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[honey]

It was very predictable (in the movie version).  The book ending is totally different and unexpected, which made it better.  You should definitely read the book at some point!

The book ending was definitely unpredictable. I don't know about better... (though I can't say for sure because because I don't know how the movie ends it.)  I think the end of the book was a cheap shot to make the reader cry, and an obvious attempt to preach a lesson. There was no subtlety about the fact that she was trying to be ironic. Plus, I just wondered why I invested so much time reading a book that by the end the entire purpose of the crusade became void. The end made the book pointless.

Sorry. I just really, really hated the ending to the book. It's not even about the fact that it didn't end happy. I can do bitter sweet endings, I just think this one failed epically. But I also realize I'm the definite minority.

Sorry, again. I'll stop now. 

[cabybakes]

I finally saw the movie a couple of weeks ago.  I liked the book better, even though the ending was the pits...I thought it fit, here was Anna, who was born to save her sister who essentially died doing what her sister wanted and her sister lived.  Cruel irony...

I did like the movie, I just liked the book better...I wish they would have included some of the nonfamily stuff that was in the book in the movie.

[Carter-Orange]

I've still not read the book or seen the film, but they are on my list to do!  If I'm going to cry over a film, I'd rather do it in my house too rather than in front of a whole cinema full of people 

[honey]

I have no shame. I cry all the time at movies. Being in the theater has never bothered me because chances are I'm not the only one doing it.

[Carter-Orange]

I cried watching Marley & Me, but I wasn't the only one    But at home, I can cry and not feel silly about it.  I hate crying in public.  I cried at my desk in work reading Breaking Dawn (that'll teach me not to read when I should be working) and my work colleagues gave me some strange looks.

[honey]

you cried in BD? Where?

[Carter-Orange]

you cried in BD? Where?

OMG I'm pathetic aren't I, lol.

I cried in the part where Edward said goodbye to Jacob and Renesmee.

[mare]

I finally saw the movie a couple of weeks ago.  I liked the book better, even though the ending was the pits...I thought it fit, here was Anna, who was born to save her sister who essentially died doing what her sister wanted and her sister lived.  Cruel irony...

I did like the movie, I just liked the book better...I wish they would have included some of the nonfamily stuff that was in the book in the movie.

Me too! I think Jillian's character should have been in there. Even though the subplot with her and the lawyer was a bit dumb, I felt like her character was a much needed element for what the whole book was about. I still don't see why they added some random sister for the mother to gripe to. lol that annoyed me.

[julilly]

Okay, so I just acquired this movie. (arg, mateys) I gotta say... that was terribly depressing, not as good as the book, but had it come out without me having ever read the book I think I would have enjoyed it. It was the comparison that killed it.

[RokofAges75]

Yep... I agree.  It's a good movie, if you like Debbie Downer movies like that (which, okay, I do LOL).  It just loses the actual message of the book, which is more original and is what separated it from the countless other stories about people dying of cancer.  But even so, it told that kind of story much better than a lot of others - sure, it was cliched, but not overly cheesy or melodramatic or unrealistic.

[mare]

I agree, had I not read and LOVED the book, I would have thought the movie was great (which it was) A little too Lifetime movie of the week for me at times, but I would have enjoyed it had they not ruined the book. lol