Beautiful Creatures

In Gatlin, South Caroline, the teenager Ethan Wate (Alden Ehrenreich) dreams on leaving the conservative town and go to the college. Ethan has dreams with a mysterious girl and when he meets the fifteen year-old newcomer Lena Duchannes (Alice Englert) in his class, he realizes that she is the girl of his dreams. The outcast Lena is rejected by the mates since she is the granddaughter of Macon Ravenwood (Jeremy Irons), who is considered a worshiper of the devil by the superstitious dwellers. Ethan gives a ride to Lena and they fall in love with each other. Soon he learns that Lena is a good witch that on her sixteenth birthday will be claimed by the light and the darkness. She may stay in the light, but is cursed to change to the dark side if she falls in love with him. Further, her evil mother Sarafine (Emma Thompson) is a caster that is pushing Lena to the dark side. Now they are seeking a spell to save their doomed love. Will the lovers succeed? "Beautiful Creatures" is a pleasant romantic fantasy about love, curse and sacrifice. The fight between light and darkness is well resolved and the conclusion is open to interpretations. It will never be nominated to an Oscar, but entertains. My vote is six. Title (Brazil): "Dezesseis Luas" ("Sixteen Moons")

A scion of a family of witches, of some sort, moves to an obscure small town to ensure her coming of age would go unnoticed and without surprises but the otherworldly family did not take into account the love factor. Even by its story line one would be tempted to be presumptuous of this film but a true cinephile ought not be prejudiced. We therefore get a just over 2 hour cheese-load of a wannabe thriller/horror with extra dose of wannabe rom-com. Corny and ineffective to the core with mediocre performances and vain storyline; even the presence of Jeremy Irons, Viola Davis and Emma Thompson could not save this. A cartoon version might have been a preferred option.

I am totally into supernatural type movies/TV with a love story, so I was very excited to go and see this one. My mom had read the books and said they were great, but I knew nothing about the story. I have never been SO BORED as I was while watching!! At one point I began to drift to sleep. At another point I was thinking about how I could have been at home finishing my laundry. If I had been by myself I would have left, but I was with my friend (who was also very disappointed). I felt there was almost zero character development, so I didn't fall in love with any of them. Ethan had cute, funny one-liners here and there, but other than that there was no substance. There was no excitement. No substance. Do yourself a favor and see something else, stay home and watch a movie, or do some laundry. ANy way to make good of the two hours of your life you will never get back.

****May Contain Spoilers**** This was completely awful. If I were Kami Garcia I would be embarrassed. There were actually only 2 things in this movie that followed the books and I can't even remember what the second one is that is how disturbed I am. Within the first 2 minutes they had already screwed it up. The dreams that Ethan has pertaining to Lena. Where is the rest of the cast?? I can understand them not having a big budget (I don't know whether they did or didn't I am just assuming they didn't because of lack of characters) but really? They can't get even the lollipop that Ridley uses correct? Lena and Ethan don't Celt at all in the movie. Ethan never dies. Why the heck did Genevieve kill her Ethan? And not even have the Book of Moons. Where is the Sharpie? Why wasn't Lena driving a hearse? This really just makes my head hurt. I am so disturbed by how much they butchered what could have been an amazing movie. I really don't expect them to be able to even make a sequel now that Ethan didn't even die. I won't be watching it either if they do. This is an atrocity.

This is the worst book-to-movie adaptation I have ever seen. And I'm not one of those people who generally gets super frustrated with movie versions because "it's not how I imagined it". But this was just awful. It is one thing to cut scenes for time - that's understandable. It is entirely different to completely change everything - the characters, the story-line, the ending. So many missing details (including ones necessary to the plot) and so many...strange...changes. It seriously was like the screenplay writer asked someone to quickly summarize the book for him, and afterward, he went to write it and just BSed any plot holes he was missing from not actually reading it. Positive comments: Ugh....not many. The acting wasn't terrible. Jeremy Irons does a great Macon and Emmy Rosum was perfect as Ridley. I wasn't fond of the guy who played Ethan and his accent (which he isn't supposed to have anyway) was pretty terrible. But he wasn't bad. There's only so much an actor can do with a bad script, so I feel like they did their best. I can't speak for those who haven't read the book, though since this left out all the good parts of the actual story, I can't imagine it would make much sense to someone unfamiliar with it. But if you have read the book and you liked the book and you can't wait to see your favorite parts played out, don't watch this movie. You will be disappointed and so frustrated that you feel the need to write reviews on IMDb to warn people.

I thought this was going to be a fun and slightly scary paranormal/monster/romance, sort of like the Twilight series. Instead, I paid for the privilege of getting bludgeoned with Cultural Marxist/Politically Correct orthodoxies and bigoted anti-Christian stereotypes. A few examples: 1.) Christians are loathsome, vile stereotypes, but sorcerers/witches ("casters" in this movie) are fine folk. Christians ban books and loudly and obnoxiously pray to be delivered from "heathens," rather than reaching out to non-Christians with love and compassion. No scenes of Christians praying silently over a sick child in the ICU, or donating time and money to Christian charities which have made the world a vastly better place. 2.) Small town folk are ignorant, backward, close-minded dead-enders, but New York City is heaven on earth. No mention of the possibility that small-town people might be eager refugees from the toxic taxes, crowding, murder, rape, theft, and moral relativism of the modern American metropolis. Finally, there is the fatal plot flaw (spoiler alert) of the "casters" is this film being immortal, yet one of them gets shot and dies at the end. I don't get it. Don't waste your time or money on this wretched mess.

First off, how many times do people get let down going in to movies expecting them to be like the movies??? Get over it! The movie was great...the main characters were great actors and had great chemistry. I personally loved the movie. I actually liked it more than i thought, which is a good surprise for me. I knew id like it, but i liked it so much more! I really hope they continue to make movies from this series whether or not they follow the books. A good movie is a good movie...so all u disturbed book series followers get ur panties out a wad nd learn to appreciate great young actors and their hard work to make entertaining movies. For those looking for a good fantasy movie with love, action, and funny moments, this is the movie for you. It was good beginning to end.