The more than 150,000 fans who preordered John Green’s novel The Fault in Our Stars got their signed copies on Tuesday. By today, they are probably wishing they’d also received a coupon for Sephora with their purchase, because seriously, those up-all-night-crying eyes are not a good look. The superstar Ya author’s latest is a tearjerker of Jody Picoult levels: It’s about a girl, Hazel, who’s had terminal cancer in her lungs for years, and a boy, Augustus, who had his leg removed due to bone cancer. Luckily, though, it’s also a John Green novel, so there are just as many laughs as there are gutwrenching sobs.
“You have no idea how sad I wanted it to be,” Green told us on the phone on Monday, when we jokingly asked him if he ever wanted to write a “happily ever after” story. “My responsibility is to try to tell true stories.
“You have no idea how sad I wanted it to be,” Green told us on the phone on Monday, when we jokingly asked him if he ever wanted to write a “happily ever after” story. “My responsibility is to try to tell true stories.
- 1/12/2012
- by Sabrina Rojas Weiss
- TheFabLife - Movies
Courtesy of Sony Pictures Releasing.
Dear John is based off the popular novel by Nicholas Sparks. Sparks also wrote The Notebook, Message in a Bottle, and Nights in Rodanthe. All of which have been turned into movies. As one can see, the guy likes the romance and attempts to make the eyes well-up. Whether Dear John actually sticks to the source material is unknown to this critic. Having said that, most audiences probably won't have to reach for the tissues during this 90 minute presentation.
John Tyree (Channing Tatum) is a soldier in the U.S. army. It's the Spring of 2001 and John is on leave in his hometown of Charleston, Sc. He lives with his father (Randy Jenkins) and enjoys surfing until he has to go back. A random meeting between John and Savannah (Amanda Seyfried), a college girl on break, turns into an instant love connection. They start planning...
Dear John is based off the popular novel by Nicholas Sparks. Sparks also wrote The Notebook, Message in a Bottle, and Nights in Rodanthe. All of which have been turned into movies. As one can see, the guy likes the romance and attempts to make the eyes well-up. Whether Dear John actually sticks to the source material is unknown to this critic. Having said that, most audiences probably won't have to reach for the tissues during this 90 minute presentation.
John Tyree (Channing Tatum) is a soldier in the U.S. army. It's the Spring of 2001 and John is on leave in his hometown of Charleston, Sc. He lives with his father (Randy Jenkins) and enjoys surfing until he has to go back. A random meeting between John and Savannah (Amanda Seyfried), a college girl on break, turns into an instant love connection. They start planning...
- 2/5/2010
- Tampa Film Examiner
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