ok, so just a quick add on to my last journal...

It turns out that the demand was big enough that they added another showing
as soon as I heard about it I went to the theater to exchange our tickets
but I was trying not to get my hopes up, just in case they were already gone
or in case the rumors weren't true
well, happily I found that the rumors were true and we got to go at midnight!!!
things do work out sometimes

anywho, as for the movie, well....

IT ROCKED!


I mean, book to movie adaptations are never perfect
and this wasn't perfect
but it came pretty damn close
there were a few things that were added or changed

1)fight scene in Volterra
I agree with a interview I read from Stephanie that if this had happened in the books, that Edward, Bella, and Alice wouldn't have walked out of that tower. But I also understand that Hollywood can not have a movie without at least some privitol violence at the climax, it just isn't done.

2) the ending got jumbled
Some may not have noticed, but the ending was all jumbled up. It was obvious that they did this so that the last line in the movie would be, "Bella, will you marry me" which, once again, I can understand. It didn't take away too much from the book because they kept most of the essential info in there. The only info that was excluded from this wrap up was how much Bella is in trouble and the part where Jake gets her into more trouble by bringing by her bike...
I did like the part at the end where Bella throws herself in the middle and says "you can't hurt each other without hurting me" even though in the book Edward made sure she was never closer to Jake than he was, this was a great way to visualize the main conflict in this little love triangle AND it works as a great prelude to Eclipse

3) Bella never gets on that guys bike
Come on! I didn't see any good reason to do this, but I guess that it was there way of intruducing the motorcycle idea into Bella's brain in a more visual easier to get and less random way, but I didn't like it

4) the visual hallucinations
I feel like I don't have a right to complain about this because I just read this article from Stephanie where she admits to liking this visual additive, but I just hated it. I guess I can understand that in movies they like to make everything visual, but instead of looking at it like that I keep thinking that it is another example of how modern tv and movies are spoon feeding us like we aren't smart enough to understand subtlety. Like, in the book the vocal Edward was so real to Bella that she sometimes was answering him while she was still talking to Jake, and I didn't see that in the movie at all. I think it could have been a great additive if they could capture it in film.

LAST...

5) Charlie's lines
I notice this in the first movie too, but they very rarely stick to Charlies real dialogue and I have no idea why. I admit he doesn't talk much in the books, but what he does say I really like and I wish they would keep it. I will admit, that even though they BS most of Charlies lines, he is my favorite character in the sense that he is so much like the Charlie from my head when I read. He was the first character in the first movie that I truly accepted as the real deal from the book. The others had to grow on me and I think they all stepped into their roles a lot more in this movie. There are times where they take Edward, Bella, Jacob's etc. actual lines from the book word by word and stick it in the movie and I think Charlie deserves that same respect. I really hope they do him better in the next book, particularly during his "sex talk" and all his lines right after he finds out Jake stole a kiss off Bella, that scene is so perfect and if they kill it I will cry!

That wasn't every thing that was different, but it was everything that truly bothered me. Even this short list of things don't bother me as much as anything in any of the Harry Potter movies or the first Twilight movie, and for that reason I still give New Moon a solid 9 out of 10!