The Fault In Our Stars (starring Shailene Woodley) June 6, 2014

[AaronJ]

Originally Posted by Adam_ME

It's almost word-for-word from the book. And on that topic, I agree with poster who said the book was mediocre. It took me forever to get through it. It's really cheesy and pretentious. Augustus talks like one of those kids from Dawson's Crack. In a way that no one does in real life. Sorry but the screenwriters have their work cut out for them to make this into a quality film given what they have to work with. I know they wrote The Spectacular Now, but that was a much better book so all they really had to do there was compress it into 90 minutes(and tack on a more upbeat ending).

Come on, though. People talk differently in a lot of films/plays/TV. How many times have you, IRL, found yourself in a conversation even remotely resembling something written by Mamet or Sorkin, for instance? No one talks like that.

NOTE: I'm not comparing the quality of the writing here to Mamet or Sorkin. I'm just saying that the argument, "That's not how people actually speak," can be applied to all sorts of work.