Not bad but over-hyped

Rating: 7/10 (22 June 2014)

I was so excited to see this movie and I do love sad movies but I didn't like something about this movie. Like when I normally watch a sad movie I feel depressed and will think about it for a while but I just didn't think too much about this because it was too depressing. It laid it on waaay too thick; it did not need to be that depressing I didn't see the point. But the movie was smoothly engineered to make the audience sob uncontrollably and yes it achieved it for most people. Literally you could hear the whole theatre sobbing, I think I was the only one that wasn't crying but I never do anyway.
Acting by Shailene Woodley and the people who played her parents and the guy Isaac was really good too. Some parts were really funny as well, surprisingly. And it was filmed really well, in terms of how it all looked.
Overall, it's worth a watch to see what the hype's about but it is overlong, pretentious dialogue, depressing, great acting(a lot of crying in to the camera-type shots),often funny, very saccharine and predictable(even though I had not read the book). Personally, although it was not bad,I would definitely never see it again.