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The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Chris Weitz, 2009
Pretty much everyone knew that this was going to be a crappy film before it even came out, but since I was able to get into it for free, I thought I might as well go ahead and check it out. Firstly, I guess I should start off by saying that I was one of the few that didn’t the think the first Twilight was all that bad. I’m not saying it was good or anything, but nowhere near as bad as people made it out to be. This, though, is another story entirely. Here I was actually thinking this looked kind of good based off the final trailer, and I was way off.
I was thinking that this might actually have been good because it looked like an improvement from the first. I was completely wrong, it actually went backwards I think. The entire film was so boring, and it had the worst action sequences ever. Aren’t action sequences supposed to get your blood pumping, the good ones at least? No, instead it was even slower than the rest of the movie where absolutely nothing was happening. You would think that they would try to add a lot of big action sequences in movies like this to get people in the movie, too, instead of boring them to tears with its bad writing. The movie kept leading up to something that was trying to be big, but instead ended up just as a huge disappointment. And then to top it all off, the ‘cliffhanger’ ending that just had me in pure rage once it happened.
The reason it had me in pure rage was that it was an exact rip-off of True Blood. Like I mean it had the exact same ending as the season 2 finale. Not to mention all the other similarities between the two. What pisses me off so much about it that the huge Twilight fans go around and actually try to make it seem like True Blood ripped Twilight off. I mean I personally don’t know which one ripped the other off, because both are based off books, and I have no idea when both series of books came out. All I know is that True Blood is amazing, and has extraordinary writing, while New Moon had some of the worst writing that I’ve ever seen.
To top off the bad writing, they decided to add a bunch of bland actors into it as well to make it even worse. Kristen Stewart is such a bad actress, for the most part. None of her acting has ever really been good, but she’s tolerable in most movies that she’s in. Actually you know, I’ll admit that she was kind of a good actress before she got caught up in Twilight. Once Twilight came out, what little acting abilities she used to have disappeared completely. Like in Adventureland, for example, where she seemed to just be standing around for the entire film. At least she’s not Robert Patterson, who seems like the biggest douche-bag ever. Not only does his acting completely suck, but he goes around trying to act like he is so special. The only actor that I actually liked in the entire film was Taylor Lautner, who seems to be the most ‘real’ of the entire cast. He was a lot more tolerable in the first, though, because he seems like he’s falling into that same douche-bag category that Patterson is in. I hope he changes in next film.
So basically, in a nutshell, it sucked. If I didn’t get into it for free, I would’ve gone and demanded that I got the money I paid for this back. One shot was pretty much the only redeemable quality in the film. The shot I was referring to is when the werewolf back attack and kill that vampire. There was one bad-ass shot, but even with that, I still feel like I wasted a complete two hours. So yeah, avoid this movie at all costs if you can.
Chris Weitz, 2009
Pretty much everyone knew that this was going to be a crappy film before it even came out, but since I was able to get into it for free, I thought I might as well go ahead and check it out. Firstly, I guess I should start off by saying that I was one of the few that didn’t the think the first Twilight was all that bad. I’m not saying it was good or anything, but nowhere near as bad as people made it out to be. This, though, is another story entirely. Here I was actually thinking this looked kind of good based off the final trailer, and I was way off.
I was thinking that this might actually have been good because it looked like an improvement from the first. I was completely wrong, it actually went backwards I think. The entire film was so boring, and it had the worst action sequences ever. Aren’t action sequences supposed to get your blood pumping, the good ones at least? No, instead it was even slower than the rest of the movie where absolutely nothing was happening. You would think that they would try to add a lot of big action sequences in movies like this to get people in the movie, too, instead of boring them to tears with its bad writing. The movie kept leading up to something that was trying to be big, but instead ended up just as a huge disappointment. And then to top it all off, the ‘cliffhanger’ ending that just had me in pure rage once it happened.
The reason it had me in pure rage was that it was an exact rip-off of True Blood. Like I mean it had the exact same ending as the season 2 finale. Not to mention all the other similarities between the two. What pisses me off so much about it that the huge Twilight fans go around and actually try to make it seem like True Blood ripped Twilight off. I mean I personally don’t know which one ripped the other off, because both are based off books, and I have no idea when both series of books came out. All I know is that True Blood is amazing, and has extraordinary writing, while New Moon had some of the worst writing that I’ve ever seen.
To top off the bad writing, they decided to add a bunch of bland actors into it as well to make it even worse. Kristen Stewart is such a bad actress, for the most part. None of her acting has ever really been good, but she’s tolerable in most movies that she’s in. Actually you know, I’ll admit that she was kind of a good actress before she got caught up in Twilight. Once Twilight came out, what little acting abilities she used to have disappeared completely. Like in Adventureland, for example, where she seemed to just be standing around for the entire film. At least she’s not Robert Patterson, who seems like the biggest douche-bag ever. Not only does his acting completely suck, but he goes around trying to act like he is so special. The only actor that I actually liked in the entire film was Taylor Lautner, who seems to be the most ‘real’ of the entire cast. He was a lot more tolerable in the first, though, because he seems like he’s falling into that same douche-bag category that Patterson is in. I hope he changes in next film.
So basically, in a nutshell, it sucked. If I didn’t get into it for free, I would’ve gone and demanded that I got the money I paid for this back. One shot was pretty much the only redeemable quality in the film. The shot I was referring to is when the werewolf back attack and kill that vampire. There was one bad-ass shot, but even with that, I still feel like I wasted a complete two hours. So yeah, avoid this movie at all costs if you can.
