Before I start getting hate comments and messages from middle aged women about this blog topic, let me say I actually enjoyed the movie New Moon, and I'm sure the books are just as good as this movie was. I do, however, have an issue with the story line and mainly with the main character Bella. Que messages that say "Well Edward is Bella's one and only true love." It's hogwash people, and I'll tell you why I have an issue with Bella. Now if the lady I saw walking into Walmart with the New Moon t-shirt on saw this blog, I'm sure I'd have to go into witness protection, that's how crazy some fans are.
#1. Edward bails on Bella at the beginning of the movie, basically telling Bella "Hey it's been real but I'm out." Sure Bella is heartbroken, and she basically falls into depression (I was the same exact way when John Elway retired, I didn't come out of my room for a week). How attached can Bella be to Edward? They've been dating, what? A few months? I mean none of my friends in high school were attached to their girlfriends that much. Then again, none of my friends could move vans out of the way like HE-MAN and sparkle in the sunlight (although I can see Ike Tingey pretending he's a vampire). I have a hard time understanding why Bella is infatuated with Edward, maybe he's described better in the book. I mean a 6'2 bag of bones with no tan just doesn't seem like a guy with women all over him, but then again the reaction I heard(which I'm trying to keep this blog clean) from some of the women at the premiere of Twilight would make me think otherwise.
(By the way, couldn't have the directors of Twilight and New Moon found a better Edward than Robert Pattinson. I mean the Anthony Michael Hall hairstyle just doesn't fly anymore, if you don't know who Anthony Michael Hall is than Google the movie Weird Science. Why not cast Shila Labeouf?)
#2. Enter the roided up Native American werewolf Jacob. Please, don't try to tell me that Taylor Lautner added 30 pounds of pure muscle in six months all naturally. I may have only had a 2.70 GPA in high school but I'm not a moron, I can spot BS from a blimp in a fog storm. I could be wrong but Jacob has been interested in Bella since the start of Twilight, and his chances got better once he cut the Motley Crue hair he was sporting. Jacob pounces on Bella once Edward is out of the picture, and it appears to me the two are extremely attracted to each other. Yet, Bella doesn't want a piece of the golden calf, interesting. I bet if you were to take a poll of single women (and some instances married women) across the United States on who they would rather have a wild night of passion with, I guarantee 95% of the votes will be towards Jacob. Yet, Bella is spending every minute she has with this dude, Jacob treats her well, yet she shows restraint. No way, Bella in real life would be tapping that mess.
#3. The return of Edward comes at the best time of the movie. Right as Jacob is working his game on Bella, all of a sudden Alice shows up. Really? So once Bella realizes Edward is back in the picture, guess who gets left out in the cold? You bet, the wolf man. (By the way, I love Jacob's line in the house when he bumps into Alice, "Don't make me mad or things will get very ugly." In real life you'd add on a few expletives and it would be more realistic, and then count them in for an appearance on Springer.) So let me get this straight, Edward leaves, than Bella starts hanging out and leading Jacob on, and then Edward reappears than she bounces on Jacob? So Bella is basically the Angelina Jolie of Forks Washington, she plays this kid. "Jacob, you're a cool guy but I'm getting a jet to Italy to go save my Casper looking lover from offing himself, see ya dude." Once again, no way this happens in real life. First of all, I can guarantee flying Washington to Italy is one hell of a long flight, couldn't they have just called Edward? "Hey Edward it's me, Bella, I'm alive." Naw, it's easier to jump on a 17 hour flight to Italy, especially to save a guy that dumped you six months earlier. Que the "Well it's her true love, of course she has to fly there you idiot!" Once again ask any women in the United States if they'd jump on a 17 hour flight to Italy to save a boyfriend that dumped them earlier. I'll go out on a limb and say no.
I'll have to admit, I've never seen a book series take a crowd by storm, and I'm really impressed with how many rabid fans there are. My wife, mom, sister, and sister in laws have all read the books so I'm kind of surrounded by it. I didn't mind the movies, but would I read the books? Probably not but it's good entertainment. Oh, and to those fans that were sitting behind me in the midnight showing of Twilight in November of 2008, take a good look at my wife, she's a normal fan that loves the books. She's not screaming "DO EDWARD!" out loud in the theater when they are getting ready to kiss for the first time.
Some things just baffle me.
hahaha Chris I can definitely see the movie doesn't make sense at some parts... the book explains things so it makes sense. I think it is time you give it a read and then we can start a book club!
ReplyDeleteWow, you had me rolling! Very, very funny... and let me just say... I've read the books, and I'M TOTALLY WITH YOU. Not only that, but my biggest problem is with Bella's character. I mean come on, I even disagree with the previous comment. If you annalyze her character, she's the kind of girl that no one in their senses should feel attracted to. She's plain. Not only does she not care about the way she looks, but she still acts like she's too cool for the rest of the world. She's not friendly, she's somewhat of an anti-social, introverted, geeky, clumsy, lacks empathy, doesn't know what she wants out of life, doesn't focus on goals of herself, she just happens to somewhat smart. But come on, really? Typical men are intimidated by smart women... so yeah, so unrealistic. She's not described anywhere in the book as physically beautiful or attractive, and you can't argue with me that she has a great personality because that is just NOT the case. That's why I don't get why everyone in the story is so in love with her. Ugh! You mean to tell me that Edward, who's been alive for over a century, who has had the opportunity to travel all over the world and meet all kinds of people, ended up wih love (oh so in love) with someone like Bella????? haha, Ok I'm like going on and on... I might have to create a blog myself.
ReplyDeleteYou crack me up! The end.
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