Endless Love (2014)

  So, I'm just going to go ahead and say it.  There's nothing really wrong with this movie.  It's just horribly boring.

Jade Butterfield (Gabriella Wilde) decides to meet her fellow high school students on graduation day but the only person interested is David (Alex Pettyfur).  He is popular, however, and manages to round up enough people for her party that she is not horrifically embarrassed.  The two start dating.  Jade's father (Bruce Greenwood) is concerned that his daughter's new romance is going to derail the carefully constructed future he has in mind for her so he does everything passive aggressively possible to run David off, because he has never read Romeo & Juliet or seen a teen romance ever.  Jade, predictably, rebels against her cookie-cutter future to waste time with the boy that makes her lady-bits flutter because everything tastes better with daddy issues.

This is a remake of a 1981 movie of the same name.  The remake switches the social class of the main characters, with the Butterfield's now being yuppies and David the blue-collar one.  The newer one also seems to skirt some of the more disturbing plot points, according to the Wikipedia entry.  I've never seen the original so I can't speak as to the power of those scenes but it would make certain actions in the remake make more sense.  Honestly, having read the synopsis, the original sounds like a way better movie.  This has just had all its teeth pulled and comes off more like a remake of Say Anything.  David is too even-keeled, too understanding, too willing, too sensitive, too everything, while Jade pouts and makes doe-eyes.  They're so bland that, by contrast, her dad seems to completely overreact in almost Bond villain style.

I'm sure it's supposed to be madly romantic and capture the heady rush of first love fighting the odds against a cruel and unfeeling world, but it's not.  It's two stupid children making stupid decisions in reaction to a stupid adult.  At least the original involved a mental hospital.