New Moon

Saw it yesterday with the family.

We were disappointed.

Too much hype - too little delivery.

Personally, I thought it pretty much mirrored the book, and even improved upon it. The book was maudlin and dull, and at least the movie tried to speed up the dullness, but really, with such material there was not much more they could do unless they totally tore up the plot and rewrote the actual story, which probably should have happened, but that would have destroyed their base.

Sounds like politicians . . . unable to do anything new for fear of alienating their core supporters, who expect something, however dull.

The exciting things in the movie mirrored the exciting parts of the book - the wolves and the Volturi. the only problem was that, out of 120 minutes, only about 20 minutes were on either of those, the other hundred sixty-second slices of boredom were of Bella Swan moaning and bemoaning her lost love - with rather cheesy ghost images of Edward giving her great advice, which she refused to heed.

The rest of the movie was bare-chested young men which were really nothing but eyecandy for my teenage daughter. And my wife. Makes a man just dang uncomfortable, lemmetellya!

But my wife had a point when she said that the same director who did the first movie should have done this one as well. The wife feels that the movie had a better feel, a better vibe, something that clued into the gothic romance of the first, whereas this one just "felt" like a movie that was trying to translate a book to the screen.

Maybe that's it - maybe it came across as too self-conscious, too forced.


Hm. What do you think?



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