Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Lowered Expectations Make For Great Viewing

So my sister Emily and I have a time-honored tradition of going to the midnight premiere of the latest stupid twilight movie and quietly mocking it amidst the general screams and cheers of girlish fans. We enjoyed the past two experiences greatly, with much shared laughter. But this time, upon taking our seats, we were unable to laugh more than a few times. We barely snickered at the plot. Taylor Lautner was bare-chested fewer than ten times. Edward stopped looking painfully at Bella and started to actually say things. Even Bella was less annoying. We were so prepared for sheer idiocy (reminiscent of the terrible New Moon ordeal), that we were able to be blown away by the final movie.

Eclipse wasn't half bad. Of course, by movie standards I'd give it a C+, but by twilight standards, it gets an A. When you walk away from the laughable teenage sexual angst of New Moon, anything resembling substance suddenly seems like the greatest film ever made. Eclipse was just such an experience. Yes, it was overly long and the Bella/Edward scenes could have been cut in half, but the exciting action and the thrilling music score made for an enjoyable experience. Emily and I even agreed that we might rent this movie from a redbox at some point in the distant future. It was that not-sucky.

4 comments:

  1. I wanna watch it with you two! That was my idea! Pleeease? I'll still make fun of it!

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  2. I haven't seen any of the Twilight movies. we should watch them together and make fun of them! it'll be great fun. so you should come up to Salt Lake and we could rent them from redbox and have a party!please?

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  3. That's bitterly disappointing. I want a movie as terrible as New Moon.

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  4. Nooooo. So there is no reason to see this one??

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