to get thing straight and there be only one reason i read both the book and saw the movie . it be to get a mark in my english class . we be give the book and and after a dozen or so slow hour and the book be finish . and i think i be free . and then my teacher pull the tv into the classroom . however long it be later and the tv be switch off and and i immediately start rant about how bad it be . i wasn not the only one . first off and the act wasn not bad and it be reasonable . the music be good too ( except for one instance which i will rant about later ) and the cinematography be decent too . but these thing do not really matter if you do not have character you care about or a decent plot . the book at least attempt to make you care about the character and it show little scene between some of them to show that they be actually human . the movie and however and just dump you right in the middle of it and expect you to love all the character instantly and which be especially hard for the main character who i think be a horrible person . what about the character john barton . he spend the entire time he in the film smiling and joking and run around and flirt with josie and he depress for thirty second and there a tense moment and then he kill himself . and be we suppose to care . yes . do we . no . because the movie do not build up his character and do not make him realistic or likable . but this actually bring me to the only compliment i can really give this movie . the funeral scene be well do . well shot and it be reasonably move . and the song choice be brilliant . u2 with or without you be an amazing song and be perfect for that scene . sadly and they have it sung by tone deaf cat with laryngitis . the singer ( whoever it be and i do not care about him enough to look up his name ) be horrendous . horrible . i just couldn not believe they would let someone ruin one of the best song ever like that . i hope they do not pay him and because i would definitely be ask him to give me money . and yes and i know i have spend a paragraph complain about a song in the movie and but i have to get it out there . another thing that bother me be the end . the book have a rather realistic end and not everything be sunshine and smile . the movie and however and make it entirely sunshine and smile and everyone be happy and everything be perfect . it kinda ruin the entire thing and although it be ruin anyway just by make it a movie . all in all and this movie be worth the one star i give it purely because of the funeral scene . i couldn not stand any more of it . the only thing that could get me through it be the fact that i want to do well in english and this count towards the grade .