No cranky critic could stop Twi-Hards from seeing “Eclipse,” the latest installment in the wildly popular franchise.
WWTW already had a crack at the film, which raked in a staggering $181 million in just six days of release.
So I thought I’d turn a post over to an expert, my 14-year-old niece, for another take on the third movie in the film series:
My name is Abigail. I am a 14-year-old girl growing up in the Midwestern United States. Like many girls all around the country and other parts of the modern world, June 30th was a highly anticipated date on my summer calendar because it was the release date for “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse.”
So like many girls and a few guys in the same position, I bought my tickets early and fantasized about how Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and (sigh) Taylor Lautner would bring one of my favorite books out of my head and onto the big screen.
And, in my opinion, they delivered.
Not only did the characters just say the lines that we hold near and dear to our hearts, they said them just as you hear them in your head as you read the books over and over.
In this movie more than the last two you get a sense that the actors, not just those playing the main characters, really dug into who author Stephenie Meyer originally created them to be. The fans (me included) really appreciate that.
Now I could dig in to the specifics of how the flashbacks were seamlessly sewn into the story, or after the watching “Avatar” the night before some of the special effects seemed really kind of pathetic, or how the movie jumped ten points on the funniness scale from the other two, but I am going to leave all of that nitpicking to the real critics.
There really is no way to have a perfect “Twilight” movie because the story started out as a book. I realize that no one has the same little voice in their head so when people read the books they are never going to picture the same exact story.
A book made into a movie is just one group of people’s collective interpretation of the book. There is no possible way to please everybody with a twilight movie. So all you can really hope for is a decent interpretation that leaves you hungry for more and “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse” came as close as possible to accomplishing this goal.
(Photo: Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson share a quiet moment in ‘The Twilight Saga: Eclipse.” Photo credit: Kimberley French. © 2010 Summit Entertainment, LLC. All rights reserved)
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Nice review Abigail. My wife wants to see it and based off your review, I just might go with her.
Christian- Good play having her do the review. Nice to see a review from the intended audience of the film.
Wait, Christian? aren’t there labor laws that don’t let you do this?
Good job abigail, I hope the “(sigh) taylor lautner” part was you understand the humor of cultural obsession.
Nicely said Abigail.
I am not a fan of the books (read the first two), but my friend Susan (who is much, much older than you) is a huge fan and she begged me to go along with her and some other Twitards (they call themselves this name, so I’m not being rude).
Since this movie was based on the 3rd book, I was unfamiliar with the story and I have to say the movie was downright confusing. That being said, I realize this movie was made for the fans, not for people like me. A girl sitting behind me kept asking her friends questions until one of my friends turned around and snapped, “You should have read the book!”
I find it very interesting that the filmmakers worked so hard to please the fans and not the average movie goer. I guess they figured right because the movie is killing at the Box Office.
Hi Abigail! I loved reading your perspective on the new Twilight movie! If a die hard fan like yourself gives the movie a thumbs up, well that is good enough for me. Planning to rent the first two and then see the third one ASAP!