I have no idea if there are going to be spoiler alerts or not but if you want to see the movie badly, chances are you already read the books and you know what's in the movie. It's not like I'm going to tell you the Titanic sinks and you get mad at me for giving away the ending. If you don't care about the movie then you're really just reading this because it popped up on Facebook and you clicked on it.
This was the first of the movies that I did not feel comfortable bringing Anna to - and I made a good decision. She can see Breaking Dawn part 2 but this one, no way. I should tell you that I only read the books once because the writing was so bad I couldn't do it again. I love the story. A LOT. But I'll take the movies in place of the books any day.
The biggest 'that's not how it happened in the books' moment (at least for me because like I said - read it once!) was the presence of Irina at Edward and Bella's wedding. This isn't exactly news since the stills from the movie came out months ago. In the book Irina refuses to come to the wedding because she was in love with Laurent and the werewolves killed him when he tried to eat Bella in New Moon. And since the werewolves were invited to the wedding, Irina sent her bitter regrets. Now the reason I am not mad she's at the wedding in the movie is because they managed to tie in the whole Laurent business in a quick scene rather than stage a whole thing in Alaska. I know it plays into why the Volturi show up in Breaking Dawn, part 2 but I'm sure they'll wrap that up too.
The dress. This thing was probably the 2nd most guarded piece of clothing next to Kate Middleton's wedding dress. And Kate's dress was a lot prettier. Don't get me wrong, it was a pretty dress. But the elongated see-through lace back was a bit much. I feel like if it went two more inches down we'd see buttcrack. Bella dreams about her wedding the night before she marries Edward and I liked that dress a lot better - even if it was covered in blood. I can't help but wonder if one of them leaked and they had to go with the other one for the real wedding dress. Apparently Kate Middleton had two dresses too - but none of us know what the other looked like. I'm willing to bet it wasn't covered in blood.
The wedding. I thought it was a nice touch that they used the song they danced to at prom as the song they ... um, well completely made every single person attending disappear while they basically made out at the alter. Awkward.
The honeymoon. Isle Esme was pretty cool! Not far off from what I imagined. The scene every girl has been waiting for was proof that I made the right decision in not letting Anna see it. It wasn't like Cinemax After Dark or anything but it was more than a 10 year old needs to see. It was definitely worth the price of admission though. The rest of the honeymoon played out pretty close to what I remember in the book, down to Bella vomiting chicken and calling Rosalee for help when she finds out she's knocked up. And there was a rare moment where Kristen Stewart actually acted and it wasn't like an extra from The Walking Dead!
The gestation. That could have been better. I remember a lot of quips between Jacob and Emmett and that wasn't there. They had plenty of time to make it happen so I don't know what happened with that. They briefly touched upon Jacob and Edward having to switch off to either warm Bella up or cool her down. Ok there was no switch up. She said she was cold, Jacob warmed her up. That was disappointing.
The wolves. For the most part the wolves were their usual awesome selves but there was this whole Disney-esque talking wolves thing that I wasn't cool with. They had a whole big scene with talking wolves. Yeah, yeah, I know they had the stream of consciousness in the book because they've got that whole mind connection thing but even David Yates knew we wanted to see Daniel Radcliffe and not some random Polyjuice potioned actor go to Lily and James' graves in Deathly Hallows. It didn't kill the whole movie but it was just...weird.
The birth (death?) of a vampire. It was pretty brutal. They did a good job hiding most of it...or at least I think they did. I've been watching American Horror Story so my judgement of 'brutal' may be skewed. The whole venom going into Bella thing was like an episode of House with blood cells flying and dying. And I don't know if they did a good enough job showing that underneath the silence Bella was writhing in pain. That being said - I feel like it followed the book really well.
I won't tell you exactly where they end it because that would be a real spoiler. If you haven't seen it yet, wait through some of the credits because the Volturi popped up when half the theater had emptied out and it's the teaser for part 2.
My official stand is I did like it a lot. I wasn't terribly miffed by things they did differently from the book. So far Twilight is the only one that made me angry about that. Eclipse is still my favorite movie but Breaking Dawn, part 2 may change that. As we were leaving the theater I told Jim he was supposed to tell me that he'd love me for all eternity. His response was, "Taking you to this movie should be a testament to my eternal love for you." Awwww! Now where's my island paradise?!
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