First off, very disappointed I didn't get the new Harry Potter trailer. WTF?

Trailers I got were pretty much crap.

Buried - A lot of WTF? type reactions.
Charlie St. Cloud - obviously some positive reaction considering the target audience. No interest here though.
Eat Pray Love - Not much reaction. Looks okay.
Red - looks okay, but everyone's so old! Not much reaction to this.

The movie is a reasonably good adaptation of the book. There is A LOT of dialogue. The action scenes are well done. There are a few moments of humor added that were not in the book. The edits from the book didn't hurt it too much. All in all, it's probably the best movie of the 3 (I know that's not saying much for some of you).

Solid B.

I thought it was fantastic! Twilight was alright and New Moon very forgettable. But Eclipse really raised the stakes for the franchise. You can tell they are getting serious about these movies. Romance was believable; cheese kept to a minimum; action awesome. An R rating would just have been perfect but it's awesome just as is. With Bill Condon at the helms, Breaking Dawn can be truly a masterpiece! A-

ECLIPSE

I didn't read the book even though I have it. I guess I can read it now to see what's different. I watched it this afternoon and I enjoyed it. I felt it was on par or better than Twilight. It was definitely better than New Moon. I thought the action was very well done. I liked the chase sequence between Victoria and the Cullens and wolves early in the picture. I really enjoyed the flashbacks of Jasper and Esme. I thought the conversation Esme and Bella had was engaging. I liked learning more about the history of Jacob's tribe and newborn vampires. In this one, I think Jacob is a bit of a stalker or obsessive teenager. I can't imagine how tedious that's going to be reading that. Probably as annoying reading about Bella fawning over Edward every other page in Twilight. The relationship between Edward and Bella continues to expand and I guess they'll be getting married in the next flick. I'll have to read that book next month for sure. Overally, I was very satisfied with the picture and the final battle was good too. Victoria finally biting the dust was wonderful as well.

grade - A

**My showing did have the HP trailer and I can already see clips of the 2nd part of the Deathly Hallows...damn trailer creators ruining things.

***Who else thinks that Taylor's face has a young Steven Seagal look to it? Just me?

It's slightly better than the last one. 2/10.

To declare Eclipse the best Twilight film to date is an understatement. It is the Twilight franchise's The Empire Strikes Back. The Twilight franchise's The Wrath of Khan. The Twilight franchise's The Dark Knight. The film where what was good before becomes great. Director David Slade (Hard Candy, 30 Days of Night) and returning screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg are both in top, inspired form. His direction is superb. The action and suspense sequences (which are more plentiful than in the first film or New Moon) are exciting and stylish. The final battle (between the heroic Cullens, the Native American werewolves, and a nefarious group of "newborn," therefore super-strong, vampires) is tight and well-shot. I wish a single action sequence in Iron Man 2 had felt this vital. His directorial hand is just as sure when crafting the intimate, dialogue-driven romantic scenes. He and Rosenberg are unafraid of the conspicuous undercurrent of adolescent sexual longing--there is a real heat to the scenes, even though nothing is consumated.

Returning as human Bella, vampire Edward, and werewolf Jacob, the three members of the beloved supernatural love triangle, Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner are more comfortable than ever in their roles and therefore able to explore the characters more. Pattinson's Edward, for example, has never been more charming and loose. A honest, but tense heart-to-heart conversation between him and Jacob while Bella sleeps could be the best scene in a film with several memorable ones. The extensive supporting cast, including a fierce and fetching Bryce Dallas Howard (replacing Rachelle Lefevre as the villainous, revenge-minded Victoria), provide unblemished support.

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse is the best film of the summer thus far and one of the best films (or at least most entertaining films) of 2010. Oh, and the music must be mentioned! The Twilight saga is developing an indie-mix-tape reputation and Eclipse is no different. The film features new songs by Beck and Bat for Lashes, the Black Keys, Jack White's the Dead Weather, Cee-Lo Green (of Gnarls Barkley), Muse, Vampire Weekend, etc. Not bad, not bad at all. The Black Keys' "Chop and Change" opens the film with a particular bang.

A

I quite enjoyed it as well. Here is the opening to my review...



The rest can be read over at Insight Magazine's website at http://www.unrinsight.com/?p=5699.

Eclipse was my first Twilight movie and almost certainly will be my last^*.

It's like a horror themed mix of Dallas and Twin Peaks, except all cheesy and mushy, and targeted at kids girls.

I love pure romance, but this is just diluted angst.


1 out of 5.


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(^* I may be tempted to see the inevitable reboot crossover in 20 years: Werewolves & Vampires Vs. Klingons & Romulans - - I love that sci-fi spin on the horror genre (qv: Resident Evil series).)

(^* I would also pay good money to see a spin-off comedy movie franchise featuring the character of Bella's Dad as played by Billy Burke - - he was hilarious! )

(^* Come to think about it, that brokebackesque scene in the tent with Jacob and Edward flirting with each other was pretty darn hot. I could also be lured back to the series if it takes a hard u-turn and drops that monster Bella from the romantic equation.)

For a non-fan who has never fully seen Twilight nor New Moon (though I'm now more inclined to see them now than before), this doesn't get interesting until some fight sequences and a brokebackesque tent scene with the three leads.

B-

I feel that a prequel will likely happen sooner than a reboot, and the second one I can't afford to miss.

Bahaha, indeed. I was wondering the whole time why Edward wouldn't flash and go buy a portable heater or more blankets instead of letting the guy your girlfriend's in love with lie near naked with her.

Anyways, I liked it the best of the three. Around a B or B+ for me.

Probably the best of the three thanks to David Slade's focused and moody direction. It's certainly more entertaining and action packed than the previous two, and a major step up from the laughably bad New Moon. The problem is that I find the supporting characters so much more interesting and sympathetic in this franchise than the protagonists. It sucks to see great, talented actors such as Anna Kendrick and Peter Facinelli relegated to useless background roles while the boring Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson take up so much screentime. Also, Bella is the most pathetic character ever. End of story. B/B-

just walked into to this as I heard it was just a good movie...without knowing anything...never read the books, never saw the other movies, never listened or read any discussion on twilight overall.

after seeing KNIGHT AND DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > so I figured, I could see a chick flick!!!!!! LOL!

...so it was good enough....

2 favorite things, of things not mentioned.....

*** really liked the scene where the blonde told Bella what a mistake she was making in becoming a vamp.....

*** and really liked the girl's graduation speech....about just make mistakes now in trying to figure out life as it is the time to do it.....

But it is untrue that one learns only through mistakes.

well I don't think you learn too much through what comes easy/fast to you....

Actually this is probably the best Twilight yet. It still hasn't conquered some of its very cheesy dialogue, which can be tracked back to the pen of Ms. Meyer. However, this does advance the story a lot better especially with tracking some of the other Cullens' past along with showing that the Cullens face even more danger from other vampire groups. It does feel a lot like a build up for something big at the end, though. Hopefully it will be but from the sounds of it, the final isn't all great. **1/2

2/10 -> F

It's laughable how bad the third movie in the series actually is. While Twilight was simply boring, New Moon was laughably unnecessary, Eclipse is just the mix of the worst things about first two.

The whole red-head vampire girl revenge story ended in such a bad way and the whole thing felt like a TV episode (despite better production values, while previous movie looked like TV shows, this one feels like it if it doesn't look like it), only stretched over 2 hours for no apparent reason.

It's not worth wasting words on it.

dreadful, as all the films of this franchise

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Easily the best in the franchise - as faint as that praise is - but it's still not very good. It actually has some real action and David Slade knows how to direct, but the piss-poor writing and acting drag him down. But it's at least mediocre instead of soul-crushingly awful.

The word masterpiece was conceived in anticipation of this film.

Randomly decided to look at these threads with the video release of Breaking Dawn Pt. II. WTF at this having only 1 page, lol.

On this forum, I'd expect that.

God this might be my favorite movie besides BD part 2! The action was amazing, and Jacob was sexy as fuck (Edward IS hotter though haha). I’m Team Edward 4 lyfe