"The Notebook" is the ultimate chick flick, full of cliches to an extent that it'd be more appropriate as satire. Along with so many other guys, I personally cannot stand the movie, much less the book. In my opinion, it's queerer than a bag of dicks.
The whole movie is so slow and nonchalant. Every single event in the movie has some factor regarding love and romance. I mean, Jesus Christ, even the main characters' death is fucking boring. How the hell do they pull that off!?!
Now, thinking about true Hollywood movies, and what they believe really sells, the movie would have far more nudity (the sex scene doesn't count; I can't see shit), more violence (fight between old boyfriend and new), and suspense (new boyfriend conspiring on killing old boyfriend). Also, the ending needs some dramatic changes. The following is the new, more entertaining ending...
*Cooler Ending*
The two lovers fall asleep together in the hospital bed, but they do not die in their sleep of old age. Instead, an airplane hits the hospital on their side of the building killing them instantly, along with many others.
Patients and doctors stagger about the wreckage with limbs missing, searching for their relatives. Cut over to the Pentagon. They believe it was a terrorist attack - the president addresses the situation and sends out troops to Iran, blaming them for the disaster.
One female troop sent to Iran is a badass and has been genetically enhanced after her plane crashed during testing years before. She "interrogates" several Irannies and finds they plan on launching nuclear missles to the U.S.
The Pentagon won't buy the story. They refuse to believe they have nuclear missles. The troop does her own investigation and finds where the missles are located. Out of nowhere, she's stormed by Iranny terrorists and is then beheaded on television.
The nukes go off and take out much of America. America then strikes back with their own nukes. The end of the world commences. The war ends with only a few humans surviving. Out of all documentation, from novels to articles to magazines, etc, the only one that remained was the notebook the man read the woman throughout the story. The end.
The Notebook is not the ultimate chick flick. That title, I believe, was won by the following 3 movies:
Fried Green Tomatoes
Steel Magnolias
and, more recently,
P.S. I Love You
I also agree with you that The Notebook left much to be desired. Your ending is awesome (says the girl that longs for an Armageddon-style end-of-the-world movie where the characters don't conveniently save the world in the last 18 minutes. Saving the world from impending doom is boring.)
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