Part of the Twilight Marathon

I kind of have to applaud New Moon and its director for polishing up in terms of how the film looks. Chris Weitz seems determined to turn the whole film into the proper melodrama these things should be rather than Catherine Hardwicke's dull predecessor.

And I must say, during the opening of the film, I was actually convinced that New Moon might turn out to be a rather competent film. There's some good setup here and an attempt to add intrigue to this story. There's the looming threat of Victoria from the previous film, The Volturi (more on that later), and there's also an attempt to add some depth and overall growth to Bella's character,…

There's a copy of Romeo & Juliet displayed prominently at the beginning of this. Yeah, we get it, Twilight! It's like Romeo and Juliet! This movie isn't smart by any means, but they don't trust their idiot fans to get even the slightest subtlety, so we get a big glimpse of this Romeo and Juliet book and, later, when Bella looks out a window the scenery changes from fall to winter in a montage, yet we still get the title cards that say "October," "November," "December." Did the director think the audience would be baffled that the weather changed from fall to blizzards in the blink of an eye? Why spell out, literally, that time has elapsed when we can clearly…

Now I know what you're thinking! "Five stars? Is he mental?" Well maybe I am. To me, there is a problem with rating this movie. It is bad. But to me, it's so bad that it's good. I was dragged to the theater in 2009 and had hands down the most fun all year. So based on my enjoyment I absolutely loved this movie. Naturally everyone else in the theater hated me. But how do you rate such a film? Do you watch "Plan 9 from Outer Space" (1959) and go "Booo! Zero stars!" or do you go "Five stars! That was amazing!"?

It seems they threw all seriousness out of the window and made every single scene completely over…

This may be the worst installment of the Twilight saga, coming right on the heels of the best. There are two reasons for that. First, we're seeing more of the supernatural in this film, adding in werewolves and a vampire council. By bringing these elements out to the forefront, it only shines a spotlight on how ill-conceived said elements are, as I mentioned when I wrote about Twilight. The second, and more important reason why this is the worst Twilight movie is because Kristen Stewart gives a performance that makes me want to blind and deafen myself. With a spork.

Look, Stewart's not totally to blame. Her character is HORRIBLY written here and I find it completely unbelievable that any…