Lost the unique style

Rating: 4/10 (25 November 2009)

OK, so I absolutely love the books and know that in general the film is never as good. Although Twilight left a lot to be desired it did have a wonderful unique style to it which New Moon is very sadly lacking. New Moon as a standalone product is a very saleable and mass marketable production. However, compared to Twilight and especially the book series it's a laughable attempt. There are so many bad comments here about this film and I really didn't want to be another person with a bad thing to say but I simply had to put in to words my disappointment. New Moon says cheesy blockbuster all over it. Twilight had a delightful individualism to it that allowed me to overlook its flawed and pale comparison to the book. Everything was changed in New Moon, and not for the better. The colour temperature of the shot was all bright and Hollywoody! Isn't a whole part of the reason they're in 'Falks' supposed to be that it's rainy and dull all the time! The hair and makeup was way overdone, twilight was subtle. Audiences aren't stupid, you don't need to hit us in the face with the difference between humans and vampires, we did manage to pick up the more subtle effects in Twilight. I nearly burst out laughing the first look I got of Jasper. Bella's character seemed to have changed; I liked the rambled and stuttering Bella from Twilight, it feels like Kristen Stewart was directed to annunciate more so that the 'stupid audience' could understand her better. The score was very 'every other blockbuster' too, again Twilight was must more original and interesting and didn't use such a formulaic musical construct. To sum this film up, the director and a composer took the book of New Moon and slammed it into a blockbuster movie template. Its intensely unoriginal and pretty much ignores the fact that is after all a sequel to Twilight. Bring back the grittier, lower budget, more interesting, individual, emotional style of the first film please, PLEASE, PLEASE. The one saving grave is that I thought Michael Sheen was excellent as Aro. He played the character just how I imagined and I look forward to seeing more of him in the future films. I can try to console myself at least that Eclipse was in production before New Moon was out so hopefully Twilight was used as its guideline and not New Moon.