I'd read the first novel and realized it was simply too long for a feature film. Beautiful Creatures would have made a great limited series on cable, but the length precluded a movie. After seeing the drastic changes made from the book in the film version, it struck me once again at how bad the adaptation was.
shareI'm so happy that not everyone feels the same way you do. I love the movie; it's beautiful, interesting, entertaining...I watch it a couple of times a month.
shareAgree. I saw it once a couple of years ago and it has always stuck with me for some reason. I'm currently watching it for the second time ever and feel entranced the way I did when I first watched it. I've never read the book(s).
I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves.
If you had read the books (all 5) then you would have seen that they totally screwed up by leaving out important characters, events, and pretty much just threw stuff together without even trying to be close to the books.
I agree, what they should have done is make at least 3 or 4 movies to do the book series justice.
If you had never read the books, then I suppose you would think it was a good movie...
Not having read the book, I love the movie. I love the actors too, and I think they also are a part of the reason I love the movie so much. My TBR pile is too huge, and I have another large pile on my eReader, but one day I may check out the books.
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Hi India_Ana,
One of the reasons the movie didn't do that well was the profound changes from the book. The book was so long, so loaded with subplots and characters that never made it to the screen, it was bound to be difficult to adapt. However, the film did introduce me to Alden Ehrenreich, a talented young actor who should have a long career in films in the future.
I quite understand. I might not have liked the movie so much had I read the book first. As a fan of other books that became movies, I really hate it when TPTB make changes from the original work.
And, yes, I enjoyed watching Alden Ehrenreich.
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He's gonna be the new Han Solo!!!
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by StephenMalovski[/b]
ยป (Thu Aug 18 2016 07:11:04)
He's gonna be the new Han Solo!!!
No, they are gonna do a young(pre star wars) Han solo movie! They also are going a spinoff called Rogue 1 about the rebels who stole the DeathStar plans and hide them in R2D2. They say that Rogue 1 is gonna be a war film set in the StarWars universe so im really exited to see that!
shareThe pacing of the movie is wrong. Everything happens too fast, even the dialogue is delivered fast. The book take its time with the romantic aspects because Ethan and Lena are just friends in the first two thirds of the novel, mostly because if they touch Ethan feels pain and almost died in the book when he kissed Lena.
Now, there's the matter of all the important characters that are cut out, like the best friend and colleague of Ethan's mother, Maryanne the librarian, (There is no way that Amma would ever become a librarian) and the sisters(Ethan's great aunts), their cat Lucile ball, (important character in the second book) not to mention all the casters characters in Lena's family that were cut out in the movie.
At the school, Lena breaks the glass in the classroom because the girls were praying, but in the book they called her uncle a child murderer.
No screenwriter should change the dialogue from the book, because they simply can't write better than the author of the book.
After she breaks the glass in the school, Lena is suspended in the book, but in the movie the church leads a witch hunt against her, because they want her expelled. They even held the meeting in the Church, while in the book, the parents counsel for Lena is held in the school gymnasium.
They represent all Christians like ignorant and stupid hicks, and than at the end, they decide to use the priest to explain about sacrifice.
The movie is full with stupid and needless reverences about Titanic and other movies, Amma even mentions how Nancy Reagan expelled all the casters from Washington to Gatling.
The movie won't explain like the book that Sarafine had control over miss Lincoln's body long before the event that are happening, but is leading the viewers to believe that the people of Gatling are leading there own crusade against Lena. In the book, miss Lincoln's powerful organization is the DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution)which is controlled by Sarafine(in miss Lincoln's body) is making Lena's life miserable, because she wants Lena to turn dark, however, in the movie the church is doing this without Sarafine.
The curse in the movie is shown as all-powerful, while in the book a lot of Lena's female family is light by their own choice.
Lena and Ethan find out, (with some clues left by Ethan's mom) that Lena can claim herself, that a person with a strong will can claim them self, which Lena eventually does.
The ending of the movie makes no sense, because Lena makes Ethan forget everything about her, while in the book, they find out that Lena can claim herself at her 16th birthday without anyone dying.
When Lena's birthday arrives Ridley throws a surprise party for Lena at the 16'th moon with every kid from school that hates her. Link and Ethan are tricked by Ridley to leave the party, and when they come back, Lena is fighting Sarafine who has Ridley and Macon's brother Hunting by her side. Hunting stabs Macon and Sarafine kills Ethan, and despite all of that Lena defeated Sarafine because her powers are greatest at the 16'th moon. Than, she uses the book of moons with Amma's help to revive Ethan and because of that Macon dies. Lena in the second book feels an enormous guilt over this and almost becomes dark.
However, Ridley in the book is not that evil, she never kills anyone, but is loyal to Sarafine because she is afraid of her. Even when she tries to seduce Link, she will gain feelings for him, and even saves Ethan and Link's lives in the second book.
I don't think that the writer-director even read the book which this movie is supposedly based on, but simply read the Wikipedia page synopsis, and simply he based his screenplay on that article.
At the end, it's impossible for this movie to have a sequel because of the bad writing at the end. Sarafine is the main villain of the first three books and she survives this book, but dies in the movie
Hi StephenMalovski,
I put the blame on the writer/director. I saw an interview with him. He knew nothing about YA novels, romance or the fans of the novels. He had read the books and worked with the two authors, but didn't understand that fandom expects a faithful adaptation. At the time the movie was released a number of book fans who disliked the film made the same points you did. I think it needed a new writing, directing team and should have been a six part series on premium cable rather than a feature film.
Hi StephenMalovski,
I also thought Ethan's father was too important character to be eliminated in the film. I missed Boo, the mystical dog, too.
From all of the changes of the adaptation the thing that I most minded was how they turned Ridley from a multilayered and complex to underdeveloped and one-sided villain! For me YA novel are just like any other novels, I like some and dislike some! (matter of taste I guess).
Loved all the four Beautiful Creatures book, The Hunger Games and City of Ember(Loved the movie too). I really disliked the Fifth Wave, I though that it was written very poorly! Actually I wrote this same post when the movie came out but it was deleted!
I loved the movie actually, having not read the books and my wife dragging me to it, I don't normally like those kinds of movies, but for some reason I really enjoyed it. It prompted me to read the books which I'm not a book reader either. They were amazing books, first book to movie adaptation I have ever read and man did they mess it up. I have read the series like 5 times and really think they could of been huge hits if they made the movies right. I understand having to leave stuff out cuz of the length but why completely change the story? Like I said not sure of what other book to movie adaptations are like but I just felt they blew it big time with this one.
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