Willem Dafoe’s Swedish hip-hop chair dance. He is! He turns the otherwise-depressing Isaac (who mopes around after getting dumped by his girlfriend and losing his eyes to cancer) into a really funny guy who’s able to go toe-to-toe with the sardonic Hazel and Gus.ġ4. Meanwhile, Nat Wolff (as Gus’s BFF Isaac) … Indians’ “Oblivion” (a song that sounds much like Bon Iver’s “Holocene”) plays during the couple’s first Amsterdam date.* It’s heartwarming and heartbreaking.ġ3. Luckily the movie’s soundtrack fills in the gaps of her musical taste with real artists like Charli XCX, Ed Sheeran, STRFKR, M83, and Lykke Li. In the book, Hazel mentions the band the Hectic Glow quite a few times, a band “so underground and hip, that they aren’t even real,” said writer John Green in an interview. for making the cannula (and oxygen tank) look as burdensome as the book implies, and maybe even a little more so. But cheers to director Josh Boone and Co. It’s one thing to read about how cumbersome it is for Hazel to wear that cannula - but it’s another to actually see it, right there on Shailene’s face. A lesser teen movie might have tried to pretty it up or lose it altogether. (Heads up! If you have not seen the movie or read the book, there are spoilers here for you. Here are 21 reasons why, even if you loved the book, you might prefer the movie.

Unpopular opinion time: Is The Fault in Our Stars movie better than the book it’s based on? True, the film is impressively faithful to John Green’s novel and the changes are few - but many of those changes are really good ones.

The fault in our stars movie soundtrack