Well, not sure if there is another post out there about this topic, but as I couldn't find one... here it is!
I have just started to read the series again for the 3rd time. I'm 100% hooked and addicted to these books. For me it is the story that I never wrote - sounds far fetched I guess, but believe it or not I attempted a similar story while I was still at School. I stumbled and faltered when it came to doing histroy research! LOL, as vampires live forever a certain amount of History is required in the telling of the tale.
I can't wait to see the next film New Moon due for release in November 2009.
I also am really enjoying the soundtrack, I had heard of Muse before but never paid any attention to them, (after all I do have The Cure taking most of my time!!). But I think I'm a fan now. Also The Black Ghosts 'full moon' song on the soundtrack is a GREAT GREAT song!
I checked out the Author's website http://www.stepheniemeyer.com/ (http://www.stepheniemeyer.com/)
She has a playlist on there for each book, and I have to say she has some great choices there. I had to check that part out to see if The Cure featured in there at all - regretfully they do not. I guess Mrs Meyer is not a Cure fan. But thats not to say that the musical director for the following films won't include The Cure somewhere at some point... I can only hope and pray on that front!
I have several issues with the Twilight film, several which invlove really bad script plot choices - but then I always tend to pick things to pieces and have a good ol' **** about them!! I absolutly LOVE Mr Rob. Pattinson as Edward Cullen. He can be so very 'smouldering' on screen... which is perfect for the role. I don't like his music all that much - just not to my taste really.
I am most excited about the following films - as I am really interested to see how they handle the last stages of the final book Breaking Dawn. If you've read the books, I would hope you know what I'm getting at here!
Also, if anyone that goes to Steph. Meyer's website and manages to download the pdfs for Midnight Sun - can you please send me a copy, or post it here or someting. I can't get it for some reason and I'm DYING to read it!
I also reckon that this series will grow with at least another two books in the offing, one being the unfinished Midnight Sun, which is the story through Edwards eyes... and then a continuation of the story from Breaking Dawn. You can just see that the Volturi are gonna be back for more!!!!
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f8/Twilight_Saga_Collection.jpg)
i absolutely LOVE the twilight series as well. i have all the books and it got me into reading in english because there was no way i could have waited for the books to be translated!!!
i really enjoy the music as well and in my opinion the movie is great. yes there is some trouble with the script, but for me it captures the FEELING of the whole story very good.
i have to say that i really like edward but my heart belongs to jacob - i just don't like people that are perfect :-)
in one point i disagree: i don't think there should be more books. that would only ruin everything as they could never be as good as the others!!!
Quote from: alwaysprayingforRAIN on May 08, 2009, 17:16:41
i have to say that i really like edward but my heart belongs to jacob - i just don't like people that are perfect :-)
Ah, I see your a WOLF PACK 'girl' (I just assume that your female) I'm a bloodsucker/leech lover!! Hehehehe.... seems your one or the other! Congrats on your determination to read the books in English - that is impressive to me! :smth023
Quote from: ~*CherryRed*~ on May 09, 2009, 10:57:53
Quote from: alwaysprayingforRAIN on May 08, 2009, 17:16:41
i have to say that i really like edward but my heart belongs to jacob - i just don't like people that are perfect :-)
Ah, I see your a WOLF PACK 'girl' (I just assume that your female) I'm a bloodsucker/leech lover!! Hehehehe.... seems your one or the other! Congrats on your determination to read the books in English - that is impressive to me! :smth023
well i don't hate vampires i just think that i would feel horrible next to edward and on top of that i need to argue a little from time to time and that ' whatever you want baby' would drive me insane ;)
I've had screaming fights with my girlfriends when they said they hated jacob... i can take a ' i prefer edward' but hate ????
well all in all there is something for everybody, right ? :D
I expect to read all series in June. Currently I'm reading A.Camus collection that my friend gave me. Meanwhile I've read just 'The Stranger', just to have notion of 'Killing An Arab' song :smth023
But I watched 'Twilight' movie few weeks ago and it seemed very nice idea & movie in general. Will see what book present itself ;)
More hope & anymore time... :lol:
Quote from: wish-man on May 09, 2009, 21:38:03
I expect to read all series in June. Currently I'm reading A.Camus collection that my friend gave me. Meanwhile I've read just 'The Stranger', just to have notion of 'Killing An Arab' song :smth023
But I watched 'Twilight' movie few weeks ago and it seemed very nice idea & movie in general. Will see what book present itself ;)
More hope & anymore time... :lol:
yes the movie was good, but if you liked it you have to read the book. it is so so so much better!!!!!
i hope you can find the time. it is just awesome :D
btw I've been wanting to read The Stranger... is it good ??
Quote from: alwaysprayingforRAIN on May 09, 2009, 23:09:11
yes the movie was good, but if you liked it you have to read the book. it is so so so much better!!!!!
i hope you can find the time. it is just awesome :D
btw I've been wanting to read The Stranger... is it good ??
Thanks for recommendation! :D
Yes, 'The Stranger' was quiet good enough book for me. Its not sort of 'one of the best book I ever read', but it's pretty good! Now I'm reading 'Caligula' and while it seems more intresting to me than 'Stranger' :lol:
Hehehe... hows this, I bought myself a Team Edward shirt the other day! LOL, So I'm now all 'official' if you like! :roll: (ah - when will this obssession ease???)
Quote from: wish-man on May 10, 2009, 12:04:34
Quote from: alwaysprayingforRAIN on May 09, 2009, 23:09:11
yes the movie was good, but if you liked it you have to read the book. it is so so so much better!!!!!
i hope you can find the time. it is just awesome :D
btw I've been wanting to read The Stranger... is it good ??
Thanks for recommendation! :D
Yes, 'The Stranger' was quiet good enough book for me. Its not sort of 'one of the best book I ever read', but it's pretty good! Now I'm reading 'Caligula' and while it seems more intresting to me than 'Stranger' :lol:
thanks for your recommendation, too. i guess I'm going to read it. I'm so fast and I'm always out of books anyway :-)
Quote from: ~*CherryRed*~ on May 11, 2009, 06:59:01
Hehehe... hows this, I bought myself a Team Edward shirt the other day! LOL, So I'm now all 'official' if you like! :roll: (ah - when will this obssession ease???)
ohhhhhh the enemy!!!! grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr ^^
i hear they sell that team edward/jacob on underwear, too. don't tell me you would buy that cause then I'm calling the shrink haha!!!!!!! :smth100
Hahahahahahaha.... no underwear things aren't my bag baby! I'm far to flabby to be flashing my undies to the world to show of a TEAM EDWARD logo!!!!
I saw a photo of the Wolf Pack online somewhere (I'll try and find it and post it here) for the next film - and I must say they look SPECTACULAR! Fine examples of the male form I have to say! I may have to turn Wolfie!!! (nah, I'm leechlover thru and thru!)
i really hope that the special effects are better for this one.... they could really ruin the wolves with that!!! they should have more money for this one though. did you hear that a woman found the script in the garbage of a hotel ????? thank god she didn't sell it on the internet or something... :shock:
(http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s206/CherryRedBoots/Film%20and%20TV%20Photos/New_Moon_Wolf_Pack.jpg)
Here is that image of the Wolf Pack that I mentioned before... They are an extremly good looking bunch, do you not think!?
Yeah I hope the special effects are better in the next film also. I hope they don't change the 'sparkle' skin effect though, as that does work in my opinion, and I hate film makers changing things through the series (I refer to the Harry Potter series here as being the worst at changing the look of things from film to film). I can't wait to see the Wolf Boys 'shiver' with rage before they change, I just hope it works! I didn't really 'buy' the vampires running effect either... but what are you gonna do???
Finding the script in a bin in a hotel room sounds rather bizarre to me - what some people won't do to leak things hey!?! Glad she didn't buy into that and sell it on or post it on the web. Some mystery is good for your health!! I'm really dying here, waiting for the next film! But thats healthy for me...... :-D
http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20234559_20234565_20279381_2,00.html
this is the only good thing abt twilight
Quote from: derektrainwreck on June 12, 2009, 19:12:40
http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20234559_20234565_20279381_2,00.html
this is the only good thing abt twilight
if you think so..... :roll:
Ha, I just had a look at the link provided by derektrainwreck... hmm, he is well developed! And so the daydreaming continues!!! :-D
Quote from: ~*CherryRed*~ on June 17, 2009, 02:29:03
Ha, I just had a look at the link provided by derektrainwreck... hmm, he is well developed! And so the daydreaming continues!!! :-D
haha i think he looks kind of cold or something... :lol:
when does the second twilight movie come out in your country ? i have to wait till january :?
19th November... am planning a girls night out for it! :-D
Absolutely terrible book and an even worse movie. And I actually read the whole f*cking thing and oh my god. Its no different than those god damn drugstore romance novels with a Fabio-esque man on the cover embracing a Mary-Sue idealization of the author. Only tweaked perfectly so that teenage girls would LOVE it. Its kind of brilliant actually when you look at it in terms of pure business.
The movie was even worse, it was boring, badly acted, and just f*cking bland. It exists as a grey blob of a movie that trickles down onto your forehead at a glacial pace. I mean maybe if they made all four books into one movie THEN you might have something watchable but as it is its just catering to no one but the people who read the books and loved the books.
And its not like I have anything against romance or "chick flicks", Hell I even liked Titanic and The Notebook and I couldn't stand this drivel.
EDIT: My god, I'm rather inflammatory today. Honestly I don't really even care about its massive fanbase. If they like it thats cool. I just think its perfectly shitty on its own merit.
i was wondering if i'm the only one who sees the movie (haven't read the book) as a sort of a macabre comedy, not only as a silly romance flick? at the same time i know it's possible to watch it simply as an overly romantic old-fashioned romeo and julia story (and probably most people see it that way and want to see it that way).
i wasn't actually expecting anything else that a hollow romance flick myself either (which i just can't stand): and i do confess that the only reason i finally decided to watch it was because i thought i needed to see it so i could slag it off as something silly (just like harry potters: something wayyy over hyped, empty and totally unoriginal - just dreadful). and yet, 20 minutes into the movie here and i was thinking "wt..?" because against all odds i found myself quite thrilled and thoroughly entertained by that macabre feeling it created. for instance, carlisle's profession: he's a doctor. i was laughing when he entered the scene. sure, there are some awkward lines in the script too but mostly it manages to turn those into its profit (thanks to the director). the casting is pretty good throughout, especially many the supporting parts. and i'm glad they got an english actor in the lead.
the soundtrack too by the way (i like the baseball scene with 'supermassive black hole' playing in the background).
i read someone somewhere saying how the movie was an absolute bore because "nothing happens during the first hour" and how there's only very little action towards the end. imo the only part of the movie that doesn't work is that action stuff - that's when it does become dull. it's an action sequence which seems to be there for conventional purposes only, it's something that has to be there in order it to sell. oh well.
but even then the movie somewhat manages to pick up after that in the very end, so ultimately it's more or less saved.
i really appreciate the director, i think she's done a good job there by managing to include a hint of some sort of dark comedy all through.
i also read someone in amazon.com reviews complaining how the movie is totally stupid, asking "what does it teach anyone of relationship?". well if one really does need to find such moral on every story out there, i think it actually teaches a lot by showing how impossible relationships are and how things will always most likely end up in complete ruin anyway (can you see how i really hate happy endings? ;)).
i haven't read the books, not sure if i even will. i fear the story will probably end up happily despite everything & blah blah blah and i know that to me that would be a total anticlimax.
i'm not at all sure if i want to see any of the movie sequels either. they changed the director so i'm not sure it'll work anymore. perhaps the story is just silly from there on anyway. at least the trailer for 'new moon' looks totally ridiculous, it looks like "hunks - the movie" or something. :oops: hey thanks but no thanks.
i haven't seen the second movie either, because i absolutely hated the trailer and it seems to have even more 'unplanned comedy' in it than the first one...
i couldn't help but laugh in some scenes e.g. the tree climbing or when he's trying to stop himself from **** bella dry..
i have to agree though that the cast and the soundtrack is pretty good and they could have done a worse job on it.
if you ever feel like reading: enjoy the first one and leave out the rest!! the third one is ok. but you'd have to read the fourth as well and that one is just dreadful and unoriginal. like she ran out of ideas and was looking for the weirdest way to finish the story...
Quote from: alwaysprayingforRAIN on December 31, 2009, 12:28:57
i haven't seen the second movie either, because i absolutely hated the trailer and it seems to have even more 'unplanned comedy' in it than the first one..
i couldn't help but laugh in some scenes e.g. the tree climbing or when he's trying to stop himself from **** bella dry..
i have to agree though that the cast and the soundtrack is pretty good and they could have done a worse job on it.
ok well, i was too curious and went to see the second film. it was not early quite as bad as i feared, but it lacks most of the small things that made the first movie interesting. where's all the weird humor, all those details and "on the verge of hilarious" things that made the first movie so entertaining? i mean, the first movie is full of all those memorable little scenes like carlisle's entrance - which i actually think is one of the best movie character entrances ever :smth023; or, all those weird faces and odd looks that pattinson makes throughout the film - they're totally missing from the second movie. which is a shame, because good actors just get wasted there. what i really liked about the first film was all that odd macabre weirdness, all those little things, all the professionalism in them.
i think 'the unplanned comedy' i the first film was mostly great, the cast made it work which i really liked(!). but whenever the second film steps on that realm it simply becomes bad kind of 'uplanned comedy'. the director couldn't handle it - what a shame they changed director! i feel they took the second one just way too seriously, like as if the director just told everyone to act as little as possible and forget who the characters were supposed to be - wt..?
the visual look of the volturi fight scene at the end of the second film was good, although short. but it was one of the few moments in the second film where i felt like they invented something.
i still think the first movie deserves credit. sure, there were scenes which made me want to laugh (and sometimes did), but in a weird way there was something there that made it work at the same time. like at the baseball scene, facing the "nomads": they look like some damn power rangers which should look simply totally stupid. but it didn't, somehow it worked. i liked all that!
special effects: i heard that with 'twilight' they were actually thinking they were just making a sort of low budget cult film there, not a blockbuster hit. true? not sure. anyway, i'm not bothered by the effects in the first film. the wolf tranformations effect of the second film were the ones that made me laugh (that embarrassed laughter). i think the effects in the first movie worked because they didn't take the focus out of the characters and the story. the wolf-stuff is doing that, making the effects too important. to me that's where it starts getting a bit boring.
Quote from: alwaysprayingforRAIN on December 31, 2009, 12:28:57
if you ever feel like reading: enjoy the first one and leave out the rest!! the third one is ok. but you'd have to read the fourth as well and that one is just dreadful and unoriginal. like she ran out of ideas and was looking for the weirdest way to finish the story...
i've been bored on the holidays so i read the first book. i thik meyers really can't write much, it's mostly pretty amateurish from the literary point of view. but she was good in creating the characters and the setting for the story - she had a good idea for a story and that makes it kind of bearable reading once.
imo the first movie/book is a good example of a situation where the movie is actually a lot better than the book. it's more dimensional and has more depth than the book which is actually a bit repetitive.