Really Good Movie, but Missing Some Things...

Rating: 7/10 (9 June 2014)

I've been really excited to see this movie, especially since I read the book before hand and absolutely loved it. However, I saw the movie this morning, and it surprised me a bit. While it was a good movie, and I loved Augustus Waters' portrayal by Ansel Elgort, I felt it was just missing something. Maybe for me, it wasn't as good as I expected it because I loved how the book focused on both the love story between Hazel and Augustus, and the time when Augustus was dying and died. I honestly feel that Hollywood wanted to portray the love story as the main focus (which is is even in the book,) but washed over the cancer part a bit more than they expected to. Another thing that concerned me was that I didn't cry. Now, I am a very emotional person, but I guess that me not crying was a combination of me already knowing what was in store, and the fact that the funeral scene wasn't very convincing to me. When I read the book, I literally cried myself to sleep when reading about Augustus' death and his funeral. I felt that in the movie, he tells Hazel that he's dying and then bam, fifteen minutes later he's dead and the movie's over. I'm not saying that this was a bad movie, because I really did enjoy it. I just felt that there were somethings missing from the book that made it so alive and wonderful to read. Also, what happened to Augustus' previous girlfriend? Just curious...