Episode III: Eclipse

I watched Eclipse again last night and I loved it more. Franco went with me and we double-dated with our friends Kelsey and Bryan. We had some fun before the show. Has anyone seen Airbender yet?

So this is what I wrote on June 30, after having watched Eclipse at midnight:

Bear with me...I'm sleep-deprived so I may not exactly be able to form cohesive sentences. I hope I can get my thoughts about Eclipse across while they're still fresh in my mind~ before they're clouded by other people's reviews.

**Read at your own discretion: there are some specific plot points mentioned that may spoil the movie for you if you haven't seen it.**

First off, the "Loves":

• the coloring in the film was finally normal~ it wasn't perpetually blue or brown-orange! Kudos to the new director.
• Kristen can finally act without blinking and licking her lips a bagillion times a second, and she formed full sentences without stuttering too much. Yay.
• Charlie!
• I thought the tribal council scene with Billy telling the legend of the third wife was done pretty well. Felt a bit rushed, but it got the point across.
• All the training scenes with Jasper & the Cullens. Finally some action and not just standing around looking pretty and saying one-word lines.
• The proposal scene: exactly as a I had pictured it, bed and all ;} I thought it was so cute when Edward's voice cracked: it reminded me of when Franco proposed to me! Ring was pretty~ glad they didn't make it an awful yellow-gold. Still am not a fan of the huge circular diamond set, but it is better than I expected.
• THE TENT SCENE. OMGness. My favorite! And when Jacob & Bella kiss...didn't feel any chemistry but it was still cute.

The "Likes":

• Okay, Bryce as Victoria wasn't that bad, but still, I missed Rachelle.
• I only liked Riley~ I understand why they made his role more prominant, but you weren't supposed to feel sorry for him, right? Cuz I didn't. At all.
• Seth--I think he did pretty well in the short time he was in the movie, as a human and as a wolf.
• I really enjoyed watching Jasper and Rosalie's histories. Break it up a little bit.

The "Meh, They Could Have Done Better With That's":

• Bella's wig. Her black, spiky Joan Jett hair would have looked a lot better than that ug-a-ly wig in some scenes. Bleh.
• Victoria's decapitation--wow. Didn't think it could look any more fake. I mean, of course it's fake, but it was a little too dramatic...
• Bree--not as I pictured her, a little too "young," which yes, I know she plays a newborn vampire and she's only 15 in real life, but in the Bree Tanner book and in her short scene in Eclipse, I pictured someone wildy different. Read Eclipse. She's supposed to have chin-length dark hair. Yeah.

Only one real dislike:

• Bad verbage. I know Jacob has a potty mouth, but did they really need to illustrate it that much in the film? I know, I know, it's only a few words, but still. Stephenie did just fine without them.