The Beautiful Creatures book has been out for a while now and I’ve never picked it up because it just doesn’t sound interesting to me. I went to the movies today with David (from David Reviews) to see it. He had read the book, but I hadn’t. I had no idea what it was about or what to expect. After watching this catastrophe of a movie, I’m 100% certain that I will never read the book.
Unfortunately, I had paid $12.00 to sit and watch this garbage, so I couldn’t afford to just get up and leave. I remained hopeful that, at some point in the 2 hours or so that this was running, it would get better. It didn’t. It got worse. Way worse. So what was wrong with it? Here’s the list:
The actors and the acting
OMG. The movie died with their choice of leading characters. Lena and Ethan were just wrong. So wrong. They didn’t look like I would expect them to, with their much too obvious flaws and their bad acting. It didn’t work.
Lena came off as distant and brooding at the beginning and then within 5 minutes Ethan had her smiling like an idiot. She kept picking stupid fights with him that went nowhere, because she would be all lovey-dovey as soon as he looked at her again. Ethan was another one, he kept making corny jokes that only, like, 2 people laughed at.
The actors tried to make some scenes much more dramatic than they were. No. Just no. They butchered it. There was nothing dramatic about this movie. It was just stupid.
Insta-love
I think we can all agree that insta-love sucks. They were already so in love that first week they met. WTF. It was so annoying. I mean, they didn’t even KNOW each other yet! Ethan could have been some psycho serial killer, Lena… wake up!
I also hated the whole “their love is so strong” bullcrap. So stupid. Apparently, their love was stronger than anything and impossible things happened because of it. They had known each other for like a month.
Missing information
There was so much that wasn’t explained… why??? Those of us who didn’t (and probably never will) read the book need to know the details! I was so lost. There were so many unanswered questions and nothing got explained. They basically just said “screw you” to all the people who didn’t read the book.
The music and the special effects
The music was a little too much for what was going on. I think they tried to make these scenes sound way more interesting than they really were, which didn’t work out very well. AND what was it with all those unneeded special effects? It was blown out of proportion. There was so much lighting and fire and blah, blah, blah. Ugh.
Final thoughts
It was horrible. I just hated it. There were a few high schoolers clapping when the movie ended, which was so annoying. There was nothing to clap about. I just wanted to go up to them and do this:
Yep, so it was a disaster and I wish I had saved those $12 to go buy a book or something useful. Bad, bad movie. I don’t even see how they’ll make a sequel to it now. Will people even go see it? Probably not many. I certainly won’t.
Well, well, well… let me see… I started reading the book and couldn’t stomach it so I dropped it. When I saw the trailer for the movie I thought that the two main actors were NOT what I thought they would look like from the book, especially Ethan (I found him to be insipid and not the Ethan on the book). But maybe we are higher beings with super high expectations of books and movies. I’m sure the book fans will love it and their wait would be worth it
Soooo glad I didn’t go to see this movie!
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“maybe we are higher beings with super high expectations of books and movies. ” LOL love that! I think it’s true!
Aaww that sucks that you hated it this much! What I can tell, people are divided 50/50 on who likes it and who doesn’t. I thought it was hilarious! Too bad
Yeah, I noticed the same thing. Some people loved it and others hated it.
I hated the book the first time I tried to read it. The second time was much much better.
I was excited for the movie…but it was just soo bad. So so bad.
This is a very interesting review, as I read one other review of the movie that said the complete opposite thing.
I have read Beautiful Creatures and have enjoyed it (though it definitely didn’t blow my mind), and heard the movie wasn’t that similar to the book, and that they changed a lot of things. I haven’t watched the movie though, because I dislike it when movies change the books by a lot (they can never be spot on and I don’t expect them to) and quite frankly – the trailer looked awful to me, and the casting pretty horrible because they looked nothing like I thought they should, and Ethan looks way too old for Lena and a lot of that. Not sure if I will watch the movie at all, but I’m not rushing to anytime soon.
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I hate when they make too many changes to the movies, too. It ruins the movie for me. Thank God I hadn’t read it before, or I’d be even more upset! And I agree, the trailer and casting were horrible.
I’ve had this book sitting on my shelf for a while now, and haven’t bothered picking it up. I’ve heard that the book is way too long and the pacing is just awful, so it sounds like, somehow, a lot of that was translated on film. I’m kind of tempted to see the movie, before reading the book, to see if I can make sense of it!
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I heard the same things about the book, so I kept putting it off.
Please don’t judge the story in the book based on the movie. The movie changed like 90% of the story and made it stupid and shallow with flat characters and plenty of plot holes. The book was a million times better than the movie!
The book is entertaining. The movie sucked. Totally wrong and things didn’t happen in sequence. They left out a lot of characters and details. Ethan and Lena totally cast wrong.