The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 (2011)

Rating: 40%

Well once again we have another Twilight film to take a look at. I have figured that it would go pretty downhill after Eclipse. Because Eclipse had better story and the movie all around turned out to be much more acceptable. Breaking Dawn isn't as good as Eclipse book-wise in my opinion so I thought it would just stay really, really bad like the rest of the films. But it turns out - while it's not better than Eclipse - that it did manage to become a little bit amusing.


Plot: Well now that Edward and Bella have graduated and have now gotten rid of Victoria once and for all, they now are getting married. As per usual, Jacob gets very pissed off because of this. But they do get married and then go off in trheir honeymoon where they destroy the bed while doing it, and pick random areas to...play chess... I really don't think that was in the book and even then...that's just lame. But then just fourteen days after their wedding, Bella becomes pregnant and considering that apparently never happens between a vampire and a human, everyone gets scared and the fetus grows inside Bella really quickly and is apparently killing Bella.

Once again, this movie is generally good in any possible way just for the fans. But it did manage to have actual ups along with the downs. The main up was how they made Bella look during her pregnancy. she was looking really bony and grayish. I mean she looked like a totally different person, they did just a good job with that. And at least there was at some action, which I didn't think there would be any considering that Eclipse is the one that has the really big battle unlike the rest of the books. But there were some downs aside from the acting which I'll of coarse get to. For one thing, the first time the wolves got together, it did start out well because the wolves where barking and moving around to show how they were feeling about the situation. I mean I liked that, because I though they were just going to stand in a circle while talking through their thoughts. But they didn't which was nice. But what ruined it was Jacob overcoming Sam's power or whatever. It's was just so cheesy how Jacob is bowing at first but then rises up while shouting via his thoughts that he's a decedent of this chief and stuff like that. That just ruined it for me. Another down is when Jacob imprints on Renesmee and we get so see what she's already going to look like growing up. In a way that works, but...I don't know. In a way I think it was a good idea, but at the same note, I wanted to wait until the next movie to see what she looks like as she's growing up. And then *WARNING, SPOILER ALERT* after Bella gave birth, Edward tried turning her into a vampire by ejecting his venom into her rather than biting her. And then when she's transforming, Carlisle is telling Edward that she's going to be okay by telling him to 'listen to her heart'...DUDE!!!!! SHE'S BECOMING A FRICKING VAMPIRE!!!! VAMPIRES' HEARTS ARE FROZEN SOLID!!!!! But I think the worst *WARNING, ANOTHER SPOILER* was that the movie ended with a shot of her eyes just as she opens them, which is just the same darn ending as in Avatar. It was just about the same camera angle and shot and everything. That's just so stupid.


Actors/Characters:
Robert Patterson/Edward Cullen: Well it's remarkable the he had a little more emotion amidst of just standing their with his eyes half closed. But you just have to like it when he tried to act a really angry halfway through the movie.
Kristen Stewart/Bella Cullen: Same psalm, 5th verse. little bit more emotion but still.
Taylor Lautner/Jacob Black: Okay ruining that werewolves scene aside, he was still as bad as Patterson and Stewart. He even cried and it wasn't very believable.
Ashley Greene/Alice Cullen: She seemed to have done only half her job as Alice. Wspecially in the beginning which I didn't like because I like Alice's personality and it sucks that Geene didn't entirely give us that character as much as she use to.


Music: If there was one thing I noticed particularly in the first half of the film that's just sad, it's just how that half of the movie made me realize how much the entire movie franchise fails in terms of music. I mean, a lot of the music they play are a bunch of songs from various artists that very few of us have heard of, and the actual score is pretty much never worth noticing anyway. That's just sad.

Editing: There were plenty of editing points that I didn't like. The only one I can remember is one of Jacob where he's just standing there waiting - at first in a wide shot, then less then a second later it turns roughly to a medium shot, and then not even a second after that, a medium close-up. But they did a very good job with Bella giving birth with making so many cuts - especially in the beginning - to build up the suspense.

And that's my review for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1. It's still not a good movie, but I think they did enough to make it at least the second best of the movie franchise.