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The Twilight Saga: New Moon (honest) Review
The movie starts off where the first one left off, Bella Swan and her immaculately perfect boyfriends Edward Cullen, who (everyone should know by now) is a vampire, are in love. It's Bella's 18th birthday and she is very forlorn about the whole thing. However, the Cullen family loves her and gives her a birthday gathering that goes bloody wrong. This almost death of Bella makes Edward leave her in a break-up that is very well done. The movie then follows Bella and her moping attitude for a long time until she decided to hang out with Jacob Black, a Native American with a secret. Their relationship gets built to an almost intimate level, but being Bella she soon gets avoided by him and learns reckless behavior is the only way to see her love Edward. Then the secrets get revealed.
First thing first, this is better than its predecessor Twilight. The new director, Chris Weitz (About A Boy), brings up the dreary light and fixes up the story to where it works really well. I had true fears for this movie because the story is nothing more than a sequel building up to the fourth book. I read all four books and found this one to have no real plot or story, so I was skeptic about the movie. There are many improvements and good things about this movie, but there is also some bad.
The good things/improvements in the movie shine as bright as Edward's skin in the sun, which by the way was fixed up and looks a lot better than the glittery body in Twilight. From the opening of the movie, we see a full moon slowly fading into a new moon as it reveals the title from right to left. Anticipation was all over the crowd as each letter was unfolded, and i have to admit i was smiling. This title reveal showed how big this movie series really is. While it is a bit sad that this is what everyone is into, i can't help but have some fun with it as well. The biggest improvement is the acting. Holy hell did Kristen Stewart do a better job now that she learned heavy, repeated blinking and unfinished sentences don't work when you have to be depressed. She actually emotes in some scenes, finally. Edward, to me, was the same as he was in the first movie until the final scene. The Cullen family, aside from Edward of course, are barely given dialog, but when they are it is very average and used. The side characters like Charlie, Jessica, and Mike are some of the real highlights of the movie. Jessica (Anna Kendrick) stole a scene that should've been Bella's and made it her evidence that she'll do a good job acting aside George Clooney in "Up in the Air." The Volturi clan are given nothing to do but be creepy and eerie looking, and are an obvious enemy that will be seen again. Jacob Black, played pretty well by new teen-god Taylor Lautner, is kind of a flat character until his secret is truly revealed. The effects were improved as well, but not so much to where they're anywhere near the level of Harry Potter (or even He-Man). The direction was well done, and so was the cinematography. The even better thing about this movie is the ending cliffhanger that left the 400 seat theater freaking out even though they all know what happens.
The bad things in the movie stand out, however. The dialog is terrible in some parts, very stilted, and is sometimes equivocated with no inflection at all. The effects still need some heavy work, but that could be due to the low 50 million dollar budget. The acting, at points, is very soap opera but is then redeemed in many scenes. The movie is very slow and not happy, but so was the book. The added action kept it up, but also caused the slow parts to move even slower. The male eye candy was the most annoying part to this movie. There are so many shirtless men in that movie that made me completely ashamed at my body (just kidding). I still found it kind of interfering, but the girls and gays ate it up and had orgasmic screams throughout the shirtless periods.
All in all the movie is a vast improvement upon Twilight. I do like this one better, but am very interested to see what David Slade (30 Days of Night) will do to the third installment, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. The actors are getting better, so hopefully they will be improving throughout the other 2 movies. I'm seeing this again, but not for my enjoyment. However, i will watch this movie a lot more and love the parts i love and just ignore the bad. Like i said, it might've been the audience or the hype or my secret love for the series, but it's not so bad.
OVERALL RATING:
-If you're a Twi-hard fan ----- FULL PRICE!!!
-For everyone else ----- MATINÉE!
It's really not that bad.
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Comment by swanny on November 23, 2009 at 9:14pm -
don't agree with ur opinion, but have to say congrats for honesty ;)
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Comment by BlackMagic on November 23, 2009 at 9:03am -
At least someone out there can be optimistic and not just bash the series as a whole because of how it captivates females the same way something like The Dark Knight (who just got beaten, again?) attracted a wide audience. Yes, a bad comparison, but you get where I'm going.
Nice review.
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Comment by Miguel on November 23, 2009 at 1:57am -
I agree with genie and Ted that you liked it when everyone else didn't. Shit I'm not gonna lie I honestly liked it too when I saw it with my gf. I understand how bad the dialogue was and how stupid the story went but I don't understand why people exagerate about how bad it is. There's much worse out there. One thing I don't like with this site and what I have to disagree with genie is if your oppinion opposes the majorities then you'll get bashed for it and that gets me ticked off, it's as if your not alloud to have your own feeling towards something. But props and respect nice review.
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Comment by Ted on November 22, 2009 at 10:55pm -
i agree with jean genie. you have my respect for liking a movie that the majority has not or did not enjoy. props dude.
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Comment by James on November 22, 2009 at 10:32pm -
Okay, well, I agree with everyone on the fact that this is a stupid series. As a guy with majority girl friends, it was hard for me to avoid the Twilight popularity it has among my age group (17). I don't want it to seem like i am being too pretentious or liberal, and if i did, sorry. Callum, I do agree that the 50 million dollar budget thing was a little pointless to add. District 9 is in fact in my top 3 for the year of my favorite movies. I love the effects in there, but i should change that statement to "they could've done a lot better with a 50 million dollar budget." I can't believe district 9 crossed my mind. As for the rest of the commenters (thanks by the way) I agree the characters are whiny and often boring, but so is my school. Maybe teenagers just suck now. I see it a lot, but i try to avoid it. The movie just surprised me. i honestly walked in there ready to hate it, and maybe that's why i didn't mind it.
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Comment by PoisonPirate on November 22, 2009 at 9:52pm -
I never say an opinion is wrong but.....you're just so wrong. I believe you used the word honest a bit to liberally.
There are huge narrative flaws staring you in the face, insufferable whiny characters and a certain actor who thinks saying every line solemnly makes him a good actor.
They turn cool myths into shirtless preening pretty boys and remove all the obstacles and difficulties in that creature.
God forbid the writer had to use her imagination to come up with a creative, interesting way for vampires to avoid walking into the sun. No, instead she just decided to ignore that and make them sparkle.
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Comment by Mr. Pilgrim on November 22, 2009 at 9:01pm -
The only person in my circle of friends who liked this movie was mentally challenged. No joke.
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Comment by GyasKrennel on November 22, 2009 at 6:20pm -
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but isn't this the second installment? As in, it leads into the third movie/book? You'll have to excuse me, but I find it hard to take someone seriously when they leave such glaring errors in their writing. Speaking of which, if you're going to write a blog for the public, take a bit more pride in your writing. Constant grammatical errors only serve to discredit you further. Call me a grammar Nazi if you will, but it confounds me that people are either unwilling to proofread or spell/grammar check what they write. If nothing else, you can go to reference.com to be sure you're using a word properly. I realise that typos and mistakes are unavoidable, but scanning through just once will eliminate the vast majority of them.
As for New Moon, I won't comment on it beyond the fact that I'm thoroughly convinced it is nothing more than a poorly contrived mash-up of old clichés written by an amateur author for teenage girls, and I will certainly not be watching it. If I'm wrong, I can safely say I'll still sleep soundly, as the concept of this series forces me to choke back bile.
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Comment by Ted on November 22, 2009 at 11:03am
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this movie sucked ass. the dialogue was beyond bad. where did this screenwriter find people who actually talk like that? "Oh bella, the greatest gift you have given me is that you are breathing" fuck that. anyone who likes this movie is a marshmallow
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Comment by Callum Luscott on November 22, 2009 at 5:01am -
i love the bit when he said the effects were bad because it only had a budget of 50 million. uhhhh DISTICT 9 had a budget of 30 MILLION and that had some of the best effects of the year. i had hope for this movie.....;.for about 5 minutes before i saw some of the clips and realised how bad the dialogue was. save your money and go see avatar.
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