Rental Review - Beautiful Creatures
Beautiful Creatures (2013), PG-13, 124 minutes - One of my favorite things to do is to compare and contrast how a film differs from its source material. Now before you give yourself a headache wondering when or why I read Beautiful Creatures, don't bother because I didn't. My fiance did however. From about half way through reading the book, she couldn't stop talking about wanting to see the movie. So when she finished, I picked it up from redbox and we gave it a watch. I mention all of this because I was quite amused seeing someone else go through the struggle of watching something that doesn't quite meet their expectations. Lena Duchannes (Alice Englert) is the new kid in school and a bit of an outcast because she keeps to herself as much as because of her family's odd reputation around the small southern town of Gatlin, South Carolina. She also happens to be a witch (they prefer to be called Casters). Ethan Wate (Alden Ehrenreich) is smart kid ...