The Twilight Saga ~ New Moon
Tuesday, 24. November 2009, 05:51:28
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.


























