The Fault In Our Stars movie review

     Hello there reader! This is my first blog post and just to be clear, please do not expect my posts to be about books only because I will be posting blogs about book-to-movie adaptations too, events happening in the "book world" and other things but don't worry as they will be related to books one way or another.

     So my best friend (who is also a reader or a bookworm like me) and I decided to see "The Fault In Our Stars" the day before the real release of it at a exclusive block screening. "The Night Before Our Stars" in the Philippines if you will. So the movie started and we thought it's not going to be that good because movies adapted from books are always missing a lot of the thing that had been shown in the books but this one is different. Of course, there are the occasional slip-ups. Nothings perfect after all but I felt everything I was supposed to feel while watching the movie. I laughed at their (Augustus,Hazel and Isaac's) shenanigans, I felt butterflies in my stomach on the romantic parts and then, the worst feeling of all, the sadness and the feeling that you just lost something very precious when Gus died. I've been crying since before they went to Amsterdam. I may have cried. I thought I'm not going to cry in the movie because I've read the book and I feel like I've survived the worst because the book is already pretty harsh with my feelings. NEVER HAVE I BEEN SO WRONG IN MY WHOLE LIFE. The tears started to make its way (more like pouring) out of my eyes since the part before Amsterdam where Hazel got brought to the hospital because her lungs had a problem and they told her that she wasn't allowed to go there anymore and she looked so crestfallen I wanted to take her place just to see her happy again. So they went to Amsterdam, the inappropriate (I like it though) kiss at the Anne Frank museum happened and they did...things. When they went back, the bad things started to happen. The eulogy, the part where he vomited all over himself and the call. That's where it felt like someone (John Green, I'm looking at you) ripped my heart out, shredded it into pieces and then stomped on it until it has been refined into dust. Yes, its that sad. It doesn't help that the actors who portrayed the character are so great mixed with the artists who recorded the soundtracks which also added to the effect of the movie to the watched.

     All in all, I'm going to say that they movie was great, still is, and of course, they can't copy everything in the book but it's a masterpiece and also heartbreaking as it should. If somehow they see this, I would like to thank John Green for this incredible book for which without him there would be no movie at all, for Ansel Elgort for being everything I hoped Gus would be and more, for Shailene Woodley for being such an amazing Hazel, for Nat Wolff who added even more life into the lively Isaac, who despite his blindness, didn't fail to make me laugh with his jokes and the things he does and to everyone who helped make the movie, thank you all very much.

     Watching The Fault In Our Stars has been a very great experience, one that I would never forget.


That's the end of my first blog post! I hope you bookworms, movie people and/or general people liked it.

Cheerio and DFTBA