Twilight Saga Mania

Well, I got to go see it this afternoon and I can say it lived up to my expectations. I was looking forward to this over the rest because this book had the most action in it. The battle at the end was awesome and the back story leading up to it was very deep and gave you a deeper understanding of what the Cullen’s and other characters went through.

So, I have to say it stayed really close to the source and didn’t disappoint. It didn’t really go as deep into the back story as I’d of liked and I felt the ending battle scene was rushed. Even though I knew what was coming. They build it throughout the entirety of the movie and then the wall come crashing down. The triangle between Bella, Edward, and Jake is very well done and they make the jabs at each other come out and had the audience laughing.

They really didn’t go as much into the whole Riley story and I felt that Seth didn’t get his due credit. After all if he didn’t intervene, I doubt Edward could have taken Victoria and Riley.

Speaking of Victoria, Bryce Dallas Howard did a fair job. It just didn’t seem like Victoria though. The hair was much more red and of course her voice is very high and femine. They could have brought her voice down a little more. She just didn’t seem very scary like Rachelle did.

Overall I think the movie was well done and David Slade did a good job directing it.

I am excited that Breaking Dawn is next, but not that I have to see in over the next 2 years since they split it up.

I give it 4.5/5 stars.

Here is the new trailer for Eclipse starring Robert Pattinson (Edward Cullen), Kristen Stewart (Bella Swan), and Taylor Lautner (Jacob Black).

It would have been nice to see a little taste of the many fight scenes we know are coming. I’m sure we’ll see more as additional trailers are released. It was good to see how the new Victoria will look. While, it is obvious she is being played by a different actress. I don’t think it’ll make much difference in the end.

I can’t wait to see more.

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Twilight was released in 2008.

Here’s a synopsis:

Bella Swan has always been a little bit different. Never one to run with the crowd, Bella never cared about fitting in with the trendy, plastic girls at her Phoenix, Arizona high school.

When her mother remarried and Bella chooses to live with her father in the rainy little town of Forks, Washington, she didn’t expect much of anything to change. But things do change when she meets the mysterious and dazzlingly beautiful Edward Cullen. For Edward is nothing like any boy she’s ever met.

He’s nothing like anyone she’s ever met, period. He’s intelligent and witty, and he seems to see straight into her soul. In no time at all, they are swept up in a passionate and decidedly unorthodox romance – unorthodox because Edward really isn’t like the other boys. He can run faster than a mountain lion. He can stop a moving car with his bare hands. Oh, and he hasn’t aged since 1918. Like all vampires, he’s immortal. That’s right – vampire. But he doesn’t have fangs – that’s just in the movies. And he doesn’t drink human blood, though Edward and his family are unique among vampires in that lifestyle choice.

To Edward, Bella is that thing he has waited 90 years for – a soul mate. But the closer they get, the more Edward must struggle to resist the primal pull of her scent, which could send him into an uncontrollable frenzy. Somehow or other, they will have to manage their unmanageable love.

But when unexpected visitors come to town and realize that there is a human among them Edward must fight to save Bella? A modern, visual, and visceral Romeo and Juliet story of the ultimate forbidden love affair – between vampire and mortal.

- Summit entertainment

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Stephenie Meyer’s life changed dramatically on June 2, 2003.

The stay-at-home mother of three young sons woke-up from a dream featuring seemingly real characters that she could not get out of her head.  “Though I had a million things to do (i.e. making breakfast for hungry children, dressing and changing the diapers of said children, finding the swimsuits that no one ever puts away in the right place), I stayed in bed, thinking about the dream. Unwillingly, I eventually got up and did the immediate necessities, and then put everything that I possibly could on the back burner and sat down at the computer to write—something I hadn’t done in so long that I wondered why I was bothering.”  Meyer invented the plot during the day through swim lessons and potty training, then writing it out late at night when the house was quiet.  Three months later she finished her first novel, Twilight.

Twilight was one of 2005’s most talked about novels and within weeks of its release the book debuted at #5 on The New York Times bestseller list.  Among its many accolades, Twilight was named an “ALA Top Ten Books for Young Adults,” an Amazon.com “Best Book of the Decade&So Far”, and a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year.  The movie version of Twilight was released by Summit Entertainment nationwide on November 21, 2008, starring Kristen Stewart (“Into The Wild”) and Robert Pattinson (“Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”).

The highly-anticipated sequel, New Moon, was released in September 2006 and spent 31 weeks at the #1 position on The New York Times bestseller list.  Eclipse, the third book in Meyer’s Twilight saga, was released on August 7, 2007 and sold 150,000 copies its first day on-sale.  The book debuted at #1 bestseller lists across the country, including USA Today and The Wall Street Journal.   The fourth and final book in the Twilight Saga, Breaking Dawn, was published on August 2, 2008, with a first printing of 3.2 million copies – the largest first printing in the publisher’s history.   Breaking Dawn sold 1.3 million copies its first day on-sale rocketing the title to #1 on bestseller lists nationwide.

Meyer’s highly-anticipated debut for novel adults, The Host, was released by Little, Brown and Company in May 2008 and debuted at #1 on The New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller lists.

Stephenie Meyer graduated from Brigham Young University with a degree in English Literature.  She lives in Arizona with her husband and sons.