Here’s the thing. I talked my roommate, who never has watched any of the Harry Potter movies, into going to the midnight premiere of The Deathly Hallows. Which she enjoyed to a certain extent, as far as someone who doesn’t know the background can enjoy it. She went back and watched the first movie after that, and the sight of 11-year-old Daniel Radcliffe was somewhat of a shock to her!
Emma Watson has the most stunning change in my opinion, I absolutely love her pixie cut! But, I digress. Back on topic! Since my roommate went to see The Deathly Hallows with me, I would, in turn, watch Twilight with her.
As my understanding goes, there are four books. The first three books have been made into movies, and the fourth is being split into two movies, for what I only can assume is the same reason The Deathly Hallows is split in two – they are both huge books so there’s a lot of storyline, and, ka-ching!
I just finished watching the second movie, New Moon. I would like to go ahead and preface what I’m about to say with a few good things:
- Taylor Lautner, the actor who plays Jacob in the series, is gorgeous. He’s not really my type, per se, but I could look at that six-pack of his I saw in New Moon all day.
- I’m not sure if a scene in New Moon actually was shot in the Pantheon, or if it was just CGI. Either way, pretty awesome.
- The movie is entertaining, in a similar way that Charlaine Harris’ Sookie Stackhouse series is entertaining: Just don’t think about it too hard, and you’ll be fine. Mindless reading, mindless movie. I’ll watch the rest of the Twilight series, just because, hey, why not?
At the same time as I enjoyed the movies, I also just wanted to turn them off every so often and just give up on the series. For those of you who don’t know, here’s what I know in a nutshell:
Edward Cullen and his family are vampires. Jacob and others of the Native American variety are werewolves. Bella, an odd, stoic high-schooler, moved to their town by chance because her mom was remarried to a minor league baseball player who traveled a lot. She needed stability, so she moved in with her father. The Cullens are nice vamps who don’t feed off humans. They have an truce with the weres (who typically hate and try to kill vamps) that so long as they don’t kill a human, they can live in the werewolves’ turf.
Confused yet?
Here’s the fun part: Both Jacob and Edward are oh so in love with Bella. Bella is just oh so in love with Edward, and claims she loves Jacob, but she says Edward always will come first. She wants Edward to “change” her, or make her a vampire, too, and Edward continually refuses because he doesn’t want her soul to be eternally damned.
There are plenty of other little subplots through the movie, but I think I covered the basics. It’s enough explain why I don’t really care for the movies, anyway.
PLEASE. Enough already! Edward and Bella have known each other for, as far as I can figure, maybe a year, tops. Jacob, on the other hand, has known Bella since she was little, but essentially met her the same time as Edward, when she moved back in with her father.
Edward loves Bella so much, he breaks up with her and disappears, thinking she would be safer. He then wants to kill himself when he thinks that Bella has died. He’s a 100-something-year-old vampire for Christ’s sake, who’s acting like he’s a tween who just discovered he liked girls. And the same goes for Bella!
Bella loves Edward so much, she has nightmares when he leaves her. She ditches all her friends and sits along in the cafeteria at school, and she sits in front of a damned window for what appears to be three months straight in the same clothes. Come on, I know this a really minor point but seriously, whoever shot that scene really could have at least changed her clothes for each month. To represent how heartbroken and lonely she was, she sat in front of her bedroom window and they twirled a camera around her three times. Each time the window went by, a new month was displayed at the top of the screen and she has a new scene to look at outside her window. They went to the trouble of changing the scene outside her window, so why didn’t they go to the trouble of changing her outfit? She’s wearing the same thing the entire time!
And since Bella loves Edward so much, she can’t love Jacob as much as he loves her. So she puts him in that oh-so-dreaded “friend zone,” and then gets upset when he’s not around to coddle her. Jacob loves Bella so much, but just can’t be with her because he’s afraid he’ll hurt her, being a werewolf and all.
HOW CAN THEY ALL LOVE EACH OTHER SO MUCH????????? I know that’s excessive question marks, but seriously. I’m sitting and thinking “WTF” almost constantly throughout this movie.
If this excessive, underlying theme could just be a little toned down, that would be great. I might enjoy the movies more, in that case. I just really can’t deal with this disgustingly immature and overwhelming love triangle. I’ll stick to my Harry Potter, thank you.
Not to say there is not any of that present it the Harry Potter movies. No, there’s definitely a little something something going on between Ron and Hermione throughout the series. But, it doesn’t take the so in-your-face approach that Twilight has, it has more of a natural flow to it. Whereas in Twilight, it’s just like BAM WE ALL JUST MET YET WE CAN’T GET ENOUGH OF EACH OTHER.
If you want to kill some time, by all means watch the movies. Just don’t say I didn’t warn you.
A wreck, obviously. But I couldn’t quite figure out what had happened, until a man at the corner asked if my car was mine.
Turns out, the driver had some kind of medical problem and didn’t even realize he had crashed. His foot was still on the gas after he hit the house! A neighbor ran over, turned off his car and sat with him until the ambulance showed up, along with the rest of the cop cars and even a few firetrucks.
My mirror was halfway knocked off, and the left part of the bumper smashed in. But, still drivable. And, thankfully, nobody was hurt. Aside from the ailing man, my car and the neighbors’ fences, anyway. Just waiting for the final report to be filed now, so I can get my poor little car fixed up! So much for going to the gym this morning…
