New Moon - K. Oullette

(Opinion)

Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner start some steamy romance in Chris Weitz’s fantasty film when Robert Pattinson has to leave her behind in Forks.


Blood sucking vampires and werewolves seem to be the world’s new superheroes. Thousands of people lined up all over the U.S. to watch the second part of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga. It opened in 3,514 theatres on November 20th, 2009 and broke through the box office roof. It cost $50 million to produce the movie, and opening night alone made $26.6 million of it back.


Chris Weitz also directed The Golden Compass, and in the past has directed movies with his brother, Paul Weitz, including: American Pie, Down to Earth, and About a Boy. I think Weitz did a very good job with taking the setting of the book and transforming it into a movie. The scenery was similar to what Meyer tried to convey in the book, and the setting plays an important part of the story.


I think the characters were represented and played very well in the new movie. As most of the female Twilight fans recognized, Jacob definitely buffed up quite a bit from the first movie, and in some of their opinions he might be hotter than Edward himself. Personally, I think the hair cut helped him fit the part, as well as him hitting up the gym. Edward, of course, who has been the dreamy one from the beginning, sadly left Bella behind in Forks, so we didn’t get to see much of him. This made some Twilight fans a little upset, but I think the third Twilight movie, Eclipse, will make up for this, considering what happens in the book.


As most people know, Twilight is a four book series written by Stephenie Meyers. There was a lot going on in the second book, New Moon, and some people were disappointed after watching the movie interpretation, because they skipped a lot of the important parts. A lot of Twilight fans notice the little details and can easily compare the book and movie, and the consensus was that the movie isn’t as good as the book because little details or important lines have not been addressed. I would have to agree that the movie could have had included more that was in the book, but I also understand that they didn’t want the movie to be incredibly long. Most of the people who haven’t read the books have said they thought the movie was really good, but of course they don’t have anything in which to compare.


The crowd for the third movie is going to be more insane than the first and second, because people liked the plot of the third book more than the second, since Edward left Bella in the second book. Everyone is excited for the third movie, Eclipse, to come out on June 30th, 2010.