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All right fellow YA lovers and nerdfighters, this past weekend was a large one for united states. The much anticipated movie accommodation of 2012 Teens' Top X choiceThe Fault in our Stars came out on Friday with some theaters fifty-fifty previewing it on Thursday night. This heavily anticipated film has received a lot of media coverage as of late because of the book (and certainly John Green's) big fandom.

Fans of the book and Green have been very vocal about their anticipation and expectations for this film. John Green made the moving picture seem like a collaborative procedure to get from page to screen, and the filmmakers were pretty song almost their love of the source fabric. The collaborative attribute with Green in and of itself is rare since authors usually go NO say whatsoever in one case the pic rights have been sold to the book, so this was huge and something that made me as a fan pretty hopeful for the accommodation.

John Greenish really gave me hope for this movie, and I daresay this film might but be one of the truest adaptations of a volume that I've seen in a long time. Now at that place were changes fabricated from page to screen and for a full rundown of those you can check out this EW article, but the middle of the book was all at that place. John Greenish's words were there.

Shailene Woodley is Hazel Grace Lancaster. Tris who?! She was honestly but beautiful in this movie and not in a Hollywood superficial kind of fashion, but in that no makeup, pilus shorn off and tears in her optics, heartbreakingly existent cute.  Dare I say even if you lot went in slightly creeped out that Tris' brother was now going to exist playing her boyfriend, Ansel Elgort made you lot forget all about beloved Caleb. He fabricated Augustus Waters wonderfully adorkable and funny.

My ane slight complaint about some of the volume to moving-picture show changes is that they made the character of Gus a little too perfect. Don't get me wrong the swoon worthy moments certainly made information technology worth it, but changes similar the removal of his ex-girlfriend too took out a layer of reality that Light-green had congenital into the character of Augustus. While y'all could see how Gus' ex-girlfriend is not necessary to the film storyline as a whole, it was kind of necessary to his character development. They just took out too many of Augustus' flaws, which skirted the line for me of making him into besides much of the perfect moving-picture show boyfriend. He'southward not meant to be perfect, neither is Hazel. I liked that about the characters, every bit I'grand sure many fans do. With all of that said, the film always felt like John Green. Even with the changes, information technology never jumped the emotional shark and for that many fans will be grateful. The love and the humour and the pain are all there. Woodley and Elgort captured information technology wonderfully. My favorite surprise of the film was Hazel's female parent. Laura Dern packs quite an emotional dial. She nailed that role and broke my heart all at the aforementioned time.

It looks similar I'chiliad not alone in my beloved for this accommodation either because 82% of critics and 92% of audiences loved this movie according to Rotten Tomatoes. That's not even mentioning the greenbacks it's brought in so far, which as of Friday was already $26.i million. For a little perspective on how huge that is, TFIOS made more money on its first 24-hour interval then Divergent fabricated in its first weekend. Information technology likewise totally trounced that Tom Cruise flick. Not bad for the little YA motion-picture show that could.

What did others recall? Well for some more fan reaction, yous tin check out this Youtube video put together by 20th Century Fob after initial screenings:

There are also e'er the unadulterated views of those on Tumblr.

And permit's not forget our friends on Twitter:

All in all, information technology looks like most of u.s.a. that saw TFIOS had a hard time keeping it together during this movie. Tears and sniffles were all around the theater during the last fleck of the film. Tissues were definitely required. Because of this, I was entirely grateful at the ending changes in the movie. This is purely considering I don't think that I would've been able to concord it together in a way polite for movie theaters otherwise. They showed simply enough of Augustus suffering and Hazel'due south loss for me. This is i of those things that needed to be changed when put up on a screen. It would've been far as well crude emotionally to visually become through everything that happened on the page. Information technology was simply enough to be true to the experience of reading and feeling those pages.

What did you think of the picture, readers? Did you dearest it or hate information technology? Did you lot require a box of Kleenex or were yous flabbergasted by the mass sniffles in your theater?

-Katie Shanahan Yu, currently reading The Dark Unwinding past Sharon Cameron