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So, now that my finals are officially over, I am going to proceed to have a drink or two or three and rewatch Eclipse. Here’s (soberly) what I remembered from the film prior to starting this account (since starting this account, posts re:Eclipse have reminded me of things I’m not going to include in this introduction):
1. Bella is basically playing tic-tac-toe with Edward and Jacob and her feelings for them. She can’t make up her mind. When I watched it the first time, my dad was in the living room half paying attention to it and said she was very selfish.
2. Edward tries to control Bella, but it’s “out of genuine concern for her”.
3. Jacob tries to control Bella, but it’s “out of genuine concern for her”.
4. Both fight for her affection and even though she’s engaged to Edward, she won’t let go of Jacob.
5. When the newborn army shows up, Bella cuts her arm with a rock.
6. There’s awkward tension in the tent.
That’s literally all I remember of the movie while sober (aside from what I have relearned from posts about Eclipse on this blog). My drunken thoughts will be below the break:
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Eclipse (Review)
Title: Eclipse
Series: Twilight (Book #3)
Author: Stephenie Meyer
Publication: 2007
Rating: ★★★
Summary: As Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge, Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob - knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the ageless struggle between vampire and werewolf. With her graduation quickly approaching, Bella has one more decision to make: life or death. But which is which?
Review: The thing about this book is that I could point to a lot of different reasons as to why I really, really disliked it. However, I know I still enjoyed it in some way, because I came out thinking it was pretty okay–those reasons are just much less defined and a lot vaguer. So I hope once you’re done reading this, it will make sense why I gave it an okay rating, since I do foresee a lot of ranting on this particular book will occur in this review. The long story short is that the characters all bugged the heck out of me–I mean the characters I’m supposed to care about. I was frustrated with everyone at one point or another and I even grew to seriously dislike some of them. However, I wanted to keep reading. There wasn’t anything in the quality of the writing that made me cringe, and considering I could read more than four hundred pages of this in one day, it couldn’t have been all bad. The point is, I came out feeling alright with the book and thinking it served its purpose in setting up the next book and I enjoyed the climax and everything like that. However, I was frustrated and angry through the latter half of the book simply because it was frustrating and angering.
What I Liked: Spoilers!
The writing was pretty okay, and the story itself is enjoyable. I liked planning how to defeat the newborn army and doing something logical, like training for it. I liked the technical parts of it–it didn’t just jump to the battle with them wondering if they’d win or not without any planning or training. I enjoyed the length, because it packed in everything that needed to happen before the next book and it wasn’t boring. I wasn’t dreading the coming hundreds of pages when I was halfway through. I enjoyed actually reading it and I enjoyed the actual plot, and I enjoyed all the side characters. I loved learning more about Jasper and Rosalie, too. They were solid, believable characters, and I really appreciated the look into their pasts.
What I Didn’t Like:
I found all the characters (okay, well, mostly Jacob and Bella) to be extremely selfish. Selfish and self-centered. Jacob force-kisses Bella when he claims he’s incredibly okay with being “just friends” with her. He forces his feelings on her, pestering and whining to her about how she loves him too and just doesn’t realize it yet. He bugs her, lies about being noble and dying if she doesn’t want him, and then forces her, through deceit, to kiss him again. All the while claiming, “I swear I’ll be good now, I just wanted you to know how I felt, it’s okay if we’re just friends,” and at the same time not allowing Bella to choose anyone but him. He wants her and he doesn’t care if it makes her happy to be with him. Then he tries to go down in a noble burst of flame by comparing himself to the two women in the Bible who argue over who the baby belongs to; and the woman who begs for the child to not be cut in half loves the baby more. Jacob says, “I won’t cut you in half anymore,” and he was the only one forcing her to choose anybody in the first place. I liked Jacob in the last book–but honestly, I couldn’t stand him in this book, and I honestly can’t see how anybody could really like him after all the selfish things he’s done. And then Bella, so firm in the beginning, cracks under his pressure. She refuses to stop hanging out with him so much, refuses to really put her foot down with him, and refuses to follow up on her threats to not see him at all if he doesn’t stop being so pushy. So Bella relents whenever he offers a half-hearted apology, and the process starts all over again. I’m proud of her for being angry with him the first time around, but my pride wavered a whole lot and eventually sputtered out by Jacob’s giant lie about dying, and died entirely when she admits to loving him back. Because Bella only “loves him back” because he forced her to and dug the idea so far into her head that she was forced to believe it. And I hate how Edward acts like everything is fine, even though Bella flat-out cheated on her fiancée and doesn’t deserve immediate forgiveness at all. Edward, believe it or not, deserves so much more than that after he’s been nothing but loyal to her. Just, everyone made me angry, and I eventually hated all of Jacob and Bella’s interactions together because they were both stupid and selfish. Edward was the only one I liked even remotely by the end of the book, because nobody else was worthy of “my good opinion”, in the words of Mr. Darcy.
There was too much name dropping in this book, especially the references to Wuthering Heights(which I haven’t read, and is now basically spoiled for me). It was just overwhelming and I was surprised that I wasn’t bothered more by all the references, since usually it’s a giant pet peeve of mine. However, it was still too much, and maybe if the Wuthering Heights mentions/comparisons had been left out entirely, I would have been more okay with the rest of it.
Did I already talk about Jacob? Because he was honestly the worst part of the entire book for me.
I hated the way Bella threw herself at Edward so many times. I hated the way that sex was such a huge dividing factor, and oh no! Edward has his own set of morals. I mean, even if Edward had slept with her the night she brought it up, she would have been forcing him to do it, and I highly doubt that would have made her happy. I also hate how she is so repulsed by the idea of marriage and reluctant to marry Edward–because obviously getting married is a much bigger commitment than freezing your soul and becoming addicted to the taste of blood for the rest of eternity. Right…
Overall: All in all, I thought this was a good installment in the series, although if this had been the first book I’d read with all this drama in it, I wouldn’t have been so keen to continue. I was frustrated with Jacob (mostly) and Bella (a little less than Jacob), and they were my least favorite part of the whole book. I hate how Jacob acts like he’s so much better than Edward when he is by far more selfish and unable to let Bella go, no matter what she wants for herself. I hated him, and I hated the way Bella reacted to him, and it was just an awful book in terms of character development. However, on the actual story and plot front, I had a good time learning about Jasper and Rosalie, training to defeat the newborns, and the actual fight scenes themselves. I had a good time with all that, and I thought the ending with Victoria made a clean sweep. I’d only recommend this to people who already liked the first two books though, because honestly, if you already didn’t like Bella before, this is not the book for you. It was barely the book for me and I really like the series as a whole!
Eclipse Review
(Warning, I'm bashing this movie.) I just wasted two hours of my life last night watching The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. It is terribly written with lame dialogue. It is disgustingly funny, if that makes any sense. I laughed at every scene even though it wasn’t supposed to be hilarious. The books should never have been made into movies; stuff just does not translate well. At all. I’ll admit the fight sequence (werewolf snapping that newborn vampire) at the end is all right, but whoever scored this film didn’t do that great a job. That scene could have been a whole lot better if more thrilling music is playing during it.
Jacob is supposed to be a funny person, like he creates laughter, but Taylor Lautner played him a little too serious, I think. I wish Kristen Stewart wasn’t so monotone (maybe she should stop smoking?); Bella needs more emotion and facial expressions. Sure, she’s got plenty in the books, but in the movies, she’s sorely lacking and that is because Stewart plays her as she plays the rest of her characters in other movies—completely unmoved by anything. I think she really should have taken those acting lessons that she said would have “ruined” her. Wrong! It would have helped her. Maybe it’s just her voice that gets in the way of her talent?
Why do their eyebrows not match their hair color? I noticed that with Rosalie and Edward. It's not even subtle! What the heck? Also, there was this really funny look Robert Pattinson made: it looked like fear and constipation simultaneously. That expression made me burst out in laughter. I couldn’t understand why he looked the way he did. I can’t tell you which scene because I forgot. Pattinson could be a lot better, but he isn't horrible.
Jackson Rathbone put on an accent for Jasper in this movie. I don't remember hearing it before. I know he (Jasper) was originally from the South, but why didn't he use the accent before? Was I too stupid to notice? I guess the accent is supposed to be mostly gone, but traces are still there (at least from what I remember from the novels). Carlisle has a slight British accent, I think, if I remember correctly. I don't recall if Peter Facinelli uses it in the first movie, I think he does in the second, and he definitely does in the third. Alice is my favorite character from the novels, but I can't say if I like Ashley Greene's ability to really bring her to life on camera. She's good, not bad, but she's not fantastic either. Esme and Emmet have too few lines for me to gauge how well they can act. I don't want to be mean, but Nikki Reed's Rosalie...once again, just is not played well. Reed isn't a bad actress, but I feel like there could have been more to her take on how/who Rosalie is.
Aren't these characters suppose to draw in the audience? I didn't find myself drawn, but maybe it's because of my personal bias. Overall, those who are in love with the novels will like this movie because they utilized a bunch of lines from the book—I find them corny and so obviously not written for film. For those who haven't read the books, I think Eclipse is simply not intriguing enough. If I had to grade it, I think I'd give it a B-. Eclipse is certainly better made than New Moon.