but we finally got to see Beautiful Creatures. The guys weren't ready (well, actually YKWIA wasn't ready, but A was) to go to the 1:00 showing, so we went on to Cheddar's and ate there, and then we got stuck somewhere before the 3:50 showing, and what with traffic around the mall, got there 10 minutes late, so we bought 7:00 tickets and I stuck around their house for awhile before it was time to go back.
I really enjoyed the movie. The love story was sweet without being treacle. The setting was deliciously Southern Gothic (it was filmed in Covington, Louisiana, although it set in South Carolina). The young man who played Ethan (Alden Ehrenreich) really conveyed that well. The girl who played Lena (Alice Englert) did a pretty decent job as well, especially as she was playing a withdrawn person who slowly came out of her shell through love. The actress who played Ridley (Emmy Rossum) was perfect for the part, being deliciously dark and dangerous. Emma Thompson did a great job as wacky fundamentalist ['but I baked you brownies...from scratch'] and the embodiment of Serafine. And how can you go wrong with a film that has tunnels and ancient books under a normal-looking public library and a librarian (Viola Davis, playing Amma--you may know her has Aibileen from The Help) who is both a keeper of secrets and who has ancestor spirits to consult of her own? :) Jeremy Irons also does well in the role of Macon.
I'm intrigued by the movie and plan on reading the books. They're only $2.99 apiece in the Amazon Kindle store. :) I went ahead and got them, and just now read the first snippet on my phone. Let me go download it to the actual Kindle.
It's getting a bit late (almost eleven) and I have the game tomorrow and a short trip to the store for snacks first, and I have to be over there about 9 am. So good night.
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