New Moon: Worth the Wait
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November 23, 2009
Filed under A&E
Wow, how do I even begin to explain how incredibly amazing this movie is? Well, the movie starts out with Bella having a super crazy dream where she was an old lady and Edward, still 17 and dazzling as ever, tells her happy birthday and kisses her hand. Uh, kind of gross, but I’ll let that one slide. Bella has some serious issues about turning 18 because it’s one year older than Edward, which I thought was just really random and to be honest a bit stupid. It’s one year difference…not that big of a deal.
So, they’re in English class, watching Romeo and Juliet. I was honestly glad to see they used this in the movie, because this was the basis for the whole story plot. It loosely follows the play, and I found it a sort of foreshadowing to later events in the movie.
Skip to the end of the night. Party at the Cullen house…Bella, clumsy as ever, gets a paper cut, which, in my opinion, bled way too much. Jasper catches the scent, tries to suck her blood…and Edward is just stupid for pushing her into more glass, so she bleeds even more. Yeah, great way of protecting her. She gets all stitched up, and then Edward takes her home, and then she doesn’t see him for the next couple of days.
Okay, this is the sad part. Edward takes Bella out to the woods, tells her his family is moving, and he doesn’t want her to come with him. He tells her she doesn’t belong in his world. “This is the last time you will ever see me. I won’t come back. It will be as if I never existed,” he tells her, and leaves her brokenhearted. I completely started crying during this whole scene. It was genuinely sad. I felt as if Robert Pattinson, who plays Edward, completely understood the feelings and mood of the whole scene and portrayed those emotions beautifully.
Kristen Stewart, who plays Bella Swan, actually did a good job of acting depressed while Edward was away. The camera circled around her in a chair, staring blankly ahead as the months passed. I was thoroughly impressed with her acting ability this movie. But one thing I did find strange: Bella’s character throughout the whole movie writes e-mails to Alice’s invalid e-mail address, telling her everything that’s been happening with her life and how she feels. Why would she write to someone she knew wasn’t getting any of her messages?
Another thing I was superbly impressed with: the Edward apparitions. For any of those who have read the book, you know whenever Bella does something reckless and dangerous she hears Edward’s voice in her head. Well, in the movie, she sees his apparition. He’s standing right in front of her, transparent like a ghost, and fades away whenever she listens to his warnings. She turns adrenaline junkie just to see him. So she gets some beaten up motorcycles, and hopes to learn how to ride.
Enter Jacob Black, the other man in the story. Bella turns to him to help fix the bikes up, and soon they are spending every day together. They are best friends. And as Bella says in the movie, whenever she’s with Jacob, she feels almost whole again. Jacob made her feel alive, and a little less depressed. He made her happy enough to the point where she gets a group of her friends to go to the movies. And surprise, surprise: only Mike, who has a hopeless crush of Bella, and Jacob, who is in love with her by this point, are able to go. She sits awkwardly through the movie, until Mike stands up and rushes to the bathroom, about to puke. Jacob takes her hand and promises he will never hurt her the way Edward has.
But of course he breaks the promise, right? And the reason? Jacob turns into a werewolf and isn’t allowed to tell her. Well, let me tell you, most of the scenes in the movie Taylor Lautner has his shirt off, and his abs are perfect. Literally, every girl in the movie screamed when he took his shirt off and his amazing six pack filled up the screen. It was that entertaining.
And once Bella finally gets the clue Jacob is a werewolf, everything starts to get a little weird. It wasn’t quite clear to me why Jacob was off chasing a vampire instead of waiting for the vampire to come to them. Bella, feeling alone, jumps off the cliff and Jacob saves the day. Alice comes back, causes tension for Bella and Jacob, but they smooth it over in the kitchen. In that one scene, the chemistry between Kristen and Taylor was astounding. He pulls her forward, their lips just lightly touch…and then the phone rings.
Guess who’s calling? Edward, and he thinks Bella is dead, so he rushes off to the Volturi to get killed. Alice and Bella rush to save his life, and miraculously they get there just in time.
This is where the movie started to get a little confusing to me. They’re at the Volturi, and I understand they were going to kill Bella for knowing too much about vampires, but they had this huge fight. I must admit it looked really cool, what with the vampire speed blurring before my eyes, but I just didn’t think the fight was necessary.
Back in Forks, Jacob comes to talk to Edward and Bella, and he gets so mad he turns into a werewolf and Bella has to break up the almost fight. I didn’t think they needed that either, but I guess they needed to do some more of the CGI werewolf. Jacob leaves, and we get the biggest cliffhanger of our lifetime. Last words of the movie: “Bella, marry me.” There were so many groans in the movie theater, mine included. I was thinking, I have to wait six more months (June 30th to be exact) until the next movie comes out to see what she’s going to say. What a way to end the movie!
So, all in all, I thought it most definitely lived up to all the hype and press it has been getting. It was a million years better than the first film. The acting was great, the actors completely embodied their characters, and there was more going on. Werewolves, heartbreaks, and love triangles consumed us all. It’s definitely a movie worthy seeing more than once.
Written by Hailee Morgante
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