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

[SwaggerJagger]

Originally Posted by remake

After re-watching the trailer, I'm going to guess

[Show spoiler]the final shot of Shailene Woodley laying on the ground looking up talking to herself is the final shot in the movie? Just like they ruined The Spectacular Now ending in that trailer

My guess as well.

[SwaggerJagger]

I'm gonna see this in theaters, it looks enjoyable.
I'm currently reading Looking for Alaska by John Green, the author of TFIOS, and it's pretty good. I'm gonna look into reading his other books rather than TFIOS just yet. Haha.

[Thomas Guycott]

Originally Posted by SwaggerJagger

I'm gonna see this in theaters, it looks enjoyable.
I'm currently reading Looking for Alaska by John Green, the author of TFIOS, and it's pretty good. I'm gonna look into reading his other books rather than TFIOS just yet. Haha.

Check out the stuff he does online with his brother Hank, especially Crash Course.

[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.

[SwaggerJagger]

Originally Posted by Thomas Guycott

Check out the stuff he does online with his brother Hank, especially Crash Course.

I haven't watched them, but I'm hoping to meet them (John Green mostly) at Vidcon and maybe get a booked sign!

[MikeScott]

I saw a bootleg of the new trailer attached to The Other Woman. Greatly prefer the first trailer.

[Adam_ME]

Originally Posted by AaronJ

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.

But it's annoying the way they talk, especially Augustus. I didn't meant to imply that I need it to sound like real life. Just that I don't want the main characters to bug the hell out of me. And Willem Dafoe's character, Van Houten, is even worse than them. Like I said, the screenwriters have their work cut out.

BTW on a side note, I hope it doesn't feel weird seeing two actors who previously played siblings in Divergent cast as love interests in this movie. Strangely enough, the same thing is happening(albeit in reverse) with Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Elizabeth Olsen in Godzilla and Avengers 2.

[MikeScott]

That doesn't really bother me. It's called acting . And Woodley and Elgort don't really share that much screen-time together in Divergent.

[cinemaphile]

[MikeScott]

Nice! Looking forward to getting this one.

[Snicket]

Is the fault in our stars cancer? I bet it's cancer.

[PopcornBandit]

Originally Posted by Snicket

Is the fault in our stars cancer? I bet it's cancer.

[cuzzin]

Originally Posted by Snicket

Is the fault in our stars cancer? I bet it's cancer.

The "fault" is that she is so sick and he is so well. According to

[Show spoiler]Peter Van Houten

, anyway. The title comes from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.

[Snicket]

Originally Posted by cuzzin

The "fault" is that she is so sick and he is so well. According to

[Show spoiler]Peter Van Houten

, anyway. The title comes from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.

Someone took that seriously.

Also what a silly silly explanation.

[jscoggins]

Originally Posted by remake

This is the best link I could find so far. Ignore the girl who makes random noises here and there while watching/recording it.

[Show spoiler]The Fault In Our Stars - Live Press Conference [Part 1] - YouTube

https://movies.yahoo.com/video/fault...163000496.html

The timecode runs backwards. Skip ahead to 14:25, when Shailene Woodley gives a really creepy/funny answer.

[MikeScott]

The Fault In Our Stars | Grouplove -- Let Me In | Official Music Video - YouTube

Can't wait for this movie! August Waters is my fictional boyfriend .

[jscoggins]

Just saw it. The translation to the big screen didn't really work. Some of the dialogue worked in print but sounded awkward or was unnecessary in the context of a visual medium. The movie was "funny" when it shouldn't have been.

I know the trailer has more than 16 million views, but how many times did certain people play it?

[MikeScott]

Originally Posted by jscoggins

Just saw it. The translation to the big screen didn't really work. Some of the dialogue worked in print but sounded awkward or was unnecessary in the context of a visual medium. The movie was "funny" when it shouldn't have been.

I know the trailer has more than 16 million views, but how many times did certain people play it?

That's a bummer, but I'm not going to write it off yet as I've heard great things from others who have gone to screenings.

[jscoggins]

Originally Posted by MikeScott

That's a bummer, but I'm not going to write it off yet as I've heard great things from others who have gone to screenings.

Just to give you an example:

[Show spoiler]In the book, Gus tells Hazel some bad news while they're in Amsterdam. He finishes by saying that the world is not a wish-granting factory.

In the movie, that last line of dialogue was not needed. You can see the anguish on the actors' faces, and "movie time" moves at a different pace than "book time". So, when Gus says that last line, it felt tacked on and just way too much "nail on the head". I mean, the characters were already crying, and the audience was already sobbing -- no need to tell us that we're supposed to feel REALLY SAD RIGHT NOW.

[MikeScott]

Yeah I suppose that could be annoying. Sometimes less is more. I really hope I love it though. The book was so wonderful. And I do trust the screenwriters. I adore (500) Days of Summer and dug The Spectacular Now.