At the end of my Moulin Rouge! review, I said that I likely would have enjoyed The Notebook more than Moulin Rouge!.  To test out this theory, I borrowed The Notebook, and made the time to watch it.  Romance for its own sake is not really my genre (as I’m more used to love stories being embedded in some other genre), but it seemed worth a shot to see if I was movie savvy enough to enjoy such a movie if it was well executed.

To that point, it fell somewhat short of enjoyable, but kept itself above the threshold of painful.  For more, you’ll have to see my full review after the jump. Continue reading The Notebook →