i want to write about this not because anyone cares but because it is bothering the heck out of me!
James' mom got me tickets to see Eclipse at 9pm before the movie came out and since we had already gotten tickets for the midnight show i got to see Eclipse twice in a row. I was super excited because with New Moon (my least favorite book of the series) i was so excited the first time that i liked it better the second time because i let it sink in and could enjoy it more. Eclipse is really the peak of all of the books it has major conflict, romance, intensity, passion etc so i was really excited to see this film. I felt like the first movie was on a crap budget so it was great but not spectacular, New moon had a crap load of more money in it so it was obviously a step up and i loved it, so i expected Eclipse with all of the awesome book material and all of the money to be the best one yet and that is what everybody was saying it was (all of the reviews and such). So during the movie i found myself watching the movie and getting really excited when a good scene was coming up and then kind of being disappointed afterwords. So i get out of the first show and thought to myself, "hmm something is off but i cant tell what it is, I'm sure after the midnight show i will feel better." But then i saw it again and i was so bored, and this is not because i saw it twice in a row. When we got out of the second showing i thought to myself, "man, i liked the movie of course but i don't know why i am not into it as much as i should be." So i slept on it, and i still couldn't put my finger on it, so the next day i read a bunch of reviews of what other people thought, and everyone loved it. I did not find one bad review (from a fan). But then i had an epiphany! I realized that during new moon my heart was racing, i laughed really hard, and even cried at one point. And during eclipse i only chuckled a little, the only time my heart raced was at the beginning when i was excited, and i never once teared up. I was not emotionally connected to this movie at all and that is the problem. Eclipse (the book) has the most emotion out of all of the books and i don't think there was one time during the movie that i felt a strong emotion, or actually "in" the movie.
I'm going to go again in a couple weeks just to see if maybe i was just in a bad mood or something. And don't get me wrong, the movie was great, it flowed well (the only problem i had with new moon) and they kept in most of the great lines and scenes, they did a good job condensing the book, and they acting improved. But if i just would have had the emotional connection i got with new moon and while reading the books i would be a happy girl. I mean that's the whole reason i like the series because of its ability to make me emotional while reading it. I'm still going to see it 1-3 more times in the theater, im still going to buy 3 copies of the movie, and I'm still going to watch it over and over, but i am just a little disappointed.
Since this is going to be my last post about twilight in 400ish days i am going to get it all out...
We have decided to do something different every year for the movies. Last year we went to the mall tour and got a couple autographs, this year we went to LA to the twilight convention, and with the last book being split in to two movies that means we are going to try and do two other things. We have decided to go to Forks for a vacation, we will probably be mostly in Seattle because Ive always wanted to go there but we'll spend a day or two in forks and la push. And then we decided that we are going to go to one of the premiers, which is really insane, you have to camp out on the sidewalk for 4 days. But it will be totally worth it! If they do another convention thing we are going to go to that again too, it was amazing. I am trying to collect as many autographs as i can and hopefully by the time this whole thing is over (in 2012) i will have everybody, i have 11 now so I'm off to a good start.
Breaking Dawn is my favorite book in the series so it better be freaking good! only 504 more days!! :)
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I went to the 8pm showing at Superstition Springs... sat in the front row too. >.< I am a fan of Twilight and I didn't like the movie. They tend to focus way too much on the awkwardness and not enough on the plot. And did we really need that many closeups of Edward & Bella making out?
I hope you get to go to Seattle. It's absolutely amazing. Not much of a beach, really, but the city is beautiful. Make sure you do a tour of the underground. Pretty cool stuff.
{Genette}
Beth, I felt the exact same way about the movie. I saw it this morning and was totally disappointed! The last book is my very favorite, so I am really hoping it will be an awesome movie! I think you put it very well as to why this movie was a little sub par- it just didn't draw you in. I didn't know they were splitting the last book into two movies!!! That seems kind of odd... was that book a lot longer than the rest or something? I don't remember it being that way, but it's been so long since I've read it.
I wanna see it soo bad. I am going next Friday Ithink. I heard it was AWESOME!! :)
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