Jun 30, 2010
Eclipse
So good. I think David Slade did a great job. I should have known, Hard Candy was fantastic. I wish he was doing Breaking Dawn as well, but I guess we’ll have to see how the other guy does.
But I thought this film was really well balanced between filling in the blanks of what was happening in Seattle and what was going on in Forks. It was fun to see parts of The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner in there. The dialogue was funny, the characters stayed true to the books, the music was amazing and the fight scenes were awesome.
I don’t think there was enough emotional strive between Bella and Jacob. I think it could have been a little bit more intense. And really, the more you see Edward and how he behaves, you kind of wonder, why did Bella pick him? He’s kind of controlling and manipulative, huh? I’m kind of interested in this book I saw called Bella Should Have Dumped Edward.
“This isn’t the time to make hard and fast decisions. This is the time to make mistakes. Take the wrong train and get stuck somewhere. Fall in love. A lot. Major in philosophy because there’s no way to make a career out of that. Change your mind and change it again, because nothing is permanent. So make as many mistakes as you can. That way some day when they ask what we want to be, we won’t have to guess, we’ll know.”
I really liked Jessica’s speech though (even though it wasn’t in the book). I kind of wish I would have done that. I wish I would have lived a courageous life in high school and hadn’t been so afraid to make mistakes. I wish I would have done everything wrong so that I’d know what was right.
Maybe if I had, I wouldn’t feel so lost. I would be able to confidently say, this is who I am. Not because I stumbled into it, but because I fabricated it, brick by brick. That I built myself up from the rubble of all my past mistakes.