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Post by bitca on Nov 26, 2011 16:05:52 GMT -4
I don't know what that means, but I don't think SMeyers is creative enough to crib off of anyone's anything and turn it into her own. Maybe she saw it on TV.
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Post by angelaudie on Dec 11, 2011 0:56:36 GMT -4
So, I saw this the other night with one of my friends. We were literally the ones in the theater (week day + snow= people staying at home) which made the experience kinda awesome since we could laugh and snark as loudly as we wanted to.
The decent (for it will never be truly good):
1) I actually thought Kristen Stewart looked pretty during the wedding and yay for her wearing sleeves! The wedding toasts were a nice mix of humorous yet awkward.
2) Taylor Lautner continues to have charisma and nice abs.
3) Props to the CGI and makeup people for when Bella was pregnant! She looked seriously ill.
4) I thought the honeymoon scenery and house was actually quite beautiful. The honeymoon montage bordered on cute.
5) The end credit scene. I think the scene was meant to be a bit of dark humor since it was obvious Michael Sheen was purposely hamming it up.
So bad it's funny:
1) The werewolf mind conversations. My friend and I were howling with laughter during that scene! The bad werewolf CGI did not help matters.
2) Jacob imprinting scene. God bless the writer for the noble attempt to downplay the ick factor. What was Meyers thinking when she wrote that?
3) Rosalie, Alice, and Jackson's wigs.
4) Fursploding will always be funny.
5) The whole so called plot to the movie. At some point you just got to laugh at the stupidity of it all.
6) The honeymoon sex scene. I snorted when Edward broke the bed.
Just plain bad:
1) Kristen Stewart's acting. Robert Pattinson wasn't great either but at least he has some charisma and at times he bordered on decent.
2) Imprinting in general. I shuddered when the camera shot over to the guy hanging with the toddler he imprinted on.
3) It took too long to get something that resembled a plot. I get Summit is trying to milk this for all it's worth but the book could have been made into one movie.
4) I think George Lucas could write better dialogue and that's saying something.
I was watching spill.com (they are the dudes that do their reviews in cartoon form) and one of the guys stated the conversation after Bella and Edward have sex gave him abusive couple vibes. He pointed out abusers, in this case Edward, often apologize for their actions and the victim, Bella, often downplays it and makes excuses. I thought it was an interesting observation.
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Post by chiqui on Dec 15, 2011 18:03:32 GMT -4
The Dragons of Pern is a very well known, multi-volume science fiction series set on a distant planet that is threatened by periodic rains of toxins from the sky, so the colonists ride intelligent dragon-like creatures to burn them before they reach the ground. Most of the dragons are male with one queen (lkind of like bees) who lays all the eggs. When the eggs hatch, the baby dragons telepathetically bond for life with the first human they see, and those humans grow up to ride the dragons. It's THE central plot point. Most everyone my age who was into SF/fantasy in the past three decades has read at least one of the books. I'm sure Meyers, who is around my age, read them as well.
Ditto for Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar series, also multivolume, and extremely popular (and profitable) which has more of a fantasy medieval background and magical white horses instead of the dragons.
Of course, the imprinting thing was also well known in biology before either author wrote the books.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2011 12:57:18 GMT -4
I haven't read the books but am thoroughly familiar with them through Cleolinda's detailed recaps and Jacob imprinting to save Reneesmee is so not how it is represented there. The canon is that we're TOLD the wolf can be whatever (protector, brother, etc) for the imprintee but I believe that all the imprintee/imprinter relationships actually SHOWN are romantic. This is because Stephenie Meyer thinks that the essence of romance is having a man be slavishly and unconditionally devoted to you, and that no woman could help falling in love with a guy who worships her enough to hang around Nice-Guying it up forever. |
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Post by chiqui on Dec 22, 2011 5:30:31 GMT -4
You mean it isn't ? ;-)
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Post by bklynred on Dec 23, 2011 15:18:22 GMT -4
So I have a simple question: are Pattinson and Stewart dating or not? Every week the tabs say they are.
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Post by GoldenFleece on Dec 23, 2011 18:46:18 GMT -4
So I have a simple question: are Pattinson and Stewart dating or not? Every week the tabs say they are. Yes, even she has admitted it (well, she said in an interview that her boyfriend is English but for her that's a huge admission). Of course, you still have people who think it's a bearding/publicity situation but at this point even a sex tape/baby wouldn't sway some to think differently. |
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Post by Baby Fish Mouth on Feb 15, 2012 18:37:50 GMT -4
I rented this last night because I needed a few good laughs, and it did not disappoint. So many absurd moments:
--hilariously awkward wedding toasts
--werewolves talking to each other in moronic voices
--Bella having to beg Edward for sex on her own honeymoon
--Taylor Lautner's abominable acting
--Bella's bloodshakes
--Edward ripping the baby out WITH HIS TEETH.
This has to go down in history as one of the most craptastic movies ever made.
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Post by Babycakes on Feb 16, 2012 0:40:30 GMT -4
It's only fair, since it's based on THE most craptastic book ever written. I still haven't seen this. I don't know who I can convince to watch this shitfest with me... Jack Daniels or Jose Cuervo?  |
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Post by FiggyPudding on Feb 17, 2012 23:37:23 GMT -4
Just hearing Taylor Lautner flog that horrible dialogue in a 20-second snippet makes me convulse with laughter. I actually felt bad about this because the last time was in a theater during previews, but thankfully there were no fans nearby.
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