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I cried my eyes out after seeing this film !!!


Ok so this film is pretty old but i think every teenage girl would love it. Its so touching and romantic. Ali macgraw and ryan o'neal really do a good job in portraying the loved-up couple. The music that is played through out the film gives me goose bumps badystyle! Its so haunting! I desperatley want to the piano version so i can play it. Anyone know where i could get a copy???

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Depending on where you live, you can get it any reasonably well stocked music store, like Archambault. (I'm from Montreal)The music is great, I agree. I found it by some stroke of luck at a random rummage sale, and the main theme of the music is a major sixth, which is good if you do dictation. Good luck finding the music!

Moosey-Moose rules all and everything. Oh my, I think I've gone insane.

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Well, I'm a married guy, but I still recommend it. The scene that got ME crying my eyes out is the last scene at the skating rink. Its SO tragic from the man's POV. He realizes that the only girl he'll ever love is gone for ever. I feel such an incredible sense of despire when I see him sitting there, with his back to the camera. Like he didn't want to face the world any more. My wife makes fun of me every I watch the video because I cry. And yes, its my video, not hers. She can keep her English Patient, Shakespeare In Love, etc. Nothing comes close to Love Story in recent film history, IMHO.

I don't play the piano, but my sister does. I made her teach me a few bars, which I've commited to memory. Now a can play some of it on demand, well the important parts anyway.

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My sentiments exactly!

Man, I really can't understand the average rating for this one. Gives me the feeling that most people around here think something is bad because it is "old". The opposite is the case! I know mostly films of the '90s and '80s, but none of the genre can top this one.

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OMG im so happy im not alone on that! I seen it a while ago and at the end when he just sits there all alone. I just balled my eyes out! I heard of a sequel to this movie but not too many people liked it. if you watched that movie would you recommend it?

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I must agree with you about the soundtrack. That's actually how I discovered the movie-- in a somewhat backwards way. A few years ago, I was shopping in H&M and I heard a really jazzy, addicting, cabaret-style song that had the flavor of something I'd heard in a musical jewelry box as a little girl. So I did a lyrics search and found out it was "Where Do I Begin (Love Story Theme)" by Shirley Bassey. It was my FAVORITE for the entire summer of 2001. Then I was randomly flipping thorough a piano book and I saw the sheet music for "LOVE STORY" Theme. Aha! This was the song! I began to learn it, and fell in love with it all over again in an instant. It's not a hard song to learn, but it's very emotional and quite profound. A few months after that, I was flipping through HBO and I caught the movie "Love Story" from about the midpoint, but since I knew this was the movie attached to that heavenly song, I watched the whole thing. I cried like a baby! And finally last week, I was visiting a friend and I saw the short novel for "Love Story" sitting around on his coffee table. I'm pretty sure HE was totally embarrassed to have it out there, but I reassured him that I would "take it off his hands" and put it to good use. It was only about 130 pages. I read it over the course of a single day, actually, finishing it up while riding the stationary bike at the gym, and I had to excuse myself to wail and cry in the ladies locker room at the end when Ollie reunites with his father. For anyone who doubts the movie, you MUST read the book. It was so simple, so beautiful, so pure, so unpretentious and so horribly tragic. In a strange way (in my own twisted mind) it's like a half-way mark between La Boheme and RENT. If you still need the piano sheet music, feel free to email me back and I can photocopy or scan it and email it to you in a pdf file!

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This movie left me kind of depressed after seeing it..I felt kind of empty inside....but I'm a big crybaby when it comes to these type of movies..-wipes tear off my cheek-

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Yeah, I admit I cried the first couple of times I watched this. Now, I've seen it so many times it no longer affects me...it's just a movie.

Until it happens in real life.

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It takes A LOT for me to cry, whether at movies or real life.

This is one of four or five films that I really felt deeply about. I cried the silent but painful cry, to the point where it hurts your throat.

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I cryed to, beautiful movie

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I cried too...

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