well, as far as burger king scratch-off purposes go, i am on team jacob. hey, it got me chicken fries.
i really liked this. i was, of course, piss drunk. but i've noticed that drunkenness does not improve a terrible movie--rather, it ups the impatience quotient. i think my standards are slightly more stringent when i'm drunk at a movie, and eclipse totally passed--i enjoyed the heck out of it.
the thing is, i've never read the books, which in the case of the twilight series pretty much ups my personal enjoyment quotient (what's with all the quotients, me?). so i don't really have an opinion on how well the characters are represented. but i like the direction the movies seem to be going in ("you shouldn't end a sentence with a preposition at"). the first movie, twilight, we saw in a theater full of screaming teens in homemade shirts, which was just awesome, period. i wasn't wild about the movie, but i did think that it filled its purpose--that is, if it's a vehicle for something its whole audience is extremely excited about, then it did a really good job at being such a vehicle--it was, you know, sincere. i had certain issues with the fact that edward, having been alive for like 200 years, had only managed to come up with that one idiotic piano piece, but those are problems with the overall premise as opposed to the movie specifically, if you see what i'm getting at. plus i thought kristen stewart was really excellent as bella. the second movie, twilight 2: revenge of the twilightians was--yeah, i liked it more. the plot made no sense, but there were a lot of, like, shared moments between the director and the actors and the audience in which the film seemed to be saying, "we all know this is a little stupid, so let's give these characters some personality despite source material and genre." there was a lot of soundtrack going on. especially when bella's room was spinning. which is neither here nor there.
in eclipse, i liked that that same sort of tongue-in-cheek "personality despite characterization" thing was kind of stronger, maybe--and the plot actually seemed to be taking place at the same time as itself. it wasn't, like, playing all eleven strings of the string theory (hendecahedral dutch?? and i'm not sure there are eleven strings--and i don't know much about string theory [typical sra-ian metaphor])--instead, the plot seemed pretty linear. i liked it when edward and jacob had that conversation when jacob was warming bella with his body and edward said, "if i wasn't in love with her i could really go for you," and jacob said, "yeah, i'm not gay"*. and i feel like stewart and pattinson give the bella/edward relationship some believability. which, considering that the entire series was very obviously written as a means of gratifying the romantic desires of an author who didn't have a very fulfilling high school experience (YEOWCH, sra)**, is pretty impressive. also, i don't remember soundtrack specifics, but i do remember enjoying the music.
as always, the main draw was the audience. it wasn't opening weekend, so there were no homemade t-shirts or displays of fisticuffs between opposing team members, but there was a hard-core cadre of prepubers who must, at that point, have seen the movie like twelve times and knew exactly when to clap (the next generation is apparently very pro-vampire marriage). though nobody wolf-whistled charlie when he came onscreen, an audience reaction of which i've never had enough.
um, the end.
oh, i also really liked the tinkling noises that the vampires made when they broke (does that piece of foley info count as a spoiler?).
*this may not be a verbatim record of the verbal transaction being referenced.
**bear in mind that i haven't read the books. and that i understand--only too well--writing idiotic stories to get rid of high school hangups.
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