À walk to remember

So I'm someone that loooves Romance movies and clichés. However today I watched "a walk to remember" and I couldn't bring myself to actually like it. It was too fast, the characters groths were fast too. The only thing that I like was the demonstration of love between the two leads. I didn't cry to be honest whiwh is suprising. Is there something that I missed?? As a romance lover I'm suprised to not have like this film considered as a "classic" of romance