Kitty's Corner

I went to see the second part of the Twilight Saga, namely "New moon". I haven't read any of the books, so it's not that I'm a big fan. I've seen the first movie, so I thought I'd give this one a go as well.

New Moons picks up from where Twilight ends. Bella is left nursing a broken heart after her beloved vampire boyfriend Edward leaves town. He was fearing he was putting her in constant danger, so he broke of their romance, leaving her childhood friend, Jacob Black to pick up the pieces. As their relationship grows increasingly complicated, Bella is amazed to discover that Jacob is harbouring a secret of his own.

So, all the mourning about Edward leaving, it felt as if that went on for the entire first half of the movie. And that's more than one full hour! At some point I began to fear that there were no more to the movie than mourning!

The acting... well, I was not impressed. It's as with some of the artists who sing: It's as if you don't need to be able to actually sing, as long as you either look good or have big boobs. In this movie it seems that the actors just have to look good. Which they do, of course.


I was surprised about how badly the werewolves were made. I mean, the first one that appeared looked just as artificial as King Kong in his first movie. I couldn't believe that they weren't looking more real than they did! And what's with the size of them? Why did they have to be so huge?

I do have sort of a problem with Bella, the main female character. She mourns so much over Edward leaving her that she wishes to give up her life, her soul. She is about to graduate and she shows no interest in school or a career path at all. She doesn't plan for college. She has no hobbies. She makes no plans at all, apart for the near-suicidal thoughts of giving up her life to be next to a vampire. It seems that in this teenage world a girl can only be happy while she sits idly next to a guy watching him fix a motorcycle.
I'd like the message to all the teenage girls out there to be a little more: "You can do what you want to do!" instead of "You're only something if you're with a guy!". But perhaps that is just me.

Weren't there any good things about this movie? Oh yes, the audience was very entertaining. Imagine one hundred girls go "Ooooh" and "aaaah" when Jacob takes off his shirt and shows his (very well looking) abs. And the same audience almost fainting because of the way this movie ends! That was very amusing.

out of 6.

This is the other movie I saw the day that all movies were half price here.

Abby (Katherine Heigl) is a producer of a local morning show in California. She lives with her cat in a beautiful apartment complex where she longs to meet Mr. Right. She has a checklist of things that Mr. Right is supposed to live up to, and I tell you - it's not easy for any man to live up to her standards.

To increase the number of viewers to their show, Abby's boss decides to hire Mike (Gerard Butler from "PS. I love you") who has been cultivating a following on cable access with his insight into the truth about relationships. His callous nature and unwavering ability to say exactly what is on his mind breathes life back into Abby's show despite the fear of lowering herself to the kind of television she has always disliked. She can be swayed, however, once he agrees to helping her hook up with her hunk of a neighbour, Colin (Eric Winter). I am not going to spoil the surprise by telling you how that ends.

This is a chick flick for both guys and girls. A cute little romantic comedy. I liked it, even though it was a bit predictable. If you liked "When Harry met Sally", you'll also like this movie.

out of 6.

Some of the big movies are making so much money, that it's tempting for others to try to get hands on some of them. But how do you steal movie customers?
It's easy, really. Just make a cheap film with the same theme as one of the big movies, make a DVD cover that looks pretty much the same and call your movie something similar.

I don't know if it actually works. But I know that they're at least trying. Let me give you some examples:

"The Day the Earth stopped" (The Day the Earth stood still) :

"The Little Cars" (Cars):

"The Prodigy - Kung Fu Fun" (Kung Fu Panda):

"Ratatoing" (Ratatouille):

"Snakes on a Train" (Snakes on a plane):

"Transmorphers" (Transformers):

"What's UP" (Up):

"Alien vs. Hunter" (Alien vs. Predator):

My regular readers know that I love movies. Every time I go to the cinema and watch a movie, I put a review up here on my blog.

I also watch movies on DVD though, lots of them, but I don't usually make reviews of them. Mostly because it isn't new movies, but also because that would make a hell lot of posts.

The other day I rented three movies. "Confessions of a shop-a-holic", which is just a chick flick, "The boat that rocked", which is a movie about piracy radios in the 60s. An okay movie, with lots of good and bouncy music in it. And then there was "The boy in the striped pyjamas", which was really good.

Set during World War II, a story seen through the eyes of Bruno, an eight-year-old son of the commandant at a concentration camp, whose forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence. The boys have a great friendship talking every day, enjoying the company. But when the father gives Bruno a Nazi propaganda loving tutor, Bruno becomes confused, is his father an evil man or is his friend the evil one? Love his country and do his duty or don't judge and just stay true to his friend? Bruno must decide all this with some scary consequences ahead of him.

It's a while ago I saw a movie that took me so much by the heart like this one. The story is told in a way that is so realistic and scary, that it frightens me that things like this has happened in the history of man! *shudders*

out of 6.
Go see it!