SnoReptilePlenty Memorable, crazy movie

Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Taha Avalos The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Gary The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

Phil Ingrouille I remembered seeing a trailer for this film on YouTube; didn't interest me, but I remembered the poster standing out. And after watching Hunger Games, I was interested in seeing more Sam Claflin films, so I put it in my mental list.Story: Best friends Rosie and Alex go their separate ways after secondary school, with Alex moving to America and Rosie accidentally becoming pregnant after prom night. As the years go by, Rose and Alex gamble everything to keep their friendship alive, while love also springs between them.Good set up, good cast. Overall I enjoyed it, and my favourite part was definitely Lily Collins and Sam Claflin's chemistry. I thought it was believable how they transitioned from best friends to being in love at the end, even if a few scenes felt pointless. I also enjoyed the friendship between Rosie and her friend Ruby. I liked the supporting characters Sally and Bethany. I thought the pacing was fine, I wasn't bored at all watching it.I have negatives of course so 1) the fact that they don't age. I get it since two attractive people have been cast in the roles and they probably don't want to recast them. But seriously, Rosie's daughter is 14 or 15 years old by the end, and they look like sisters. Age up your actors; it's distracting. Keeps reminding me of the McAvoy/Fassbender X-Men films; Age for crying out loud! I mean a lot times you'd probably forget that since Collins and Claflin have such great chemistry, but once they stop talking to each other it becomes distracting again.Also, there is one completely cartoon character: Greg, Rosie's baby daddy and later husband. If Greg exists in the books and is accurate to the book character; fair enough. But it was the laziest way to portray a deadbeat. There's a scene where Rosie and Alex are at Rosie's dad's funeral; it's raining and tries to portray itself as a serious seen. But, Greg straight up walks up to the two, puts on his glasses, acting like he's at a party and goofing around. What!?? Is the script so desperate to portray Greg as a douche, they had to resort to that. Who ok'd that. If you need a scene like that, don't put it in a funeral scene.I enjoy romantic films when I'm in the mood, and apart from those few distracting elements, I enjoyed the film. I'd recommend it, just watch out for those things I've mentioned.

Billylkbrooke When I finished watching this film last night I had tears down my face and was helpless to my own pondering about what this film was showing. The last time I was so invested in characters in a Rom-Com was "when Harry met Sally" but even though the film was not as artistically proficient, it still impacted me on a far greater level. Needless to say that I experienced "love, Rosie" in a vastly different way to professional film critics, one of whom said: "Do you really want to expose your adolescent daughter to 100 minutes of the beautiful Lily Collins accepting second-best, over and over and over and over and over and over and over again?" The reality is that we do, especially as adolescents, experience just this. The premise of the film is simple and yet also a little unoriginal. Rosie and Alex are best friends from childhood but they fail to see the chemistry between them. It takes them 15 years from the point they leave sixth form college to realise they have been looking for one another all that time. So far so "when Harry met Sally" but where these two films diverge, and where my interest was piqued, was how the film sets this up. When Harry actually meets Sally, they part ways, return and then part ways again. The third meeting is the lucky one and they build their friendship to love. The story evolves around these two figures slowly building a relationship that gains depth neither expected. The key theme is how love is most stable when built upon friendship.Love, Rosie, on the other hand, focuses on relationships, and that we often choose poorly. It begins with a run through of Rosie and Alex through childhood, establishing their chemistry through how the characters speak to one another, their body language around each other, and how they react to their choices of lovers. They are already friends, so the film instead challenges them by keeping their love apart by their own choices. To push my point home there is a scene at the start where Alex is contemplating who to take to the end of year school dance; will he choose Bethany or Rosie. This is a form of foreshadowing, but also reveals how these two characters interact. Rosie's tone shows she is hurt that he is making this choice so she tells him that she has been asked by "the hottest guy in the year" (the narcissistic Greg) to the dance. Neither chooses each other and it is clear that Rosie dislikes this (note that the film is from her perspective), even though she says nothing about it until at least an hour into the film. The point of this is that we see immediately that these two characters know each other, have done for a long time, and are interesting in one another but lack the courage to pursue their feelings. A contrasting scene in when Harry met Sally is the day "date" they have, enjoying New York, which concludes with Harry asking Sally to the cinema to find she is already going on the date; this sequence is one where they get to know each other, which contrasts with the already established friendship of Rosie and Alex. This is a highly different dynamic."Love, Rosie" focuses on a romance that is convincing consequently, for the dual reason that their friendship is convincing and realistic, and that Rosie and Alex are both very flawed characters; they are truly 3-dimensional characters because they are imperfect and make bad decisions throughout the story. These decisions are relatable too; they experience romances that go wrong or have tough times due to conflicts of character or difficult events. I can't really go further without spoiling major plot points and I've done my best to keep the review as spoiler-free as I can, but I will say that I knew the events intimately for their realism and made the film hard to watch. The story told is essentially a film of normal life, by which I mean that the events of the film are events we have all experienced in some way either directly or second-hand. In contrast to the tried and tested plot the story is highly original due to its reliance on normalcy.We often watch films for escapism, to endulge in the ridiculousness of cinema; Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, the Martian, Inception, all these films have high stakes that we enjoy for the thrill of catharsis. Even Rom-Coms have this streak of the abnormal from the myriad of hollywood love stories in Love Actually to even the handsome stranger cliche of Colin Firth's character in Bridget Jones's Diary, we are shown love stories of sunlight and roses, of mistakes but a resolution within days or even weeks. "When Harry met Sally" crafts a wonderful picture of two great characters slowly falling in love, but their other love interests are left to the side and unshown. "Love, Rosie" shows these failed loves, and also shows how both Rosie and Alex repeatedly make the same mistake bringing home a relatable lesson; love does not come quickly, but sometimes it is found where it has been infront of your eyes all along.Yet there is still more to this. We sometimes look for clever cinema that makes us think about ideas complex in philosophy or morality. I've lost count of the number of people who have finished inception and told me they want to know if the spinning top finished spinning. The bottom line is that this is only a superficial question that is put to the side when you realise the answer doesn't matter beyond the context of the film. What I discovered upon finishing "Love, Rosie" is that it is really the problems and realities of life that make us think. A flawed and imperfect life is the most normal thing for us, and this film captures the charm in the imperfection, challenging us to think introspectively about our own lives and love experiences.Sorry about the long and rambling review. This film made me think more than I expected. THe key point is watch this film. It is charming, funny and very relatable.

hoangquandn I watch the whole movie without knowing that's from a really nice novel; therefore, it has a simple storyline but the power it made is really fantastic and in a few moment, I nearly can feel as precisely as the two main characters did, mostly the actress although I'm a guy, haha. After all, we should...ur...no, we must pursue our dreams especially our love with the best effort, the time, once it's gone, will never come back, that's how real life, as well as such film, taught me.

fiorinawinarto Love Rosie. The story of two young souls begins and ends. Two teenage best friends, Rosie Dunne (Lily Collins) and Alex Stewart (Sam Claflin) is in denial about the love between them. The film was magical, everything anyone would dream about. Personally, it's breathtaking and relatable. The movie is adapted from the book Where Rainbows End by Cecelia Ahern. It is a 102 minutes movie it is not that long and not that short for a movie. It was released at October 22, 2014 (United Kingdom) and directed by Christian Ditter. The movie was amazing, how it can captures everything. The content of the movie is just compelling and somehow it makes me think as an audience, "What if I end up like them, that the right person was right in front of me all along?" Love Rosie might not be relatable to everyone in real life, but the way they make it, it makes me believe that the movie is myself being pictured. It is kind of pathetic, their love story. You can either see it as exciting and annoyed or boring. How Alex kept looking for beautiful perfect girl you could ever seen and at last you ends up with your best friend which may be just enough for him. He could've just say you love your best friend, instead of flying across countries to look for a better one when you're not going to find any. Finally, they end up being jealous of one and another, but worried at the same time because of their feelings. Somehow, in my opinion that what makes it interesting because it is so true in so many level.I enjoy the part where Alex got married then he have this dancing part, where Rosie's child was having the same problem like what Alex and Rosie have but the difference is that now Alex knows and wants her to feel like it is okay to fall in love with your best friend. That part of the plot breaks my heart. In the other hand I don't enjoy much where Rosie made a stupid mistake about marrying Greg because it just don't make sense, but at the same time it was the one thing that makes the movie or appealing at some point. Overall the movie is pretty sensitive and I never seen anything as good as this movie apparently. Lily Collins and Sam Claflins is definitely a perfect match to the role, but can't really tell for sure since I don't read the book but it was so perfect that they are able to make me feel like what they feel. I watched so many romance drama movies and nothing seemed to be better or slightly under either. I learned a lot after watching this, how we can't take others for granted.