Friday, March 26, 2010

The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)

New Moon isn’t high art and with that in mind you can enjoy the teenage melodrama found in Forks. The love triangle grows more complicated as Bella and her abnormal beaus—one vampire, one werewolf—figures out who they actually are.  You know the story...

There are countless issues including, but not limited to:

  • crazy laughable eyeball colors
  • unbelievable pouting
  • shirtless dude who is shirtless for no reason (just the way Jacob pulls his shirt off when Bella 'falls' off the bike had me in stitches--that camera angle is so money.)
  • predicatability
  • horrible scoring
  • that waste of nearly five minutes while the camera moved around a stationary Bella to pass the time because the writers had a brain fart
  • it could've been an awesome comedy
  • Bella writhing on the bed with unexplained stomach pains (Who wanted a crazy vampire baby to pop-out?!  I did!) and nightmares
  • her dad, the school, the town
  • those other shirtless boys that are always in the distance and always pissy
  • the unexplained cabin in the woods with the disfigured woman
  • Vampire City
  • Dakota Fanning
  • stupid pop culture reference (see Grand Theft Auto)
  • hair
Look, let's not drag this out like the movie did.  As I see it, New Moon deserves the adoration of the vapid and unfulfilled. It is what it is—a fantasy—and I shouldn’t begrudge anyone that, but I will make fun of you.

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