I respect the book but this movie...... not so much

Rating: 7/10 (18 June 2014)

When I first saw the trailer of this movie I already felt the hyped inside of me. Feeling that it will give me the A-walk-to-remember feeling all over again. I haven't read the book - YET - but seeing those positive feed backs of the trailer from the book lovers made me think that probably my excitement for this adaptation could be worth it.
Then June 07, 2014 happened. I could say that my sister and I picked the best seats inside the theater but as the opening credits and some scenes started showing I thought that maybe we didn't picked the best movie.
I was very disappointed in the opening scenes especially the opening credits putting a series of scenes from the movie. I mean, what is that?? are you trying to spoil what will happen before we can even watch it?! and what is the purpose of those opening scenes? For us to get excited before the movie? Well I surely lost my excitement after seeing those scenes.
Another "turn off" factor for this movie is the monologue of Shailene Woodley in the beginning. Surely a lot of people are raping that replay button once the trailer was released and they have probably memorized those lines, I myself memorized some of it after watching it two or three times. They could have at least alter some of the lines for the movie's opening after letting it be the opening of the trailer.
Enough of the movie's structures, I shall go now to its story line which gave the movie justice after that poor opening scenes followed by those cheesy-courting-twilight-cliché of the two characters in the beginning. And I am talking about the scenes from the Amsterdam. I think that it is where the story became mature and complex and I'm glad for it because I will surely leave the theater if it wasn't for that.
To sum this all up, the movie have pros and cons of course like any other movie. Besides the bad introduction, the actors also contributed to the movie's cons. I think Shailene is not ready for those kinds of roles, she can stick with her "Divergent" role first and let her potential evolve there. As for Ansel he lacks charisma and weak delivery of his lines, lines in which contributed to the movie's pros. Those lines are marvelous and for me I think it hasn't been done justice by the lead characters except Nat Wolff's delivery of his eulogy for Augustus, that almost made me cry.
I rate this movie 7/10 for the "Amsterdam" story of course