IT'S TIME.
I wanted to make a FL post about New Moon, and what I honestly thought of it, but I got home and logged onto Facebook for some instant gratification ... and now I'm a tad too angry to have any coherent thought other than "HULK SMASH". What is it with people totally dismissing my opinion today?
We'll see how far I get ...
- The credits started with an Eclipse with the words "New Moon" revealed in the blackness, which made little to no sense to me. How are they going to begin Eclipse? With ... another eclipse?
- I believe Bella is quoting Romeo and Juliet in the beginning. Thoughts?
- I liked the quick hint of the Volterra square mad dash to stop the sparkle; it reminded me of SMeyer's fakeout prologues: "Oh, shit! I'm Bella Swan and I'm going to die again! Oh, wait, the book starts two years ago when Charlie and I are having breakfast for 25 pages." :)
- Speaking of which, did they ever say the city was Volterra? An actual Italian city, for those of you not in the know? I don't think they did.
- The Volturi's mythos wasn't very well explained in-movie, although the scene with Carlisle pal-ing around with the Volturi Back in the Day was fun to see.
- Alice's Grand Theft Auto was awesome, although not as awesome as in the book.
- However, I will admit that Kristen Stewart has an emotional breakdown like no other.
- And Bella didn't adoraklutz! Anywhere! She didn't even fall in the fountain when she was running, which I think she does twice in the book.
- I LOVED her emails to Alice: it was a very poignant way to show her love for the Cullens and her sense of abandonment at not only losing the love of her life, but who she considers her sister. The endless trail of "Undeliverable: Returned To Sender" in her Inbox broke my heart a little. Her expression just made it that much better.
- There was much more fighting in the movie than in the book: Victoria stalks Charlie and fights Jacob!Wolf, Laurent fights the wolves and wins ... and then loses, and Felix throws Edward around and tried to snap his neck for no discernible reason other than it being totally awesome.
- We didn't see the other Cullens much in this movie, which is how it was in the book, but Rosalie, Emmett and Jasper all stood out to me, for various reasons:
-- Rosalie: Her bitchface has been muted, but it's still there. She hands Bella a present and tells her, "It's a necklace. Alice picked it out," before the woman even has the thing in her hand. I love her tentative, "... Thanks?" in response. Her "I would have wanted someone to vote no for me," speech was almost word for word, and I'm glad they left it in, because it foreshadows the big talk they have about her rape in Eclipse, and Operation: Protect the Demon Fetus in Breaking Dawn.
-- Emmett: Frat Guy Emmett never disappoints. "So what's it like dating an older woman?" "I vote HELLS YEAH." <3 <3 <3 Never change, Emmett. Never change.
-- Jasper: His face and hair were insane this movie! Not so much in a good way as a ... serial killer sort of way. He had some good lines, though. "Happy Birth- ... Never mind." "YES. ... It would be nice not wanting to kill you all the time." <3 <3
- They blathered on about souls a lot. It's like Chris Weitz took that one aspect of the book and went, "This movie is about souls! THROW SOME MORE SOUL TALK IN THERE."
- Victoria's hair was unnaturally red, right? I'm not just seeing things? It was sort of distracting.
- Also, WHAT THE FUCK WAS ALICE WEARING. THE WHOLE MOVIE. SHIT. She's supposed to be this total fashionista that never lets anyone wear anything more than once (I thought the wasting of finite resources was everyone's business, woman?), but she looked like she fell out of a hobo's closet. Except for her very last outfit - the black one. I thought it was cute. And possibly whatever she wore to Bella's birthday party, because I don't remember.
- Jake was hilarious and intense and slightly controlling and scary like a furious kitten the whole movie. Fab. I can't even remember what he said, I just know it was awesome. :)
- The first time we saw Sam Uley as a werewolf, I was like, "WTF. Is that Gmork? I LOVE IT."
- Also, I imagined Emily's scars as more ... horrifying?
- They kept in the, "You're the Vampire Girl." "You're the Wolf Girl." part. WHAT.
- WTF was that scene when Aro sees Alice's vision, and Bella and Edward are all beiged-out and vampired and fancifully running through the forest sparkling like the prissy diamonds that they are? I LAUGHED SO HARD I ALMOST CRIED.
- The sparkling effect was done WAY BETTER in this movie. And the werewolf fights were pretty good. I'll give Chris Weitz this, if nothing else: he's very good with CGI. (And, yes, I'm one of those awkward fools that liked The Golden Compass ... mostly. I adored the book; Sue me.)
- That score was really bad. During the Birthday Party scene there was this awkward harpsichord music ... Carter Burwell did a much better job on Twilight's score. I was waiting for New Moon's to come out so I could download it, but now I'm pretty sure I won't.
- The end they picked for the movie didn't actually happen in-book until the middle of Eclipse ... so it was awkward. Edward: Marry me! Bella: Hnuh? Directed by: CHRIS FUCKING WEITZ. The Audience: HUHWHAT? Bawwwwww! Who ends a movie like that???? <3 <3 <3
I'm sure there's more ... but I just can't remember any more! :)
Yeah, I feel better. :)
We'll see how far I get ...
- The credits started with an Eclipse with the words "New Moon" revealed in the blackness, which made little to no sense to me. How are they going to begin Eclipse? With ... another eclipse?
- I believe Bella is quoting Romeo and Juliet in the beginning. Thoughts?
- I liked the quick hint of the Volterra square mad dash to stop the sparkle; it reminded me of SMeyer's fakeout prologues: "Oh, shit! I'm Bella Swan and I'm going to die again! Oh, wait, the book starts two years ago when Charlie and I are having breakfast for 25 pages." :)
- Speaking of which, did they ever say the city was Volterra? An actual Italian city, for those of you not in the know? I don't think they did.
- The Volturi's mythos wasn't very well explained in-movie, although the scene with Carlisle pal-ing around with the Volturi Back in the Day was fun to see.
- Alice's Grand Theft Auto was awesome, although not as awesome as in the book.
- However, I will admit that Kristen Stewart has an emotional breakdown like no other.
- And Bella didn't adoraklutz! Anywhere! She didn't even fall in the fountain when she was running, which I think she does twice in the book.
- I LOVED her emails to Alice: it was a very poignant way to show her love for the Cullens and her sense of abandonment at not only losing the love of her life, but who she considers her sister. The endless trail of "Undeliverable: Returned To Sender" in her Inbox broke my heart a little. Her expression just made it that much better.
- There was much more fighting in the movie than in the book: Victoria stalks Charlie and fights Jacob!Wolf, Laurent fights the wolves and wins ... and then loses, and Felix throws Edward around and tried to snap his neck for no discernible reason other than it being totally awesome.
- We didn't see the other Cullens much in this movie, which is how it was in the book, but Rosalie, Emmett and Jasper all stood out to me, for various reasons:
-- Rosalie: Her bitchface has been muted, but it's still there. She hands Bella a present and tells her, "It's a necklace. Alice picked it out," before the woman even has the thing in her hand. I love her tentative, "... Thanks?" in response. Her "I would have wanted someone to vote no for me," speech was almost word for word, and I'm glad they left it in, because it foreshadows the big talk they have about her rape in Eclipse, and Operation: Protect the Demon Fetus in Breaking Dawn.
-- Emmett: Frat Guy Emmett never disappoints. "So what's it like dating an older woman?" "I vote HELLS YEAH." <3 <3 <3 Never change, Emmett. Never change.
-- Jasper: His face and hair were insane this movie! Not so much in a good way as a ... serial killer sort of way. He had some good lines, though. "Happy Birth- ... Never mind." "YES. ... It would be nice not wanting to kill you all the time." <3 <3
- They blathered on about souls a lot. It's like Chris Weitz took that one aspect of the book and went, "This movie is about souls! THROW SOME MORE SOUL TALK IN THERE."
- Victoria's hair was unnaturally red, right? I'm not just seeing things? It was sort of distracting.
- Also, WHAT THE FUCK WAS ALICE WEARING. THE WHOLE MOVIE. SHIT. She's supposed to be this total fashionista that never lets anyone wear anything more than once (I thought the wasting of finite resources was everyone's business, woman?), but she looked like she fell out of a hobo's closet. Except for her very last outfit - the black one. I thought it was cute. And possibly whatever she wore to Bella's birthday party, because I don't remember.
- Jake was hilarious and intense and slightly controlling and scary like a furious kitten the whole movie. Fab. I can't even remember what he said, I just know it was awesome. :)
- The first time we saw Sam Uley as a werewolf, I was like, "WTF. Is that Gmork? I LOVE IT."
- Also, I imagined Emily's scars as more ... horrifying?
- They kept in the, "You're the Vampire Girl." "You're the Wolf Girl." part. WHAT.
- WTF was that scene when Aro sees Alice's vision, and Bella and Edward are all beiged-out and vampired and fancifully running through the forest sparkling like the prissy diamonds that they are? I LAUGHED SO HARD I ALMOST CRIED.
- The sparkling effect was done WAY BETTER in this movie. And the werewolf fights were pretty good. I'll give Chris Weitz this, if nothing else: he's very good with CGI. (And, yes, I'm one of those awkward fools that liked The Golden Compass ... mostly. I adored the book; Sue me.)
- That score was really bad. During the Birthday Party scene there was this awkward harpsichord music ... Carter Burwell did a much better job on Twilight's score. I was waiting for New Moon's to come out so I could download it, but now I'm pretty sure I won't.
- The end they picked for the movie didn't actually happen in-book until the middle of Eclipse ... so it was awkward. Edward: Marry me! Bella: Hnuh? Directed by: CHRIS FUCKING WEITZ. The Audience: HUHWHAT? Bawwwwww! Who ends a movie like that???? <3 <3 <3
I'm sure there's more ... but I just can't remember any more! :)
Yeah, I feel better. :)