Friday night was a wonderful night. I got to see New Moon. It's been a long time since I have seen a movie on opening night. Being a huge Twilight fan myself, I should have expected what I encountered. It was nuts. My 2 best friends and I went to the 6:20 showing. I knew in advance it was sold out so we decided to meet at the theater at 5:30. It's a wonder we found each other due to all the cars that were in the parking lot. We did and we entered in the theater and were promptly "hearded" into our holding area. I have never felt so much like cattle in my life. I was pleased that when we finally made our way into the theater that we got on the back row (which is my favorite part of the theater). I was really scared that we were going to have to sit on the front row and I wasn't really wanting to experience werewolves quite that close. I only do the front row for buffalo. After my friends went to get our cokes (I had them sign the bank loan required to pay for the cokes for me as I saved the seats) the movie started. I wasn't sure what to expect. I had seen the numerous trailors several hundred times and it did look very good. But out of the 4 Twilight books, New Moon wasn't really my favorite. New Moon picks up where Twilight left off. Bella and Edward are together and we find Bella is approaching her 18th birthday. Knowing her 17 year old vampire boyfriend isn't going age, Bella isn't too eager to age. She would rather be a vampire and Edward doesn't want to destroy her soul. The Cullens do have a birthday party for her and since I don't want to give away too much of the plot, let's just say it doesn't end well.
Because of the ill fated birthday party, Edward decides to leave. This sends Bella into a deep depression. She discovers that she can "see" Edward if she does dangerous things. She gets some motorcycles that need fixed up and takes them to her best friend Jacob who is a mechanic. She starts hanging with him and discovers she starts to feel better. But like everybody in the series, he has a secret too. He is a werewolf. I did learn a interesting fact. Werewolves run around without their shirts on. And they look REALLY good without them. This fact was not lost on a majority of the audience as they applauded EVERY time a werewolf came on the screen (this included the person I was sitting beside as well).
Bella eventually does something really stupid and it gets back to the Cullens that Bella kills herself. Because he can't live in a world where Bella doesn't exist and he is kinda hard to kill, Edward goes to Italy to visit the Voulturi coven to get them to kill him. The Voulturi are the "ruling" coven over all the vampires. The Voultri are really creepy looking. I am surprised I didn't have nightmares of Dakota Fanning. She was especially creepy looking. Alice and Bella rush to Italy to save him. Bella and Edward are reunited, a big fight happens, and to avoid being killed by the Voulturi, Bella needs to be turned into a vampire. That's pretty much the story.
Did I like the movie? Yes I did. It followed the book pretty faithfully. I thought the cinematography was beautiful. It was much better than Twilight. Everything in Twilight had a blue tint to it. New Moon was much warmer, which probably had a lot to do with the werewolf theme (I'm just saying). Chris Weitz did a great job directing. I hope he comes back to direct Breaking Dawn. I have read other reviews on the internet that said the middle part dragged (which really did in the book) but I didn't think this movie dragged at all. I thought Kristen Stewart was wonderful as Bella. She did Bella's depression very well. I wasn't a big fan of Jacob, but I really liked him in the movie. I am glad they didn't replace Taylor Lautner like they were talking about. He was really good. And I know this is a given, but I really thought Robert Pattinson did a good job. I almost passed out at the scene where he quotes Shakespeare. A lot of people were put off that he wasn't as much. I was glad he wasn't because that would have deviated from the book and that would have bothered me. (I am a librarian you know). And I thought the very ending of the movie was brilliant. (I am not sure my friends thought so but oh well). It definately makes you want to see Eclipse.
The only part I was disappointed with was I thought Bella and Edward's reunion was a bit rushed. There was a lot of stuff in the book that they left out that would have been really good.
Was New Moon predictable? Yes Will it win a Oscar? Probably not. Was I entertained? Oh Yes. When I go to the movies, that is what I am going for and I truly got it with this one. I was so entertained that I plan to go back tomorrow and see it with my Mom (a Team Jacob member).
My friends and I decided that we would not go see Eclipse on opening night. We will give it a couple of days.
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