Twilight Saga: Eclipse - Reviews Thread
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Back to this movie, I forgot to mention that Billy Burke deserves props for making Charlie one of the best things about the movie series. Especially since in the book he's pretty insignificantly written, he's done a splendid job of transcending that.
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Yep since finishing Breaking Dawn, Ive waited for the movie... If they movie makers have any balls at all, they will make it as faithful as possible.
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they won't. Several fans actually complained that the Paranormal Activity 2 teaser was too scary for them, can you imagine the tween twi hards goin ape shit if they faithfully adapt the book as written
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While the 2 hours didn't fly by, it didn't quite drag as much as I had anticipated, perhaps it's because the dialogue and scenes of the "love" triangle amongst Bella, Edward, and Jacob had some self-referential humor sprinkled into them, basically winking at the audience as they pressed on with the overall plotline of keeping Bella safe from a brood of newly created vampires.
"Eclipse" is what it is, you get pretty much what you think you'll get in a Twilight film, although I thought the scenes with the Volturi were pretty much useless, and I was distracted by the wigs on Bella's head for the film's running time.
So, a lot of relationship angst, some vampire rampage, a training montage of sorts, some big ol' wolves (or shirt-less dudes), and lots of fast running through the woods. If you're not in the mood for all of that, then this film probably isn't for you.
I give it 2.5 stars, or a grade of C+.
"Eclipse" is what it is, you get pretty much what you think you'll get in a Twilight film, although I thought the scenes with the Volturi were pretty much useless, and I was distracted by the wigs on Bella's head for the film's running time.
So, a lot of relationship angst, some vampire rampage, a training montage of sorts, some big ol' wolves (or shirt-less dudes), and lots of fast running through the woods. If you're not in the mood for all of that, then this film probably isn't for you.
I give it 2.5 stars, or a grade of C+.
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Best review yet:
http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/2008-12-...ga-eclipse?m=k
http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/2008-12-...ga-eclipse?m=k
Here's where I have a problem. I don't care if they get married or not, because in this film, "get married" is just code for "now we can do it." Their marriage isn't about building something together or creating a family. Their marriage isn't about time they've spent together and time they want to spend together. It's all hormonal. It's all impulse. Bella Swan is defined as a character purely by who she wants to sleep with, and I don't care if she actually consummates the act or not. This movie is driven from start to finish by the real estate between her legs, and if that sounds blunt or harsh, good. I want it to sound ugly, because I think it is ugly. Deeply ugly. She's the weakest, most dependent lead in a film that I can imagine. There is nothing interesting about Bella aside from her desire for these two boys. It is a narcissistic teenage fantasy taken to a disturbing depth. Nothing in the world of these movies matters beyond the resolution of whether or not Bella is going to bone Edward. And when. And how. And whether she's going to bone Jacob as well.
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I've not read the books, I had missed the second movie, I was actually quite entertained by 'Eclipse' - although when ever there was a group shot of the werewolf dudes without their shirts on, I kept on thinking that Kristen Chenowith was going to step out of the woods.
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I thought TWILIGHT was tolerable, and I really liked Chris Weitz's NEW MOON, but ECLIPSE is a mess. The first hour is mind-dullingly slow, and all the actors (with the exception of Billy Burke) appear as if they've just graduated from the Keanu Reeves Thespian School. There's finally some action in the second half, but it's that "confuse-o-vision" type of editing that makes it impossible to figure out what's going on - but not to figure out that they hired some C-grade special effects people on this movie.
I didn't particularly like the book this movie was based on (it's my second least favorite, after the HORRIBLE "Breaking Dawn"), but even though the source material wasn't particularly strong, I think we could take any number of amateur filmmakers, give them half the budget this movie got, and they'd make a film with better pacing and emotion than what David Slade did with this movie.
In almost every aspect, this sequel really has a "phoned-it-in" feel to it. Some scenes play so poorly it looks like we're watching rehearsal footage.
It's seeing movies like ECLIPSE that I really appreciate those involved with the HARRY POTTER films, which look like masterpieces compared to the work being done in this series.
I didn't particularly like the book this movie was based on (it's my second least favorite, after the HORRIBLE "Breaking Dawn"), but even though the source material wasn't particularly strong, I think we could take any number of amateur filmmakers, give them half the budget this movie got, and they'd make a film with better pacing and emotion than what David Slade did with this movie.
In almost every aspect, this sequel really has a "phoned-it-in" feel to it. Some scenes play so poorly it looks like we're watching rehearsal footage.
It's seeing movies like ECLIPSE that I really appreciate those involved with the HARRY POTTER films, which look like masterpieces compared to the work being done in this series.
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Spoiler:
It is a complicated situation
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edit: how they changed it for the american audiences.
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Saw this on Facebook, pretty good description:
Twilight is a lot like soccer. Everybody runs around for two hours, nobody scores, there's a lot of bad acting and its billion fans insist you just don't understand it.
Twilight is a lot like soccer. Everybody runs around for two hours, nobody scores, there's a lot of bad acting and its billion fans insist you just don't understand it.
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That's been everywhere on the net over the past few days. I laughed the first time I saw it.
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Saw this on twitter..
Dear Confused Teen Girls: someone who sparkles and won't have sex with you isn't a vampire; it's a gay guy.
Dear Confused Teen Girls: someone who sparkles and won't have sex with you isn't a vampire; it's a gay guy.



