The Reel Rejects - THE NOTEBOOK (2004) IS HEARTWRENCHING!! MOVIE REVIEW!!

Episode Date: February 16, 2025

I'LL COME BACK TO YOU!!! The Notebook Full Reaction Watch Along: https://www.patreon.com/thereelrejects Follow Us On Socials:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/  Tik-Tok: https://ww...w.tiktok.com/@thereelrejects?lang=en Twitter: https://x.com/thereelrejects Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ Visit https://www.liquidiv.com & use Promo Code: REJECTS to get 20% off your first order. Save & Invest In Your Future Today, visit: https://www.acorns.com/rejects Get Your Fantastic Four & Spider-Club RR Shirts: https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ Come see us at MULTICON!! https://shorturl.at/2B9l4 With another Valentine's Day upon us, Aaron Alexander & John Humphrey RETURN for a much-needed Romance Saturday as they give their FIRST TIME Reaction, Commentary, Analysis, Breakdown, & Full Movie Spoiler Review for this unforgettable 2000s-era love story. The Notebook (2004) stars Ryan Gosling (La La Land, Drive, Barbie) as Noah Calhoun and Rachel McAdams (Mean Girls, Spotlight, Doctor Strange) as Allie Hamilton, two young lovers from different worlds whose passionate romance stands the test of time, class differences, and fate itself. Based on the beloved Nicholas Sparks novel, this iconic film also features James Garner (The Rockford Files, Space Cowboys) and Gena Rowlands (Gloria, A Woman Under the Influence) as the older versions of Noah and Allie, Joan Allen (Pleasantville, The Bourne Ultimatum) as Allie’s disapproving mother, and Kevin Connolly (Entourage) as Noah’s best friend Fin. John & Aaron REACT to all the Most Romantic & Heartbreaking Moments, including Noah & Allie’s first meeting, their epic lake scene (“If you’re a bird, I’m a bird”), the unforgettable kiss in the rain, and the emotional final scene that left audiences in tears. Plus, they discuss the film’s legacy, behind-the-scenes trivia, and why The Notebook remains one of the most beloved love stories of all time!! Join us for all the swoons, all the tears, and all the nostalgia as we revisit this timeless romance! Follow Aaron On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/therealaaronalexander/?hl=en Support The Channel By Getting Some REEL REJECTS Apparel! https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ Music Used In Manscaped Ad:  Hat the Jazz by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ POWERED BY @GFUEL Visit https://gfuel.ly/3wD5Ygo and use code REJECTNATION for 20% off select tubs!! Head Editor: https://www.instagram.com/praperhq/?hl=en Co-Editor: Greg Alba Co-Editor: John Humphrey Music In Video: Airport Lounge - Disco Ultralounge by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Ask Us A QUESTION On CAMEO: https://www.cameo.com/thereelrejects Follow TheReelRejects On FACEBOOK, TWITTER, & INSTAGRAM:  FB:  https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thereelrejects Follow GREG ON INSTAGRAM & TWITTER: INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/thegregalba/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thegregalba Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:01:01 well well what a journey ladies and gentlemen yeah as we take a moment to compose ourselves thank you for joining us if you've made it to this point in the video we just seen the notebook classic nicholas spark's novel adaptation and uh yeah leave us a rating if you're listening to this on apple or spotify i've starts check us out on the reject nation shop dot com get shirts erin john what did you think of the notebook man that was beautiful it was so good it was so good i was you know we just have heard about the this movie for years and funny enough the only literally
Starting point is 00:01:58 one the only thing that I ever heard about this movie is well two things one Ryan Gosling and um and what's your name m aeration McAdams were great in the movie and then out of context
Starting point is 00:02:14 knowing like the hearing like what do you want like knowing that because I think that's like a classic thing outside of that the story the their love story them even being old together had no nothing about and it really lived up to all of the hype uh this movie is beautiful it's tragic and it just goes to tell the the triumph of the human spirit and and love and i feel so many things it's very well done you know it's it's it's funny because i've never seen this particular thing but i've
Starting point is 00:02:50 seen echoes of similar sentiments in other films but i i think this one was done extremely well just because of how they laid it out you know and it didn't have to be explicit to do so especially with how they showed romance i think all of it was just very tastefully done and you really really believed in why that they why they loved each other and what made them work and it was just this experience that was just so heartfelt and yeah that's that's what's what I'm feeling right now john what are you what are you thinking man yeah this is a really
Starting point is 00:03:30 affecting movie and it's interesting to go back and to look at it after you know living through the glut of movies that this begat certainly you know you had probably a wave of nicholas sparks movies or nicholas sparks esk movies coming out after this because I definitely remember when this came out and how big of a splash that it was. It's 20 years old now, right?
Starting point is 00:03:55 Or something, yeah. And I mean, I can't remember where this factors in in terms of like where a walk to remember is. Greg and I watched that one a little while ago as well. But this had a really nice quality to it because it is, you know, your classic sweeping romance story. It is your, you know, not romantic tragedy,
Starting point is 00:04:16 but there is a lot of you know pain and life involved in it and i really liked the way that it proportioned itself because you know you have this wraparound in the present we'll call it the present with uh james garner and uh what is the actress's name we we got to look up the i mdb because everybody on the cast did a a terrific job and i like the way that they handle the wraparound um and the way that they give you the little clues and stuff like that and it's not even a movie that's like about a twist but yeah the fact that you know you don't even really witness the years of their lives that are spent, you know, happily ever after being married or whatever it is. You know, we see, you know, the things that lead them to each other, the things that
Starting point is 00:04:56 hold them together. Right. And then we see, you know, the, the twilight of all of that. And I thought that that was really a lovely way to depict this and a really great, like, this must have been a treat for all the actors involved, especially, you know, the Noah's and the alleys, because yeah there's there's so much history to build on and there's so much you know interpersonal chemistry to work out and I really believed the both of them the both sets of them as these two people and to give that you know that you know having this present day timeline looking back you know you can kind of piece together what the outcome would be it's probably him reading the story to her um but even still like i it just gave it this whole the other
Starting point is 00:05:46 level it just gave it this wholly other quality because it is like yeah a timeless tale of romance and it's a period piece and all that stuff and there's some really beautiful production values and everything but uh i don't know it didn't shy away from the the tricky parts like as much as this is a romance and it is romanticized in various ways um you know know, there's something about it where we're constantly witnessing the difficulties, the fact that you have to choose and you have to choose despite various odds and the fact that, like, I really love what they do with Rachel McAdams character because in her position, you 100% get it. And I thought that argument they have was really well articulated between the two of them, you know, where, you know, he's basically asking, what do you, what is it that you want, you know, and separate everybody else out of that. Me. And that goes back to the beginning of the story where, you know, he's basically asking, what do you, what is it that you want, you know, and separate everybody else out of that. me and that goes back to the beginning of the story where you know you find out her or he reveals the story reveals that the mom and dad have kind of been orchestrating everything in their life right before the uh yeah the scene where they're laying on the street and dancing so it's kind of a reprisal of that but her as an adult yeah absolutely and like just the way in which she is torn between them and she has this love for lawn and she did think that you know Noah must have just moved on and uh you know you you you know you you You have this really relatable scenario in which he's like, I have feelings for the both of you. I have love in my heart for the both of you.
Starting point is 00:07:14 I don't know what to do. And as much as Gosling, you know, you get his point and he's right. You know, like, what is it that you deep down, aside from everybody else want? Right. Because that's going to be the thing that you're going to have to stem everything else out of. Not to say that you should always be self-serving, but just that, yeah, in a matter of the heart, especially to not acknowledge that is only going to do your life. that much more pain and uh yeah for her to be in that position of like he's she's talking to marsden and he's like you know i could go kill this guy i could go beat the shit out of this guy or i could just leave
Starting point is 00:07:48 and none of those things you know bring me back to you you know and and you know you feel for him in that moment even even though it's really easy to root for no one against lawn in that moment you feel the life of it all the trickiness and the difficulty of affection feelings romance Knowing what you yourself feel and want versus what everybody else expects of you. There's so much. Like is that, yeah, it's like it's so much. And I feel like this helped to spur on a new wave of, again, these types of movies where you have, you know, two lovers with, you know, that firecracker romance. But they're separated by like a, you know, terminal illness or some circumstance or whatever.
Starting point is 00:08:31 And, and, you know, it's a genre with a lot of tropes. but this managed not to feel at all like that. It just managed to feel like some kind of timeless love story with this beautiful heartbreaking but beautiful wraparound and I can't really say enough about both Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams as well as James Garner and Gina Rollins I feel terrible for misidentifying them. How dare you?
Starting point is 00:08:54 But yeah, such great work. Yeah, man, it was really great. It was really great. and just seeing them come back come together initially and then come together when seven years later and then you find out the fact that he does this over and over again every day almost like 50 all out 50 first dates you know so he just has to have her keep coming back to him or keep him coming back to each other and that's like the the nature of their relationship it's it is sad and i do like the fact that there is nuance here there's not necessarily a bad guy in the story and you think it's the mom at first but then she was trying to i guess save her daughter in like some weird controlling kind of way and well she just thinks that she's going to have a better better quality of life with lawn yeah and like and that is a factor within you know she like it was in traditional sense and especially back in the 40s you know choosing um security
Starting point is 00:09:52 and and um protect and provide and like what's the most optimal option that's going to give that to you in society usually that's a man or of somebody of wealth to provide that quality of life to you and then it doesn't even but that nature doesn't necessarily also qualify for what is the foundation of kind of romantic chemistry or like what what passion plays into romantic connection so yeah it just um it just really all came together really well And just the fact that they both kind of endured and went through their separate lives. You know, I imagine this is inspired so many people in different stories. And I was interested to know, like, if there's an element of truth of the story, because when he's looking through the book, it's not them.
Starting point is 00:10:43 It's not Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams. It's somebody else. I'm like, oh, is it the real account to what actually happened kind of thing? I don't know. But I am curious about that. I like the fact that it's spanned so much time. And there was this kind of ship in the night sort of element to it, two people that kept missing each other.
Starting point is 00:11:04 I thought that was very well done. I like the visual language of the movie with like the color contrast between their, their wealth and lack thereof and how the visual language of the movie illustrates some of those things prior to the characters even saying it or talking about it verbally and the fact that that's even a factor to begin with. You know, it makes sense that that would be something you have to. concern yourself with in a time back then and yeah this movie is 20 years old came out in june of 2004 which is wild because it still holds up well told stories are timeless as they say
Starting point is 00:11:42 yeah absolutely i like one more thing before i get back to you but i like the fact that you think it's going to end with them coming back together and like oh like you remember me now it's dance and only had five minutes last time and i feel like another movie would have ended at that point with the implication that she's going to forget. But, and when it showed that, oh, she's going to forget again in this moment, I thought it was going to end again there. I was like, oh, it's going to be really sad. But then the fact that it ends on this moment where they're both together and they kind of
Starting point is 00:12:13 and they die together. I was like, oh, that's, that's even more poetic, you know, kind of reminds me of another thing we watched, you guys watched on the channel with Last of Us, episode three. Oh, sure. Yeah, it kind of reminds me of that. Yeah. If you guys know, you know. Yeah, it was just, it was very well done.
Starting point is 00:12:35 And I feel a lot of things. I'm sad. I feel a sense of catharsis. I feel a desire to embrace love. Yeah. Yeah, that's kind of what I'm walking away with in this moment. Yeah. Yeah, no, and there are a lot of really great small little details that they wouldn't have had to, like,
Starting point is 00:12:56 they don't have to do stuff and especially in like a third PG-13 movie like there's that one scene where she's just undressed on the porch painting and there's just like so many great little details like that that just again feel like you're just observing characters rather than doing stuff for the plot
Starting point is 00:13:12 or whatever and uh also that moment with her in the bathtub with his picture yeah just like playing with the veil on the thing over the tub yeah that was great yeah like there's so many great again like this feels like an instance of this kind of movie that's like really well conceived observed and crafted and yeah you know you get this sort of fairy tale ending but that is very bittersweet and that does not shy away from the harshness of aging and life
Starting point is 00:13:39 and all that stuff um and yeah i mean i really love that kind of it makes everything feel that much more vital not just the will they won't they have of are they going to get together are they going to live happily ever after but also the vitality of like holding on to the memory and hindsight holding on to the remaining, you know, qualities that the relationship, you just by virtue of the fact that we're both still here holding on to all that stuff. And you get the family stopping by. And in a way, in hindsight, it almost feels like, yeah, like not that it seems like they knew it was close to the end, but certainly it feels like in the movie's language that, yeah, everybody's stopping in to say goodbye.
Starting point is 00:14:16 And yeah, I just, I love the period elements. I love the way that they kind of let us hang out in the time and place as they get to know each other. off and have fun and everything so that once stuff starts to change you have that nostalgia as well for you know everything that came before when life was simpler a lot of good performances across this too i mean nick casavetes apparently is the son of john casavetes and gina rollins who played the older alley no way so uh so that's fun you know keeping it in the family and i thought yeah i mean this isn't his first directorial movie uh he did a few things before this including John Q.
Starting point is 00:14:52 With Denzel. But yeah, I thought this was nicely constructed in all the different ways. It used its scenery and sets really well. It used a lot of really great natural lighting at certain points and stuff like that. And, you know, it certainly contained
Starting point is 00:15:09 some element of the texture of the time without doing too much of that like, oh, you know, they go to war, but there's not really a whole bunch of like, oh, every 10 minutes like the history of the now happening on TV or something like that like the way they grounded it in time was just enough and the way they hopped around and
Starting point is 00:15:29 proportioned the past stuff the present stuff is just enough and yeah it just feels very natural like a natural it feels like a story that could be real you know for all the backs and forths and the ups and downs and the fact that so much of it is you know in it's all in the little details of people's decisions it's like what would have happened if the mom had given her the letters what would have happened if you know this this and this um and it feels like life happened and that's not easy always to do in a movie in a script in a genre that certainly comes with a lot of tropes and a lot of things you can expect um i thought they did a yeah a really nice job all right i'll admit it and maybe you guys have noticed during the holidays and let
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Starting point is 00:19:51 this video. Yeah, it was a bunch of little things that kind of led to this. And yeah, it makes me curious, you know, just like these two people that seemed like their total opposites that kind of fight all the time. And yeah, it seems like there's a sense of checks and balances between in their relationship but there's also like the sense of of um persistent passion because of their odds but they also inspire each other to want more and do better well another yeah and they have that friction but also you know he yeah it's like they naturally something about their natural chemistry inspires them to follow the things that they love and even grieving for each other in some way informs that too you know uh yeah like that's that whole thing with
Starting point is 00:20:38 her painting and she's talking to Marsden and she's like I don't paint anymore I thought that was like a great little detail and then she eventually goes back to to Noah um but yeah very touching very affecting very well done on all fronts a lot of great performances uh and and really again I love to see something that allows for both a couple of veteran actors to really have juicy roles and a lot to you know for us to care about and latch on to and you know the young hot people as well as a hot one is he's I thought yeah they all everything went to serve the greater hole. And I think that's obviously that's what you want.
Starting point is 00:21:14 We'll read a little bit of trivia before we wrap it up here. Ryan Gosling prepared for his role by living in Charleston, South Carolina, before filming began. For two months, he rode to the Ashley River every morning and built furniture during the day. Wow. That's crazy. Getting into character. According to Nick Cassavetes, Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams did not get along at first. And Gosling tried to have Rachel McAdams replace.
Starting point is 00:21:38 That combative chemistry is real. What? That's crazy. That's also the one thing I knew that they didn't like each other on set. But yeah, I guess that first. That's nuts. To improve the relationship between the leads director, Nick Cassavetti staged an intervention by bringing them into a room where they could air all their grievances they had with each other and work something out.
Starting point is 00:21:59 They soon patched up their differences enough to become a real-life couple for some type. Wow. See, that's the thing about a movie like this. Didn't know that part. that all that shit went into the soup all that went into the soup with this movie like oh my god that that is that you there is there is a distillation of that in something like this that you could never ever duplicate and that's like it's like when you hear somebody say like oh yeah this classic song was recorded on a broken amp or a broken guitar like it's it's one of those little wabi sobby things of like oh yeah that feeds the friction in the relationship on secret that feeds the love and the relationship on screen. It's crazy. Rachel McAdams spent time in Charleston before filming to familiar her eyes herself with her surroundings.
Starting point is 00:22:45 She also took ballet and etiquette classes and had a dialect coach to learn the southern exit. Well done. If you're in that part of the south, if you're in Charleston, let us know how she did. Ryan Gosling built the kitchen table featured in the movie in preparation for his role as Noah. That's amazing. Let's go. The scene Noah drives up and crashes in the gate of Ali. Summer Manor was a fluke.
Starting point is 00:23:09 They ruined a perfectly good gate, but they managed to get a great shot. That's right. Noah Cassavetti's wanted someone unknown and, quote, not handsome to play Noah. Therefore, he cast Ryan Gosling in the role. That's hilarious. Fascinating. What was his, what did people view him as at the time? Rachel McAdams auditioned for the role during another movie's premiere.
Starting point is 00:23:33 She was given the script just a day in advance and beat nine other actresses for the role. Scenes used during her audition included one of Allie's and Noah's arguments at the end after Allie and her mother return from the morning drive. It's a great scene. It was well known to the movie.
Starting point is 00:23:49 The second love scene between Noah and Alley was originally more explicit and longer. It had to be edited in order to keep a PG-13 rating. I did, I was curious about that because like the sequences in here
Starting point is 00:24:04 I don't know, yeah like there is a certain element of like sensual passion and it does feel like they they did like certainly it's weird it's like they cut around certain elements of like potential nudity but they didn't seem to be like as uh i don't know concerned about not even tempting that as maybe another movie would be like the parts where they're undressed together like feel very natural for the most part and also feel appropriately intimate you know without it being like Why are they fully dressed in bed or something like that? Let's see.
Starting point is 00:24:41 Ryan Gosling was director Nick Cassavetti's first and only choice for the role of Noah. Before Cassavetes, Stephen Spielberg, Tom Cruise, and Justin Timberlake were also attached to the project, but backed out. Interesting. That's crazy. And hey, here's another one. The band leader is supposed to be Cab Calloway, who was best known for his call and response tunes in which the band members and audience would repeat his scat lyrics. Hey, we got one. We got one.
Starting point is 00:25:06 Not too bad. Other actresses rumored to have been under consideration for the role of Allie included Ashley Judd, Reese Witherspoon, and Britney Spears auditioned for the role, and her footage was put on sale on eBay for $1 million in May of 2021. Did somebody, somebody buy that? Fascinating. What do they do with that? What'd do with that footage? Wowie. Cheapers.
Starting point is 00:25:29 Creepers. Let's go to, oh, my, in June 2024, Nick Cassavetes, who directed his real-life mother, Gina Rowlands, here in the part of a woman. with severe dementia reported Rollins herself now has full dementia at age 93. That is very sad. It's super sad. I mean, it's part of life most certainly, but yeah, sending love out to Kelly Rollins. Gina Rollins. Sorry, Kelly Rowland, Gina Rollins, my bad.
Starting point is 00:25:55 In her memoir, Brady Spears revealed that her second, she was the second choice to star as Allie. This would have been a reunion for Spears and Ryan Gosling, who were in the Mickey Mouse Club together. All right, let's read a couple of spoilers and wrap it up. After seven years, the after seven years Allie and Noah scenes were shot first, then the crew and cast went on a Christmas break. Ryan Gosling had to lose the beard and 20 pounds he had as the older Noah to come back to play the young Noah. Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling were rather shy and unsure around each other in the after
Starting point is 00:26:31 seven years scenes, but were more uncomfortable together in the young Allie and Noah scenes. That's interesting. Dude, damn. Because so much, I mean, so much happens. Because it's interesting because in those first, after seven years, they're kind of seeing each other for the first time. So it's like this bit of strangeness. But obviously, when they're together again,
Starting point is 00:26:50 that's the prime of their love. Yeah. Well, they're together again. And I feel like it's weird. If they weren't getting along ostensibly earlier in the shoot, when they would have been shooting that stuff, I feel like that probably... But most of the argument stuff was happening.
Starting point is 00:27:02 Yeah. So I feel like that would probably have added to the, you know, character prep of the tension between them. you know there are beautiful you know there's obviously a few very like decadent moments where they're you know having experiencing joy together but there's also a lot of like apprehension she's preoccupied they have you know a big old argument so like yeah i got to imagine that some of that friction was informing that uh the pictures of the older alley and noa through the years are actually uh the personal photos of gina rollins and her husband at john casavetes with james
Starting point is 00:27:32 carner's face photoshopped in over john's face fine jean ralins who played the older alley in the movie is director Nick Cassavetti's mother, Ryan Gosling, young Noah wore brown eye contact. He called it. Because James Garner, older Noah has brown eyes and Gossling has blue. When we were first introduced to the young Allie and Noah, they were
Starting point is 00:27:51 wearing the same colors worn by the older them in the beginning of the film. This is to give us a clue about who the older version of Alley and Noah were. Gina Rollins who plays the older Alley two years younger than James Garner, who plays the older Noah while Rachel McAdams, who plays Alley is two years older than Ryan Gussling, who plays
Starting point is 00:28:09 the younger Noah. Well, well done. That's great fact. Absolutely. Well, you got anything else to let the people know before we hit it? I had an amazing time watching this movie with you, John. I'm happy you finally get to watch it after all these years. Watch with you guys.
Starting point is 00:28:25 Also go over to rejagnation shop.com. Get your mugs. Get your Agatha Brew, Cove and Coffee mugs, and your Starbucks, Carbucks, shirts, mugs, and that's it. That's all we got. We will see you next time. Come, come read us. We'll see you next time when we're at your deathbed
Starting point is 00:28:44 reading the timeless tale of our love to you. That's right. And until next time, stay romantic out there, people. Eric Horsman. Oh. Eric, here's how this works. I'm going to guess what your name means,
Starting point is 00:28:59 my friend, my longtime friend, and John is going to guess what the name Eric means. And then whoever's closest wins. Eric, I'm going to guess. guess that means um shh uh
Starting point is 00:29:13 uh john you go first i'm gonna guess Eric is a bright sea foam both color and literally the foam
Starting point is 00:29:27 of the sea okay that's beautiful I'm gonna guess that means he's sunshine yes good all right all right two distinct elements
Starting point is 00:29:34 Eric meaning go Eric is an old Norse name. I literally turned away from like, oh, it's someone who I kept getting, I keep putting a signing like leader, ruler. A lot of names mean that. The one time I don't do it. Dude, got to go back to the pocket. Eric is an old Norse name that means sole ruler or eternal ruler.
Starting point is 00:29:56 It was like maximal ass ruling. The son of bitch. Yeah, circumstances. Drive from the Norse word er cure, which is a combination of the words ae, meaning ever or always in or a kid meaning ruler. All right. Look at that.
Starting point is 00:30:11 Okay. Love you, Eric. Eric, that's, uh... I mean, could you imagine Eric in like just a leather loin cloth with fur lining, just like taking us back to his grass hut and benching us? I actually can't imagine the whole rejects tattoo. Oh, you. Eric is, yeah, okay.
Starting point is 00:30:31 Yeah, yeah, man. He's rippling abs and pectoral muscles. That is some picks. And his brie, his brain. is braided beard.

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