Random Thoughts After Watching "Beautiful Creatures"

Random thoughts after watching “Beautiful Creatures” (this is not a review, just random notes)

(1) I admit I have never heard of this YA novel before. I first came to know about this movie when I watched Hansel & Gretel few weeks ago, and they played the trailer before H&G. My first thought was: so this is something like last year’s Dark Shadows? And then I googled the movie and I realized: oh no, this is the reverse gender of Twilight, shamelessly rip off the same formula that brings Twilight to the utmost success: Two young lovers, one ordinary human being & the other not-so-ordinary, and their love-you-but-can’t-be-with-you torturous love story.

(2) I watched this movie back-to-back with “Jack the Giant Slayer”, and now realize they’re actually not much different: it’s the story of two young lovers who could not be together because of their different background. Just that “Jack” has better looking leads.

(3) Gladly announcing this good news: Alice Englert and Alden Ehrenreich are 10 times better than Kristen Stewart & Robert Pattinson. At least Englert can do more than just biting her lips and Ehrenreich can… well, it’s not so hard to be better than those two Twilighters (three, if you count Taylor Lautner) so I’ll leave it at that.

(4) The supporting actors and actresses are actually very good. Jeremy Irons & Viola Davis are very good in their limited roles. And Emma Thompson, well, I shall dedicate one whole point to her…

(5) Don’t you just love Emma Thompson? How can you not be? She’s lovely in every role. In this movie, she’s the mother of Ehrenreich’s best friend possessed by the evil. She’s both hilarious and scary (if that is even possible), and she rocks an American accent. That confrontation scene with Jeremy Irons is just great.

(6) I often mix up Rose Byrne & Emmy Rossum. I can’t explain why, because it doesn’t make sense at all but it happened. My point here is: remember how lovely when Rose Byrne became the bitch in Bridemaids? Same here, Emmy Rossum really made an impact as the evil and bitchy cousin.

(7) I spent some time trying to figure out why the actor playing the above-mentioned best friend, Thomas Mann looks so familiar to me. And I thought he was Michael Angarano. But then I googled him too, and realized: OMG, he is actually that eager young man who wants to be a witch hunter in Hansel & Gretel. I thought I’ve seen him before!

(8) One question: Why is there no mention of the husbands of these casters women, especially the evil one like Sarafine & Genevieve? If they had become evil, who would have married them and impregnate them?

(9) If Jennifer Lawrence can play 16-year-old Katniss in The Hunger Games, I bet she can handle the role of Lena just fine. Now I just wonder how different will the movie be should they cast her as Lena.

(10) Final verdict: 2.5 stars out of 5. Watch it if you like Twilight. It’s not as bad as I expected, at least I didn’t walk out of the movie half way like I did during the first & only Twilight movie I watched.