SunnyHello Nice effects though.

AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Cooktopi The acting in this movie is really good.

Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Eddie_weinbauer The acting is wooden and the actors look bored.Oh yeah.And the dad overplays so much, you start laughing.Dakota does an barley OK job here,dunno where it fails really. I juts feel she should've had more to work with.I like some of her her movies,this one wasn't really bad either,just ended feeling it lacked something.Like the best material ended up on the cutting room floor.I kind of felt it was alike a sketch of the fault is in our stars.Where as the fault is in our stars was good, and you ended up caring for the characters and what choices they took.Here you sort of end up just sitting on the sideline watching it all take place,just waiting for the end credits.Don't get me wrong.This isn't a bad movie.It just could've been so much more,if they've bothered to develop a little more of the character we see

zhcole I really can't even comprehend why you would have a story about a girl dying from cancer and then not only make her completely and utterly boring, but also dislikable. It's one thing to have a character who doesn't particularly do anything to make you like them, but at least is a decent person. But to create a character who frankly is kind of a f***ing b***h and then expect us to have any sort of sympathy for her, is absolutely baffling. For starters, there is nothing interesting about her whatsoever. I'm struggling to think of a character so underdeveloped in a film. Perhaps I missed something while screwing around on my phone during this snoozefest, but I can't recall us ever really learning anything about Tessa. She's kind of just there. And she has cancer. That's pretty much it. I could've forgiven her character for being flat and boring if she were at least a likable person. It would've made me feel sympathy for her, which I feel is kind of the point in a movie about a child dying of cancer. But instead we get a character who is extremely rude to her very caring father, and a character who would rather go shoplifting and steal a stranger's credit card than spend time with her family. Of all the things you could do with a bucket list type story, you have our dying teenager steal cosmetics and credit cards. Are you f***ing kidding me? What a waste of the precious time you have left and what an insult to the people who care about you. Now I don't exactly have any experience when it comes to teenagers dying of cancer, but it seems very unrealistic that they would behave this way. And if I'm wrong and it is in fact realistic, why would you, as the writer of this story, choose to have your character be like that? Why ruin the sympathy for the main character by making her out to be shallow and bratty? So we pretty much just put up with Tessa for an hour and a half and then she finally dies. We get a few brief shots of crying family members, but nothing that really leaves any sort of lasting impact. No aftermath or anything to give us the feeling of grief and mourning that her loved ones would be feeling, again lessening the emotional impact to near nonexistence. The romance aspect, like pretty much everything else in the film, was also very boring and underdeveloped. This was more of a minor issue I had with the story, but why did they decide to throw Teen Mom in there? It just felt so random and out of place and really contributed nothing of value to the plot. I've seen a handful of films like this and I quite liked a few of them, but this one is by far the worst I've seen. Even The Fault in Our Stars, with all of its absurd pretentiousness, had more redeeming qualities than this garbage.

MattyGibbs Now is Good is a British film about a girl who is dying. It's a familiar tale and a bit clichéd at times however as a drama it's pretty good. I found it quite realistic and pretty engrossing. The acting is pretty good especially Dakota Fanning who is excellent. Her character is strong willed and at times not altogether likable however isn't this the case for a lot of girls at this age. Paddy Considine does a good job as her dad struggling to cope with the imminent loss of his daughter. The storyline follows Fanning as she tries to pack in a wish list in the last months of her life. The list is predictable and a little depressing, which is a symptom of our times. The acting however does make up for any weaknesses in the plot. There are some emotional scenes that are handled well. Now is Good is an enjoyable if fairly predictable drama that for me thanks mainly to the acting just nudges an 8/10.

dansview 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.