“Twilight” just had to ruin everything. I say that in jest, but honestly I do not really care about vampire movies and most of the hate towards that franchise goes to that particular point, but for me the fact that they completely tore down the teenage love story trope is a far bigger crime. Now when someone says to you “Hey, go check out this movie, it’s a teenage love story,” they roll their eyes and say “Yeah, whatever.” Seriously, it should not be that way, but ever since Baz Luhrman’s “Romeo + Juliet” and the Nicholas Sparks factory of romantic dramas, there has not been a decent love story set on film, until I saw a screening of “The Spectacular Now.” I am completely head over heels, truly madly in love with this flick. The film is a hard sell, which is essentially an alcoholic’s version of “A Walk to Remember.” The movie centers on a self-obsessed alcoholic class clown named Sutter, whose life gets thrown for a loop when he meets a girl named Amy, played by the lovely and talented Shailene Woodley, who will have a seriously stellar year and will follow the path of another starlet, Jennifer Lawrence. Miles Teller gives it his all as Sutter and is completely spot-on in how he makes the audience fall in love with him from goofy screw-up to total good guy, which is not easy. It is hard to really love Sutter, but it is made easier when you realize that Amy loving him is the first real moment he has actually felt unconditional love with no strings attached. Sutter also has to contend with living at home with a single mother and an absentee father, but eventually, like in all movies, he has to make the journey to meet him and we wish he had not. How they made Kyle Chandler unlikable is beyond me, and I give major props to James Ponsoldt, the film’s director. This is a movie about love and living in the now, but let me tell you unequivocally, if you are even remotely turned off by the phrase “teenage love story” please do yourself a favor and just forgive that for a moment and see quite possibly the most honest and beautiful teenage romance movie in the past decade.