So, I decided that before the end of the year, I would go see New Moon. I really didn't like the second OR the third installment in the Stephanie Meyer series so I wasn't ALL that jazzed about seeing this movie. I guess the author did a great job of creating all of this super duper intense teen angst and longing and that feeling of being in love that in the VERY beginning of the second book she breaks them up?! Oh, I hate it when they do that on television shows too. This reminds of a TV show that I don't watch anymore...
Renee and I used to watch Grey's Anatomy. We watched the first season and it was great it had drama and flirty sexy banter and it was great. It was even okay when they brought the ex-wife back and that put a damper on things...but then...it turned all Days of Our Lives and next thing you know she's jumping into the Puget Sound and Dr. Dreamy is fishing her out of the water all blue and stupid. I dunno...I lost all interest in the whole thing. I've tried watching and I tried getting into it but it's just too daytime soap at night for me...which brings me to New Moon.
I felt like S. Meyer pulled a little Days of Our Lives on me in the second book. I will give her credit because the break up scene in the book was Awesome! Immediately after Edward dumps her she lays down in the forest and wants to die and then the next pages are literally October (on a page), November, December...I loved that. If you're going to break the couple - make it so someone wants to throw up...or as Bella puts it - there's a hole in my chest and I can't breath. That's kick ya in the gut love - and Meyer got that right...but then the DOL stuff started and she lost me.
I didn't give two rats about the book until she jumps off the cliff. Again, cool scene and I liked Alice showing up...all good. I think I was waiting for the jumping off the cliff so I could get into it. The movie was like the book in the respect that they spend ALL this time together working some junker bikes and then blammo okay no more motorcycles. The reason in the story to stop riding is okay but it felt contrived in both the movie and the book. Maybe I'm asking too much for a Young Adult story because I guess teens have that level of attention span in real life too. Hey, let's spend all of our energy on this one thing...ok, I'm done with that.
I dunno know. I don't have a good answer for the Jacob love triangle. Maybe if she hadn't done SUCH a good job with the first book and nailed that teen love thing - I might have bought the whole Jacob love interest but she didn't give him much of a bone in the second book for there to be this Team Jacob or Team Edward baloney.
The movie helped A LOT in regards to the DRAGGING out her maudlin pining for Edward. She only had about a 1/3 of the movie to be stupid and they had to condense a lot of the blah blah blah he's a werewolf stuff - so that was good and I loved the set up for the third.
To be honest, I really need to go back and read the third book before June because I was in SUCH a rush to get to the fourth book (and really Breaking Dawn was a close second in quality to Twilight) that I power-read the third book and don't remember much of that book. The main thing I remember after Eclipse was that I wanted to slap Edward, Bella AND Jacob by the end of it. I thought what a bunch of idiots and I was sick of the lot of them. The fourth book made up for a lot of the nonsense. So, I'll shut up and let the movie makers do their magic.
On an un-related note. After the movie at about 12:45, I was walking to my car and I saw these two teenage girls standing outside the theater. I assume they were waiting for their ride BUT neither of them had on a winter coat. They both had hoodies on and one of the girls was wearing ballet slipper type shoes without socks. Yes, I'm old and I'm a mother because ALL I could think was how can I approach these two girls and tell to go stand inside the theater or go by Nawlins restaurant/bar because they had an outdoor fire pit (it's for smokers) but at least it would have been heat. In the end, I saw them walking over to the fire pit but ugh, it was killing me to see them standing outside shivering. What were they thinking going out with out winter coats? No outfit is cute enough in Colorado to not have a winter coat at 12:45AM. True fashionistas build in the winter coat as part of the ensemble. :)
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