Weekend Weblog
Dec. 10th, 2012 09:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
frea_oWell, I see why its fans were pissed off about the final Twilight movie. I went to see it this weekend with a friend of mine who read all the books and is always curious about the movies, but can’t convince anybody else in her life to see it. Given that I’ll see any movie in the theater (provided it’s not a horror film), I gamely tagged along, even though I never read the fourth Twilight book out of sheer and total disgust for the (lack of) character that is Bella Swann. And while the movies are terrible and you get this sense that Robert Pattinson is being shackled to something when he’s not on camera to keep him from running away, they’re not poke-your-eyes-out-with-a-hot-poker bad. The scenery is gorgeous, for instance.
And the other movies had Anna Kendrick.
So in this movie, there’s a giant fight at the end, which really confused me because my friend had told me nothing happens in the book. Ta-da. So I was excited that the producers were being brave enough to get away from the book and create real consequences with people and wolves getting killed and all. I thought it was a great decision. But...nope. Only just a vision. The fight never happened. They showed us like seven minutes of fighting and it turns out to be nothing but Alice’s ability to see the future. So the fans are pissed because a) they got majorly lied to in an unfair way and, b) they had to see Carlisle’s head ripped off (which I liked). And given that they switched perspectives several times in the fight rather than keeping it in one perspective like a vision SHOULD BE, fans have every right to be pissed that the movie cheated and lied to them like that. The Total Recall remake did the same thing; we were supposed to believe that the main character’s memories might be completely fabricated, but the minute they showed us something that wasn’t in his perspective, they lost all of their respectability and the chance that I was going to believe that lie.
Other than that, the weekend was pretty low-key. Went shopping with the same friend over in that area, which has some of my favorite shops (Container Store, Pier One, REI). The World Bird Sanctuary had a tawny owl named Tigger there that we got to see. My friend and I proved even more alike than we thought by both going, “I love that place!” when they told us they were from the World Bird Sanctuary. Then we drooled over all of the things in REI that we couldn’t afford. I looked at shoes for my trip next year.
Yesterday I had a splitting headache that wouldn’t let me eat anything, which sucked because Dad made bagel-dogs and then lasagna. I got to gush about my intense love for all things Madeleine L’Engle in the podcast and I didn’t write a single word on my secret santa project. Whoops.
Good weekend, though. I just wish the headache would go away.
And the other movies had Anna Kendrick.
So in this movie, there’s a giant fight at the end, which really confused me because my friend had told me nothing happens in the book. Ta-da. So I was excited that the producers were being brave enough to get away from the book and create real consequences with people and wolves getting killed and all. I thought it was a great decision. But...nope. Only just a vision. The fight never happened. They showed us like seven minutes of fighting and it turns out to be nothing but Alice’s ability to see the future. So the fans are pissed because a) they got majorly lied to in an unfair way and, b) they had to see Carlisle’s head ripped off (which I liked). And given that they switched perspectives several times in the fight rather than keeping it in one perspective like a vision SHOULD BE, fans have every right to be pissed that the movie cheated and lied to them like that. The Total Recall remake did the same thing; we were supposed to believe that the main character’s memories might be completely fabricated, but the minute they showed us something that wasn’t in his perspective, they lost all of their respectability and the chance that I was going to believe that lie.
Other than that, the weekend was pretty low-key. Went shopping with the same friend over in that area, which has some of my favorite shops (Container Store, Pier One, REI). The World Bird Sanctuary had a tawny owl named Tigger there that we got to see. My friend and I proved even more alike than we thought by both going, “I love that place!” when they told us they were from the World Bird Sanctuary. Then we drooled over all of the things in REI that we couldn’t afford. I looked at shoes for my trip next year.
Yesterday I had a splitting headache that wouldn’t let me eat anything, which sucked because Dad made bagel-dogs and then lasagna. I got to gush about my intense love for all things Madeleine L’Engle in the podcast and I didn’t write a single word on my secret santa project. Whoops.
Good weekend, though. I just wish the headache would go away.
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Date: 2012-12-11 01:51 am (UTC)You were not the only one to think that this was a special moment.
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