My Mom mentioned to me that I should start focusing on two things to blog about, Fashion and Music. I guess those are two things I really love. But there's one more thing I love that she didn't mention I write about, theater/film etc. and the below will have to do with that. My mom said that since I go to shows all the time I should talk about what I thought about the show, and hopefully some one will notice. My mom thinks I'm a good writer, I write in a very "Matter of fact way" she says. Well it means a lot to me when she compliments me because she is a writer herself, and a damn good one. So....why not.
Let me start with this:
I just saw Twilight: New Moon, for reasons other than the desire to see Twilight. Ya see, I've been away from the city for about a week and I hadn't seen my best buddy Darcie for a while so I wanted to take this opportunity to hang with her since she was headed to the movie anyways with Jocelyn (another roommate/twilight fanatic) and Andreanna. It's 6 dollar Tuesdays/free popcorn, at the showtime kerasotes movie theater in Logan square and Darcie's boyfriend Stephen was giving us a discont on Potbellys, so we could eat it in the theater...so I thought "Why the fuck not, cheap food, good friends, cheap movie and it'll be a pop culture experience." And I saw it.
Holy shit. This movie was not only bad, it was soul crushingly bad. Never has a movie illicited a feeling so close to slitting my wrists. This girl, Bella, is a peice of meat! And she's weak and a sucker for guys with their shirts off that are mysterious and probably a monster of some kind. She get's hurt way too often (physically and emotionally), she's basically a masochist, and the worst part is, I don't believe that she is in love with either of these weirdy part monster guys. Now I must admit that I never read the books, and Darcie said every time she heard me say "The fuck?" she thought to herself, "Yeah, you'd have to read the book to understand". Well that shouldn't have to be the case....I'll discuss that later. No one is ever happy in this movie, even when they're reunited with a loved one, everyone is still dark and brooding and (vomit) ...sorry it just came up. It wasn't beilevable to me that anyone loved anyone in this movie, it was all so "This is how it is.....i guess". The only person that made me believe that he loved another human/vampire/wearwolf was Bellas Dad Charlie, and Bella screws him over way too often. When it came down to it I didn't really care what happened to Bella or Edward or Jacob, really just Charlie who is in about 1/3rd of the movie. The tension wasn't tense, the love wasn't passionate, it was all just:
"No you can't!"
"But you don't understand, I have to and I can't tell you why"
"I wish you could"
When I express this to my roommates they say "You wouldn't understand why we love it because you haven't read the books"......ok. No I haven't read the books. And I haven't read The Harry Potter books, and I never read The lord of the rings or the Chronicles of Narnia or any of those other movie Sagas that were first literary accomplishments in their day. And to be honest I'm not really a fantasy or a sci fi reading kind of girl, it's a personal preferance, I go for the creative non-fiction or just non-fiction. But guess what...just because the book series was succesful DOES NOT mean that the MOVIE get's a free pass to SUCK! Now, not all of the Harry Potter Movies sucked (although I haven't seen all of them) and NONE of the LOTR movie's sucked and so far the Narnia movies have been great, and it's not like any of these books/movies really compare but...I'm just trying to say there's no excuse. These Twilight people have taken advantage of a Story that is probably very good and made it into a movie that is half assed and under developed because they knew that people would come and see this movie anyway they made it, they didn't have to care because they knew they'd make a killing in the box office because there is a built in following, and in the name of respecting a peice of "art"....well that makes me a little sick.
The sound of the blood hitting the ground made me laugh out loud.
Now, Things that this movie was good for:
1) Pretty shots of the Pacific North West, I still have never been and the shots of it in this movie made me lust after it a bit
2) Boys with their shirts off; Gave this bored little girl some eye candy.
3) Like many other movies that have been made from a book series that have a built in following, it gave Hollywood a chance to give new life to old and possibly stale acting careers, and it breaks new actors and new faces into a scene that uses Brad Pitt and Jessica Beil a little too often...let's hope we soon see Robert Pattinson in roles that don't involve him constantly looking like he's eatin something awful/seen a ghost/is shitting himself.
4) There was a new Radiohead, Lykke Li and Bon Iver song in there I really liked.
An example of boys with their shirts off with some "He couldn't tell me because he's sexy and mysterious"
So while this movie was BAAAAAD and my eyes Widen in disbelief as my roommate Jocelyn cheered with glee after just having seen a favored book of hers butchered on the alter of Pop culture, at least Washington is Pretty, Potbellys will always be good and I rarely pass up a chance to giggle next to one of my best friends during a movie.
