New Moon opens today!!!

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scrooby

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I went and seen it yesterday with my 23 year old daughter, it was not as good as the book of course but when making a movie from a book that's what you are always going to get, other wise the movie would have to be 6 to 8 hours long. I still found it entertaining and they did follow the guide lines to this book better then the first one.
 

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Funny you shud post this OP.. I literally just came back from watching it after my gf dragged me to the theatre... I've been looking to vent... and i dont want to hurt her feelings too much... sooo heres my 2 cents... (cuz you all sooo blatantly asked for it :p)

HOLY CRAP! if you are looking to spend your hard earned,(or stolen,) money on something you'll fondly remember... ur better off purchasing a $12 nail clipper than to purchase a movie ticket on this irrevocably terrible motion picture. My beef with the Twilight movie saga.. summed up in a few points.

1.) Somebody needs to smack all of the actors in this film and tell them to EMOTE! Edward Cullen has now learned to raise his eyebrows every once in a while... while Bella Swan looks like shes constantly in a state of de-personalization. Although 'dreamy' in women's eyes..(and some men's... i guess) these actors plain just can't act! I've seen more convincing acting in the Naked Gun than in this film!

2.) Somebody also needs to smack the writers of this film and tell them to write a freaking convincing dialogue. They desperately need to understand that when a person is interrupted, THE OTHER PERSON WHO INTERRUPTED THEM IS SUPPOSED TO SPEAK RIGHT AWAY, SO AS TO.. oh i dont know.. INTERRUPT THEM!!!! Not pause for a half a second then speak, making this whole series of films a tragedy of poor timing and stupid comments. Further to that, certain characters SHOULD NOT say things that are, how you say.. OUT OF CHARACTER! If you have a mysterious werewolf of a '16' year old, hes not supposed to say stupid things like "its going to get real ugly real fast" or, a delinquent of a girl whose in love with a vampire say things like "whats your beef with the cullens?"...

BEEF?! .......BEEF?!?!! Did i just pay 12 bucks to hear a terrible actress say the term "whats your BEEF".......in a serious teen soap opera of a film???? i think i would of enjoyed COMMITTING SUICIDE more than sitting through the two hours of what was a low budget, monkey written screenplay.

3.) Lastly... to be quite honest, i cannot STAND this vampire fad that north america (and parts of europe) are immersed in lately. I liked it better when vampire movies were largely action.. like Van Helsing, or Blade, or even Underworld. I think it's so sad that these movies are actually raking in so much money... its like the Bush administration... like.. why are you even HERE?!

Conclusion... If you havent read the book, and can fully appreciate the storyline as a result....dont watch this movie. Please... PLEASE dont go out and watch it.. dont even rent it. STOP ALLOWING THESE ACTORS TO GET MONEY FROM THESE HORRIBLE FILMS!!!! I took one for the team. Unless of course your threatened to get an icepick stuck in your eye if you dont..... umm.. actually not even then, cuz honestly.. ur better off with the icepick than to have this film in you memories.

big sizzla, i love you man. That was beautiful. (wipes away a tear) Bravo! Bravo! Yes! Tell them all! Bravo! (completely breaks down and weeps convulsively)
 
There's only ever been one truly classic vampire film. Nosferatu. This Twilight stuff is basically just teen lit that happens to have vampires. That adults would have even a glancing interest in it boggles the mind.

To dismiss it out of hand as YA or Teen Lit is a bit of a disservice to the series in it's entirety. There are some seens in the final book that would make Cronenberg blush. That's not to say that the first two books especially aren't weakly written and poorly edited. The second book in particular is all over the place and I thought Weitz (the director) did a pretty good job in trying to make it coherent on film. It's difficult when the source material basically consists of three months of severe female depression. I feel bad for Weitz. He tends to get CGI heavy films that are usually pretty close to if not totally unfilmable. (He also directed The Golden Compass, aka That Which Should Never Have Been Optioned.)

As for adult interest, the siren song of Pop Culture Phenomena is not unheard of, especially in the current cultural climate that fosters "cougar culture". Teenage romanticism will never die, and it's appeal to women of almost any age past puberty is limitless, especially in the age of adolescence being drug into one's thirties.
 
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