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The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 (2012)
It’s Your Turn Not to Break Me.
The time has finally come for me to wash my hands of the Twilight Saga. This movie series and I have not gotten along in the past, and with good reason. They don’t like me because I hate them, and I don’t like them because they’re awful. Well, the bulk of them are anyway. There would be no way that I would see this movie in theaters when it came out because I would more than likely hate it. When it came out on DVD, I did not buy it because I would more than likely hate it. And when it came to RedBox, I still put it off because I would more than likely hate it. HOWEVER WILL I FEEL ABOUT THIS MOVIE?! Find out as I review The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2, based on a novel by Stephenie Meyer, written by Melissa Rosenberg, directed by Bill Condon, and starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Mackenzie Foy, Michael Sheen, Peter Facinelli, Elizabeth Reaser, Ashley Greene, Jackson Rathbone, Nikki Reed, Kellan Lutz, Maggie Grace, Dakota Fanning, Jamie Campbell Bower, Christopher Heyerdahl, Cameron Bright, Charlie Bewley, Daniel Cudmore, Lee Pace, MyAnna Buring, Christian Camargo, Casey LaBow, Mia Maestro, Noel Fisher, Guri Weinberg, Rami Malek, Omar Metwally, Angela Sarafyan, Andrea Gabriel, Judi Shekoni, Tracey Heggins, Joe Anderson, J.D. Pardo, and Billy Burke. If you want to recap the rest of the Twilight Saga, here are my reviews: one, two, three, and four.
Bella Swan-Cullen (Kristen Stewart) awakens from a coma (though you wouldn’t know it from her acting), having been transformed into a vampire by her husband, Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson), who transformed her to keep their half-breed child from killing her from the inside. Also, her former love interest, Jacob (Taylor Lautner), fell in love with the baby Renesmee (Mackenzie Foy). …So they’ll have to deal with that eventually. First on their docket is that the vampire police department known as the Volturi – Aro (Michael Sheen), Caius (Jamie Campbell Bower), Marcus (Christopher Heyerdahl), Jane (Dakota Fanning), Alec (Cameron Bright), and the rest – have gotten word from Irina (Maggie Grace) that Edward and Bella have created an immortal child, which is illegal. The Cullens rush to collect as many witnesses/soldiers to join their cause to stop/win a fight against the Volturi, if it should come to that.
Fuck this movie. Fuck this movie series. Fuck it out loud, in stereo, and in 3D. In truth, I did not enjoy, but was okay with this movie for the bulk of it, but the very end was such an annoyance to me that it made me laugh out loud and yell, “Fuck you,” at my computer screen. But the first two thirds of the movie was like watching one of the most annoying parts of the first X-Men movie for an hour and a half. It felt like I was just watching a bunch of vampires get together and tell each other what their special powers were. Bella kind of got the shaft on that end too. “Super self-control.” What a useful but shitty power. Sure, it’s helpful to her that she didn’t eat her baby, but that lady can make electricity with her hands. The one dude controls all of the elements. He couldn’t have broken off a few elements for her to have a good power? The best she’s got is the ability to make other people feel the effects of these powers less, and she can beat Kellan Lutz in arm wrestling. I know that because they showed it to me for some stupid fucking reason. I guess he also somehow develops the power to show Edward a montage/epilogue/ending credit sequence at the end of the movie, so she’s got that going for her. Then there’s a really good battle – that feels to me like the reason I sat through the rest of the movie, or the entire series for that matter – followed by a big fuck you to the audience. And I’m not talking about when Bella says to Edward, “Nobody’s ever loved anybody as much as I love you.” That’s more of a ‘fuck you’ to Renesmee.
Okay, so this movie was boring most of the way through and then there was a big battle at the end that I really liked. But it also lead to the biggest problem I had with this movie, and also requires the return of the ::SPOILER ALERT:: They pulled that hack “it was all a dream” bullshit?! For real?! I resent the Wizard of Oz for starting this trend, but I thought Hollywood had decided in unison that they were done with this bullshit unless they were using it for comedy. You show a great, epic fight where important characters in the Twilight series die brutal and emotional deaths, but the heroes still pull out a victory, and then it all turns out to be a vision of a possible future that Aro is watching through Alice. Fuck you! You just wasted a half hour of my time. It was exciting and fun to watch until that point, but the movie itself nullified that by making it fake. And, since the only fun part of your movie never technically happened, your movie can go fuck itself. ::END SPOILERS::
Kristen Stewart is still awful. And Bella is still stupid. Why the hell does it take her the bulk of the movie to figure out that she should find the book that page the letter was written on came from? I guess I would be offended if Stewart ever played a character that was smarter than I am. I guess it’s the seed that built her that’s to blame. Her father is stupid as well. Jacob turns into a wolf right in front of him, but he still can’t figure out that the super-pasty, dead-eyed people that have taken Bella in are vampires. Also, that toddler of yours is growing awful fast … probably not worth thinking about. Also, why do these people get so pissed off at Jacob for telling Bella’s dad that she’s not dead? I know the Volturi would kill him if Jacob had said “vampire”, but Jacob didn’t say it. So you all just want to depress the father when there was an obvious alternative. I mean, Jacob thought of it! And he’s gross! He falls in love with a baby that’s so fresh that it still smells like her mother’s vagina! And later, while the girl still appears to be about 8 (but in actuality is about 6 months), he makes a joke to Edward about “calling him dad.” Can you hold off on that joke until she at least LOOKS like you should be dating her? Edward should’ve killed you right then. That would’ve made me give this movie a positive review. Or maybe if Edward and Bella had broken up. Which they totally should have done since Edward says to Bella, “Every obstacle you faced, I thought you couldn’t overcome it.” I know he meant that as a compliment, but he’s basically saying that she baffles him with how inept she appears, while still being able to make it through everyday life. He probably should’ve thought she couldn’t overcome an acting challenge. Then she could meet his expectations. And the biggest problem with the cast of this movie is that my favorite part of it (Ashley Greene) was required by the story to be absent for the bulk of the movie.
I am pleased to finally be finished with the Twilight Saga, but I would’ve been much happier if Breaking Dawn – Part 2 wasn’t so frustrating. The story wasn’t significant, and the movie spent the greater majority of the time describing what each new vampire could do and what part they would take in a battle that never really happens. The battle that kind of happens is a pretty awesome watch, but I would say that no part of this movie that actually took place demands your attention. You can skip this movie. And, since I would say that only about two out of 10 hours of the Twilight series are watchable, I say you can skip the entire series. 20% is a deep ‘F’, people. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 gets “I hate the second one even more” out of “Old habits die hard.”
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Snow White and the Huntsman (2012)
Don’t Flatter Yourself.
I decided to take a vacation for my birthday. The first part of the vacation was occupied with the contest that just finished, but I decided that it was also a good time to head to the theater and see some of the movies that were there. I set the vote out to Facebook to see what people wanted to me to do with my free time and the result was almost unanimous. My friends cried in unison, “Make fun of Kristen Stewart some more!” The movie that was voted on the most was Snow White and the Huntsman. This is a movie I had the vaguest of interest in seeing, but most of that was taken away by the involvement of Kristen Stewart. Let’s see how it went in my review of Snow White and the Huntsman, written by Evan Daugherty, directed by Rupert Sanders, and starring Kristen Stewart, Charlize Theron, Chris Hemsworth, Sam Claflin, Sam Spruell, Ian McShane, Bob Hoskins, Nick Frost, Johnny Harris, Toby Jones, Eddie Marsan, Ray Winstone, Brian Gleeson, Vincent Regan, Noah Huntley, Liberty Ross, Lily Cole, and Christopher Obi Ogugua.
A Queen (Liberty Ross) wishes she could have a hot daughter. She forgets to wish that the daughter could act. Later, the Queen gives birth to a daughter she names Snow White and, later still, dies. Her husband, King Magnus (Noah Huntley), is inconsolable, and a mysterious army decides to attack while he’s weak. The King’s army defeats the phantom army of glass soldiers and finds a beautiful woman named Ravenna (Charlize Theron) locked up as their prisoner. He falls in love with her and marries her the next day, but Ravenna – a powerful and evil sorceress – kills him to take his kingdom, having Snow White imprisoned. The kingdom turns dark, corrupted by the evil queen as Ravenna drains beautiful women from the village of their youth and beauty to keep herself young and bangin’. When Snow White comes of age (now Kristen Stewart), Ravenna’s mirror (Christopher Obi Ogugua) tells her that Snow White is the fairest of them and her mere existence is draining her of her powers, but she can become immortal and not have to steal hotness from others if she kills Snow White. When Ravenna sends her brother, Finn (Sam Spruell), to retrieve Snow White, she manages to escape into the Dark Forest. With the promise of bringing his dead wife back from the dead, Ravenna convinces Eric the Huntsman (Chris Hemsworth) to venture into the forest to bring her back.
This movie surprised me. It definitely has a few things going for it, but it also has things holding it back. Starting off with the story: it’s actually pretty solid. It’s a cool, slightly darker take on the old story we’re all familiar with, and it works pretty well. Sure, it’s kind of a sign that Hollywood is running out of ideas, but I don’t mind it. In fact, if they intend to turn all old Disney movies into dark, epic, action movies, I’m casting my vote for Sleeping Beauty to be next. I want to see a live-action version of Maleficent, damnit! On the other hand, you really can’t give the story that much credit since it’s based largely on the old story of Snow White. The stuff they added was pretty cool. I liked the idea of the group of people that would intentionally scar their faces so that the Queen wouldn’t have any interest in them. Of course, I didn’t appreciate them acting like Snow White hadn’t made her sacrifice yet. Yeah, she didn’t put a scar on her face, but she did spend 15 years in a dungeon shortly after losing both of her parents to the Queen. So fuck your scarred face right off, how about that? I also didn’t understand when Ravenna got pissed at her brother for Snow White escaping. I say blame the goddamned mirror! You had her locked up for 15 years and he didn’t say shit. He could’ve mentioned that she was the solution to all of Ravenna’s problems a long time ago. Also, the first encounter with the scar-faced people goes to show you that if you’re surrounded by people with bows and arrows, saying, “We mean you no harm,” will get you out of it. Either that or just say, “I don’t want to harm you all.” I can’t blame this movie for it as it was part of the original story, but it still strikes me as weird that either necrophilia or date rape saves the day when you make out with an unconscious girl that just bit a roofied apple. So the story was fine, but I will say that the ending of the movie was pretty disappointing. First, you know exactly what’s going to happen to the Queen and how. I won’t spoil it or anything, but I think you can guess when the Huntsman shows Snow White how to use a dagger, and I shouldn’t be able to predict what’s going to happen in your movie in the first 20 minutes of it. After that, the ending was kind of lackluster and the romantic angle was never finished. They left it like there would be a sequel, but I have no idea how that would work out.
The look was probably my favorite part of the movie. All of the sets and scenery and CG looked really good and stylized and artistically satisfying. All the visual aspects of the movie worked really well for me. I really liked the little acid trip that Snow White goes on when she gets into the Dark Forest. It reminded me of the scenes in Batman Begins when the Scarecrow drug gets used on people. The Magic Mirror was also a cool effect, having it drain out of the mirror and turn into a gilded Ring Wraith from Lord of the Rings. Speaking of which, the part where they were crossing the mountain seemed like it really wanted to be Lord of the Rings. All of the Queen’s magic looked really cool and stylish, though some of them served no real purpose. The Queen bathing in milk served no purpose but to almost show us Charlize naked, and the part with her eating the hearts out of birds was pointless and just for gross value. The fights had their moments. Most of them were hand to hand combat that was fairly well realized, but I found myself more interested in the close-range bow and arrow fighting stuff. That was pretty cool.
When reaching the performance part of my review, many of you would think that I’d have more than a few jokes prepared for Kristen Stewart. Yup! She’s still awful. But, I would say this is possibly the least awful she’s been. I only counted 2 of her random Bella-style sighs in this movie, which has to be a record for her. I had heard someone make this joke before watching the movie and I shared it with my friend Greg and it was all he could think about during the movie, but Kristen Stewart will not close her mouth. Once you start paying attention to it, it becomes more and more ridiculous how true it is. One of my biggest issues with this movie ruined the entire concept: what definition of the word “fairer” gives Kristen Stewart the Edge over Charlize Theron? I was literally tracking the time in the movie where I would consider Stewart to be fairer and, even with all the aging makeup and prosthesis that they used on Theron, Stewart maybe won the contest for about 5 minutes in this movie. And I was still thinking about it. When the dwarves were talking about how their ailments went away when Snow White was around, I got confused because every time Kristen Stewart comes around I get a headache and diarrhea. I don’t know if it’s more to blame on Stewart or the writers, but her big, inspirational speech was a failure as far as I was concerned. Also, “You can’t have my heart,” is your big closing line? That’s the worst “I just killed you and here’s my zinger” line I’ve ever heard. Charlize Theron is gorgeous and I would like to have her babies. That being said, she kind of overacted in parts of this movie. I’m sorry baby, but you did. Can we just get over this and get back to the loving? Well, if I can’t have her, maybe I can have Chris Hemsworth. I don’t wanna sound queer or nothin’, but I’d really like to have sex with him. Beyond the physical, he’s really good at the fighting, and actually pulled off his emotional scenes very well. The dwarves of the movie didn’t do a whole lot to impress, but I was impressed by who they got to play them. People like Ian McShane, Bob Hoskins, and Nick Frost were dwarves. I thought that much was awesome and they all did a fine enough job, but I feel like real midgets were probably pissed. You could’ve at least got some Dinklage in there for some midge-cred.
Altogether, Snow White and the Huntsman wasn’t a bad movie, but it wasn’t ground breaking either. The look and artistic style of the movie is the best part. After that, the story is just trying to make a dark version of an old story, and some decent action to go along with it. Kristen Stewart’s in it, so you shouldn’t expect much by way of performances, and you’d be right. Especially when you can’t get past the fact that everyone in this movie is so crazy that any one of them would say that Kristen Stewart is fairer than Charlize Theron. No way, man. I don’t recommend you pay good money to see this in theaters; it’s not really worth that much. But seeing it in RedBox wouldn’t be that bad. Snow White and the Huntsman gets “Beauty is my power” out of “You have eyes huntsman, but you cannot see!”
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The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 (2011)
You Deserve to Live With This
Today is a good day. I woke up around noon, had a nice breakfast, and sat down to watch the fourth Twilight movie. Yeah, that last part doesn’t seem to fit within the “good day” category, but I’m staying positive. No matter how good or bad this movie is, I’m done watching Twilight movies until sometime in November. And, since there’s no way I’m paying to see a Twilight movie in theaters ever again (I was already burned by that once with the first movie), I won’t have to watch Twilight again until it comes out on DVD and I can beat up some emo high school girl for her copy of the DVD outside of a Best Buy so that they’ll get no more money from me whatsoever. Or I can rent it from RedBox. We’ll see. And we’ll also see what I thought of the fourth Twilight film today, in my review of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1, based on a novel by Stephenie Meyer, written for the screen by Melissa Rosenberg, directed by Bill Condon, and starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Peter Facinelli, Elizabeth Reaser, Nikki Reed, Ashley Greene, Kellan Lutz, Jackson Rathbone, Billy Burke, Sarah Clarke, Julia Jones, Booboo Stewart, MyAnna Buring, Maggie Grace, Casey LaBow, Chaske Spencer, Christian Camargo, Mia Maestro, Michael Sheen, Jamie Campbell Bower, Christopher Heyerdahl, and Mackenzie Foy.
Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) is having her soon-to-be “sister”-in-law Alice Cullen (Ashley Greene) plan her upcoming wedding to Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) because Bella is too busy trying to fit a square-shaped block into a round peg hole with a squeaky mallet. The wedding goes smoothly, finding one hiccup when Bella tells the guy that she’s been stringing along, Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner), that she intends to consummate her marriage with Edward on their honeymoon. Though this is fairly typical, Jacob gets pretty angry at Bella for taking the risk, fearing that her vampire husband will eat her, but in a bad way. Their honeymoon starts off fairly nicely. Edward kills Bella…’s pussy! HAHA! But he stops having sex with her when he realizes that he’s bruised her arm during the coitus. Two weeks into the honeymoon, Bella inexplicably figures out that she’s pregnant with Edward’s demon baby. They return to Forks so that the Cullens – Dr. Carlisle Cullen (Peter Facinelli), Esme (Elizabeth Reaser), Rosalie (Nikki Reed), Alice (Ashley Greene), Emmett (Kellen Lutz), and Jasper (Jackson Rathbone) – can help them figure out what to do. Jacob comes over to find Bella – 4 weeks pregnant and incredibly showing, somehow – and gets mad, thinking this baby will kill Bella. Yet, when Jacob’s werewolf brethren decide they will kill the abomination inside Bella, Jacob leaves the pack with Leah (Julia Jones) and Seth Clearwater (Booboo Stewart) to protect Bella.
Much as Eclipse, I feel that Breaking Dawn was thoroughly okay, but for different reasons. They finally got a little closer to writing a decent story, but it was kind of boring as well, not having any real action until the end. I’m not saying there needs to be epic vampire throwdowns in every one of these movies; I know that these movies are just supposed to be sappy romantic movies that suck the coolness out of the vampire genre. But if you’re not going to base your movie around the action, then you need something to keep the audience paying attention. This movie could’ve used some tension to it, but they never really succeeded on any. Without that, you’re just watching someone’s wedding video. Yeah it’s pretty, and women are probably going to cry, but I’ve fallen asleep. I was hoping that someone at the wedding would get a papercut to make it more interesting. Then Bella and Edward go to Rio de Janiero, of course stopping by to show that giant Jesus on the hill, and get to the sex. I have a problem with this scene that may be a little icky. If Bella was, in fact, a virgin, and Edward was breaking her hymen for the first time, would there not be a strong possibility that there would be a little bit of blood? I know it’s probably not how they wanted their series to end, but I would’ve thought it was amazing if that happened and Edward tore Bella to shreds because of his bloodlust. There are holes in my logic, since the last movie said that Edward was no longer blood-crazed with Bella, but it was a golden opportunity to end this series once and for all. Instead of relieving the world of Bella, they make another one, while simultaneously deciding to ignore logic. I consulted my many currently and recently pregnant friends and this movie was way off. She is already looking in the mirror for signs of showing at 2 weeks, and claiming she can feel the baby in there. My friend Mike said that a baby would be the size of a poppy seed at 4 weeks (when Bella was fully showing, more closely resembling something around 6 months preggers). Liz and Sasha tell me that about 5 months is when you first feel a baby, so they were only about 18 weeks off. I know that the easy answer to all this is “Meaghan, Liz, and Sasha weren’t pregnant with undead demon babies as Bella is”, to which I respond “Fuck you”. You drew her pregnancy out long enough that it felt like I’d been watching it for 9 months, so you might as well have gotten it right. And what’s even more of an oversight on the part of the filmmakers is that Bella CLEARLY didn’t unlock her HTC Android phone when she put it up to her head and started talking to Rosalie. I caught you again, Twilight! Not much later in the movie, they have a pretty goofy conversation between a pack of giant, CG wolves that I was warned about, but I really didn’t find it that off-putting. I know a lot about canine mannerisms, and I appreciated that they seemed to take them into consideration when it came to the main two wolves establishing dominance.
I found most of the movie fairly lackluster and a little boring. The redeeming qualities of the movie can be found in the end of the movie, but it will also require a ::SPOILER ALERT:: The wolves attack the Cullens right after Bella has seemingly died during childbirth, but the baby, Renesmee, is alive and well. Edward, Alice, and Jasper are prepared to throwdown to save the baby. They’re outnumbered and are losing until Carlisle and Esme return, but it’s not until the wolves Seth and Leah (that have heretofore hated the Cullens) join in to help them. And it’s finally won when the pack must leave because Jacob “imprinted” on Renesmee, which I think means he peed on her, but it also means that the wolves can’t harm her. I had heard about this imprinting thing long before this movie came out and it was very off-putting. The idea of an 18-year-old guy falling in love with a newborn baby is more than a little bit icky. And now that I’ve seen the movie and done a little bit of research on imprinting, it’s still a little bit icky, but at least somewhat excusable. Because it’s involuntary and keeps the imprinter alive as long as the imprintee, one can assume that it won’t become icky until Renesmee is of a non-creepy age. Although, for the next 18 years, I’m probably going to think it’s a little creepy. It also served the story a great deal, putting a permanent end to the feud between the vampires and the werewolves that I never thought made sense in the first place. The battle at the very end of this movie was pretty good, but not in the same league as the big battle with the newborn vampires from the last movie. The CG wolves didn’t really work that well for me. Neither did the very ending itself. We know that Bella is turning vampire, but they drag it out for like five minutes. They start letting the CG that turned her into an Ethiopian melt away while showing easy scenes from previous movies (maybe they ran out of money somehow), But they decided to show that her ribs were repaired by having her chest pop out like you just finished a game of Perfection. (Anyone remember that game? Google it) Well it was gross and goofy. Also, they drag out the scene of her laying on the bed and showing her entire life up to that point, then zoom in on her eyes and hover there for approximately 37 minutes, even though we all know what’s going to happen. Pretty much any time anyone zooms in on someone who may or may not be dead’s eyes, we know they’re going to pop open. Can we come up with a new way to do that? ::END SPOILER::
The performances, as with the actors, have barely changed in this movie. Kristen Stewart’s performance actually improved near the end of the movie. Well, she looked like she was dying, so I enjoyed it more. At the end, her performance was much worse because now she’ll be around forever. Of course, that just means I won’t be. Her performance didn’t change very much for the parts where she was sickly. Knowing that she couldn’t convey dying with her performance, they just did it with CG instead. It was vaguely convincing. Robert Pattinson has still done nothing that I feel is a detriment or an asset to these movies. Taylor Lautner has a part where he has to cry, and does well enough at it, but otherwise joins Pattinson in the mediocrity box. My opinion of the remaining Cullen clan was mostly unchanged in this movie, but it was nice to see Rosalie not be a dirty bitch for a little while.
There’s really no telling if I enjoyed this movie more than it deserved because I have roughly a year without having to see another Twilight movie. I’m just so happy, you guys. This movie has a story that wasn’t that bad, but was dragged on far too long. The redeeming part is at the end, so unfortunately you’ll have to sit through the whole thing to see the good part. Only, that is, if you actually think there’s any reason to see even the good part, which there still isn’t. You still don’t need to watch this movie. If I had to write a list of the Twilight movies from the most tolerable down, it would go Eclipse, Breaking Dawn Part 1, the end. I don’t count the first two as movies. Unless Stephenie Meyer decides that she needs another wing for her mansion, we have only one more of these things to go, but not for a while. So, I thankfully give The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 “You have to accept this for what it is” out of “It’s crushing you, from the inside out.”
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The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010)
Trying to Walk and Chew Gum at the Same Time Again, Bella?
With the coming of each new Twilight movie, I tend to get really angry (for the reasons expressed in my previous 5,500 words and two reviews). And each time a new one comes out I’m bombarded by the fans of the series with phrases like “This one was so much better than those two” and “This wasn’t nearly as bad.” Before my reviews, I already knew that I hated Twilight and New Moon because I had already seen them. I wouldn’t go so far as to say that I’m going into today’s movie fresh, though. Yeah, I’ve never seen it, but the previous two movies pained me so much already, and I just don’t want to get hurt again. But the show must go on, and so we jump into my review of the third movie in the series, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, based on the novel by Stephenie Meyer, written for the screen by Melissa Rosenberg, directed by David Slade, and starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Bryce Dallas Howard, Xavier Samuel, Ashley Greene, Jackson Rathbone, Peter Facinelli, Elizabeth Reaser, Kellan Lutz, Nikki Reed, Billy Burke, Sarah Clarke, Dakota Fanning, Jodelle Ferland, Cameron Bright, Anna Kendrick, and Michael Welch.
Victoria has decided to change tactics at the same time as she’s changed actresses. She’s now trying to start an army by turning Riley Biers (Xavier Samuel) into a vampire and having him create an army for her. Also, she’s Bryce Dallas Howard now. This army is intended to help her finally get her revenge on the vampire Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) for killing her mate, James, in the first movie. In order to get the proper type of revenge, she decides that killing Edward will not suffice, she will kill his girlfriend Isa”Bella” Swan (Kristen Stewart) first. Back in the lame half of the story, Bella’s still bitching about Edward not making her a vampire yet, but simultaneously being resistant to agreeing to marry him. She’s also dabbling in stringing along a wolf boy named Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner). The Newborn vampire army is beginning to get unruly in Seattle and the Cullen’s – Dr. Carlisle Cullen (Peter Facinelli), Esme Cullen (Elizabeth Reaser), Alice (Ashley Greene), Emmett (Kellan Lutz), Rosalie (Nikki Reed), and Jasper (Jackson Rathbone) – are nervous that this will bring the attention of the Volturi, the powerful group of vampires that maintain the secrecy of the vampires. Alice sees that the Newborn army are coming to Forks, so the Cullen’s form an uneasy alliance with the wolves to defend one stupid girl.
I will attempt to see if I can keep my vomiting to a low as I type the following sentence: Eclipse was not that bad. Oh good, only threw up 4 times. And I look fantastic now! There’s a great dichotomy in this movie between the torturous scenes of mopey, stupid Bella dragging along two guys in their annoying, slow moving love triangle and the surprisingly appealing fight scenes between the vampires and the wolves. Though they make attempts to explain Bella not wanting to get married, I still don’t buy it. The movie starts with a conversation very similar to the one that ended the previous movie about Bella wanting Edward to turn her into a vampire so she could spend eternity with Edward, but she doesn’t want to get married to him. I understand that your parents got a divorce and all, but you’re still being an idiot. Yes, perhaps 2/3 of all marriages end in divorce, but I assure you that a great deal higher percentage of relationships end in break ups. How about this: you decide if you want to spend eternity with this guy or not. If you don’t want to, then there’s no fucking reason for you to be immortal! Everyone in the movie also offers Bella pretty good arguments for why she should not become a vampire, and even why she should go with Jacob instead, but Bella’s too stupid for that. Actually, Bella’s stupidity was lessened for this movie. Her bitch quotient, however, was on the rise. She seems slightly less stupid, which makes it that much worse that she’s knowingly stringing along two guys that are in love with her. Bella also decides that it’s a good idea to drag Edward to sunny Florida, because that always works out for a vampire. Nothing happened and there was barely any reason for him to even be there, so it was totally worth the risk. I also found myself being very annoyed by the story that the wolf tribe tells about how their feud with the vampires began, mainly because it was all just a series of misunderstandings because everyone involved were jerks. I support the idea of vampires killing people. They’re just eating. If it’s cool for us to eat cows and dogs (which it totally is), then I’m fine with them eating people. That being said, a vampire was just having dinner and ate the wolf guy’s lady so he kills the vampire. The vampire’s lady then gets pissed and kills a bunch of the Indians. Then they kill her. Sure, they’re BIG misunderstandings, but everyone should’ve just chilled out. Thankfully, their only vaguely comprehensible feud is put on hold for this movie and it seems that it was coming to a halt at the end, so hopefully there will be one less stupid thing for me to be angry about in future movies. That brings me back to Bella. She tries to jump Edward’s bones in this movie, and that started to make me wonder whether or not a vampire would have to feed first to get the excess blood to fuel their … members. Near the end of the movie, I started to think about something that started to make the entire purpose of this movie not make sense. Why is Victoria even after Edward/Bella in the first place? If she wants revenge for the death of James, shouldn’t she be going after Alice? As I recall it, wasn’t Edward sucking on Bella’s wrist as Alice tore James’ head off? Edward and Bella could easily be considered the reason that Alice killed James, but only as easily as one should consider James responsible for his own murder for randomly deciding that Bella was the one human in the world that he needed to eat.
There’s not a whole lot of redeeming qualities to be found in the story. All of those qualities lie in the action. One can only assume that so many other, weaker-willed men than myself ended their lives because of the first two movies. Having had enough blood on their hands, they must’ve added some action to this one so that there would be at least one thing to be enjoyed in these movies. The action was pretty good. I was charmed and entertained by even the training that Jasper leads in the middle of the movie. Of course, I started getting confused by his back story. Wasn’t he acting like a newborn in the first Twilight movie? Yet he’s older than the other vampires in the Cullen clan (except Dr. Handsome McFadden and Wifey Whatsername). I just figured out that he was not a “vegetarian vampire” as long as the other Cullens, but if I was confused they probably did a poor job of explaining things. Also, I didn’t really give a shit, so there’s that possibility too. Anyway, back to the training. The fights were well done, and these scenes actually elevated Jasper to the second least hated person in these movies. But then he gets Alice, so I still kinda hate him. The real good stuff is at the end of the movie, when the Cullens and the wolves throw down old-school against the Newborns. The setup to the fight made me wonder if these Newborns were Bella-level stupid because they never thought twice about the conspicuousness of the idea of Bella apparently skipping through the forest, flicking her blood at trees. Maybe they’re dumb; I’m okay with that. What I’m more than okay with is the epic beatdown they caught. The good guys left relatively unscathed, and also left a pile of dead Newborns burning in their wake … I probably should’ve called them something other than Newborns there. That makes that statement seemed like the Cullens battles a group of toddlers. The fight was graphically appealing and they choreographed a great deal of cool, interesting ways to kill vampires. The random wolf guy/Edward vs. Riley/Victoria battle was pretty solid as well. I was a bit deflated by the ending of both battles, though. In the Victoria battle, it’s a bunch of tense situations piling up on top of each other until … Edward bites her and tears her head off. It was so anticlimactic that it even seemed as if the musical score stopped abruptly so that the band could look at each other and say “Was that it?” Then Edward lights Victoria’s body on fire by throwing a Zippo at her, causing her to immediately burst completely into flames … and also to immediately regret deciding to wear her gasoline-soaked jacked to the battle that day. The other battle deflated me because Dakota Fanning commanded the brick shithouse dude to kill the innocent little girl that had seen the error of her ways. That’s a bitch move, Dakota. I randomly decided that I liked that girl in her 5 minutes of total screen time.
The performances are what they are. Coworker Ashley made the claim that Kristen Stewart’s acting improved in this movie. Best I can assume, she thinks Kristen Stewart is Ashley Greene. I still think Kristen Stewart is awful in this movie, and I still think Bella’s special power is retardation. We still call them “special”, right? As I said, she seemed SLIGHTLY less moronic in this movie, replacing stupidity with being an asshole. She also mostly dresses like she’s in Pearl Jam. I hope she likes Kurt Cobain so much she shoots herself in the face with a shotgun. I still have next to no impression of either Robert Pattinson or Taylor Lautner. Both of them kind of walk the line between shit and great. I pay attention to Ashley Greene for being good and adorable, and I pay attention to Kristen Stewart to see if I can see the mark of the Beast on her scalp somewhere, but Pattinson and Lautner don’t really do anything either way. I guess you can call that a push. Pattinson did get to voice my interior monologue for most of this and the last move when he said “Does he own any shirts?” about Lautner, but he seemed to say it as if it was a bad thing. NO! Stop it, Robert! (Critic Robert, not Vampire Robert) I was vaguely interested in the conversation that Pattinson and Lautner had about Bella in the tent towards the end of the movie, and I liked the last line Lautner delivered to Bella when she visited him after his injury. I also started liking Jackson Rathbone as Jasper a little more in this movie. He had previously just been the creepy guy with the Jewfro, but he got to be a bit of a badass in this movie. Bryce Dallas Howard took over for Rachelle Lefevre in this movie. I understand that this movie required much more of a performance from the Victoria character and I kind of like BDH.
I think I’ve officially written more kind words about Twilight than I’ve ever said out loud or even though before. I gave them nearly an entire paragraph of niceties! I’m as shocked as you are. Would I say this is a good movie? Not at all. Would I recommend you see it? Nope. But, it’s the best Twilight movie by far, and if you get dragged to this one by a lady with low standards for movies (also known as “A Twilight Fan”), you can rest assured that there are a couple of good action scenes in this movie; you just need to wait for them a bit. The story has not improved much, and only a couple of lines of dialogue were clever. The action is pretty fantastic, but the bulk of the movie is still the worst example of romantic crap you can find. I have not gotten myself excited to watch the next movie for any reason other than I get to be done with Twilight until November afterwards. This movie has taken the fraction of watchable hours in the total Twilight series to about 1/6, so I’m not getting my hopes up just yet. We’ll find out tomorrow. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse gets “I punched a werewolf in the face” out of “One more thing. Never turn your back on your enemy.”
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The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)
You Just Don’t Belong in My World, Bella
Dear World, I love you but I just can’t take it anymore. Because of the Twilight series, I have decided to end my life in the slowest and most painful way I can think of: beating myself to death with a wet Kleenex. I know, this will take some time, so just settle in and I’ll get started. I continue on with my reviews of the Twilight Saga, if for no reason other than to show you people how much willpower I can possess when it’s important. I haven’t yet figured out how to consider this important, but I’m gonna, damnit! And so, without further ado, let’s talk about The Twilight Saga: New Moon, based on another novel by Stephenie Meyer, written by Melissa Rosenberg, directed by Chris Weitz, and starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Rachelle Lefevre, Edi Gathegi, Michael Sheen, Dakota Fanning, Ashley Greene, Billy Burke, Peter Facinelli, Elizabeth Reaser, Kellan Lutz, Nikki Reed, Jackson Rathbone, Anna Kendrick, and Michael Welch.
Isa”Bella” Swan (Kristen Stewart) just turned 18. Her vampire boyfriend, Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson), and his family – Carlisle “Dr. Handsome McFadden” Cullen (Peter Facinelli), Elizabeth (Esme Cullen), Alice (Ashley Greene), Emmett (Kellan Lutz), Rosalie (Nikki Reed), and Jasper (Jackson Rathbone) – throw Bella a birthday party. It’s pretty nice … until Bella gets a paper cut and Jasper tries to eat her. Edward saves her … by throwing her across the room and giving her a deeper gash in her arm. Realizing that he and his family are a danger to Bella, Edward ends their relationship and leaves Forks with his family. Thus begins Mope Fest ’09. Bella bitches about it for a couple of months until realizing that risking her life makes her feel a little better. She invests in two shitbox motorcycles and enlists the help of her newly-chiseled friend Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner) to help her fix them. They start developing some feelings for each other until he randomly freaks out on one of her friends, cuts his hair, and stops wearing shirts. Then, Laurent (Edi Gathegi) returns and decides to kill Bella as a niceness so that his friend, Victoria (Rachelle Lefevre), doesn’t kill her in a more drawn out and painful manner. A couple of giant wolves kill the shit out of him. Turns out Jacob is a werewolf and his pack keep the joint free of non-Cullen vampires. Edward comes back into the mix when he attempts to get the powerful coven of vampires known as the Volturi to kill him, believing that Bella has killed herself. Alice retrieves Bella to try to save Edward before it’s too late.
These movies still suck. Does this movie suck less than the first movie? I’ll grant that it does suck slightly less than the first movie. Technically, penile dismemberment is preferable to death, but I still don’t want it to happen. That’s how I feel about this movie. There are parts to this movie that are much more interesting. They throw some werewolves in so that they can ruin another classic movie monster, but they have their cool parts. I also found the Volturi somewhat interesting. But that was roughly 20% of the movie. The rest of it was the same old mopey, vaguely romantic bullshit. I got to thinking, in this movie, about why the Cullen’s even bother leaving Forks in the first place. I understand the idea of wanting to get away from Bella (BELIEVE ME, I understand that feeling) because you’re afraid of hurting her, but he does so under the pretense that people are beginning to wonder about one of them not aging. Why would they move around because of that? Why not just crash back at the crib for a century and go back to school? It’s pretty gundamned obvious why he’s actually trying to stay away from Bella, but of course she’s too fucking dumb to figure it out. And then we get to my least favorite part, the full half hour of Bella being a mopey little bitch. The scenes are so indicative of everything I hate about stupid high school girls, thinking everything is the worst thing that could happen in the world ever. “I know, I know … 9/11 and the Holocaust … BUT MY BOYFRIEND THAT WANTS TO EAT ME JUST DUMPED ME! You just don’t understand, Dad!” She mainly shows this to us by sitting in a chair and never moving (VERY interesting cinema), and squealing like a stuck pig while she’s sleeping. Has anyone ever actually reacted to a breakup like this? If so, kill yourself. …Harsh? Maybe. Alright, I’ll downgrade to “Knock it off, dumbass.” The next thing Bella starts doing is to start talking to her imagination of Edward … y’know, ’cause THAT’S not crazy. They must’ve realized either that I would hate this mopey shit, or that stupid high school girls would love this mopey shit, because they tossed it in twice. Jacob turns her into a mopey bitch as well. Thanks, movie! The secondary premise of the movie is pretty weak to me. It’s never really clear why the vampires and werewolves hate each other in the first place. They reached a civil agreement a century ago and (as far as I can tell) neither side ever overstepped their boundaries. Yet they just randomly hate each other. I get why Jacob and Edward don’t get along because they’re both in love with a tree stump named Bella, but there’s really no excuse that I can see why their groups hate each other so much. I also don’t get the entire problem with Edward trying to kill himself, and not just because I would be much happier if he did it and this whole movie could end. Why would it mean his death if he walked outside and got all sparklefart on everyone? If I walked past a guy that looked like that, I would intentionally pay him no mind whatsoever because I would just assume he wanted attention and was a douche bag. It would never cross my mind that he was a vampire … because VAMPIRES BURST INTO FLAMES IN SUNLIGHT! When Bella’s mutant power was decided at the end of the movie, it just made me laugh. Apparently, no vampire’s special powers work on her. It made me laugh that none of them had any effect on her mind, probably because she is such a blank slate anyway. Not only stupid, but apparently very self involved since she walks right past a large group of innocent men, women, and children that are about to become a buffet for the Volturi and it never crosses her mind to throw a warning out. The movie ends on a bit of a cliffhanger, but I’m here to push it over the edge. Bella’s been trying to get Edward to make her a vampire through this entire fucking movie so that she could spend the rest of her life with him, but she seems completely shocked that he would ask her to marry him. What the Hell did you have in mind when you thought about spending eternity with him? Just friends? Fucking idiot!
There was an imaginary movie displayed in New Moon that went by the very clever name of “Face Punch”. The dialogue in Face Punch was intentionally awful, but it also leads me smoothly into a discussion of the dialogue in New Moon. It still sucks. I’m beginning to think that Stephenie Meyer is not a good writer. All the dialogue in this movie remains stupid, mopey, awkward, stupid, annoying, and stupid. I understand that they would feel the need to remind their audience what each vampire’s power is, but the way they do it is so blunt and stupid that it was reminiscent of the first X-Men movie, except that I hated it. “I’ve already seen you open it, and you love it!” DING! Alice reads minds. “No fair with the emotion controls.” DING! Jasper controls emotions. “I can’t read your mind.” DING! Bella’s an idiot. I understand that Edward is undead and kills things for sustenance, but does he have to talk about suicide and death all the time in the beginning? Later, Bella is arguing with Jacob about their emotional age. She decides that she is emotionally 35 and he’s emotionally 32, and kudos to her for knowing that 35 is greater than 32. Of course, someone should tell her that her IQ is not the same as her emotional age. I also got really angry that Bella stopped talking to her friends for a while in this movie. It definitely wasn’t because their relationships meant so much to me. It was because she was almost at the point where it would be absurd to even the writer of these movies for her to still talk awkwardly to her friends, but she got to start from scratch with the awkwardness by taking a hiatus from them. Gundamned loopholes! When Bella finds out the secret of the werewolves (which, of course, she figured out by being smacked across the face with the obvious a few times), one of the werewolves actually has the gall to utter the statement “Guess the wolf’s out of the bag.” …I hope you fucking die in a really spectacular and painful way. When Bella is about to leave to try to save Edward, Jacob tries to stop her by saying “I’m begging you; don’t go.” Get it? He’s a dog and he’s begging! Later on, that twat-basket Bella has the audacity to tell Jacob not to make her choose between him and Edward. Why? You want to keep dragging him along, bitch? I’ll tell you one thing that I really liked about the dialogue, and one thing that made me like my favorite character, Alice, even more: when she points out Bella’s idiocy. I was already on board with you, Alice, but now I’m yours forever. Unless you ask me to marry you. That’s moving too fast…
The look managed to take a step up in some parts of this movie. The director (apparently a REAL director this time and not someone who’s probably only made commercials for Lady’s Speed Stick) pulled off a couple of transitions that I thought were really well done. I barely managed to catch that I liked something during one of Bella’s mopey bitch scenes, but the way they showed the passage of months by having the camera rotate slowly around Bella, seemingly without cutting, was very nicely done. Later, their transitions during the montage (of sorts) of Bella and Jacob working on the motorcycles, were nicely cut as well. I got angry at Bella during that scene because who throws a slice of pizza to someone?! Even if they catch it, they might get sprayed in the face with hot grease or something. I still didn’t like their little lame attempts to show that things were moving fast in this movie. When the vampires are running, it barely seems like anything faster than a normal human running speed, but we added motion blur! Go fuck yourself. The big fight near the end of the movie where Edward was trying to keep the Volturi away from Bella wanted to be epic really badly, but it used the same blur too much, making me think it was a shitty version of the awesome teleportation fight from the beginning of X-Men 2. …I sure hope that watching the X-Men movies from this point on doesn’t make me think of these movies as much as these make me think of them. If you ruin this for me, Twilight, I swear I’ll write hateful things about you online … damnit …
I still hate almost everybody involved in this movie. I wasn’t a fan of most of them going into the movie, but they did what they could to ruin two actors I actually like. I like Michael Sheen and Dakota Fanning a lot. Why are you trying to ruin them for me, Twilight? I know that you’re a black hole for all that is good in the world, but can you not leave me some things? Thankfully, they were solid in their parts, so I will just have to remain focused on what I’m truly angry at here. The same can be said for Ashley Greene. I still appreciate the quirkiness of her character, and it’s made so much better when you compare her to everyone else in this movie. This brings me back to Kristen Stewart. I still hate her, and not just because I hate Bella so much. She’s still awful. She’s Paul Walker with a vagina. Someone really should tell her that she doesn’t have to sigh out of her nose before she says anything in the movie … unless that might cause her to pass out and crack her head open on a marble counter top. She also does this strange thing that was never explained by holding her stomach a couple of times in the movie like she ran afoul of some jalapenos or something. I think she even squatted down while doing it. Maybe she was just doing her impression of what Stephenie Meyer does over an empty journal before scribbling the name of one of the phases of the moon on it and making billions with it. Bella’s also a bitch in this movie. She leads on Jacob through the whole movie, but the slightest sign that Edward’s back and it’s all “Fuck off, doggie.” Robert Pattinson again made no impact on me one way or another. I did get annoyed at the choice of the makeup artist later in the movie because she changes his makeup to show that he’s depressed, but it just make him look like he’s been crying or is sleep deprived and it’s my understanding that he’s not capable of either. Taylor Lautner earns a much bigger part in this movie by spending the entirety of his life between the first movie and this one by working out nonstop. The guy’s ripped. I would totally fuck him … no homo … He’s the Vampire Hunter Van Hunksking! And, since he worked so hard, they apparently decided to ban him from t-shirts for the majority of the movie. He’ll find any old excuse to take the shirt off, won’t he? Like when Bella crashes her motorcycle and is bleeding from the head. There is no way there’s anything within 100 miles of our present location better to clean your open wound than my dirty t-shirt! What’s this? It was covering up my sweet bod for some reason! Oh well. This is the kind of guy I would not be shocked to find his main picture on Facebook to be him taking a self portrait in the bathroom mirror. I just want to lick them abs … okay, a little homo …
I’ve managed to keep a certain degree of optimism throughout this review because I know that I’m halfway through the Twilight films that are presently available. This optimism is completely based on the fact that I’m not thinking about the fact that the next two movies are rated as badly (or worse) than the two I’ve already reviewed. …Damnit! I just remembered it! New Moon is slightly better than the first Twilight movie, but not nearly the improvement necessary to make the movies watchable. The story is still shitty, the dialogue is still awful, and there’s always Kristen Stewart. The slight visual improvements, Ashley Greene, Michael Sheen, Dakota Fanning, and Taylor Lautner’s sweet sweet bod cannot fix this thing. Seriously, ladies. Don’t delude yourselves into thinking these movies aren’t shitty. Don’t watch this movie either. The Twilight Saga: New Moon gets “It’s like a huge hole has been punched through my chest” out of “It’s my birthday, can I ask for something? Go fuck yourself!”
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Twilight (2008)
What a Stupid Lamb
I knew this moment would come, but I crossed my fingers that it wouldn’t. When I introduced the idea of taking people’s recommendations for my reviews, I started the timer on when today would actually arrive. It actually took a lot longer than I expected. From the start, most people reacted to my request for recommendations with movies I would probably hate (Hannah Montana: The Movie, for instance), but not until just recently did someone actually unleash true punishment on me. They requested it almost a month ago, and I put it off as long as I could, but it’s time has come. I decided to start doing it on March first somewhat arbitrarily, but I decided that the reason I started in March was because I want everyone involved in this movie to march off the nearest cliff. All that being said, Chris, Krunchee, and Ashley requested it, so I begrudgingly present you with my review of Twilight, based on a series of novels by Stephenie Meyer, written for the screen by Mark Lord and Melissa Rosenberg, directed by Catherine Hardwicke, and starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Billy Burke, Sarah Clarke, Peter Facinelli, Elizabeth Reaser, Ashley Greene, Kellan Lutz, Nikki Reed, Jackson Rathbone, Cam Gigandet, Rachelle Lefevre, Edi Gathegi, Anna Kendrick, Christian Serratos, Michael Welch, Gregory Boyce, Justin Chon, and Taylor Lautner.
Though no such back story was given, I assume that Isabella “Bella” Swan (Kristen Stewart) was dropped on her head as a child by her father, Charlie Swan (Billy Burke), which caused her mother, Sarah Clarke (Renee Dwyer), to taker her away from him. Cut to age seventeen and, even though Bella’s speech impediment has not cleared up, momma has a new man now, so she pawns Bella off on her father and hits the road in search of adventure. Bella moves in with her dad in a town that is somehow named Forks and starts going to high school there, quickly meeting and befriending Jessica (Anna Kendrick), Angela (Christian Serratos), Mike (Michael Welch), Tyler (Gregory Boyce), and Eric (Justin). They tell her about the strange family that hangs out together (and probably gets busy together) called the Cullens, comprised of father Carlisle (Peter Facinelli), mother Esme (Elizabeth Reaser), Alice (Ashley Greene) who is probably fucking her “brother” Jasper (Jackson Rathbone), and Rosalie (Nikki Reed) who is probably fucking her “brother” Emmett (Kellan Lutz). But Bella decides to get all kinds of hot and bothered over Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson), roughly around the same time hundreds of thousands of 12-year-old girls do. Bella gets intrigued by Edward. There was just something about his pasty white skin, pointy teeth, pitch black eyes, and his bat wings that catches her attention. He, however, looks like he wants to throw up whenever she comes near. Britney Spears’ new perfume really doesn’t smell that good, I’m with you Eddie. She starts getting closer to Edward after he shoves a car away to save her life. She still hasn’t caught on yet. Well eventually it turns out that he’s a vampire, along with all of the Cullens. But they don’t eat people. The other three vampires – James (Cam Gigandet), Victoria (Rachelle Lefevre), and Laurent (Edi Gathegi) – do. A lot. It’s beginning to cause trouble for the Cullen family (apparently. It’s never really shown in the movie) but Bella and Edward can’t be concerned with that because they’re having some angsty love situation.
Fuck this movie. You know what made me hate Drive so much? It’s not ONLY that the movie itself was awful, but it was how many people tried to explain to me that I was wrong. And when that happened to Drive, it made me think about Twilight, and Heaven help anyone that makes me think about Twilight! The story of this movie is high school drama bullshit in the background, vampire movie in the foreground, and neither one worth watching. Much as with Ghost Rider, I took too many notes watching this movie, so I’m just going to have to go in order with the things that pissed me off about this movie. One of the first irritants I came across in this movie was Edward’s reaction to Bella. At first, it was never explained why he looked like he was going to blow chunks the second he smelled her. As a member of the audience, I couldn’t tell what her hygiene was. I completely understand getting sick when spending time with Kristen Stewart, but it wouldn’t show up in a physical manifestation for me to get irritated with her and want to punch her in the face … unless I DID punch her in the face, then I guess that would be physical. When Edward stops the car from hitting Bella it served to make me very angry that he didn’t let the movie end right then, but it also pissed me off at Bella’s stupidity even further. Her first question is “How did you get here so fast?” and not “How is your pimp hand so strong that you just bitch-smacked that car away and dented it’s side?” There are people that could run fast enough to cross that parking lot, especially since your attention had been turned towards the car and he could have reacted faster than a tree sloth as you did. What humans CAN’T do is bitch-smack cars out of the way. But Bella’s denseness was not for only this scene. I wondered through the first half of this movie if Bella would eventually catch on to what’s going on by the third movie. Thankfully, they decided to throw that in here so we could move on without this shitty attempt to keep it a secret. His paleness, sharp teeth, inexplicable absence when the sun was out, ability to run inhumanly fast and bitch-smack cars, not eating, showing up when she was in danger; none of this helped Bella. Jacob had to practically say it to her face and then she figured it out about 20 minutes later. I grant that I went in to this movie knowing he was a vampire and she was stupid, but I think I would’ve figured it out when I first saw them. Why does everyone in monster movies seemingly live in a world where no one has ever made a monster movie that they can connect the dots to? At some point in the movie, the random deaths of people around town causes Bella’s father to give her a bottle of mace to carry with her, and she seems really put off by this. YOU JUST ARRIVED HOME FROM A TRIP THAT ALMOST HAD YOU GETTING GANGRAPED! And THEN you followed that up by going to he scene of a homicide with a vampire. God, you’re thick, Bella! I laughed to myself when Edward and Bella started dating officially because he decided to wear a pair of sunglasses and act like “the cool guy” because of it, but it just reminded me of Tobey McGuire in Spiderman 3. The whole relationship between Edward and Bella is a little icky because it’s roughly the equivalent of me dating a hamburger, and people called me weird for doing that so we had to break up … plus, I ate her. And Bella isn’t much smarter than Patty was before her untimely death, so don’t give me that shit either. The ending of the movie didn’t really make sense to me either, but I’m not going to throw up a spoiler alert because I don’t want you people watching this movie anyways. At the end of the movie, Bella has been being hunted by James and is cornered in a ballet studio where he starts torturing her for his own amusement, and to film and send to Edward as a fuck you. But wasn’t his only driving factor the hunt? If that’s the case, then the hunt was over and he should’ve eaten her by the time Edward even arrived. What’s worse than that is that Bella gets beaten up, has her leg broken, has a piece of glass stuck in her leg, and was bitten on the wrist. How do they explain this to the world? She fell down the stairs! AND out a window! (I just realized that smashing the buttons on the keyboard doesn’t properly express my frustration) This explanation is exactly the same one that victims of abuse use, but much more stupid.
I’m not quite done with the writing yet. It’s so bad that it gets it’s own paragraph, but here comes the dialogue part. Completely shitty! SURPRISE! In the beginning of the movie, Bella exclaims “It’s perfect!” when her dad gives her the gift of a the very first truck ever made. It’s every teenaged girl’s fantasy come true! When Bella finally starts talking to Edward (his inexplicable gagging compulsions having gone away) she goes on about how much she hates the rain, and this speech is very reminiscent of the famous “I hate sand” speech from Star Wars Episode 2. Both made me yell out “WHY AM I LISTENING TO THIS?!” This is a movie! I want to be entertained, not listen to two people talk about their thoughts on the weather and how rain makes things wet. I don’t remember the context anymore (thankfully my brain is already relieving me of this movie like a splinter being pushed out), but at one point Edward and Bella are talking and she says “Pretend that I am dumb”, and I just giggled to myself for obvious reasons. One of the biggest problems with the dialogue was how shitty Edward was at keeping his HUGE FUCKING SECRET! When he’s in the car with Bella, he basically says “I read their mind and they were going to rape you.” Add that to the other times he let slip something stupid, and the time he saved her from the car, and a peanut butter sandwich would’ve figured it out by now. Bella got it about 10 minutes later. It’s pretty easy to figure out why you can’t read someone’s mind when the answer is “Because they lack the necessary equipment to hold up her end of the deal.” It’s the same reason I can’t watch TV when the power is off. But how did Edward manage to only have conversations with people with negative IQ’s for 108 years, or have the Cullen family just had to pick up and move after massacring an entire town because Edward said something stupid. Later, Bella’s stupid little narrations indicate that there are only three things she’s absolutely positive about and they’re all basically that she loves Edward and he wants to eat her. Really? Those are the ONLY things that you’re sure of? You’re not sure that you’re a girl? Or that your hair is brown? Or that you’re an idiot? After Bella knows that Edward is a vampire, they waste a good 10 minutes in the middle of the movie with Bella asking him questions about being a vampire that are stupid, serve no purpose, are unnecessary, and slow the already molasses-like pace of the movie down to almost a stop. Edward also admits to Bella that he’s been sneaking into her room for the past few months and it just makes her love him more, as opposed to being creeped out. Bella’s narration also says twice in the movie that she’s “never given much though to how she would die”, but after this movie, I can tell you that I’ve thought about it. A lot.
I’ll talk briefly about the look of the movie. It also sucked. Everything in the movie was gloomy and morose. I’m sure that’s what they were going for, but it also depressed me to look at it. That could have just been because I knew I was watching Twilight though. This movie probably didn’t have a very large budget and I understand that, but adding blurriness to a woman pulling a boat closer or kicking a guy in the chest doesn’t automatically make it look supernatural. It just makes me think she had a tit fall out. Speaking of that, the fast running and fast climbing things that Edward did with Bella were some of the least convincing effects in recent memory. Even worse than that was what they did to the entire vampire mythos: when they decided that vampires don’t walk out into the sunlight and explode into flames, they just become FABULOUS! Turning vampires in sunlight into glittery sparklefarts pisses me off to no end. What makes it worse is that Edward reacts to Bella saying he looks beautiful by saying “This is the skin of a killer!” Really? Are you sure it’s not the skin of someone who’s spent the entire night in a gay nightclub? Not that it would matter to Bella anyway since she follows that up with “It doesn’t matter.” That’s kind of true though; I’ve dated lots of serial murderers. It doesn’t really matter if the love is there. I guess about two thousand words into my review is the appropriate time to say something that wasn’t that bad in this movie, and the baseball game and final fight of the movie were somewhat interesting. The baseball game served next to no purpose, but it was fun to watch superpowered things play baseball. And James and Edward throwing down at the very end was kind of cool, but too little too late.
Next to the story, the worst thing about this movie is the performances. And the worst thing about those performances was Kristen Stewart. Every conversation in this movie was awkward and uncomfortable to watch, and Kristen Stewart was mostly the reason, as she was involved in almost every conversation. 90% of the things coming out of her mouth in this movie was some strange, stuttering, embarrassed, sigh noise that I can best express in text as “Tsh” and “Chuh”. It’s like someone ran up to her and flashed her their dick right before she started talking so that she was flustered and confused. Someone argued with me that this was how Bella was written, and I grant that everything else in this movie leads me to believe that Bella was a moron, but Bella was also not written into EVERY Kristen Stewart movie that I’ve seen. She did the same thing in Adventureland and in The Runaways, and I’m pretty sure Joan Jett was more articulate than this. It comes to a pinnacle when she’s in the hospital and Edward is talking about leaving her or something and the next 20 “words” out of her mouth are “tshchuhgahchuhgahtsh ….. guh”. It finally stopped when I slammed my head down on my computer desk and the DVD skipped forward a few seconds. Robert Pattinson didn’t do much to particularly anger me with his performance, but it wasn’t really good either. I guess mediocre looks a lot better when you’re mainly acting opposite Kristen Stewart. Probably the best part about the cast was the girls in the movie. Nikki Reed, Anna Kendrick, Rachelle Lefevre, and that one Asian friend of Bellas were all pretty nice to look at. Their characters weren’t interesting, but they sure were purdy. Technically, Kristen Stewart is attractive too … right up until she talks. Well, I use “talk” loosely there. Ashley Greene was the best one, by far. Not only was she the best looking, but I found her character interesting because of her precognitive abilities, and she acted it in a quirky way that I found cute. The movie’s reaction to me finally liking one of the characters in the movie was to not have her around very often. I did have a funny thought on Peter Facinelli as the Cullen “father”, but it was only funny to me because the way he enters when Bella is in the hospital after the car incident made me laugh and change his name to Dr. Handsome McFadden in my mind. Taylor Lautner wasn’t in this movie very much (probably ’cause he didn’t have them abs yet), and the few times he was in the movie he made me think it was a Native American version of Jason Mewes.
I just got carpal tunnel syndrome from this review. I hope that the next three movies will be better (or at least that I’ve released the majority of my bile), allowing the next reviews to be shorter and less hateful. But, judging by the scores on Rotten Tomatoes for the other movies, this will most likely not be the case. This is actually the highest rated of the four Twilight movies, and that statement just made me very nervous. But I will go on. The next three reviews will either be reviews of the remaining Twilight movies, or my suicide letter. Perhaps both. My recommendation is that no one should ever watch this movie. My sincere hope is that no one will ever try to justify their love for this ungodly movie to me again. At least, if they do, I have almost 3000 words prepared for why I hate it so much. Women, I know this is a romance movie, but have a little self respect and like one that doesn’t make their heroine look like it would lose a debate to a tree stump. You’re not required to like everything that has romance in it. With that, I give Twilight “Well then I hope you enjoy disappointment” out of “Bella, you hit your head. I think you’re confused.”
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