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Beautiful Creatures/Dangerous Creatures l Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl #3: Because this series just has a magical touch
Beautiful Creatures Lena Duchannes is unlike anyone the small Southern town of Gatlin has ever seen, and she’s struggling to conceal her power and a curse that has haunted her family for generations. But even within the overgrown gardens, murky swamps, and crumbling graveyards of the forgotten South, a secret cannot stay hidden forever. Ethan Wate used to think of Gatlin, the small Southern town he had always called home, as a place where nothing ever changed. Then he met mysterious newcomer Lena Duchannes, who revealed a secret world that had been hidden in plain sight all along. A Gatlin that harbored ancient secrets beneath its moss-covered oaks and cracked sidewalks. A Gatlin where a curse has marked Lena's family of powerful supernaturals for generations. A Gatlin where impossible, magical, life-altering events happen. Ethan Wate thought he was getting used to the strange, impossible events happening in Gatlin, his small Southern town. But now that Ethan and Lena have returned home, strange and impossible have taken on new meanings. Swarms of locusts, record-breaking heat, and devastating storms ravage Gatlin as Ethan and Lena struggle to understand the impact of Lena's Claiming. Even Lena's family of powerful Supernaturals is affected - and their abilities begin to dangerously misfire. As time passes, one question becomes clear: What - or who - will need to be sacrificed to save Gatlin? Also available:Is death the end . . . or only the beginning? Movie TBR February 1st 2013 Alden Ehrenreich ... Ethan Wate Alice Englert ... Lena Duchaness Zoey Deutch ... Emily Asher Emmy Rossum ... Ridley Duchaness Jeremy Irons ... Macon Ravenwood Emma Thompson ... Mrs. Lincoln / Sarafine Viola Davis ... Amma Kyle Gallner ... Larkin Fans 01. JensensGurl07 02. water lilies 03. Stay to the Lights 04. Shadowhunter 05. KOUAT12 06. lulu-144 07. baelfire24 08. KnifeLuv __________________
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Thanks for starting, Belle.
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Thanks for the new thread, Belle
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You know I ended up liking this series a lot more than I thought I would, expect for Beautiful Darkness, I kind of have a love/hate with that book.
And I really loved the movie, like a lot, though the ending I'm still kind of, why didn't you stick closer to the books, but I think the castings, especially for Ethan and Lean were really spot on, Ethan's casting really surprise me, I wasn't sold until I actually saw him on screen. |
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Ethan's casting was my favorite part of the film. I wish it had done better at the box-office for us to get the other books into movies.
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Yeah. I am hoping the upcoming weeks does better. I SO want a sequel
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Yes Ethan's casting was the best. I loved him. I really a sequel as well, especiallyreal with now they left it. I really don't want it to turn it into all those other YA books to movies that never got another movie.
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Thanks for the new thread!
Oh the movie is out all ready? I'm so behind Aside from The Hobbit I don't really go to the theatre anymore |
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its already out =)
TFTNT <3 im happy with ethans casting too and i def want a sequel im planning to read the other books soon __________________
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Kind of broke my heart a bit to see this not do better, esp since the series is really popular. __________________
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Yeah me too. Its still an underrated series compared to a lot of books though.
And its #1 in Australia, I feel good about that |
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I only ever saw promotion online, and I don't think Valentine's was the best option for its release.
I'll definitely watch it, but I can wait. I think I'm more interested in the side characters (Thompson and Irons) |
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I saw a million and one preview for the movie, I'm pretty sure every time I was watching TV a preview came on, but I watch a lot of ABC Family and The CW, still though.
I think the things that hurt the movie are: the constant comparing it to Twilight (when let's face it aside from being a YA fantasy series with one mortal character and one supernatural character that fall in love) they really aren't alike) and how different it was from the book. After all the previews I think a lot of fans new they changed a bunch of stuff and they might have decided not to go see it, which I think is dumb, but still. I really think it's too bad, because it really was a good movie on it's own. |
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I still don't know what they were thinking with Riley I think that was the most blatant change.
Comparing it to Twilight certainly wouldn't have worked for me, I haven't and will never watch those movies I had cable at my last place, but the new place doesn't. I didn't see anything at the time. |
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Ridley was the biggest change I could see.
And yea, the comparisons kind of did hurt. Apparently, Alice and Alden were pitched the movie as "twilight meets romeo&juliet" which is such a horrible pitch. By for the books, I'm almost done with redemption, my second time around. I like that this was really a southern gothic feel to it. Yu don't see that much anymore... O at least in the ones I've been reading __________________
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