Ok yeah so its been a year since my last post and its been nearly 3 months since New Moon came out - so sue me! Also if you haven't seen New Moon - THERE ARE SPOILERS! If you haven't seen it where was the rock you were under?
In a nutshell - New Moon - loved it! The highlights of it for me was the wolves. Let me create a new Team. Team Wolf. Not Team Jacob. As I've said in the past, I'm like Bella's older sister. I want her to be happy and if she chooses Edward over Jacob, the safer choice, then I'm happy for her. But how insanely cool was the wolf animations? In my opinion, my favorite scene was Jacob running and phasing right over Bella's head in her defense. Plus all those hottie-mac-hottersons native boys? Come on! Definitely Team Wolf.
Taylor Lautner - I'm finally going to give you some props. I do still wish they had gotten someone older and bigger to play the changed Jacob. However, despite your baby face, you bulked up sufficiently that the change in your physique was dramatic enough to suspend my disbelief. Plus, sweetie, I can tell you took some serious acting classes between Movie One and Two. Your character Jacob has finally gotten a little personality. Thank you for that.
Kristen Stewart - well, all I can say is at least you did a decent job. Its kinda hard to act angsty when you looked completely bored or stoned. Lay off the reefer the next movie you do.
Robert Pattison - um, I still have never liked you as Edward. I still don't like you as Edward. I accept the fact that I have absolutely no say in casting whatsoever, so I have to see your face up on the screen, but seriously dude - You know what? I'm not going to go there. His pasty gaunt body in the scene in Italy made my skin crawl - 'nuff said.
Chris Weiss - I love you. You rescued this franchise from arthouse over-angst, and your comfort among special effects was so apparent. Everything was flawless! Well, nearly everything. Ok really - something else could have been done about the forest frolic scene, please? You can't take two gangly, awkward people, make them run through a forest over vines and roots and expect them to look graceful and fluid even in slow motion. It just didn't work. I laughed out loud and a few of the people in the theater next to me did too. Despite that, please do all the rest of the movies. Make Kristen Steward go through rehab and make RobPat eat some more protein. Give the wolf boys a hug for me.
So there you have it. A little nugget into my thoughts. This movie was really, really good. Not perfect, but a far cry better than the special effects disaster that was Twilight, thanks to Catherine Hardewicke.
