationship that holds itself together for so long. That has so much openness, that allows them both to speak their mind. One where they can completely act like themselves around each other, where they both know every quirk about one another. They are incredible to watch on screen together, their chemistry as actors(and characters) is a joy to watch. They both play off each other perfectly.

Probably my second favorite thing about the movie (More the relationships in the movie) is how real Rosie's relationship is with her daughter Katie. As a single mother, she really does have to do most of everything on her own, and she keeps her relationship with Katie amazingly. Throughout the movie, you can see how much she cares for her (Which is one thing from the book that they really kept true to itself), I can't really explain any of it, honestly its something that you have to see for yourself. But it really is something that I enjoyed about the movie, its also something that my mother also highly enjoyed about it, because you can tell that they didn't shy away from all of it, it's a big part of the movie and something that is shown to really mean something to Rosie.

Personally, as much as I loved this movie (And don't even start me, I loved the movie), but this particular movie, I am finding trouble writing a review for, I feel like this is a movie that you have to watch (Or read Definitely read it) to fully get/understand it. 

The only real problem I had with the movie, that I am going to point out, is how much emotion you miss out on, don't get me wrong, they had so much emotion in it, it was incredible how much they managed to portray (Lily Collins plays Rosie's emotions and heartache perfectly), but like I said with watching the movie, you aren't able to see the in depth thoughts of Rosie and Alex's thoughts that you can in the book. So if you are to watch the movie, I would suggest reading the book first. But if you can't wait *sigh*, then simply watch it, read the book, then re-watch the movie with the thoughts and added things from the book in mind, it really effects how you see the movie. 

Which leads to the last thing I would like to add. If you are one of those, who has read the book, and you watch the movie. You will like it so much more. Because as I said above, you can see it all on her (Rosie) face. When your watching it, and one of the heartbreaking scenes happen (If you've read it, you know the ones I am referring to), when you look at her face; you can tell what she's thinking, and it makes her emotions so much more real, its like you can read her mind (Because technically you can/have) and you are able to read it all on her face. Like I said, I'm not good with words, and I'm finding it really tough to explain. But please, dear please. Consider watching/reading the movie/book, It's amazing.

Rate: 10/10

Favorite character: ROSIE DUNNE ROSIE DUNNE ROSIE DUNNE.

Should you watch it?: YES. Not even a debate.

Now I will leave you with my two favorite quotes from the film/book

'Remember Me' Movie Review

Well here we have, my first movie review. I have been holding off writing this for a very, very, long time now, but I finally decided 'Hey, I'm suppose to be watching like 12 other movies, and doing my homework. But instead lets write a movie review!' So here it is, the first movie I have seen this year, and the first one I will write about on the blog

Remember Me (2010)

Starring: Robert Pattinson, Emilie de Ravin, Pierce Brosnan, Chris Cooper, and Ruby Jerins.

Synopsis: Tyler (Robert Pattinson) has had a strained relationship with his father (Pierce Brosnan since a family tragedy. Rebellious and troubled, he thinks no one can understand his pain, then he meets Ally (Emilie de Ravin). Her warmth and spirit soon begin to heal him, and they fall in love. But just when Tyler begins to rediscover happiness and meaning in his life, emerging secrets threaten their romance.

That is the synopsis that was given to me via google, but honestly, I don't believe it does the movie justice. The first thing that its missing; is its not about falling in love, and if you have that in mind (Like I did) when you start the movie, you will be disappointed will find that its about something much greater.

So here, is my own synopsis detailed plot on the film (It may spoil small things that you learn in the middle of the movie, so forgive me.)

Troubled and broken Tyler Hawkins (Robert Pattinson) is still in the middle of recovering from his brothers suicide, cigarettes and writing letters to his brother is how he copes with it all. Until one day; when he's leaving the club with his best friend Aidan Hall (Tate Ellington), and two girls they met, he sees a fight break out in the ally. He goes and helps out the helpless people that are getting punched and kicked, and when the police come; they arrest everyone that is fighting, except Tyler and Aidan; who the two girls tell the cops were just trying to break up the fight. Tyler gets angry because the other people didn't start the fight and they don't deserve to be arrested, he yells at the cop; gets into a small fight, and gets arrested.

Later on his best friend finds out that the cop that arrested him; has a daughter, Ally Craig (Emilie de Ravin). He convinces him to date the girl, and then break up with her so he can get back at the cop. Problem is, he falls for her. 

Blah blah blah, things happen, they fall in love, its cute. But the real plot, is his family. His father, Charles Hawkins (Pierce Brosnan), has given up on all emotions, he never interacts with his son; Tyler, but most of all, his daughter, Caroline (Ruby Jerins) who honestly believe that she is unloved by her father. He stays at work all day, treating his daughter like nothing, he is just a person who buys her what she wants, but doesn't care for her. He only bails Tyler out of jail and gives him money, it isn't really said, whether he became like this through his sons death or not, but it is quite obvious that he has been like this for a while now.

The movie isn't about Tyler and Ally's relationship (though it is great, and the chemistry between the actors is amazing), it's about all the characters growth, Tyler healing and helping his dad and sister heal, helping his girlfriend Ally, who watched her mother get shot and killed by a group of people that mugged her and her mom when she was younger, heal. It's about Ally and her fathers relationship, which has been on the rocks since her mothers death; healing and being fixed. The movie is all about getting over your struggles and moving past them, its about living in the now, it's about healing from past scars.

No matter what you believe its about, you will be moved by it, When I finished the movie I had to sit in front of the screen for a few minutes and rethink what I just watched, its the type of movie that has you crying, laughing, screaming, and walking out of the theater (Or into the other room) with the bliss feeling that you get when you just watch a good movie.

Remember Me is definitely a movie I would watch again, and it is up there with my top 20 favorite movies. I laughed and cried, it was a very enjoyable movie; and one that I ran onto twitter to find other people who watched the movie to rant to.

The acting is great, I still can't get over Robert Pattinson and Ruby Jerins relationship; anytime they were on screen together I had to drop everything and pay attention, maybe it's because Tyler just looks so adorable when he takes care of his little sister.

Aidan Halls's character was hilarious, though a real jerk at times, I would have punched him for sure in many different moments. But no character was more annoying than Tyler's father, his stubborn and obliviousness was the most aggravating thing of the movie, which made the movie all the more better.

Rate: 9/10

Favorite Character: Caroline Hawkins!

Should You Watch it? Yes!   

Now, I tell you; tell me your opinion on it, if you have already seen it; tell me your opinions and if you liked it. But more importantly, tell me if you decided to watch it because of what I said, and than tell me if you liked it, I would love to know

I will now end with a photo of me and a giraffe back in summer 2014 at the Memphis Zoo.Good day that was. Enjoy yours today! :)