What a P.O.S.


This must have been written by a 15 yr old girl. Truly a disappointment

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It is a piece of crap, but was written for young teenage girls.



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I am a 50 year old straight man and thought this movie was beautifully written and acted.

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Wow. Move out of your mother's basement already...

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Move out of your mother's basement

The 90s called - they want their meme back!

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26 year old straight male here. Loved every second of it. Haters gonna hate, that is all.

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I'm 44 and I loved it.

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I enjoyed it, too ~



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I'm 28 and I loved it. It crush my feelings, but it's beautiful.

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lol.....'Haters gonna hate'? you ARE a 15 yr old girl.

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Troll Alert!

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28 year old straight male here and I second that!


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I'm a 46 year old woman...watched with my 11 year old daughter. Thought it was boring. She didn't enjoy it much either. We both loved The Fault in Our Stars.

It was good in the beginning. Loved the family dynamic, but after the accident it was just too drawn out and slow.

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I felt exactly the same way! I gave it a 3 because the actors are great, but if I had to sit through this again, I would choose to go rather than stay!

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The performances were definitely better than the script. Oddly, I thought CGM was restricted and subdued through most of the film. She's a great actress, but "If I Stay" required her to be repressed. It often seemed like she was sleepwalking. Considering the role and the script this may have been appropriate, but she has a charisma that is so vibrant that it seemed unnatural for her to be so sedate.

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Because different opinions equal hatred. Yep. Makes sense. In Absurdistan.

Idiots will be idiots, no matter what age.

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54 yr old with a 7 yr old daughter and I loved it..good movie to watch with my little girl

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Yep its terrible.

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I thought it was horrible as well.

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It annoyed me, her whole family was dying and all she could think of was her boyfriend...

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To be honest, that annoyed me too. But I guess they wanted to focus on the reason that ultimately made her stay - which is their love.. I don't know, it did have it's holea and flaws, but overall I loved!

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Mia's love for Adam did influence her to stay but it was more importantly her love for music. The movie took a very romantic angle with the story but, in the book, Mia's beloved cello is what makes her want to live. She can't stand the thought of never being able to play or hear music again. Music was a significant part of her and Adam's relationship so it only makes sense that Adam reminds her of that.

And for those saying she should have died: what sort of lesson would that show audiences? As a YA book-turned-movie, the goal was to show that even in tough circumstances, there are things worth living for.

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It annoyed me, her whole family was dying and all she could think of was her boyfriend...


Precisely! The whole movie was pretty cringeworthy. I hate how unrealistic her relationship was to her boyfriend and how clichéd it was. Despite having never read the book, you could easily predict everything that was going to happen before it happened. It was lazy and predictable.

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Indeed was very predictable, but neither my 62 years old mother nor I (32 years old) thought she stayed because of her boyfriend.
She stayed because of the music.

If she would have stayed for that fantasy od perfect boyfriend. I would gave it a 2.

Please excuse my terrible redaction, english is not my native language.

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I didn't see it that way at all. She had already given up and chosen not to stay because her family was gone.

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That's the point... she is alone.

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Hell, If my entire family got wiped out, I'd want to join them too! Oops! Did I
say Hell?

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What movie were you watching? An enormous amount of the story was committed to Mia's thoughts about her family and what her future would be like without them. And her thoughts about Adam were both appropriate and in proportion to his significance to her life/future. Mia was a 17 year-old in love. If you had this experience than perhaps you can remember that your "other" WAS the future. As a young woman, Mia was planning a life in which her family would be less present, Adam more. In the end, it is the recognition of this; that she was already moving away from her family and toward a future that would be uniquely hers, that drove her decision to stay. There is a fault with the film in that it doesn't develop this clearly, but her choice was ultimately: Leave with her family or stay with her music and possibly, Adam.

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I disagree with that assertion. She was very concerned with her family, both those who died and those still alive. She found it very hard to imagine continuing life without her parents, but when she thought about her brother being left alone, that motivated her to try to stay, however much she might want to give in. When he died, it seemed like there was nothing left to fight for. But the people there who loved her did their best to convey to her that she still had a family here, and her dying would bring immensely more pain to them. In any case, especially after Teddy died, Adam was the most potent force compelling her, so of course she was focused more on him at that point.



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It's a mess..and slowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

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Its definitely not an action movie. Its very theatrical in its pacing and development, but the biggest fault I have with it is that it is very predictable. There are no real surprises, instead there are a series of vignettes which are meant to be emotionally evocative but are, for the most part, not. The only "flashback" that really worked for me is the scene of the Labor Day party, the rest are just too, too banal and passionless.

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54 and enjoyed it.

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moretz is a good actress but this movie sucked and should have been a cable tv movie.

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Agreed... It would be a good after school special. And it was slow.

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