Movie Review: The Fault in Our Stars (2014)
Synopsis : A teenager battling cancer in her lungs meets a cancer survivor at a support group and bonds with him over a book by her favorite author. Who's in it? The movie stars Shailene Woodley , Ansel Elgort , Nat Wolff , Laura Dern and Willem Dafoe. Review: This is the type of movie my wife usually enjoys more than I do. However, I have been making an effort to expand my movie genres a bit and was the one who added it to our Netflix DVD list. We finally got around to watching it this past weekend and, overall, I didn't hate it. I think the thing that really stood out about this movie, in my opinion, is it is super depressing. Part of this might be because I lost my dad to cancer last year, but a bigger part was Hazel Grace (Woodley) and Augustus (Elgort) just seemed to be the unluckiest teenagers alive. I suspect that was supposed to be the point, they found a moment of happiness with each other despite everything else. However, by the end of this film, I was beginning to...