by AArdvark » Sat Nov 26, 2011 9:15 pm
This is more a reinforcing rant about cell phone use in a movie theater. I've mentioned this before but want to touch on it briefly before I get into My Big Fat Redneck Vampire Wedding.
I saw exactly the same amount of commercials that told me to turn off my phone as the amount of small blue lights in the rows in front of me. It's only for two house, people. Disconnect and be quiet for two hours, you can do that, huh?
One hundred and twenty minutes, it's not like you have to hold your breath for that long or anything. Just keep the flip phones flopped and the trap shut. This movie is hard enough to suspend disbelief without having to fight the added distractions of secret undercover texters. It's our own fault, though. With ten dozen content inputs surrounding us on a daily level it's small wonder we can even narrow our focus to a single thing like a movie anymore. Makes me wonder what the fifth generation down the road will be like; nah, I don't wanna think about it.
Lets talk Breaking Dawn.
I really rather would have stayed home and guarded the wine fridge or something. Overall it wasn't bad, I guess. I don't like the rules that these vampires play by. I blame Stephanie Meyers, it's all her fault. She's the executive producer so I guess they do what she says. I bet this one was mostly on her dime. So anyway, we all know they can live in the sunshine and just get sparkly, whatever. I'll take Anne Rice's vampire rules over these guys anyday.
There's all this political brew-ha between the vampires and werewolves concerning Bella's legal status of being a human in a vampire's bed, having his kid, finding out that the baby is super-powered. All this melodrama that she is the root cause, still, after four movies, everything revolves around her. She is the MacGuffin of every movie. Then I remembered, this is a teen romance novel gone huge.
There's also werewolf sub-plots going on, A cop-father that must be dumb as a rock if he can't see there's something really weird about the new son-in-law. Also a honeymoon desert island with bad help and a really cheap bed.
I compare this to a Harry Potter epic with more sex and romance. Least with Harry there weren't any established wizarding rules to break.
THE
SIX OUT OF TEN
AARDVARK
Everyone is undead by the end of the movie
This is more a reinforcing rant about cell phone use in a movie theater. I've mentioned this before but want to touch on it briefly before I get into My Big Fat Redneck Vampire Wedding.
I saw exactly the same amount of commercials that told me to turn off my phone as the amount of small blue lights in the rows in front of me. It's only for two house, people. Disconnect and be quiet for two hours, you can do that, huh?
One hundred and twenty minutes, it's not like you have to hold your breath for that long or anything. Just keep the flip phones flopped and the trap shut. This movie is hard enough to suspend disbelief without having to fight the added distractions of secret undercover texters. It's our own fault, though. With ten dozen content inputs surrounding us on a daily level it's small wonder we can even narrow our focus to a single thing like a movie anymore. Makes me wonder what the fifth generation down the road will be like; nah, I don't wanna think about it.
Lets talk Breaking Dawn.
I really rather would have stayed home and guarded the wine fridge or something. Overall it wasn't bad, I guess. I don't like the rules that these vampires play by. I blame Stephanie Meyers, it's all her fault. She's the executive producer so I guess they do what she says. I bet this one was mostly on her dime. So anyway, we all know they can live in the sunshine and just get sparkly, whatever. I'll take Anne Rice's vampire rules over these guys anyday.
There's all this political brew-ha between the vampires and werewolves concerning Bella's legal status of being a human in a vampire's bed, having his kid, finding out that the baby is super-powered. All this melodrama that she is the root cause, still, after four movies, everything revolves around her. She is the MacGuffin of every movie. Then I remembered, this is a teen romance novel gone huge.
There's also werewolf sub-plots going on, A cop-father that must be dumb as a rock if he can't see there's something really weird about the new son-in-law. Also a honeymoon desert island with bad help and a really cheap bed.
I compare this to a Harry Potter epic with more sex and romance. Least with Harry there weren't any established wizarding rules to break.
THE
SIX OUT OF TEN
AARDVARK
Everyone is undead by the end of the movie