Twilight - Uusikuu

Aluksi haluaisin sanoa, ettei ole mitään järkeä katsoa tätä elokuvaa, jollet olet lukenut kirjaa tai jollet ole psyykkisesti riippuvainen jostakusta näyttelijäkaartiin kuuluvasta, kuten minä (Kristen). Ensinnäkin siksi, että kirja itsessään ei ole erityisen hyvää elokuvamateriaalia, sillä käsikirjoittaja Melissa Rosenberg on todella surkea työssään ja aivan kuin olisi riisunut käsikirjoituksen kaikista tunteista, joita kirja herättää. Ohjausta en syyttäisi, Chris Weitz on tehnyt kaiken voitavansa. Miinukset tosin siitä, että hän on leikannut pois muutaman kiinnostavan kohtauksen, joita Melissa ei vielä ollut käsikirjoituksesta heivannut. Toiseksi – Kristen. Turha sitä on kierrellä, tämä elokuva on pitkälti hänen varassaan, eikä hän tälläkään kertaa tuota pettymystä. No, Kristen ei selittelyjä kaipaa. Lopuksi haluan mainita soundtrackin, joka on erityisen paljon mieleeni, niin orkestraalinen Alexandre Desplat kuin laulutkin. Haluan huomauttaa, että arviooni varsin todennäköisesti vaikuttaa avoin pakkomielteeni pääosan näyttelijätärtä kohtaan. (22.11.2009)

Now I get it. The main reason why the Twilight Saga has been so negatively received by reasonable viewers is that the female protagonist is an utter moron with whom I wouldn’t want to share even a word… Otherwise, it has a couple of fine moments, but it’s hard to watch characters that make you want to wring their necks. (26.08.2010)

Oof, oof, I got it over with. I couldn't stand to watch it all the way through, so I'd occasionally pause it and run into the living room to see what my mom and sister were watching. Underworld 2; so that helped clear my head... :-D No matter how hard they try, the actors can't make anything decent out of it, because the script doesn't let them. I don't get Bella – how can she choose something hard and cold (white with ugly eyes) over something warm, hot, soft, and nicely furry. (No, I don't like either of those actors, but still, looking at in terms of logic... oh whoops, this is no place for logic, I forgot). The only thing I agree with Bella on is her question: “How can you love me, me a human?" – I wonder that too, how can a human love a vampire so much, and so pathetically at that? It kind of smacks of zoophilia... It felt a bit like a gathering of unstable fellow Americans jumping up and down trees (or off cliffs), dressing up like wolves or weirdos with even weirder eyes and ugly white skin, or trying to show the world how much they suffer for love until they get suicidal. I'd take them all by the hand and walk them to the nearest psychiatrist’s couch. The subject matter isn’t worth much, either (I read it and it was done in a day, but that didn’t have anything to do with quality), so you can’t be too surprised at all the pathetic speeches, cooing, nightmares, and pallor. I hope I don't catch anything like that from it. Too bad they're all there being so stupid and pitying poor virgin Bella, who actually seems to crave sex terribly – could you tell? X-D Or was something else going on? It's starting to look like a new WTF fad! (28.11.2009)

While the first film is ridiculous only from about the middle, here the volleys of laughter were flying through the movie theater from the beginning. It’s all already been said. I could only add that Weitz can somehow present it even more metro-sexually and in the "Edward, do me a child" sort of way. Regardless, given the insane amount of "guilty pleasure" atmosphere, it doesn't have tome to bore you, which is good in a way. But to be fair, the passage with the werewolves is entertaining in a relatively real way (Victoria's chase to the sounds of Thom Yorke is fantastic). It’s the most honest bullshit of the season. I’m anxiously awaiting David Slade’s work. (14.12.2009)

To all opponents, all mockers, and all cynics, access is once again prohibited. Because here, suffering for a broken heart continues, desperate actions have no end, and for true love, everyone would go to the ends of the earth (and maybe even further). What the book pulverized in endless repeated reflections on the same topic, Weitz managed to create a romantic-adventurous spectacle out of it. Tolerance is still necessary, but those who did not reject at first should not do so now either. (13.12.2009)