I wish i could forget “A WALK TO REMEMBER”

Hi all!!!
I don’t know where you people live and what you do but if you are into hollywood movies, romantics, that is, or have ever been bored, or have a love relationship brewing… you must have seen A WALK TO REMEMBER.
I am not much into romantics, not for a long time now, but i was pestered and battered into viewing this movie by all my friends in college, and frankly, i was tired of being mocked at every social gathering as i had not seen THE movie. So, i now know how badly peer-pressure can effect lives of innocent children, almost ruining them.
I was a bit apprehensive, like a virgin girl is on her first night, and feigns to be on rest of her first nights. I started low, saw the review on imdb.com . It’s a good site by the way, as far as information about movies is concerned, but i am learning to go by my gut feeling rather than views of emotional wrecks that love this movie. The review i read started with the guy telling that he cried as he came out of the movie. AND I WENT BY HIS INSTINCTS…..no amount of repentance can absolve my sins now.
But, i digress. So, i downloaded it from a torrent( and shattered a thousand copyright infringement laws along the way, i suppose) and after waiting for about 6 hours( damn my isp, actually i was sleeping so no offence taken). As i started the movie, i thought i would love it. The guy was actually handsome(keep feigning surprise over my sexual orientation), and was someone with attitude. He was one in a group of friends who are considered elites…you all know about it, don’t you. And a noob(newbie) was trying to get in. So he had a dare to fulfill, jump from a high platform into a reservoir below. I had my fingers between my teeth due to sheer excitement. To tell the truth i was expecting meter long cast iron spikes just below the water surface, maybe there were. But the guy just hit some damn pipe and was knocked unconscious, a miracle actually considering the height, but if people choose to ignore it, well, i am no Moses.
This was the most interesting part, from here the movie tends to spiral downhill. All his friends escape but our mr. good has to jump in water to save the kid. I mean, comme on. He had police at his heels. Even if he didn’t jump, they would have saved him faster than he could, along with applying resuscitation techniques, which he comfortably ignored while he ran to save his…..behind( Don’t want my blog to be restricted from viewers who need it most).
Scene change, he is given jobs of community service like part-time janitor and acting. It broke my heart!!! Another talent wasted. And what sorted of twisted community is this? And what sort of a demented person was this principal, to extend such a physically taxing duty to a guy on crutches…And he has to teach a guy who is interested in sports, though hardly seems to be good there as well looking at his fitness level.
He is also supposed to go to church where he sees the daughter of minister, who has the most beautiful voice you will ever hear, and so innocent…sry, had to blow my nose…got emo.
FFWD, she is also seen 2 b in the same tutoring school as him, as well as the acting school, and sits on a seat beside him uninvited and starts disturbing him when he is listening to a song, hmmmm…. too many coincidences??? A female stalker??? A femme fatale??? Definitely weird. Keep thinking….
So, our hero is no good with the guy he is supposed to teach, nor with the play in which he is supposed to lead…umm, a point, why did the mam ask him to lead when he was a novice?  Did she want the play to be a flop? Did she have hots for our hero, as his black friend said while they were rehearsing lines( Don’t remember? BAD BAD DOGGY!! Go watch the movie again).  A conspiracy conveniently forgotten. But it was not a subject to be dealth by the picture anyway.
As our guy’s acting class is over and he is left stranded in the middle of nowhere, with his friend who was supposed to pick him up nowhere to be seen ( most probably a flat tire, but they show it as if he did it on purpose, and to show us how the friends he had made were all false, and…blah,blah,blah!!!!), so he asks our cute heroine to hitch him along, which she does happily…i begin to seriously suspect her.
Our hero is having a trouble with his lines, so he asks our heroine to help him with them, which she agrees to, with an attitude of-course. I would have shoved the papers up her…. then and there, but the hero is being paid not to do so, and so the story continues. He comes to know about her little itsy bitsy teeny weeny cuchy puchy girlie wishes as they start working together, which range from being in two places at once to getting a tatoo… I was having a head-ache listening to them, and putting up with her fake innocent smile. Felt like bashing her teeth everytime she parted her lips.
Well his swallowing his pride led to nothing as she got upset over a trifle matter and refused to help him. So he had to do everything by himself. Maybe he liked her attitude, maybe he wanted to get even with her, or maybe for the few million the producer was offering, he fell in love with her.
Well the play is a success, he kisses her in the end, i had bet Rs. 50 that it would be a french, but it was not. I had bet with myself anyway so no real harm done there. He meets his father who we come to know is a cardiologist, has a successful wife, is as smart as our hero despite his age, and his job clearly explains presence of a car inn the hero’s house-hold, as i had begun suspecting foul play. Who wouldn’t in a family where the guy is studying and mother is doing no job, none during the daytime atleast.
Our hero gifts her a sweater, since her father won’t, probably thought it a bad investment as she was going to die soon anyway. Busts his friend’s nose over a fake photoshop job done. I had my blood boiling at that scene. I mean, were they f**kin bastards? What sort of a person does something like that? Honestly, with a photoshop job taat bad, i won’t even keep it on my hdd, least of all printout its flyers. And i am a novice in photoshop >( .
Nest, our hero asks her out, takes permission from her senile old father by quoting bible, which he had mocked not long ago, and takes on as his personal achievement to fulfill the girl’s dreams, in very interesting ways. (The girl could have at least demanded a tatoo somewhere more interesting, just for the sake of our hero, no personal motives involved, but she should have…). And they kiss on there first night out, which makes me bang my head for not being born in america.
Then comes the twist. Our hero is taking the heroine in a deserted alley (don’t ask me what’s there to mention about it, think on your own), when she tells him that she has leukemia, and runs away, while our hero is left seething, torn, broken-hearted, ripping and tearing his hair…boohoo
He goes to his father to ask help, and seeths when he is told that he is a cardiologist, and can’t do much about cancer. So kids, that tells you to focus more on your study than chick’s legs.
Rest is pretty stereo-typed. He forgives her, not that it mattered much, and proceeds to fulfill rest of her dreams, and marries her(Smart move,boy!!). The movie ends with our hero getting into medical school and visiting his father-in-law. Landon says he wished Jamie could see her miracle. Her father tells that he was her miracle. Movie ends. Everyone leaves teary-eyed. And I leave with so much to spill in my mind.

(WARNING: Contains Spoilers!!)