A Walk to Remember

From "Titanic" to "The Notebook"down to "Dear John"and all the way to "Love Actually", I've always been a sucker for a good love story. Most of my favourites are well known romance movies but my favourite of all time did not get the recognition it should have received. "A Walk to Remember" has and mostly likely will always be my favourite movie.

"A Walk to Remember" was released January 25th 2002. Before being made to a movie it was a novel written by Nicholas Sparks. It stars Mandy Moore & Shane West.

Landon Carter, bad boy, often pulled pranks with a group of his friends. When a prank goes wrong on fellow high-school student Clay Gephardt, Landon is threatened to be expelled (being the only one caught). His punishment was to participate in various after school activities, particularly the drama club. This is where Landon meets long time acquaintance Jamie Sullivan.
When Landon starts to have trouble learning his lines he goes to Jamie for help. They began working together and practicing at Jamie's home after school. Landon treats Jamie very coldly at first, especially when near his 'friends' but as he spends more and more time with her he begins to question who he really wants to impress.
The night the play takes place Jamie amazes everyone with her talented voice and her beauty. Landon and Jamie have their on stage kiss and the play ended.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8f8RHWMPyY

This Video is of Jamie singing (what you will hear and see bits of) and all my favourite scenes.

Now that the play is over the two have no real reason to spend time with each other, but Landon still wants to be around Jamie and tries to become closer with her but Jamie repeatedly rejects him.
Landon's friends begin to question why he's putting so much effort into trying to spend time with Jamie. Belinda, Landon's ex-girlfriend, was particularly angry about Landon possibly having potential feelings for Jamie. Out of pure anger and jealousy she finds a photo of Jamie, cuts the head off of her body and attaches it to the body of an overly exposed woman. Her and her friends make hundreds of copies and spread them all around the school.
The next day one of Landon's old friends show this photo to him. He becomes extremely furious and confronts all of them (punches one of them) and tells them he never wants to speak to any of them again. Landon then makes his way to a crying Jamie and tells her that they are all just jealous of her. Not to far from then Jamie and Landon begin a relationship.

(My Favourite Part)
Landon takes Jamie out for their first date. They go for dancing and dinner. In the car ride afterwards Jamie and Landon talk for a while. Landon discovers that Jamie has a bucket list (things you want to do before you die). Landon then begins to drive somewhere and Jamie has no clue where. They both get out of the car and Landon tells Jamie to put one foot further to the right and one foot further to the left. Jamie asks whats going on and Landon than says "You're currently straddling the state line, you're in two places at once" One of the things on her bucket list.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHIaBsXFAXE

After that they get back into the car and Jamie brings up how she has always wanted to get a tattoo. Landon than pulls over into an abandon parking lot and pulls out a case full of temporary tattoos. He than asks her which one she'd like and gives her a butterfly tattoo on the back of her left shoulder.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SStV6DMqFZ8&playnext=1&list=PLHzlgCNeVjt4u8d0OCpolrB1-MrdrXfYN&feature=results_video

Near the end of the movie Jamie and Landon get into an argument. When Jamie first argued to help Landon with his lines she said "Alright. But you promise me that you won't fall in love with me" Landon chuckled and replied "Thats no problem". Now that their dating and got to know each other very well Landon tells Jamie he loves her. Jamie freaks out, Landon than asks her why this is so bad. Jamie than replies that she has Leukemia and she will die, she hadn't told him before because she just thought it was the end for her (she stopped reacting to treatments long ago) but then she met Landon and fall in love.

Jamie's cancer becomes worse and she collapses to the floor one day. Her father rushes her to the hospital where they meet Landon.
He stays there all night and refuses to leave Jamie's side. Jamie wakes up and grabs a book from behind her and hands it to Landon. This book formally belonged to Jamie's mother, before she died of cancer. In the book are her mothers favourite quotes. She tells him to flip to a certain page and read a quote. This being one of my favourite movies and by far my favourite quote, "Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful."

Her father finally tells Landon to go home, as does Jamie.

News gets out about Jamie's illness and Landon's long time best-friend Eric comes and apologizes, as do all his other friends.

Jamie is finally released from the hospital and Landon brings the telescope he made her to the balcony of her room so she could watch a cornet (another one of her wishes). Landon then asks a question that Jamie had been dying to here, he asks Jamie to marry her. She says yes and once again Landon accomplishes making a wish, Jamie's number one wish come true, to get married at the same church her parents did.

Not to far from the wedding Jamie passes away.

Four years later Landon returns to Jamie's home narrating the movie. He speaks about how Jamie and him had a wonderful summer with more love than anybody could possibly know. He speaks to her father about how he never got Jamie to witness a miracle (one of her wishes) and her father tells Landon that Jamie did witness a miracle, him.
Landon than goes to the docks and says how he misses Jamie but he believes their love is like the wind: he can't see it but he will always feel it.

If I were to rate this movie I would give it five stars, 10/10. The care and love they both shared for each other was spectacular and was all around an amazing story.

Bubble Trouble (The Best Game Ever)

Some of the best days of our lives have occurred during our childhoods. When growing up you mature and move on from the things you've enjoyed when younger and simply leave them in the past. But sometimes habits stick to us. I've found it extremely difficult to stop playing games on Miniclip, specifically, Bubble Trouble.

Bubble Trouble is a singular or two player game. The objective of the game is to destroy the bubbles approaching to you from the side or top of the screen (for twenty two levels). To do so you must align yourself with the bubble and press 's' or the space bar (depending on which player you are). As you progress the levels become more difficult. And to make it even more challenging each level has a time limit. Each player has five lives and when your player is it by a bubble it will lose one of the five lives.

When you shoot the bubble items occasionally come up. There are many items but these eight are my favourite types of items:

Blue Arrow-  The blue arrow looks like a blue box with a black arrow in it. This will put you back to your normal arrow.

Green Arrow- This will look like a green box with a line through it. the green line will have little lines coming out the sides. This will make your arrow stick to the top of the screen for a period of time.

Time- This will look like a yellow alarm clock. This will give you additional time to your level.

Gold- This will look like a gold coin. It will give you 100 points to your score. 

Gold x3- This is the same as the gold coin but it will have three of them. This will give you 300 points.

Money-  This will look like a paper note with a dollar sign in the middle. It will give you 500 points. 

Ray Gun- This will look like a colourful triangle. Its main colour is blue and the other colours are yellow and red. This will make your weapon become that triangle and you can shoot better combos with it. 

Shield- A cylinder shaped shield around your player to protect you from getting hit by a bubble.

The video above is of two players defeating the game Bubble Trouble (which I've never been able to do) 

The sound effects in Bubble Trouble are highly entertaining. You can hear the sound of the arrow swiveling and the bubbles popping which makes the game all much more fun. 

All in all Bubble Trouble is a very entertaining puzzle game. This challenging game will never let you leave unless defeated. If I were to rate this game I would rate it a 9/10.