Really Surprised!

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

This movie is the 3rd in a series of five. The general plot involves a girl who desires to be a vampire. She is torn between loving a werewolf and loving a vampire. The actors and actress are a curious bunch that seems to grab and maintain your attention. Each of the first three movies move painfully slow, but deliberate enough that it gives one time to think about these circumstances from many different angles. I give the movie a ten, because I can see the care and effort that the team put in to create these three movies. I'm looking forward to watching the next two movies. The next two movies are Breaking Dawn Part 1 and Part 2. I actually started research twilight phases, this is what brought me to these movies, and I'm glad it did.

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.

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.

NOPE. NOPE. NOPE. NOPE. Oh look a NOPEmovie. If you ever come across this film in your travels, do the world a favor; take it from where you have found it, set it gently on the ground, take a machine gun and unload a round or two into it. After you've finished with that, scoop up the remains, then transport those remains to the nearest fire. When there is nothing but ashes left, sweep up those ashes and deposit them into a container of acid. Take that container of acid and travel to the deepest body of water you can find and release that acid into the middle of it. Then we can rest assured it can't hurt anyone else. You can help all of your fellow humans by deciding to take these simple steps to avoid the pain and suffering. Thank you.