I saw this weekend and DC and loved it! I have read the book and didn't think the book was anything special really. This is the rare case of the movie actually being better in my opinion especially the ending where Rachel goes into the coma when watching the movie which was such a better emotional ending than the book.
shareI agree. I almost always like the book better but this is one of the very few cases where I liked the movie more.
sharethey're both different for me -- the book was very enjoyable for me because of how much it made me laugh, and i found the characters felt kind of more real
but the film was definitely more moving, and provided the viewers with closure and the tying up of loose ends etc
I don't think I could pick one over the other. They both had different things that I loved about them. I agree with your point about the ending, I loved it more than the book ending overall, but there were many scenes that they left out from the book, or changed drastically. They didn't have a lot of Greg and Earl backstory in the movie, but I liked the film Greg and Earl made Rachel in the end a lot more in the movie
I think they're both amazing on their own. They both developed the characters very well, and I enjoyed both from start to finish.
"The world is not a wish-granting factory" -The Fault in Our Stars
I liked the book too but movie is much much better . Jesse Andrews did a good job with all the changes .
shareI much preferred the movie. I actually really disliked the book, or at least was highly underwhelmed by it, but I adored the movie. I find it really interesting because they're both made by the same guy, but I do think that this story was made to be a movie, not a book.
shareI just made a post about this because I hadn't yet seen this.
I love both, but I have to give the slight win to the novel. The novel was so so so unsentimental. Nothing feels very climactic, just like life. Life doesn't deal in climaxes. There are no deep, moving death scenes. No moments to say your final goodbyes. Sometimes death just happens. And I love that the novel plays it like that. She randomly falls into a coma, and Greg has this huge meltdown (which is the best scene in the novel), and then it just says she dies a few days later. That's real. So real.
The film is a lot more sweet and sentimental, and that kind of annoyed me, but I get why they had to do it like that.
I will say the film had perfect performances. While the physical attributes were not the same as the novel, such as Earl being tiny or Greg being overweight, the actors all did fabulous jobs playing the characters. Thomas Mann was brilliant. I haven't seen casting so perfect since Araki's adaptation of Mysterious Skin.
I don't feel enough for you to cry.
Oh well.