I love spotting it in his movies. <p><strong>The Background</strong>: Kelly joined CinemaBlend as a freelance TV news writer in 2006 and went on to serve as the site’s TV Editor before moving over to other roles on the site. At present, she’s an Assistant Managing Editor who spends much of her time brainstorming and editing feature content on the site. </p><p><strong>What She's Into</strong>: Books, movies, TV— The very things that brought her to CinemaBlend as a reader and eventual writer and editor. She loves Harry Potter, books from a variety of genres (sci-fi, mystery, horror, YA, drama, romance -- anything with a great story and interesting characters.), watching Big Brother, frequently rewatching The Office, listening to Taylor Swift, and playing The Sims. </p><p><strong>What She's Excited About Right Now</strong>: Movie and TV adaptations of the books she loves, including the upcoming adaptation of Matt Dinniman's Dungeon Crawler Carl series, which is coming to Peacock, and Netflix's planned movie adaptations of Taylor Jenkins Reid's <em>The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo</em>. She's also excited for <em>Red, White & Royal Blue 2</em> and <em>Dark Matter</em> Season 2. </p>
A Walk to Remember is just as touching behind the scenes as it was on screen.
Nicholas Sparks has become king of the novels that feature weepy love stories—which he is quick to point out is very different from romance novels. As Sparks himself says, romance novels are "trite" and "fantastical," while love stories are realistic. In the goal of reaching realism with his stories, Sparks uses tragedy, which is how many love stories often end.
In the mood for (cheesy) romance? There's nothing like a Nicholas Sparks movie. Ever since Message In A Bottle came out in 1999, audiences have been eager to watch every new film based on the latest book by the beloved author. While some of the films are arguably better than most (A Walk To Remember will always be a classic, but there have been some recent stories that don't pack the same kind of emotional wallop), the movies are always great guilty pleasures.