I went to the midnight showing of Twilight: New Moon on Thursday night with some girlfriends. LOVED IT! This book was my least favorite of the 4 so I am happy that I liked the movie so much. I am Team Edward all the way and this book is definitely more Jacob-centric with Bella being soooo angsty. The movie is basically the same but with a less angst. Only so much time in a single movie :) I remember the pain and pure sadness of Bella’s heartbreak in this book. Probably kind of hard to portray that in a movie.
Have to admit, Taylor Lautner looked pretty hot. That kid really bulked up for this movie. He wanted the role and fought for it – good for him! A couple of my friends were basically drooling on themselves over him :) Nice chest and abs for sure but I’m still Team Edward. Besides – he’s 17!! Cougars my friends are! ;) But I really just love Edward’s character. He is dreamy. Robert Pattinson is very, very cute for sure. But it’s Edward I love :) His pure and complete love for Bella is quite an awesome quality. I think Stephanie Meyer wrote these feelings pretty well.
I had read some bad reviews about the werewolf special effects after the first trailers came out but I thought they were totally fine. I love wolves, and so typically love werewolves too. Especially when they make them like wolves and not some half man/half wolf monster. And one of the wolves looked exactly like Storm so of course I loved them! But not more than the vamps in this story. But I did want to reach in and skoosh the wolves :) Plus the interaction between the pack was entertaining in the books and they showed us hints of that in the movie too.
We got in line around 10pm and they were showing it in 5 auditoriums so they had 5 different lines. The theater did a pretty good job of organizing it. It was definitely fun to people watch while waiting. I tweeted some of the moments but impossible to keep up with them all! But let me tell you – you want to send a strike team into a war zone? Hop up teen girls on boxes of candy, Starbucks and hormonal overload for hot vampires and werewolves and let them loose! Man alive they get crazy.
And let’s be clear – it was not all teen girls! You had to feel for the requisite boyfriends and dads who were there of out of kindness or who drew the short straw. They all looked kind of stunned :) But if you are a boy – this was the place for you to be. TONS of tween/teen/and above girls who just watched 2 hours of angsty love and were now without Edward or Jacob (or even Jasper.)
Another great thing was I was expecting to not even be able to hear half of the movie through all the screaming (like it was for Twilight.) And there was a fair amount of it in line, in the theater while waiting, when the lights dimmed and during the previews. But then literally as soon as the first line was spoken in the movie – all voices were suddenly silenced, and not after crying out in terror (Star Wars line…I thought it immediately when sitting there as the voices went silent :) .) I think we were with such hard core fans – they just wanted to hear the movie. They squealed when Jacob and Edward took their shirts off but just for a moment. It was nice actually. I think quieter than even just a regular movie – no phones ringing, no click-click-click from texting, no up and down bathroom runs. Everyone was entranced :)
I had a lot of fun. I like event-like opening nights for big movies. I’ve been to midnight showings for all of the new Star Wars movies (they didn’t do midnight showings where I lived that I recall for the first 3.) As well as the latest Indiana Jones. These are always fun as you are with serious fans :) And the next morning…well, that’s what Starbucks is for :)
I liked it. I will see it again. And I will buy it when it comes out on DVD :)
