Why do I watch shit films? Well, I like to have an opinion. An opinion based on solid research and actual experience rather than word-of-mouth, gossip and here-say. If there's one thing I can't stand it's a movie being ripped apart by people who haven't seen it. If everybody else hates it then it MUST be true! So when Twilight was released I was compelled to form such an opinion. And when that opinion was negative I was compelled to re-evaluate the franchise in it's sequel, Twilight: New Moon.
And the word on the street is... Lycanthrpic-shite. Yep, complete wolf shit. As boring, slow, uninvolving and tedious as the first movie...just worse so. It takes half the movie just to reveal Taylor Lautner's a werewolf (something even the uninitiated had worked out in the first film). While stars Pattinson and Stewart are pretty good actors with strong screen presence, the baby faced Lautner is an amateur, 90210 mannequin who's only purpose is to provide some upper body dudeity for the 13 year old girlies in the audience (yes, I know it's not aimed at me). Oscar nominee Anna Kendrick is wasted, as are Dakota Fanning and Michael Sheen.
It's basically a tragic love story in the vein of Romeo and Juliet (clumsily fore-shadowed) but a terribly mishandled version of that classic tale. Here, Bella is presented as a selfish bitch with little in the way of redemptive qualities. She shits over her friends, father, new boyfriend...pretty much any body in her life including herself. Bella's repeated attempts to kill herself (in a manipulative, plea for help kind of way) make you wish she'd succeed at some point. But alas we have to keep punching ourselves in the nuts to stay awake for it's overdue and predictable conclusion. Horrible.
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