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I feel duty bound to report on New Moon
We started with Twilight and scotch, and I don't know if it's the fatigue, but Edward seemed even douchier than I remembered. I seriously could not figure out why he was supposed to be at all interesting or appealing before the dinner scene.
Which perhaps set me up for shipping Bella/Jacob throughout all of New Moon. Also, Taylor Lautner gets bonus points for not looking constipated. The movie, if possible, makes less sense than Twilight; the beginning felt tacked onto the Jacob middle, which felt tacked onto the Italy bits, and then the end felt tacked onto that. And then there was the totally idiotic 'I do crazy shit to have visions of Edward' (which is hilarious by the way, the cliff diving scene is . . . bad. SO BAD. Luckily the audience was pretty good--even though it was packed people seemed more into laughing at the ridiculousness than sighing over RPattz). I like that they mostly focus on it as going for an adrenaline rush, but they also have floaty Edward head, which . . . idek.
Somehow, it managed to be both boring and feel rushed. There were no transitions between bits, and the overarching theme seemed to be more about Bella needing a dude in her life more than anything. Which I guess is sort of what's going on in the book, but I thought they would try to make it less painfully regressive in the film? Though I have to say, I sort of miss the cooking. Hobbies, what?
The best part of the film was probably Michael Sheen, because he actually had some personality. But then that ties us back to them suddenly being back in Forks and then they are voting about turning Bella and then Edward and Jacob are glaring and then you are like wait, explanations please? I am really curious as to how this holds up for someone who doesn't know the story, and why Edward goes to the Volturi, or Bella is having visions of her grandmother, or whatever.
You know, it kind of reminds me of Prisoner of Azkaban: most of the bits are there, but why they are there and how they got to be there is what's missing.
Verdict: fairly lame; go with witty friends, a mild buzz, and tacos.
Now off to gross myself out some more with discussion of medieval religious food imagery! I particularly like the plate of an altarpiece where Mary is pouring grain into a mill and baby Jesus comes out.
We started with Twilight and scotch, and I don't know if it's the fatigue, but Edward seemed even douchier than I remembered. I seriously could not figure out why he was supposed to be at all interesting or appealing before the dinner scene.
Which perhaps set me up for shipping Bella/Jacob throughout all of New Moon. Also, Taylor Lautner gets bonus points for not looking constipated. The movie, if possible, makes less sense than Twilight; the beginning felt tacked onto the Jacob middle, which felt tacked onto the Italy bits, and then the end felt tacked onto that. And then there was the totally idiotic 'I do crazy shit to have visions of Edward' (which is hilarious by the way, the cliff diving scene is . . . bad. SO BAD. Luckily the audience was pretty good--even though it was packed people seemed more into laughing at the ridiculousness than sighing over RPattz). I like that they mostly focus on it as going for an adrenaline rush, but they also have floaty Edward head, which . . . idek.
Somehow, it managed to be both boring and feel rushed. There were no transitions between bits, and the overarching theme seemed to be more about Bella needing a dude in her life more than anything. Which I guess is sort of what's going on in the book, but I thought they would try to make it less painfully regressive in the film? Though I have to say, I sort of miss the cooking. Hobbies, what?
The best part of the film was probably Michael Sheen, because he actually had some personality. But then that ties us back to them suddenly being back in Forks and then they are voting about turning Bella and then Edward and Jacob are glaring and then you are like wait, explanations please? I am really curious as to how this holds up for someone who doesn't know the story, and why Edward goes to the Volturi, or Bella is having visions of her grandmother, or whatever.
You know, it kind of reminds me of Prisoner of Azkaban: most of the bits are there, but why they are there and how they got to be there is what's missing.
Verdict: fairly lame; go with witty friends, a mild buzz, and tacos.
Now off to gross myself out some more with discussion of medieval religious food imagery! I particularly like the plate of an altarpiece where Mary is pouring grain into a mill and baby Jesus comes out.