Twilight - New Moon: 一群要生要死的狼跟鬼不知道在干什么！！

I watched the Twilight – New Moon with my god-daughter and daughter of a good friend. It is school holiday and it is bonding time.



5 sucks – Slow but superficial, Deliberate but pretentious. 一群要生要死的狼狗和鬼不知道在干什么！！And Edward looks in great need of some blood transfusion.

1st Suck – 2 hours long. For what? Time is money. But I guess in the world of vampires and werewolves, where they don’t die, time is not an issue with them. But I am a time-bound and I got my grocery shopping waiting. Watching the movie is indeed liken to entering into a twilight zone and one wonders “What’s happening?”

2nd Suck – When I saw the trailer on TV of Wolves and Vampires fighting, I was imagining seeing more blood, with the cold blooded vampires and hot blooded wolves fighting in the cinema. But what you see on TV trailer is ALL you get in the movie. When I got from the cinema is reciting of “Romeo and Juliet” – “I love you but I cannot love you.” “You want to die, but you should not die.” “I must live, it is for the good of both of us.” “It is not your fault, but mine. Please live well.” “It is my destiny (to be a wolf).” “Please don’t kill each other over me, that will hurt me the most.” “Marry me and death will not do us apart.” ”Marry me so that I can suck your blood.”

3rd Suck – I agree. This is definitely a cult movie Like the vampy and wofy in the show, where membership is by destiny and invitation only. Yes, keep it that way, don’t let the dogs out nor let us in.

4th Suck – I wonder when the production team saw their final piece before the release, what crossed their mind? “Oops… … sucks… …!”

5th Suck – The movie is rated - PG, indeed for under 16 only. The 2 young girls said they held hands throughout and exclaimed the movie was exciting and good. “Oh… … sucks… …”


Well, did I bond with the 2 girls? Well yeah. I was busy smsing during the movie to update my friends of it, the girls have to tell me to stop smsing and pay attention.



• Verdict: Disastrous sequel squanders good will created by first movie.

This is a mere six minutes longer than the first Twilight movie, but it feels like six hours. I gave the original four stars, but the sequel is tedious, long-winded and not so much undead as almost entirely devoid of life. Chris Tookey, Daily Mail UK

• http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/twilight_saga_new_moon/



 
• “Yes, I know, “New Moon’s” emotional energy is supposed to come through Bella’s putative attachment to newly buff best friend Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner). But though audiences gasp when Jacob uses his shirt to staunch Bella’s blood (don’t ask) and reveals a torso that would make Charles Atlas swoon, the connection between these two is so self-evidently non-romantic that it turns out not to be much of a diversion.” [Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times]

• “The characters in this movie should be arrested for loitering with intent to moan. Never have teenagers been in greater need of a jump-start. Granted some of them are more than 100 years old, but still: their charisma is by Madame Tussaud. ”The Twilight Saga: New Moon” takes the tepid achievement of “Twilight” (1988), guts it, and leaves it for undead. You know you’re in trouble with a sequel when the word of mouth advises you to see the first movie twice instead. Obviously the characters all have. Long opening stretches of this film make utterly no sense unless you walk in knowing the first film, and hopefully both Stephanie Meyer novels, by heart. Edward and Bella spend murky moments glowering at each other and thinking, So, here we are again. [Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times]

• “It feels like missing the point to talk about “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” as a movie. This is a pop culture phenomenon, some weird early 21st century aberration, our equivalent of the hula hoop or dancing the Charleston on a bi-plane’s wing. In the future, people will watch this second installment of “The Twilight Saga” and think, “What was that?” without realizing that this movie is not really a movie. It’s an excuse for a lot of people to dream.” [Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle]

• “With more bark than bite, “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” finds its brooding heroine torn from her depressive, bloodsucking boyfriend and thrust into the claws of a hunky werewolf. That’s sort of like being caught between a rock and a hard place (or, in high school terms, between a Goth and a jock), and this second screen installment of Stephenie Meyer’s bestselling series focuses, somewhat convincingly, on the emotions of an 18-year-old coping with her undying love of the undead.” [Jordan Mintzer, Variety]

• “With Chris Weitz (”American Pie,” “About a Boy,” “The Golden Compass”) taking over as director, the second movie has exactly what those fans want: Big, bouncy boy hair. Sculpted torsos everywhere. Teasing caresses of fingers on fingers, lips on lips. Love so deep and frenzied the smitten would prefer to die than go on without the other. Torsos, did we mention torsos? Most important, not just one, but two supernatural hunks snarling over the quivering carcass of a breathless, doe-eyed young woman. Swoon factor times two. [David Germain, AP]