Short report on New Moon:

[alexandral]

Update: as according to IMDB, New Moon broke the opening-day gross record, collecting 73 million in USA. mamma mia! The world is coming to an end!

- Once again, it wasn't the worst film of all times, and it was even better than "Twilight"
- Edward is still creepifyingly morose, and Robert Pattinson still can't act to save his life. He so visibly hates every moment of this film and Bella in particular, and thinks of how he hates it all when doing tender kissing scenes. This produces very amusing effects.
- Good special effects work on wolves and human/wolf transformation
- Taylor Lautner is a very good choice for Jacob.
- The scene with Volturi was really good , as if implanted from another, much better film. Michael Sheen is rather awesome as Aro.
- The scene of Laurent's death (although very short) was rather good too.

- Every time Jacob took his shirt off (and he did this often) the movie theatre went crazy.

Comments

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

That's a real pity. She is really quite nice.

[bzoppa.livejournal.com]

I'm really annoyed about how all that went down. I like Rachel LeFevre and was waiting for her to get her big break, and figured this was it. Then they dumped her for Bryce Dallas Howard who, while exquisite, doesn't need the boost.

I've never read the books but LeFevre's casting almost got me to see the movie except I wasn't going to put myself through it.

Then I heard Rifftrax (http://www.rifftrax.com/) had a take on Twilight so I watched it a few weeks ago. "He looks like the love child of Matthew Perry and Powder (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114168/)!" etc, so I was amused enough through the whole movie.

I'll wait for a rifftrax on this one before I see it.

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

Yes, I agree, that whole story was quite bad.

LeFevre's role is really quite small in "New Moon", but she is good enough to notice her even there (I even didn't know who she is).

"He looks like the love child of Matthew Perry and Powder!"

he-he-he-he!!!!