Twilight Series!

AlphaFrog · #1 07-04-2010, 06:33 AM

I was surprisingly "meh" about the movie. I was kind of "meh" about this book in the series, too. It kind of felt like "ok, now I have to get the plot from the end of New Moon to the beginning of Breaking Dawn, so let's throw in a bunch of random stuff."

I really wish they would have had the line in the tent about Edward telling Jacob that if it were him in the sleeping bag with Bella, it still wouldn't make the top 10 best nights of his life.

It's been awhile since I read the book, but I don't think the book implied that the Volturi (or at least Jane and Felix) knew that the newborn army was after Bella and was going to let it happen. Was it really necessary to add that?

I know Jasper is from the South and we learn about that more in this movie, but his accent was weird for me - one because I felt like he sounded more mentally handicapped than Southern, and two because he didn't have an accent in the first two movies (not that he spoke MUCH). Ditto on what everyone else said on the terrible hair as well.

Note for books and movie: I wish we knew something more about Emmett. Carlisle was the first of the Cullens and lived with the Volturi, Edward was second and was in a hospital dying, Esme jumped off a cliff, Alice wasn't made by Carlisle, and was in a mental institution, Rose and Jasper had detailed backstories in this book/movie, but I don't think we know ANYTHING about Emmett, do we? (Once again, it's been a little while since I read the series. I could be wrong.)

APhi4Ever · #2 07-04-2010, 08:59 AM

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Note for books and movie: I wish we knew something more about Emmett. Carlisle was the first of the Cullens and lived with the Volturi, Edward was second and was in a hospital dying, Esme jumped off a cliff, Alice wasn't made by Carlisle, and was in a mental institution, Rose and Jasper had detailed backstories in this book/movie, but I don't think we know ANYTHING about Emmett, do we? (Once again, it's been a little while since I read the series. I could be wrong.)

Wasn't Emmett seriously injured by a bear and when Rosalie came across him, she saved him? I believe he was from the early 1900's himself.

twinkle555 · #3 07-04-2010, 12:24 PM

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Wasn't Emmett seriously injured by a bear and when Rosalie came across him, she saved him? I believe he was from the early 1900's himself.

Yea Rosalie found him dying of bear attack injuries so she ran him to Carlisle, who changed him for her. She asked Carlisle to change him because he reminded her of Henry, the baby of her friend she met up with the night she was changed. Emmett is from the 1930s.

polarpi · #4 07-04-2010, 07:17 PM

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It's been awhile since I read the book, but I don't think the book implied that the Volturi (or at least Jane and Felix) knew that the newborn army was after Bella and was going to let it happen. Was it really necessary to add that?

I just reread the book to prepare for the movie (since it'd been a while, and I apparently like to set myself up like that

), but I got the impression from the book that the Volturi did know that the newborn army was after Bella. I don't have my book with me, but it was along the lines that they weren't hurrying to the clearing (maybe Alice saw them stopped?) and Edward made a comment about it to Jane after the battle had already gone down.

precipice · #5 07-05-2010, 07:54 PM

Did I dream this or did Emmett have blonde hair in the first movie? And he's a brunette now in the third?

Speaking of hair...Jasper. -sigh- WHY do they do this to him?

Eclipse wasn't as wretched as the last two. I managed to get through it with a limited amount of eye-rolls.

Enjoyed the action/fight scenes the most.

Expected Bree (the newborn) to be a lot more feral. Instead, in the film, she just appeared to have a mild case of indigestion.