Beautiful Creatures Review By: MattInRC The surprisingly good Beautiful Creatures is everything Twilight wanted to be, but never could. Call me someone who doesn't bend to social trends, but I never understood the obsession with Twilight: poorly cast and written for 5 year-olds, Kristen Stewart mumbled, stumbled, and put us to sleep before starring in real movies like Snow White and The Huntsman . Thankfully, I never read the books, but they couldn't have been as bad as one of the most disappointing film franchises in history. Now that its sun has gratefully set, we can all now seek more intelligent fare, and Beautiful Creatures might just be the thing. A little sexy and way more fun, the movie about witches in a small town is appealing in almost every way. The town of Gatlin, South Carolina is...well...a little backward. Content to exist under the old traditions of a post-Civil War town, its residents are a God-fearing people and look upon any change as...