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The Fault in Our Stars | Film Review

Did you cry watching this movie? Towards the end of this film, pretty much everyone in the cinema was sobbing.
But don’t lie, did you really like this movie?
Unfortunately I can’t say I did.
Sure it made me cry, but that isn’t enough.
First thing first, when I read this book, it was amazing, I could not put it down, every word had me feeling closer to the characters leading to my eventual breakdown on the train in the middle of peak hour traffic. The characters that John Green created just weren’t made for the big screen.
Shailene Woodley did a good a job as anyone could, taking the challenge of playing the role of Hazel Grace Lancaster, but Ansel Elgot… no disrespect but he wasn’t Augustus Waters to me.
Augustus Waters had an aura about him, a charm, he could say anything, do anything and it would be cool. Ansel Elgot or any other male alive on this planet, could never portray Augustus Waters. All his cheesy lines and metaphors just made me cringe all throughout the film. It didn’t work for me, the story attempted to talk about real life, about what happens to REAL PEOPLE, but the character of Augustus Waters just can’t be made real. He just felt so forced and fake.
I feel like the style of this film could’ve been a lot more creative and precise. It felt slightly tacky and uncreative (especially with the handwritten text messages) and it lacked a certain detail that would have at least made this film more interesting. Instead, I feel as if they relied on the John Green’s story way, way , way too much. His story, however amazing, cannot simply be copied and pasted into a movie with the default settings (THE FONT OF THE POSTER IS THE SAME!!). It needs to be nurtured and it needs to be an individual film that draws from source material.
This movie will be a classic case of book-movie comparison, and there is no escaping it, the potential for a great movie disappeared when you used the book to market the film.
Not to say I didn’t enjoy the movie, it was enjoyable at times, Willem Dafoe was terrific, when he was on screen creating havoc, that was when the film was at its best. It would’ve been nicer to see more involvement of parental characters to bring everything back into perspective, rather than only focusing on the romance.
I would read the book 5 times for every time I watch this movie. They both make me ball my eyes out.
The scene where Issac tells Augustus "When the scientists of the future show up at my house with robot eyes and they tell me to try them on, I will tell the scientists to screw off, because I do not want to see a world without Augustus Waters."
GETS. ME. EVERY. TIME.
Go watch this movie. Cringe. Giggle. Cry.

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