Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by Brian A (A) on November 26, 2012 at 12:13:51

Okay, as you all are aware, to keep communication lines open with my teen-aged daughter, I have read all the Twilight books and watched the movies with her. Just saw the final movie, the fifth one, Breaking Dawn II.

The book was about unbearable, with massive amounts of description of the love cottage Bella and Edward got. The only thing that kept me going was the massive build up of an epic vampire battle. If you don't know, vampires have amazing levels of strength and speed. And, if that wasn't enough, several of them have other supernatural powers making them even more formidable.

Well we are about to start the epic battle I'd slogged through many hundreds of pages to get to, and they resolve the problem and its Kumbaya time. No flaming beheaded vampire corpses. I nearly threw the book across the room.

I was quite intrigued on what they would do in the movie, for we would have thousands of angered teen-aged girls shooting up theaters with an ending like that.

Well in the movie, they really did have the battle. It was great, but many favorite characters get killed. Starting with Carlisle, the beloved leader of the "good" vampires that stressed a "vegetarian" diet of wild animals rather than humans. Anyways, the fight was epic and lots of action and deaths. THEN you find out the battle was simply a vision of Alice, a vampire that has the ability to look into the future bases upon people's present decisions. That is, if a person changes his mind, the future will change. So, we got to see the battle, yet no one gets killed. A good ending, I thought, seeing how you must stay somewhat true to the book. Then there was a half-hearted attempt to open a possible sequal, but I didn't buy it.

Stephanie Meyers, the near billionaire and author of the books, said in an interview she just couldn't kill off any of her beloved characters so she wimped out with the battle in her book.

Anyways, any pain suffered in the reading and viewing of these was well paid for with all the quality time with the daughter.

I am going through this again with the Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins.


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