Yeah, finally... I get to watch the fat lady sing.
Update 2/14/15 - I was wandering around YouTube earlier today, and a video was 'recommended' for me - the scene of Alice's vision in BDp2. Since this was the scene that everyone gushed about - both Twilight & Anti-Twilight movie-watchers; of course, I was curious...
I would just like to reiterate that Alice is *my* favorite character in Twilight (Thank you, Ashley Greene!) - and also thru her, I suppose, Jasper (Jackson Rathbone, Grrrr!). Go ahead and mess with Edward & Bella - you've already done a number on them, ha! But dammit - can't you get the REST of the Cullen's right? Even Carlisle & Esme... HOW can you possibly be so damn CLUELESS about your own characters? This particular phenomenon is baffling to me, LoL!
I am SO GLAD I never finished watching this movie - even little clips like this have been SO disappointing. I mean, CARLISLE swooshes across the great white divide (that seemed to sometimes get wider and/or narrower, at times - weird) in anger in an attempt to rescue ALICE who isn't even his 'childe' or his mate - ALL ALONE to get butchered by the bad guys.
Gotta hand it to Stephenie & Melissa - ramping up ridiculous, unbelievable scenarios is a specialty.
The ENTIRE GROUP should have IMMEDIATELY started bolting WITH HIM (maybe after an appropriately dramatic pause and exchange of 'fierce white glares' between the two lines) THAT is how the fight 'should' have started - maybe Carlisle would have signaled the charge; or he could have started running and they all would have followed.
They would NOT have all just STOOD there and 1) WATCHED Carlisle go ALL the way across the expanse by himself; and 2) get his head cut off while 3) Aro does an evil smirk and 4) his minions burn Carlisle's body!!
WAY too much time went by... The rest of it is 'believable', I guess. But you're seriously missing out on some of the sweetest 'endearing' details to exploit - JUST because you're obviously clueless about the characters. And you do this OVER and OVER again. Damn, it's frustrating...
Carlisle would have only TWO things on his mind at this point... Esme (always!) and Renesmee (because both he and his family have decided that SHE is the most important thing on this planet).
He's a vampire - the oldest, wisest, most focused and most patient vamp among them. His top priority is his ENTIRE family - Alice alone wouldn't have tipped him off like that. He has the 'big picture' in his head and he's got it down PAT - no matter how scary or f*cked up things are.
I'm not sure how manipulated this video was - there was no dialog at all, just a soundtrack over the action. But, none of them looked like they were talking, so I'm assuming that is how things went down in the movie.
Imagine, after that brief fierce-glare exchange... Carlisle calmly 'thinks' to Edward in his soft voice, "Have Jake get Renesmee out of here."
Jake and Nessie trot off. (There was very little emotion going on when they left in this clip -
they just left with the little girl glancing behind for a second. There
should have been a bit of a 'heartbreaking moment' while Edward and/or
Bella were lifting her up for a ride on Jake and sending her off.)
Then, the charge begins, maybe Carlisle signals it somehow. But, they all go TOGETHER. He ISN'T that rash or stupid.
If they HAD to use this hyped-drama-trick (I don't think it was necessary, but they are favorites of our Dynamic TwiDuo); the person who would have been spontaneously freaking out would have been Jasper - but they didn't really 'set him up' for that.
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Honestly, I thought I was going to be able to turn this movie on and 'just watch it'. After all, most of the stupid, unbelievable stuff about this storyline is OVER - there should have been nothing but BLUE SKIES ahead.
I got up to the part where Bella and Edward are just returning from their little hunting adventure and Jacob is just walking out of the house.
And I'm in TEARS. (No, I'm not making that 'drama' up - I'm HEARTBROKEN over what Stephenie has done to BELLA!! Yes, I'm THAT CRAZY, ha!!)
Although, once again... KUDOS to Kristen for doing an AWESOME job on turning into whatever that THING is Stephenie thought up.
But, it isn't a Vampire, not even sort of.
It really is no wonder why people make fun of you and this bad fairytale, Stephenie Meyer. What's worse, is that your FANS and Kristen and Robert have been paying for YOUR irreponsibly-published literary MISTAKES for YEARS through the professional NEGLIGENCE of your supposedly 'professional' publishers that CAUSED all these ridiculous OVER-obsessions with this 'saga'!!
For the LIFE of me... I can't IMAGINE how you EVER DARED to continue to shove this sh*t down our throats like this.
I know, I know... EVERYONE loves you, now. That's because there is still excitement in the air with the DVD's coming out.
But eventually someday... After the obsessions fade away... The TwiStench will be incredible.
Yeah, I'll turn the damn thing back on one of these days. I borrowed it from Steve again and he isn't in a hurry to get it back.
We exchanged a flurry of texts the other day - he was RAVING about BDp2! Yeah, he's giving thumbs up for Kristen's performance, too. In fact, I'd say she's got a new FAN beyond Twilight!!
...And also apparently, Alice/Ashley Greene - who, he says could take on a Twilight SPINOFF!! Yeah, Alice impressed Steve, LoL! I am relieved - since she is *my* favorite character in Twilight, I'm really looking forward to seeing what they've done with her - especially after BDp1, "if only I could see what it wants"...
If *I* had been Ashley Greene having to say that line in BDp1 with a straight face while everyone else was looking at me with THEIR straight faces - it would have taken me a few tries to get past some giggle fits, ha! ;)
But I'm not in ANY hurry to get through BDp2, yet...
It P*SSES me off that we didn't ALL get a story as cool as so many people believe they got - ignorance is BLISS.
But Twilight could have been DA BOMB of the DECADE (in that good way, ha!) - IF it had been written with REAL-make-believe VAMPIRES!!
Stephenie's Vamps are irrelevant - and so is her story to me, and so many other people out here.
It's SO BAD, it f*cking HURTS our HEADS!!
No, nothing to be proud of, Steph - the ONLY thing that makes your movie worth watching are the ACTRESSES & ACTORS who brought REAL substance to your pretty characters.
And GEE, looks to me like more than a few attempts have been made to correct a whole lot of stuff that was LEFT OUT of your writing - like the 'great big scene' that I know is coming and Bella's hunting trip that were both HUGE disappointments in your book.
Just FYI - it didn't help.
At ALL.
I'll finish this BDp2 movie review eventually...
On second thought, I WILL get back to it eventually, but my reasons for seriously HATING this last Twilight movie from the beginning are a roadblock for me - which basically means that I need to vent them, ha!
FUN!! Here we go...
1) Bella's RED eyes... Yeah, pretty neat the way they 'filled-in' with blood like that AND the 'red Vamp eyes' thing has always been a cool, SPOOKY TwiThing. HOWEVER, after watching Bella turn into a Vampire in BDp1...
WHY couldn't you have AT LEAST made her 'change' into something physically/scientifically BELIEVABLE, Stephenie?!!
She's SOLID - through and through like a plastic toy soldier!! She doesn't even have a blood-based body!! What, does all the 'only Human' blood well up into JUST their EYES?!!
HOW does Edward have ANY reproductive organs within this SOLID body of his to create IMMORTALICUM?!! (F*CK I HATE THAT WORD!!)
IF their bodies are SO SOLID... HOW/WHY can they SWALLOW so that the blood they supposedly NEED can sink into their tissues?!!
WHAT ON GOD'S GREEN EARTH DO THEY NEED IT FOR - other than the fact that you 'claim' they are 'Vampires'?!!
There is NO SUCH THING as a 'Mary Sue' Vamp - real or make-believe, LoL!
Vampires NEED HUMAN BLOOD when they are NEWBORNS... ALWAYS!!!!!
Even IF the Cullen's have chosen - as older Vamps - to live this 'vegetarian lifestyle' (which would NOT happen to the extent they supposedly do); BELLA WOULD NEED HUMAN BLOOD BECAUSE SHE JUST LOST HER SOUL AND SHE'S PARCHED!!
Edward has to REMIND her that she needs to quench her thirst BEFORE she sees her baby? She should have been like BREE in Eclipse - in pain and practically gasping for HUMAN BLOOD!!
She hasn't even had her FIRST MEAL yet - and she resists the climber who just cut himself, uh huh...
I particularly DID NOT enjoy the last scene I watched as Bella and Edward are walking hand in hand happily toward the house talking nonchalantly about what an AMAZING 'Vamp' she's just turned into.
Yeah... Made me cry real tears for a good 10 mins.
What's wrong with the way Stephenie wrote Twilight's 'Vampires'? Someone said it best in this post long before *I* came along...
"9) the vampires are like rocks! The author has tried to make them
her idea of perfection and in doing so has stipped away any trace of the
humanity they once had."
So many of us were emotionally-INVESTED in the characters of Bella Swan and Edward Cullen; meaning, we 'thought of' Edward as a REAL-make-believe Vampire and MOST of us were really looking forward to 'going through the experience with Bella' as she turns into one.
But, Bella doesn't turn into one because Edward isn't one...
Anticipation smashed to smithereens. *sigh*
No worries, I'm moving on - LoL! ;)
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