New Moon review
Dec. 7th, 2009 05:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alobearMy turn!
Anyone who's bored of this whole Twilight business should feel free to skip this!
Operating on less than four hours' sleep on a rainy Monday afternoon, what's a girl to do?
Succumb at last to the temptation of sparkly vampires and cuddly werewolves, you say?
Indeed, why not?
For the most part, I actually rather enjoyed New Moon. There, I'm not afraid to admit it.
My Chemical Romance provided an appropriate soundtrack for the drive there and back, and my fingerless leather gloves were useful props when I had to stuff my fists in my mouth to stop me laughing too loudly. There were fourteen other people in the audience, after all, five of whom were teenage girls, and I didn't want to offend anyone. You never know how strangers could react these days, and you can never be too careful around teenage girls, especially ones who are paying to see a Twilight movie.
This film didn't make me laugh as much as the first one, but it definitely had its inadvertently funny moments, as well as its deliberately funny moments (the confrontation between Alice and Jacob was very amusing - "You will come back, won't you?" "Yes, after you've put the dog out."), and its actually really rather decent moments.
If I had to make a choice one way or the other after viewing the film, I'd definitely be joining Team Jacob, though I'd rather not have anything to do with either of them unless forced. Edward's just such a lettuce - he could be interesting, but he's been castrated as a character by being reduced to hanging his entire performance on the one note of his all-consuming passion for Bella. At least Jacob has some substance (in more ways than one, though the loss of the hair was a tragedy) and some common sense - that is, until he too falls under the inexplicable Bella spell and turns into a slightly snarlier lettuce.
The werewolves were pretty cool, and having them wandering around in the bronzed (and very buff) buff all the time didn't do the vampires any favours. I'm sure there must be ways of making people up to look pale without making them look like they're made of wax - Jasper was by far the worst victim of this effect, with the leader of the Volturi coming in a close second, but Edward was almost as bad, and it made it very difficult to find anything attractive about him at all.
The only thing that was really bad about the film was the niggling sense that it *could* have been so much better, given different handling and preferably different source material. None of the actors are bad, the basis of the story could be interesting if treated correctly, and there's the potential for some very cool vampire vs werewolf action in the mix. It's just such a shame that it's stuck in teenage melodrama hell.
Ah well, it served its purpose in keeping me awake and at least mildly entertained this afternoon but, given what I know about how the books turn out, I'll probably not be watching the next one.
Anyone who's bored of this whole Twilight business should feel free to skip this!
Operating on less than four hours' sleep on a rainy Monday afternoon, what's a girl to do?
Succumb at last to the temptation of sparkly vampires and cuddly werewolves, you say?
Indeed, why not?
For the most part, I actually rather enjoyed New Moon. There, I'm not afraid to admit it.
My Chemical Romance provided an appropriate soundtrack for the drive there and back, and my fingerless leather gloves were useful props when I had to stuff my fists in my mouth to stop me laughing too loudly. There were fourteen other people in the audience, after all, five of whom were teenage girls, and I didn't want to offend anyone. You never know how strangers could react these days, and you can never be too careful around teenage girls, especially ones who are paying to see a Twilight movie.
This film didn't make me laugh as much as the first one, but it definitely had its inadvertently funny moments, as well as its deliberately funny moments (the confrontation between Alice and Jacob was very amusing - "You will come back, won't you?" "Yes, after you've put the dog out."), and its actually really rather decent moments.
If I had to make a choice one way or the other after viewing the film, I'd definitely be joining Team Jacob, though I'd rather not have anything to do with either of them unless forced. Edward's just such a lettuce - he could be interesting, but he's been castrated as a character by being reduced to hanging his entire performance on the one note of his all-consuming passion for Bella. At least Jacob has some substance (in more ways than one, though the loss of the hair was a tragedy) and some common sense - that is, until he too falls under the inexplicable Bella spell and turns into a slightly snarlier lettuce.
The werewolves were pretty cool, and having them wandering around in the bronzed (and very buff) buff all the time didn't do the vampires any favours. I'm sure there must be ways of making people up to look pale without making them look like they're made of wax - Jasper was by far the worst victim of this effect, with the leader of the Volturi coming in a close second, but Edward was almost as bad, and it made it very difficult to find anything attractive about him at all.
The only thing that was really bad about the film was the niggling sense that it *could* have been so much better, given different handling and preferably different source material. None of the actors are bad, the basis of the story could be interesting if treated correctly, and there's the potential for some very cool vampire vs werewolf action in the mix. It's just such a shame that it's stuck in teenage melodrama hell.
Ah well, it served its purpose in keeping me awake and at least mildly entertained this afternoon but, given what I know about how the books turn out, I'll probably not be watching the next one.
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Date: 2009-12-07 09:49 pm (UTC)*Grins*
>I'm sure there must be ways of making people up to look pale without making them look like they're made of wax
They also made the classic death-metaller mistake of making the face really pale and forgetting to do even the most basic blending into the neck. Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear...