The Twilight Saga: Eclipse The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
2010 Directed by David Slade
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It all begins ... With a choice.
Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger as Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob, knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the ageless struggle between vampire and werewolf. With her graduation quickly approaching, Bella is confronted with the most important decision of her life.
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So here we go, my faithful followers. My very first review on Letterboxd. 'And look! It's Twilight! This will be one of those rants everyone's so good at!' No, you fool. It will not be one of those.
I watched this film as a prelude to sex. Or, that was my intention. I've always found silent sex rather uncomfortable and awkward, and I find a film playing in the background helps defuse any tensions there may be. 'Look,' I thought. 'Eclipse! My (now ex) girlfriend loves Eclipse. Let's have a big old watch of the first half hour of that and then get down to some wild vampire loving.'
She fell asleep 5 minutes in.But then, she's seen it…
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Eclipse might be the closest this series ever comes to entertaining (provided what I hear about the new film isn't true). There's some actual conflict and a looming threat that even when we're stuck with dull motionless scenes, it adds at least some sense of suspense to the proceedings.
For what director David Slade takes away in terms of New Moon's visual flourish (although this film still looks a ton better than the first installment, he adds in more atmosphere, and this is the first the series has ever come in terms of actually resembling the horror genre.
We even get some backstory on characters that I previously couldn't possibly give a single shit about,…
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I liked parts of it and none of them featured Taylor Lautner.
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Just no.
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Some stuff actually happens in this one...but I still don't give a shit
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After the second one was so bad that I enjoyed it purely as a comedy, the third was announced with David Slade of "Hard Candy" (2005) and "30 Days of Night" (2007) fame taking the director's chair. This ought to be good, right?
And yes, Slade actually manages to leave his mark on the franchise. Not only is there some remarkable camera-work, also for the first time in the series this entry shows the roots it owes to the horror genre. There's always a sense of impending doom and some seriously tense parts. Especially the flashbacks. He also knows exactly how to use the concept of "marble vampires" to make some seriously hardcore scenes without any gore and still stay…
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Props to David Slade for making this source material enjoyable. Not a dull moment with better effects and self-award humor that completely embraces the silliness of the source material. Complete entertainment!
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Nette Atmosphäre, nen paar Sprüche und eigentlich passiert 2 Stunden lang nix. Trotzdem weit besser als Teil 2.
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The first two Twilight movies were at least somewhat entertaining due to their absurdity on an almost Birdemic-like level. This one, though, is just a snooze fest. Jacob and Edward fight for 90 minutes about which one can protect Bella better while literally taking turns carrying her to safety.
Then, the vampires and werewolves fight Victoria. I've seen three of these damn movies so far and I still don't really understand why Victoria is a threat or how she relates to the story at all or anything.
Thanks to David Slade's direction, the werewolf/vampire battle at the end is pretty cool to watch, though.
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Darker and a bit better then the New Moon but never knew that one of the Eclipse stars are australian like Xavier Samuel and Rachelle Lefevere was replace by Bryce Dallas Howard same as Terrence Howard who also been Replace by Don Cheable in Iron Man 2 in same year before the Breaking Dawns release two years later, With 3 Twilight films down and 2 to go then I'm finished with this lot.
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After the second one was so bad that I enjoyed it purely as a comedy, the third was announced with David Slade of "Hard Candy" (2005) and "30 Days of Night" (2007) fame taking the director's chair. This ought to be good, right?
And yes, Slade actually manages to leave his mark on the franchise. Not only is there some remarkable camera-work, also for the first time in the series this entry shows the roots it owes to the horror genre. There's always a sense of impending doom and some seriously tense parts. Especially the flashbacks. He also knows exactly how to use the concept of "marble vampires" to make some seriously hardcore scenes without any gore and still stay…
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This movie may be marginally better than the one that preceded it, but not by much. It seems like the characters keep having the same conversations over and over again and it gets rather tiring. There's still some disturbing attitudes toward women on display here and I worry what teenage girls learn from these films. There is the hint of an interesting plotline with the promise of a nice fight scene, but sadly, the fight scene is merely competent and much too short.
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Yes, there's still the horrible love triangle that I dislike in so many ways, but it has improved direction and acting which makes this entry much more watchable than the previous two films. It's a good improvement for the franchise.
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Aside from the ropey CGI, the comical dialogue and the complete ridiculousness of it all, I quite enjoyed my first (the series 3rd) entry into the Twilight saga. If you forget Vampirelore then other than its complete absurdity, it is a throughly entertaining film.
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FINALLY, Jasper is kind of hot.