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YAYYYYYYYYYYYY.
I watched the first six minutes, cried, watched the next hour, cried, watched the rest, and SOBBED HYSTERICALLY SOUNDING LIKE A DYING GOAT.
It was so amazing. Ansel Elgort? YESSSSSSSSSS.
HOW IS A HUMAN SO PERFECTLY GORGEOUS? YEAH, I DON'T KNOW EITHER.
Favorite lines:
Hazel: "...a dress I got for my 15th birthday. Not sure I'd wear it on dates, though."
Augustus: So...we're on a date?
*raises eyebrows*
I don't know the exact words, but it was something like that. Anyway, it made me laugh really hard through my tears, which resulted in a series of weird hiccup things.
So, did you see it? How much did you cry? (Don't say you didn't because you did and I know you did and there's no point in denying it.)
submitted by Nora the Singer
(June 9, 2014 - 3:32 pm)
(June 9, 2014 - 3:32 pm)
Yeah, so I watched that with a lot of other people on Saturday and everyone cried except me which made me feel fairly cold-hearted. I almost cried twice but I never actually did.
Girls: *crying during previews before movie starts*
Me and (male) friend: "Um why are you guys crying the movie hasn't even started yet?"
Girl (in tears): "Because [major spoiler]!"
Me and friend: *looks at each other trying not to laugh*
Favorite lines:
Augustus: "I've been trying to think of a way to tell my father I hate basketball and I think I've found it."
Isaac: *proceeds to destroy trophies*
Augustus: *nonchalantly continues conversation with Hazel*
Isaac: "Gus! This one okay?"
Augustus: "Yeah, go ahead."
Isaac: *smashes trophy against wall*
Augustus: *turns back to Hazel and continues to talk*
Things that annoyed me:
- GUS IS NOT 18 HE IS 17. WHAT ARE YOU PEOPLE DOING AS;LDJGHQ'
- They changed the last line.
- They cut out Isaac talking at the actual funeral.
- Isaac is blonde much?
- They changed Gus's egging line (although the new one was still pretty funny).
- They cut out the part where Hazel says "I am quite unextraordinary" and Augustus says "I reject that out of hand" even though it was IN THE TRAILER LIKE. WHY.
- They changed a lot about the part at the end where Augustus is in the car at the gas station.
Other:
- My friend and I got there at 1:00 for the 1:50 show and we walked into the theater and there were four other people there - two girls we knew and two girls we didn't.
- The two girls we knew had gotten there at 12:00 two hours early.
- During that time period they had been drinking caffeinated beverages.
- I played Harry Potter Quizup on one of their phones and beat some guy from England resulting in me yelling (too loud) to the (nearly) empty theater "TAKE THAT BRIT."
- My friend and I counted the number of other guys who came into the theater. We counted five before the lights went out. Later we estimated an approximate 90-10% gender ratio.
- One of the girls who had been drinking caffeinated beverages crashed about three-quarters of the way through the movie and started sobbing uncontrollably.
So that was my TFiOS experience.
(June 9, 2014 - 8:50 pm)
UGH I KNOW!
Also, other things I must point out:
-Monica is a brunette. Isaac is a blond. WHY SWITCH IT AROUND?!
-The dad is more emotional than the mom. ALSO, WHY SWITCH IT AROUND?! Sexist...
-I was waiting like the entire part where Hazel and her mom got into an argument about eating FOR HAZEL TO SAY THAT HER MOTHER WAS GOING TO BE A GREAT PATRICK. THAT IS LIKE MY FAVORITE PART OF THE BOOK. LIKE CAN YOU SEE THAT.
-YOU DO NOT SIMPLY END A MOVIE TOTALLY DIFFERENTLY THAN THE BOOK'S ENDING. NO. NO. I CANNOT STRESS THAT ENOUGH. STOP WITH THE "OKAY." IT IS CUTE, BUT NOW IT IS OVER. HAZEL HAS TO SAY "I do, Augustus. I do." DO NOT RUIN THE ENTIRE EXPERIENCE WITH THE "OKAY."
-Well, some other stuff that is not entirely CB-appropriate but that really bothered me at the movie, if you can understand what I'm saying telepathically.
(June 10, 2014 - 6:19 pm)
- The last line's meaning remained more or less the same. That's all that really matters in my opinion.
- *checks TFiOS copy* I guess they did. You have to remember that the filmic adaptation of any novel isn't quite going to compare to the novel itself. It would have been impossible for them to iinclude everything.
- For casting directors, performance > appearance. I'm sure several blonde actors auditioned for the role of Isaac, but they must not have measured up to Nat Wolff.
- They didn't cut the bit where Hazel said she was unextraordinary. At least, not from what I remember.
- Again, the movie can't include everything from the book.
(June 11, 2014 - 10:44 am)
I believe we're going to see it again this weekend. Maybe I'll cry this time. Probably not, though.
(June 18, 2014 - 1:26 pm)