The best Nicholas Sparks movie, according to Rotten Tomatoes

At the time of writing this article, the author Nicholas Sparks has written 23 novels, and each of them has been a sales success of the New York Times. His first novel, “The Passing”, was published in 1985, and was immediately established as one of the preeminent pop-romance writers of the world, which authorized wide and tragic stories about desires, suffering from amorous women and impeccable rescue tacuelas. His 1999 novel “A Walk To Remember” was inspired by the tragic death of his younger sister, killed by cancer at age 33. Sparks novels, mostly in North Carolina, are known for their placid and pastoral tones, melodrama and sweeping and melodrama, and weeping ends.

Hollywood took his hooks to Sparks in 1999 when they adapted their book “Message in a bottle” in a remarkable success starring Kevin Costner. That film won $ 118 million with a $ 30 million budget, and the main film studios seem to have found a winning formula. Since then, additional Sparks novels have adapted to movies, and most of them have been generating money. It seems that there was a great demand for tragic romances in the mid -2000s. The most recent movie based in Sparks was the 2014 television film “Deliverance Creek”, a civil war drama starring Lauren Ambrose that was broadcast In Lifetime. Although the film adaptations of Sparks novels have fallen out of favor, man himself continues to write successful novels. (His last, “counting miracles”, was published in 2024).

Another notable aspect of Sparks -based films is that critics do not receive them well. The 2016 adaptation of “The Choice” only has an approval index of 11% in Rotten Tomatoes (based on 83 reviews). And even his best received film only has an approval index of 54%, based on the revision of 182. As Sparks fans can intuit, his best reviewed film was the romance of Nick Cassavetes in 2004 “The Notebook”.

“The Notebook” was, as “message in a bottle”, a remarkable box office success, which earns $ 115 million with a budget of $ 29 million. However, more, it became a point of cultural contact for a generation, and now one of the best romances of its time is often considered (in an unofficial capacity). Large established in 1940, “The Notebook” tells the story of a rich heiress called Ellie (Rachel Mcadams) and a Lumber Taciturn worker Mill called Noah (Ryan Gosling) and the years they spent having a romance in a romance again . Ellie is really interested in Noah, but is scared for her romantic intensity, as well as for her lower class. As the story turns by bicycle through World War II, Ellie marries another man (James Marsden) and Noah continued Pino for her. Finally, the couple will end together. “The Notebook” is reserved by Noah and Ellie as older people (played by James Garner and Gena Rowlands) while suffering through a tragic case of dementia. The old Noah reads a notebook that contains the details of his love story, hoping to restart his memories again.

Some of the “The Notebook” reviews were quite hard. Peter Bradshaw, writing for The GuardianHe hated the icuititude of the film, gave him a star (five) and called him a blatant imitation of “Titanic.” “Dentistry in the Renaissance could not have been more painful than seeing this,” he wrote. Even positive reviews were qualified. Desson Thompson review for The Washington Post He acknowledged that “The Notebook” was blatantly cheesy, but that contained some honest and moving performances.

This was Ryan Gosling’s first romantic role, and his image as a movement star changed immediately after. The film repeatedly played at sleep parties during most of the next decade.

Most of the “The Notebook” reviews, both positive and negative, are accurately set “the notebook” as a manipulative cry, and several critics made a liberal use of words such as “sap” and “syrup.” The film is sticky sweet. Similar criticisms can be found in the reviews of any adaptation of Nicholas Sparks. To date, none of them has been overwhelmingly loved.

As mentioned, “The Choice” only has an approval index of 11%, but the romance of 2014 “The best of me” was not much better, with only 12% (based on 82 reviews). That film also starred in the actor of “The Notebook” James Marsden, although his presence did not make him a great success. The “safe shelter” of Lasse Hallström with Josh Duhamel and Julianne Hough has an approval index of 13% (based on 147 revisions). In that film, Duhamel’s character is so perfect, so dedicated to the character of Hough, so committed that he invited the author of this article to accumulate the phrase “Stud of impeccable rescue”, the archetypal Flip Side to the Pixie Dreamgirl. (“Stud of impeccable rescue” is still realized).

Sparks actually wrote the script of one of his film adaptations: “The Last Song” of 2010, starring Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth. That film was a great success in Sparks, winning $ 89 million with a budget of $ 20 million, but also received little notices. It only has an approval index of 21%, based on 121 reviews. It was the first film that Cyrus made after “Hannah Montana: The Movie”, so the public may have gone to cinemas simply to see that the child’s diva grows a little.

In total, the 11 Sparks films have raised almost $ 900 million, which makes it a mini industry during the 2000s and in the 2010. It has fallen into estimate since 2016, the public no longer seems to be in humor For tragic courses, but for a while there, it was everything.