Poorly conceived, lousily acted, lazily written.

Rating: 4/10 (17 December 2017)

I love films.I have watched films from various genres,from thrillers to dramas to mindless action films, I've probably watched it all. I have watched and loved teen films too,I'm a fan of John Hughes and I've watched (and liked) some supposedly cheesy teen dramas too. But this film was so so badly written that it definitely trumps all.
High-school rebel Landon( Shane West) and social outcast Jamie( Mandy Moore) meet and fall in love but there's a classic twist in the plot, she has cancer and is dying. Now, the problem is not that the idea is not new, the problem is that the writing is as uninspiring and lousy as you can imagine. There's little to no character development, in fact all the characters, specially the leads, feel like nothing but cardboard cut-outs, and consequently failed to make me feel anything at all when I was supposed to cry my eyes out; and it's not that hard to make me cry, I cry at films almost regularly. Somehow, the writer(s) has just taken the laziest stereotypes and made them even lazier,hollow and superficial. Along with the atrocious and flat writing, the acting isn't good either. Mandy Moore tried but failed,Shane West maintained a painfully constipated face throughout the film and the less is said about the other high-school characters, the better. I did feel bad about Darryl Hannah though it seems like she was just collecting a paycheck. I've never been a fan of loud background score and annoying soft rock music, and this film reassured me of that.
I believe that good or bad, a film has to make you feel something. You can be amused at a good film or disgusted by a bad film, it has to at least affect you in some way. But I didn't care about this film at all. I would've never cared if this film didn't exist just like I don't care that it does. That's,I think, the worst thing that can ever be said about any film that has ever been made.
P.S: "I thought my heart would never open again" is the most god-awful dialogue I've ever heard in my life. Even a teen soap-opera has better dialogues than this.