Had a lot of fun, but didn't meet all my expectations.

Rating: 6/10 (9 June 2014)

Before anyone get's mad at me, please note that not only am I a huge fan of the book, but also that a 6/10 is a positive score. I was really looking forward to this film, but a lot of things fell flat for me. Ansel Elgort is a really good actor, but I think that he wasn't the best choice for Augustus. A lot of the dialogue came off as unnatural, and it sounded really weird hearing it from him, (excluding his performance in the car scene). I loved Shailene Woodley as Hazel, and she really became the character, and I had no trouble believing that she was Hazel. I felt like the movie was actively trying to make you cry, rather than having the story and characters make you feel an emotion on it's own, and it felt cheap, and seeing all the people in the audience bawling honestly made me laugh. Josh Boone's directing felt very generic, and didn't really have a staple to it, which makes me sad, because this is a movie that could have a real staple feel to it. Overall, I was very disappointed with the movie, but believe me, I'm still looking forward to the Paper Towns movie