New Moon- Amazing!

[Guest chelsy123]

Hey everyone.. I am here to ask what you all think of the latest installment to the twilight series : New Moon.

Now haters, I have to letcha know this fact, I thought the same way at first. I called Edward Cullins, Ed's Colin. I hated the idea about a romantic vampire movie and as my friends started to enjoy twilight I continued to say it was the lamest thing to hit pop-culture. NOW, once you see the movies,,especially New Moon, your mind may change (mine sure did!)! It was filled with some action, romance, mystery. It was quite enjoyable, and I would definatly see it again (seeing movies a second time for me require them to be fantastic!). I may even get around to reading the books..if my schedual permits me to !

I recomend you to go out and see it...but please for the love of god, don't wear your vamp fangs to it! Lol (aww..sure I'll forgive ya if you do).

Anyways post your comments/thoughts about any of the movies and lets get a convo going!

PS: No matter how good those movies are, I will never be a screaming fan ...that spot for me is reserved for final fantasy !

[Guest CJwar]

Hey...since no one else is talking about it. I will. I saw the movie with my sister, and...we were both disappointed.

Now, we haven't read the books..but we're vamp fans. Anything Vamp we usually know about it, or we're working our way to knowing about it. We had been on a True Blood high, when the first Twilight movie came out, expecting something along those lines. Boy were we wrong. We decided to see the second one, hoping that they did the wolves some justice...but eh.

Maybe I'm not hip. But these types of Vampires don't do it for me. The story was way to rushed, and Bella was up and down the entire movie with her emotions. I think that, when I found out this series was truly for pre-teens or young adults...whatever, they were serious. I mean I love sci-fi as much as the next person, but this story is just too unbelievable.

Will I go see the next one? Yes...because they did such a horrible job at the ending. I hope that the book doesn't end like that...geez. But yeah, we plan on finishing out the rest of the movies, just to see what the heck happens. But it's going to see it for the sake of curiosity, not the sake of enjoyment.

But that's why the make different types of movies right, for different types of people. So I'm glad you enjoyed it....but....

Bring on the next Underworld.

[Guest Larson]

Since I've actually read the books I feel like I'm obligated to respond.

To defend myself, I work at Barnes and Noble and in order to work the midnight release of the fourth book (for which we got pay and a half), we were required to read at least the first Twilight book. After that I decided to finish up the series. It's a fun plot and the characters actually have a lot of depth to them, even if the writing is abysmal.

First note, most readers of the books hate the movies. I personally liked the first one because I appreciate grunge, indie movies (which is what it was originally going to be before the fandom mysteriously skyrocketed in post-production) and was a fan of both Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart prior to Twilight (sidebar: they are both waaaay more attractive physically and personality-wise in real life). That being said, most book fans hate the movies because they don't translate well to film. The screenwriter, Melissa Rosenburg, has a SERIOUS problem distinguishing between those things that sound fine in your head, but stupid when you say them out loud.

The budget made a huge difference for the second film and Chris Weitz, the new director, clearly put a lot more thought into every level of the production than the first director, Catherine Hardewicke. Unfortunately, Melissa Rosenburg was still there to make sure that the actors sounded as stupid as ever and the plot stumbled by unbelievably.

And the ending. Wow. So awful. I was at a midnight showing and the entire theatre groaned. Rest assured, CJWar, the book does not end that way. There are a few more chapters of Bella telling him he's dumb for asking her to marry him and outright refusing him.

Ignoring the ending and the few bits that did not translate well from paper to screen, I did actually love it and can't wait to see it again.

[Guest chelsy123]

I never read any of the books (yet) , so I didn't know how distorted the movie was compared to the book. My sis is a "fanpire", and she said the ending was horrible lol. I thought she didn't like it because it was a cliffhanger ending, but I guess (as you've posted Larson) that info was being left out.

Bring on the next Underworld.

<--- Ahmen to that !! Such a fantastic movie...Evolutions was so sad..I've been meaning to watch the rest of them sometime.