Movie Review: New Moon

The Twilight Saga: New Moon wins the award for the movie surrounded by the most bias. No matter what happens in this movie, regardless of it's script, storyline, special effects or the performance by the actors; The Twilight Saga: New Moon is a great film! If you ask a Twihard. New Moon is the best movie ever made!! This is the opinion coming from a hormone crazed young adult who decided to watch the New Moon because Robert Pattinson is hot and they wanted to see Taylor Lautner shirtless. That's the justification.

For apparently weird teenagers, like me, who have read all the books and thought that they were pretty good, decided to watch Twilight because they wanted to see how the story translated onto film, and couldn't care less about how hot Robert Pattinson may be; Twilight is a horrible film. So I went to watch the second installment New Moon, clearing my head of my hatred for the first, wishing for a new experience and opinion and hoping for improvement because of the new director; I came out of The Twilight Saga: New Moon very disappointed.

Let me start off with some positives. I may be one of the only people who thought that The Twilight Saga: New Moon was better than the original Twilight. That may have to do with my annoyance with Robert Pattinson's overexposure (the guy is everywhere) and my excitement with not having him clog up my screen. But I liked it more than Twilight. Another positive is that the special effects are a lot better than in the first film. There some scenes were the special effects are lacking, like in Edward's bedroom (wherever he ran off to after leaving Bella) which looks so fake it is ridiculous; and the wolves who also look very fake. Despite that, the scenes are a lot brighter and the vampires eyes and movements are a lot more eye-catching.

Here are the negatives. New Moon is a bad film. Why the twihard will ask? Because the story is bad. New Moon is a best selling book. The reason the story hasn't been criticized is because it a part of Bella's journey and helps complete the story. But if we isolate the book from the others in the series and really analyze it; this is what we get. A girl's boyfriend dumps her because he thinks her life would be better without him. She sinks into chronic depression because he leaves her. She then decides to do dangerous things so that she can get hallucinations of him.... Are you getting my drift? Bad story. It does not help that the translation of the lines from book to script are horrible. Saying cheesy, cheesy lines, like, "do you not understand how much I love you", "your the reason why I live" or "my gift is your breathing" or something along those lines. Way too dramatic.

It did not help, that at moments, the performances were terrible. There were so terrible that scenes that were supposed to be dramatic had my friends and I howling in laughter. The last scene when Edward asks Bella to marry him, rounded off the hilarity with most of the audience in my cinema bursting into laughter. Maybe that scene was intended to be funny. All I know was I was holding in my laughter in order to look stupid when Bella told Jacob to "not make her choose."

And can someone tell me what is up with the ridiculous facial expressions? Now I know that Edward is in "pain" when he kisses Bella but Robert Pattinson's expression during the kissing scenes resembled constipation. Bella dramatically falling to floor and holding herself after running after Edward with a look of pain was the most hilarious thing i had ever seen. What was up with that? Did I miss him bite her or something? How many people can you recall sinking to the floor like someone has stabbed them after someone breaks up with them. Like I said, way too dramatic. Crying would have been fine. I hear that's the more normal thing to do.

But who cares if the acting sucks, and the story sucks; Taylor Lautner and Robert Pattinson are hot! What is the point of the movie then? Sorry that I am not a normal teenager who couldn't care less. Who was hoping to watch a good movie with good acting and a good story. A thing that most films and most audiences attempt to accomplish and see.

The movies are not doing the books justice. It is these films that are captivating audiences and breaking records. Not award winning films. Movies like Twilight. The good news is that the next movie will be mostly action (an aspect that I believe these films can accomplish) and there is a new director so there is a chance that The Twilight Saga: Eclipse may be good. Regardless, New Moon and Twilight will remain bad films.

Don't believe the hype. People like me have to roam the streets worried that I am going to be beaten up for speaking negatively upon the blessing that Twilight apparently is. If you decide to watch New Moon, I hope that you enjoy it. If you end up sharing my opinion, run. Run very fast. Twihards are everywhere.