The Fault in Our Stars 2014
- Director: Josh Boone
- Based on book by John Green
- Cast: Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort, Laura Dern, Nat Wolff, Sam Trammel, Willem Dafoe, Lotta Verbeek
- Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
- Shailene Woodley – The Descendants
- Laura Dern – Star Wars the Last Jedi, Wild, I Am Sam, Citizen Ruth, A Perfect World, Jurassic Park, Wild at Heart
- Willem Dafoe – Lighthouse, Murder on the Orient Express, John Wick, Fireflies in the Garden, Paris je t’aime, American Dreamz, Manderlay, the Aviator, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, American Psycho, eXistenZ, Lulu on the Bridge, The English Patient, Wild at Heart, Cry-Baby, Born on the Fourth of July, Mississippi Is Burning, The Last Temptation of Christ, Platoon, Streets of Fire
- Why? The book was quite good.
- Seen: 10 May 2022
Hazel (Woodley) is seventeen and dying of
cancer. At a really awful support group where the leader sings about Jesus that
she hates but goes to because it makes her parents happy, she meets Gus (Elgort),
eighteen and supposedly cured of cancer.
So, this could be a really sappy film, or
it could be well done. The book was unsappy and quite good.
Problem 1: Gus is really annoying, and
Elgort is not right for the part. At least he doesn’t match my image of him
from the book.
Problem 2: It’s way too talky with too
many clichés.
Problem 3: Hazel’s dad (Trammel) is too
good-looking (yes, I’m shallow).
Problem 4: It’s sappy.
Problem 5: At the beginning Hazel promised
this wasn’t going to be sugar-coated and romantic but realistic. She lied.
Problem 6: Rich American white suburban
kids who have their own cars suffer too, even die. I get that. But they’re
still so privileged compared to almost everyone else in the world.
Problem 7: It’s just a love story. Not
very believable at that. Zero chemistry between them.
Woodley is quite good though. It could have been worse, I suppose.
2 ½ * of 5
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