No as good as The Faults in Our Stars

I think you are probably right. I should say I like Fault more and I gave it a high mark. Fault is simpler in a lot of ways - And it feels good. The this one is bit mixture - however I think it's bit overrated though.

The slow clap maybe?

Oh, man. I found TFiOS completely... disingenuous in its message (which irked me to no end).

I thought they netted as popular a female lead they could grab, one that would put butts in the seats, picked a tear-jerker of a topic-- cancer (although, it wasn't as sad as this, IMO) -- and put the marketing machine to work making them money ($124 million domestic, THREE HUNDRED worldwide).

This sold for 5 (mil), shot for 20 (mil), and netted only 6.25 by the end of six weeks at the box office (a 15 million dollar loss at the time). Such a pity, too, when it was just phenomenally better, and far less of a set-up, in my opinion.

I really think TFiOS ruined the audience for this one, and more's the pity!

I have seen the spectacular now and it was impressive but i found the ending to anti-climactic and the main character was actually a douchebag and not even that much of a likeable one. Fault in our stars was average and i feel like Perks was alright but lacked the heart. I feel like the music choices in each of these movies just represents them. The fault is filled with a lot of indie pop music showing the film to be very light hearted and not especially thought provoking. Perks used a stranger but older music showing how it'll be more existential and weirder than others as it its about the outcasts as such and different people.

I didn't catch that much decent music in the spectacular now, i'll have to rematch it and take a look. But you see me and earl has a very abstract music selection filled with mainly other film scores and Brian Eno songs. Brian enos music is can't be categorised, much like this film. Also his music feels very uplifting and emotional and leaves you very satisfied at the end much like the film.

All good films to be honest but i feel like the spectacular now is defiantly not the best teenage film. I feel like that honour would go to stand by me, and if that doesn't count probably this or boyhood or maybe even Rushmore. (if you haven't seen any of those films i highly recommend you do)

That's a fair comment! Fault has more fun to watch. The characters are more simple - not like Earl with whole lots of facets.

I completely agree with you. The Fault in Our Stars is disgustingly overrated, but Me and Earl and the Dying Girl is criminally underrated. It's honest, sincere, doesn't try so hard like TFIOS did. This might just be my favourite movie of the year, and my second favourite movie about teenagers after Perks of Being a Wallflower.


That's the thing about life...nobody gets out alive.

Fault was just one big set-up for me-- pick a popular star, put them in a tear-jerker (ohhh, cancer!), and set the marketing machine in motion. Like I said earlier in the thread TFiOS has made $124 million domestic, THREE HUNDRED worldwide.

This sold for 5, shot for 20 (mil), and netted 6.25 by the end of six weeks at the box office. Such a pity, too, when it was just phenomenally better (like you said, it had artistic integrity), and was far less a set-up on movie-going audiences.

I really think TFiOS ruined the audience for this one! And that sucks!

Agree with this. I liked Fault but found this to be more thoughtful.

I agree 100%. Also I read the book because I wanted to know what all the fuss was about and was thoroughly unimpressed and annoyed. The characters themselves irritated me and came off as pretentious and unrealistic (their personalities, nothing to do with them being sick). It just felt so cliche and *eyeroll-ish* to me. I just can't stand the way Green writes so it didn't really translate well to film for me, lol. Definitely thought this one had much smarter humor and was generally just more artistic and nicer to look at. It had a lot more creative details and I really loved the eccentric and completely different personalities of all the intersecting characters.

Can't agree more. The Faults in Our Stars was so overrated. I did not like their actings too. This one Me and Earl and the Dying Girl was so pleasent and artistic