Having seen Twilight, I knew what I was letting myself in for when I went to see New Moon. On a scale of 1 to 10, where 1 represents the worst film ever produced and 10 represents the best film ever produced, New Moon manages to sneak into the negative numbers. Yes it really is that bad.
Once the lights went up the first phrase out of my mouth was, “What a complete load of Toilet!” I think I may have said it a bit louder than I should. I fear I may have offended some women aged 15-30 who thought is was amazing. They were wrong!
I knew they had managed to ruin the concept of Vampires in the first film, but I figured Werewolves are impossible to ruin. I forgot that you could just make them boring. Never mind.
To summarize the plot.
Girl: I love you mister vampire.
Vampire: I love you too.
Vampire: I’m going away and I will never see you again.
Girl: I’m devastated and my life is over, but that guy over there is really hot. I think he may have played Shark Boy in the childrens film “Shark Boy and Lava Girl”. I’ll use him as my rebound guy and become an adrenaline junky.
Girl: I can’t commit to you hot guy. You might leave me.
Hot Guy: I’ll never leave you.
Hot Guy: I’m leaving you.
Girl: I’m devastated and my life is over, but I can’t take a hint so I’m going to see Hot Guy. Oh. Hot Guy is a Werewolf. Never mind. I kinda like freaks.
Vampire’s Sister: I saw a vision of you jumping off a cliff. Vampire guy thinks you are dead and is going to kill himself.
Girl: I was just jumping off a cliff for fun. Oh no. I’m going to save Vampire guy.
Girl: Phew, I saved you mister vampire, but oh no, maybe not.
Enter Dakota Fanning and Michael Sheen: We are both really famous and quite cool, but we’ll do nothing of significance and just take home a pay check.
Vampire, Hot Guy and Girl: Let’s have a small confrontation that makes it look like we are finally going to see some cool vampire-werewolf fight action, but then settle everything with no violence because that would displease the small girls in the audience.
Vampire: Marry me.
Girl: Oh, all my dreams have come true.
At that point I had a terrible feeling I was going to have to witness a wedding. Fortunately the director took pity on me and made it end.
The film will be a major success as it exploits the hormonal insanity of 13-year old girls. It’s like their version of catnip.
Cheers
Tim…
PS. If nothing else it helped me forget about 2012…
PPS. You may be wondering why I went to see it in the first place. One of my female friends asked me along and I foolishly said yes.
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My faith in humanity is lost – New Moon broke the single day record of The Dark Knight (70M > 67M). Really? New Moon? Its just not right.
I mourn for the time you just lost – you’ll never get that back.
Posted 23 Nov 2009 at 2:54 pm ¶My wife drug me out to see. When Jacob took off his shirt I thought I was in my own version of FlashForward with all the young ( and old ) ladies swooning all over the theatre. I agree that the movie shouldnt be up for any awards this year but I have seen worse lately. Also, the werewolves are really shape shifters. I guess this comes up in a future book/movie for you to enjoy –
Posted 23 Nov 2009 at 4:08 pm ¶Wow, worse than Twilight?!
I’ve read the books (s’not my fault, honest; my friend got my the final book in the series for my birthday, and I’m anal enough that I therefore had to read the first 3….) and they’re…. rubbish.
The whole thing is just unrealistic – and yes, I know we’re talking vampires and werewolves here, but… if you were suddenly presented with vampires and werewolves, wouldn’t you react differently?! I know I would!
The books were disappointingly inconsistent and unrealistic. The 1st film was even worse than the book (and I only saw that because someone lent me the DVD and it seemed churlish not to watch it!). I shan’t be bothering with any of the other films…
Posted 23 Nov 2009 at 4:20 pm ¶OMG! I can’t recall that I ever heard you giving -ve ratings to any movie, not even to the worst ones! I shall watch it just to see how one can make such a bad movie
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regards
Posted 23 Nov 2009 at 7:22 pm ¶Aman….
Maybe a ninja movie will help.
Posted 23 Nov 2009 at 10:11 pm ¶2012 and Twilight, why would anyone do that to themselves????
Posted 24 Nov 2009 at 11:08 am ¶http://theoatmeal.com/story/twilight
Enjoy.
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On a scale of 1 to 10, where 1 represents the worst film ever produced and 10 represents the best film ever produced, New Moon manages to sneak into the negative numbers. Yes it really is that bad.</p> <p>Once the lights went up the first phrase out of my mouth was, “What a complete load of Toilet!” I think I may have said it a bit louder than I should. I fear I may have offended some women aged 15-30 who thought is was amazing. They were wrong!</p> <p>I knew they had managed to ruin the concept of Vampires in the first film, but I figured Werewolves are impossible to ruin. I forgot that you could just make them boring. Never mind.</p> <p>To summarize the plot.</p> <p><strong>Girl</strong>: I love you mister vampire.<strong><br /> Vampire</strong>: I love you too<strong>.<br /> Vampire</strong>: I’m going away and I will never see you again.<strong><br /> Girl</strong>: I’m devastated and my life is over, but that guy over there is really hot. I think he may have played Shark Boy in the childrens film “Shark Boy and Lava Girl”. I’ll use him as my rebound guy and become an adrenaline junky.<br /> <strong>Girl</strong>: I can’t commit to you hot guy. You might leave me.<br /> <strong>Hot Guy</strong>: I’ll never leave you.<br /> <strong>Hot Guy</strong>: I’m leaving you.<br /> <strong>Girl</strong>: I’m devastated and my life is over, but I can’t take a hint so I’m going to see Hot Guy. Oh. Hot Guy is a Werewolf. Never mind. I kinda like freaks.<br /> <strong>Vampire’s Sister</strong>: I saw a vision of you jumping off a cliff. Vampire guy thinks you are dead and is going to kill himself.<br /> <strong>Girl</strong>: I was just jumping off a cliff for fun. Oh no. I’m going to save Vampire guy.<br /> <strong>Girl</strong>: Phew, I saved you mister vampire, but oh no, maybe not.<br /> <strong>Enter Dakota Fanning and Michael Sheen</strong>: We are both really famous and quite cool, but we’ll do nothing of significance and just take home a pay check.<br /> <strong>Vampire, Hot Guy and Girl</strong>: Let’s have a small confrontation that makes it look like we are finally going to see some cool vampire-werewolf fight action, but then settle everything with no violence because that would displease the small girls in the audience.<br /> <strong>Vampire</strong>: Marry me.<br /> <strong>Girl</strong>: Oh, all my dreams have come true.</p> <p>At that point I had a terrible feeling I was going to have to witness a wedding. Fortunately the director took pity on me and made it end.</p>X-Powered-By and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.
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