From lyger at attrition.org  Fri Aug 23 20:26:06 2013
From: lyger at attrition.org (Lyger)
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 20:26:06 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: [attrition] review: movie: Beautiful Creatures
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1308232024270.24243@forced.attrition.org>


http://attrition.org/movies/creatures.html

By: Martums

Where is Peter Jackson when you need him?

To borrow from Steve Jobs, "...you can please some of the people, some of 
the time..."  There are apparently many who thoroughly enjoyed the book by 
Garcia and Stohl, and some who enjoyed the Warner Bros film.  How many do 
you think overlap?  Exactly.

At times, writer/director Richard LaGravenese seems to have departed from 
the first book of the series in almost Bourne-esque fashion.  You're no 
Tony Gilroy, senator.  Fortunately, this is still a fun film.  Leave your 
"I enjoyed the book(s)" expectations at the door (along with some of your 
prefrontal cortex).  As so often is the case with subject matter which has 
similar roots in young adult fiction, remember this is brain candy, not 
Shawshank.

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