Truly Dreadful Film

a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Let's be honest, The Twilight Saga is bad! The plot, the acting and the romance. The only good things that can be said about the franchise are the music, certain action sequences and they're all just so stupid that they're actually amusing, in fact the only reason I watched these movies was for the LOLs. Eclipse is the only exception, and by that I mean it's just as bad as the others, except it's missing the great soundtrack, has terrible action sequences babtized with embarrassing CGI, and the dialogue and plot are so boring, monotonous and forgettable that you'll fall asleep halfway through. It can't even get the title of "so bad that it's good" You can literally go straight from New Moon and skip to Breaking Dawn Part 1 and the story will still make perfect sense.

Twilight: Eclipse follows Bella as she tries to decide whether or not she wants to marry Edward, meanwhile dealing with the semi- aggressive feelings of Jacob. At the same time a mysterious army of vampires is forming and the Cullens must prepare to fight them off. Similarly to New Moon, which I enjoyed, the writing is often so bad it's hilarious. Eclipse features plenty of said scenes that have become so iconic now in this series for me.From time to time I was surprised to actually witness a decent scene in this movie. By that I mean some parts were actually kind of well- done. Some scenes ended and I thought "huh, that was actually kind of above average". Considering the quality of these movies haven't exceeded an average level yet, I was happy to see some things that didn't suck. While these moments were short-lived and often just barely above average (as in the difference between a 5/10 and 5.5/10 scene), they were an improvement. Who knows, maybe by the time I reach the last movie it'll actually be average. Unlike New Moon, however, this movie's pacing went down. While it wasn't as boring as the first movie, it definitely had pacing issues. That's really the biggest thing that separates this movie from New Moon. New Moon managed to suck but be well-paced enough not to put me to sleep, but this one was, while still funny, much more boring. As per usual, we get some 'excellent' performances from the cast. Kristen Stewart is worse than usual, Taylor Lautner is still garbage, and Robert Pattinson continues to be better than everyone else, if only by a little bit. And again, as I've come to expect, the writing is putrid. Somehow more so than the previous movies, though. More stuff is rushed into with barely any development, and it makes me wonder why everyone cares so much or how they caught onto something as quickly as they did. The special effects still suck. Not a lot to say about that. Something I kind of hate about these world building movies is that the world is never completely built when the series starts. So the creator keeps making new stuff and making some new things more important than others. While in the first two movies we got very little about the anatomy of vampires, we saw it more here and it was so overused that it felt like a newly added part of the movies. While it still makes sense with the universe and everything it was just so thrust upon the audience with so much of it that it felt like the director was just making up new bullcrap and hoping we wouldn't notice. Also, the fight. While some of it was somewhat entertaining, it was, for the most part, stupid. Somehow none of the main characters died, and only one got injured. And yet, every single opponent died. These opponents are supposed to be much stronger than the main characters. They actually state that their opponents are vastly stronger than them multiple times. But regardless, when you don't kill any main characters it does make the movie less intense and less realistic. I care less about the characters because I know nothing bad will actually happen to them. Overall Twilight: Eclipse is, while fun at times, still absolute trash. It's massively flawed at every corner, but sometimes those flaws are funny. It's sort of like a turd with ice cream on top. It tastes like crap, but it's still ice cream and it's kind of funny to look at, similarly to New Moon. Only this time there's a really tired old tour guide trying to explain how the turd came to be in extensive detail. While it's kind of interesting in a weird way, it's still pretty boring. In the end I wouldn't recommend this movie. You'd be better off watching New Moon. Not only is it less boring, it's also funnier.

The first TWILIGHT film was really good as I said in my review for the first TWILIGHT film. I got to NEW MOON and I said I hated it and it was something that I would never watch again, but now I get into the third film in the Twilight film franchise, ECLIPSE.I had to say I had mixed feelings when I first saw the trailer for THE TWILIGHT SAGA - ECLIPSE. Do you know how crappy and bad that the story of THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON was? Well, the third film gladly makes up for all of the crappy stuff NEW MOON had in it.The plot of the movie follows the book nicely. The film follows Bella Swan once again, as she develops awareness of the complications of marrying Edward Cullen. As Victoria draws nearer with a group of newborn vampires, Jacob Black and the rest of the werewolf alliance to destroy her, in turn, to keep Bella safe. While Bella tries to decide who she is, a fight brews and the consequences are paid once Jacob gets hurt. Intent on keeping a compromise with Edward, she vows to keep true to her engagement and marry him.After the critical response and box office success of NEW MOON, it was announced that in early November 2008, Summit Entertainment announced that they had attained the rights to the remaining books in Stephanie Meyer's book series, TWILIGHT: New Moon, Eclipse and Breaking Dawn. In February 2009, Summit confirmed that they would begin working on The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. The director of the second film, Chris Weitz, decided since he was in the post-production phase of NEW MOON would not be directing the film. Instead, David Slade was directing the film, with Melissa Rosenberg returning as the script writer.The story is not as confusing as the story of NEW MOON was, it is really good. The CGI on the werewolves is a very good improvement over the CGI in NEW MOON. The dialogue is not an issue in this film as it was in the second film. The musical score was not composed by Alexandre Desplat, as he would work on the final two Harry Potter films, instead Howard Shore, composer of The Hobbit trilogy and The Lord of the Rings trilogy, was brought in to compose the film score. The soundtrack is once again amazing with songs like "Heavy Heart." The acting is back and forth, but credit has to be given to the three main actors: Kristen Stewart as Bella is amazing, Taylor Lautner as Jacob is amazing this time around and Robert Pattinson as Edward is once again amazing. The entire original cast returns this time including Nikki Reed, Jackson Rathbone, Elizabeth Reaser, Peter Facinelli, Billy Burke and Ashley Greene. Also returning, Dakota Fanning as Jane and she is stunning and very beautiful.There are new major editions to the cast: Jodelle Ferland plays the role of Bree Tanner, a newly turned vampire. Ferland was in a video game adaptation of Silent Hill, which was released in 2006. Other new cast members included: Julia Jones as Leah Clearwater, Booboo Stewart as Seth Clearwater, Jack Huston as Royce King, Catalina Sandino Moreno as Maria and Xavier Samuel as Riley.The biggest casting change was the part of Victoria. Since the character was originally played by Rachel Lefevre, Summit Entertainment announced that Bryce Dallas Howard would play the part for the third film. Lefevre was saddened and disappointed by the decision to recast her part. The action sequences is really what makes the movie a stand-out for me and the fight choreography is really good. This movie should have won an Academy Award for best visual effects and best music as far as those two went.Overall, THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE is really good, if not better than the third film.

Rating-5/10The Twilight Saga: Eclipse is the third instalment in the series and one that well, kind of takes it up a notch. Now please don't get me wrong, this is an average made movie but one that is so close to being kind of OK, it actually weirdly surprised me. It's better than New Moon by a long way and also in my opinion better than the first movie so this really does feel like the closest point this film series can get to franchise redemption so far.This part is better acted, Kristen Stewart steps it up a notch and Pattinson does too after a poor showing in New Moon. Even Taylor Lautner gets slightly better and it almost feels like he has come of a new age with confidence and more actual skill in his work. The story is kind of overstuffed in truth though with new people, Bryce Dallas Howard returns, well replaces the previous actor to play Victoria, the evil vampire bent on revenge on Bella since the first movie. The problem with so many people is that it feels hard to not only keep track but also it means the acting goes down a level as most of the new people are inexperienced.The film is no doubt a thrilling one, it has it's action although it is very much confined toward the end and so anyone wanting all out fighting will be slightly disappointed. One good thing with this though is that it doesn't hang around like it has done previously, the school isn't shown as much and we also get to explore more in the vampire world and we finally spend some time not talking about Bella. The romance is as ever it's radiant self, but is still awkward but not as much again as before. The lines are less stupid and the characters feel more real in this showing, some fans may feel it even strengthens in this one as the relationship is tested at times.The cinematography is one of the technical aspects that improves here, it feels more good movie like and avoids the common traps that make the camera work feel dull and not exciting enough. One trap that does get fallen into is the director David Slade, now he isn't bad but he doesn't improve enough for this to be a good piece of work for him, it falls back into the same old kind of category and although I feel Slade and the movie do try to escape that, it ultimately just about slides back in.It can feel just a little slow at times Eclipse can, with it's as I mentioned more time away from the school, it is more interesting but the boredom can creep in and kind of pointless adventures and conversations are had that feel very much like time wasting. The effects that are fairly poor before are still not perfect, but they are at least used well and on the point of the slow film, when the effects come, it can breath fresh air into the plot. They are also not overused as is also the usual case, before we had silly backdrops that looked really dumb, now all that is annoying scenery wise is the incredibly strange camera filters.Overall this is a kind of so-so movie that although never makes the grade, never falls flat on its face. This feels like a new beginning in the chapters of Twilight the movie series and is much more confident and all credit for at least pleasing hardcore fans yet again. One thing to say though is that this isn't good I will repeat, it may be for me the best in the series so far but I highly doubt the most cynical of critics for the series will find any solace in this part.