A Brilliant Conflict

There is just so much movie here. For some it may be too much. But in the same secretly sarcastic way most telemarketers say the phrase, the title of this one is particularly apt.

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

The premise is a bit of a drag but it's a drama, and a really good one at that. The film is emotional, moving and funny. It's an amazing experience, you get into Tessa's mind and you understand the character. She's sweet strong and clearly has grown with all that's happen to her but she's still a teenager with her fears and her aspirations. She sort of wants her life back and experience things like any regular teenager.The cast is amazing, they make sense, it's a great ensemble. Paddy Considine is so good in this movie, such a great dad and I love the fact that the dad is the one facing things head on, not running away, denying or escaping the hardship. Olivia Williams is perfect as the flawed mother. Edgar Canham is so sweet and brilliant I love how they wrote it and how he played it.Jeremy Irvine is not just the pretty boy next door and played Adam with an innocence that was perfect for the role. Kaya Scodelario is also a gem in the movie and she might be playing another flawed teenager but her relationship with Tessa (Dakota Fanning) is very much how I would expect a real friend to be when her best friend is dealing with cancer. The movie feel very artistic, truthful and honest. The Family and friends are very real which gives the film a raw aspect even though it is made with taste and humor. Now is Good shows a different side of young people, the film is intelligent, inspirational and is not just about falling in love with someone and having sex with them. I think the movie does cancer justice, it's not sugar coating things or getting horribly pitiful. The film is wrapped with humor but hits the emotional notes. You'll probably be touched watching and it'll stay with you. The cast brought weight and humor to the film. It was one of the best movie I've seen in 2012 I am so glad I saw it. I would highly recommend the film.@wornoutspines

I really had high hopes when I picked out this movie. It's about a teenage girl who suffers from Leukemia, and she hopes to complete a bucket list before she dies. The movie could of gone in great direction except for the fact that Tessa is a total bitch.Seriously, how could any one like her? She's rude and hateful to the only people that care about her.Plus, Adam was just beyond annoying, and kind of stupid. The only good part was Watching Kaya Scodelario and Joe Cole because I really enjoyed them in Skins, but the rest was horrible. we did not even finish the whole thing. Please do not waste your time watching this awful movie.

Well, I made it about half way through. The cartoon graphics of the opening are very intriguing and unique. The small seaside town is picturesque and the dad has an everyman appeal.But I think you're supposed to be rooting for our young female protagonist and I wasn't. Being ill does not give one the right to be snotty and immoral and cause others pain. She's a Godless bitch.Some girls would not look boyish, even with short hair, but Dakota Fanning does. She also looks super young. That combination makes it squeamishly awkward to think of her in a sexual context, which is what the movie constantly asks you to do.Having said that, I certainly understand that a young woman would want to fall in love and/or experience sex or lovemaking before death.I don't believe that the handsome neighbor boy would fall for her. Why would he? He could have any girl in that town.Her bucket list of crime, drugs, and sex is pretty depressing. The modern secular world has taught her that those are the cool things to experience. That's so nihilistic. Thank you modern Europe, for doing that to your kids.Yes the pointlessness of a young girl getting Leukemia is made ever so clear, but must that necessarily lead to narcissistic nihilism? On the other hand, she was quite nice to her brother, and she looked out for her slutty friend.But in addition to her meanness to her parents and her crimes, the boy next door physically torments a bald man on a bus for absolutely no reason.Well, the fact that there just happens to be a studly boy literally next door and she's never even met him before, and he just happens to fancy her, and he just happens to have a motorcycle that he can ride on the beach is really stacking the deck.I don't know what happens after I clicked out of this, but I can guess. They make love, she makes up with her dad, and she dies.The graphics, the scenery, Fanning's accent, the music, and the natural performances of the dad and brother, make this higher quality than the average teen bucket-list yarn, but it moved too slowly for me, and I didn't like the girl.

Tessa Scott (Dakota Fanning) is dying of leukemia. She has a to-do list before dying, one of which is to lose her virginity. Her father (Paddy Considine) is unable to give up even though she has stopped all treatment. Her mother (Olivia Williams) can't deal with her impending death to the point of avoiding her daughter. Her irresponsible friend Zoey (Kaya Scodelario) is a little too eager to party and help her do the list. New neighbor boy Adam (Jeremy Irvine) falls for her but has secrets of his own.Director Ol Parker has written a simple tear jerker. Luckily, it's not going to be such an easy contrite premise. There are a few traditional sad moments. The romance is there. We have the inappropriate friend. The parents can't deal. The only thing isn't there is any big jokes. Dakota Fanning is doing a British accent, and I don't know if she's any good. All I can say is her acting is subdued but it's all there.