#the noel diary

[dirtbagdefender]

JUSTIN HARTLEY in THE NOEL DIARY (2022)

#the noel diary #jake turner #justin hartley #movie gifs #( * mine ) #hakuxmele #letskzuniverse

[thetulip84]

#The Noel Diary #american movie #فيلم أمريكي #اقتباسات أفلام أمريكية

[bonobochick]

The Noel Diary  📔

(available on Netflix)

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[serendipity-in-love]

The Noel Diary (2022)

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[will80sbyers]

The Noel Diary... just started it but I already think it's a beautiful Christmas movie, you can immediately see it's really well made!! Great story and great actors too!

Edit: I was right, really enjoyed the movie, it's realistic and shows beautiful relationships between all the characters 👏

#the noel diary #on Netflix

[cogentranting]

To fix the Noel Diary they needed to do two things:

1. Take out the cheating. You can still have Rachel freak out because she’s falling for Jake! If she realizes that she has feelings for this guy but isn’t willing to leave the security of her fiance, that’s plenty of conflict to make her bolt and go home. If you want to push the conflict further they can kiss and then realize what they’re doing and have Rachel regret it and leave. 

2. Let the characters be emotional??? Why do I have to tell them this? The most absurd scene is Jake telling Rachel about the death of his brother with the ONLY emotion being a slight hesitation right at the start, and other than that a completely flat tone, no voice breaking, no tears, nothing and then apologizing for how emotional he got. He’s played by Justin Hartley. He spent 6 years crying on This Is Us. He’s good at it. Let him cry. Or let him yell at the dad who he hasn’t seen since he abandoned the family 35 years ago. Or let some character show SOME strong emotion. 

#the Noel diary

[shittyxmasromcomzone]

The Noel Diary

NETFLIX

Justin Hartley, Bennett Doss

Heyyyyyyy! Here we are again - as our lord and savior Taylor Allison Swift once said, ‘tis the damn season. And I’m back at it again with the shitty xmas romcoms, amen hallelujah.

We’re starting off with a fun romp through the New England countryside, as Rachel and Jake road trip to track down Jake estranged father in order to glean information about Rachel’s biological mother, who she has never met but who, as it turns out, was once Jake’s nanny when he was young.

Jake, who by the way is a handsome and wealthy but oh-so-lonely famous novelist, finds himself starting to open up to Rachel along the way. As they drive, they read their way through bio mom’s diary, discovered while cleaning out Jake’s recently deceased mother’s house - the site of all his childhood traumas. The emotional walls aren’t the only problem, either - Rachel also happens to be engaged!

But unfortunately for Rachel’s fiancé, he kind of sucks, and she and Jake have a little too much in common for comfort. A shared mysterious past! A love of jazz music! Matching His & Hers Daddy and Mommy issues! What more could you ask for?

There’s a really great movie moment about halfway through their trip, when Jake starts telling Rachel the tragic story from his past as they wait in the car for a passing train: As Jake talks, the audible dialogue fades. Rachel hears the story, but we, the audience, don’t. It’s an oddly poignant moment of intimacy from a shitty xmas romcom, something worth noting.

Other highlights include a couple of really excellent meta moments:

Not to mention this extremely good girl:

Did it pass the Bechdel-Wallace test? Yes

LGBTQ characters? No

Characters of color? Yes

Attractiveness of the male lead? I polled the room and we agreed to award him an 8/10. Though it must be noted for the record that he “does nothing” for my mother.

All in all, I give this one a 4.5 out of 5 Golden Rings!

#4.5oo5 #the noel diary #justin hartley #bennett doss #christmas romcom #lead of color

[whatyawatching]

Watching the Noel Diary and being consistently distracted by Rachel repeatedly staying out in the cold and snow for prolonged periods of time without gloves or mittens.

#the noel diary #whatyawatching

[travichughes]

i demand for you all to go watch the noel diary on Netflix now because not only is it a good film, barrett looks SO GOOD

#the bottom right... #im so gay #her charcter is so <3 too #barrett doss supremacy #station 19 #barrett doss #the noel diary #vic hughes #Instagram

[fuckyeahfightlock]

It’s holiday movie season!

Today I watched the new Netflick jam, The Noel Diary. Something I saw online called it a Rom Com but it has no com--it’s just a rom.

In a purely holiday-romance-movie fantasy world, Jake Turner (played by an insanely hot man named Justin Hartley--apparently he’s on This Is Us--who is exactly ya girl’s type--just put some glasses on him and I’d be a complete goner) is a WORLD-FAMOUS and QUITE WEALTHY novelist who has lines around the block in NYC in December to sign his books. You wish, (male) author of the novel on which this movie was based! Impossible!

 Anyhoozles, Jacob/Jake/J. Turner has to return to his estranged late mother’s house to deal with her hoarded stuff. For some reason I missed, he is so entirely estranged from her he did not even attend her funeral, though he’s her only survivor; he’s told about the funeral by his late mom’s senior citizen neighbor-lady (B-list legend Bonnie Bedelia). I could not square this bad behavior; I don’t think it was explained what his excuse was. While he’s there, with his dog, Ava, who is a fluffy blue-eyed shepherd and a very goog girl, a pretty woman named Rachel (Barrett Ross) arrives unannounced, looking for her biological mother who worked for Jake’s parents as a nanny back in the day.

She has a fiance, they have undeniable chemistry (like, for real--I believed their romance), through a series of fits and starts they learn they have some things in common like a desire to be independent, an inexplicable mutual love of jazz standards despite being under 40 years old, and holes in their hearts in the shape of missing parents (Jake is also estranged from his dad, who left the family when he was very small, after the death of Jake’s baby brother). Now that I’m thinking about it, these people have exactly the amount of unresolved, complex trauma that requires therapy--not falling in love with another broken person--but they’re both just walking around seeming pretty put-together. Ah, movie magic!

They decide to go visit Jake’s estranged father in a made-up Vermont village that is custom built for a holiday romance movie setting. There’s a Christmas fair and a bed and breakfast! But two rooms! But the rooms adjoin! But no hanky nor any panky. They go to see the dad, he gives them some info about the bio-mom and he and Jake make an uneasy peace. Oh! At this point Jake and Rachel sleep outdoors in a Vermont snowstorm overnight in a car, and somehow do not wake up frozen dead as they would have IRL. Anyway, on to another, different quaint town or at least a different B & B. This time there’s only one room! And so guess what?!

But the fiance. So, Boy, bye. Jake makes a grand gesture where he calls her “the woman I love” after having known her literally four days, but that’s what we came for so I guess I’ll allow it. She shuts him down! He accepts it and goes back to the hoarder house. She comes back for him. The End.

I usually like a lighter tone in my holiday romance movies but this one is solid (the leads really did have good chemistry and were likable). A decent start to the month.

#holiday movies #christmas movies #The Noel Diary

[dirtbagdefender]

BARRETT DOSS in THE NOEL DIARY (2022)

#the noel diary #rachel campbell #barrett doss #movie gifs #( * mine )

[texasbama]

The Noel Diary gave me the warm fuzzies like only a Christmas romantic drama can🥰💚❤️

#chrishell’s ex husband aint shit but damn if he can’t play a charming man #and with a black romantic lead?! we love to see that! #the noel diary

[magess]

The Noel Diary is out on Netflix.

Overall a cute film. Love me some Justin Hartley.

However, not only is it not warm to sit in a car overnight in winter...

HE LEAVES RACHEL AND HIS DOG IN THE CAR THAT DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE ON AND THERFORE HAS NO HEAT FOR LIKE HOURS WHILE HE'S INSIDE A WARM HOUSE

Unforgivable, Jacob.

Also, his car? I don't understand the choice they made for the truck Jacob drives.

It's a Land Rover Series III station wagon in green.

In the US, this is a pretty rare car. So if you wanted to show wealth, it's a decent choice, mostly because they're all 30+ years old and need constant maintenance. And he is supposed to be wealthy. But only people who know off-roading vehicles are going to know that. Which doesn't seem like the target demographic to me.

This is a very distinct car. They're also drafty as fuck, so again, Jacob, do not leave people and dogs outside in the car with the engine off.

But what a completely bizarre choice from the props dept.

#the noel diary

[serendipity-in-love]

The Noel Diary (2022)

#the noel diary #justin hartley #movie #movies #christmas #new year #snow #places #memories #holidays #december #winter #cold #movie scene #movie scenes #film

[doctoralpha]

This review contains SPOILERS.

A cute Christmas romance movie on Netflix.

The Noel Diary

It's based on a book, I have not read it.

Beautiful movie, the cinematography.

Actors: the main guy should have been more emotional. I know the actor has the range, not sure why the director chose to stifle his potential. The main girl, played by Barrett Doss, was great. She sang in this movie and her voice is beautiful. The neighbor was well cast, she was a sweet lady.

Plot wise, it started out pretty good. The end was a little abrupt. It felt like there were parts that should have been focused on more. Like Rachel should have had a confrontation with her fiance, Adam; give more reason for viewers to root for Rachel and Jake to be together. Instead she basically cheats on her fiance. The story tells us Adam is super stingy about money, but when we see him via the FaceTime video (what is the generic term for this?) he is excited to talk about booking a place for their engagement party. No more reasons given to not like the guy.

(Which obviously is more realistic, people cheat on or break up with someone after meeting someone they like better all the time. But in movies viewers feel better if the potential ex-fiance is unlikable.)

We don't get a reunion between Rachel and her birth mother? After reading her mother's diary, Rachel decides she believes her mother did love her and didn't give her up because she wasn't wanted. I thought one of the main points of the movie would be a reunion. They reunited Jake with his father. Which causes the movie to revolve more around Jake's story and less of Rachel's, when it should have been more equal.

Basically, a nice movie, but is missing a lot that would have made it great.

#the noel diary #Netflix

[ahundredhundredheartbeats]

[garfield propaganda meme] I am not immune to a holiday romance movie.

#The Noel Diary #Netflix #christmas #holiday #romance