By: Elliot Hopper

Elliot Hopper — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 22:56:42 +0000

I’ve floated in the ‘hate’ category of Twilight since New Moon. ‘Hate’ being a pretty strong word, I’ve just never been too particularly fond of the franchise overall. Its taken several viewings on TV to actually catch up and watch all of the films. You know the ‘catch 1/4 of the movie here, 1/3 of it another day, 1/5 two weeks later, etc’ and eventually you’ve watched the entire movie. Going into watching the last one in the theatre, suffice to say. Whether it my lowest of expectations or knowing what nausea to already expect, call it ‘Twilight conditioning.’ This conclusion to the franchise actually made me a fan.

I’m pretty much agree with everything you’ve said in your review John, in fact the only thing I would’ve done was probably actually scored this movie dare I say, higher and given it an 8. I came out of the theatre genuinely enjoying Breaking Dawn Part 2. On a whole it rounded out the franchise nicely I thought. I don’t know how much fan service it played in respect to how close the adaptation from the books were. I’ve never read the books, outside of my cheating on Wikipedia. But I’m reminded of the Harry Potter franchise. Comparatively I think Twilight had a bit more cohesion from a vision standpoint of where it started and where it needed to go and end. With Harry Potter, I’ve read the books, loved them. However my enjoyment of the Potter films ended after Prisoner of Azkaban. It always felt like the films never honed in on the minute details which would’ve interlocked that franchise more. Where as here in Twilight, from what I’ve watched and cheat read, it felt like things ended on a more well-rounded note. Call it odd objectivity or retrospect.

The only other two things I want to chime in on was Mackenzie Foy, I too thought she did a remarkable job. And lastly the ‘final battle’ was unexpected in how it progressed, took me by surprise and I think because of that I left with a more positive feeling about this movie and the franchise overall. I also dug the collective ‘end credits’ as well. Anyway, continue to hate the series or continue to love it or maybe like me, you find yourself watching TV and these movies will be on over and over and over again. And eventually you can say you’ve seen it too.Enjoyed the review otherwise John, thanks!

By: dRadnev

dRadnev — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 20:04:18 +0000

I am 100% biased and blind hater of this preposterous film saga, I hope it dies in vain and never comes back to the big screen!

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