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Empire Big Screen Event: Saturday -Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 write up *SPOILERS*

            This was an amazing event. Truly amazing. We got to see exclusive footage from Spider-Man, and man... wow... wow.  Unfortunately, we don't have any footage to show you, but something tells me the wonders of technology will help us out. Until then, I can at least describe what I saw. I'm gonna separate all the footage I saw in different posts, just so it's more readable starting with The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1. This was introduced to us by the lovely MyAnna Buring, who plays 'Tanya' in the film, who leads the 'Denali Coven' in Alaska. Anyway the footage we were shown were the Honeymoon scenes as well as a scene with something going on with the Werewolves. Then kind of a trailer too. The Honeymoon sequence involved Edward carrying Bella into a honeymoon suite, and they exchange some pretty friendly banter, and it's pretty clear what Edward wants to do, that skeevy little perve. Good ol' innocent Bella just wants to chill out and not do the deed. So Edward wants to go for a swim, trying to find a way for Bella to get out of her clothes by any means possible. GOD what a perve. Bella prepares herself by brushing her teeth, shaving her legs, and other womanly stuff. So eventually, Bella is down to just a towel, and meets Edward on the beachside outside their suite. Naked, of course. That's where that clip ended. The other one, the Werewolf scene, was pretty much Jacob saying some stuff to the Cullens, then meeting up with some of his pack to do something. I wasn't paying much attention at this point because some guy's camera got confiscated when he was taking pictures LOL. Then we were shown a trailer(ish) with a bunch of random clips from the film. The clip ended with MyAnna had said that the first part was 'more romantic' with the second being 'more action'. Breaking Dawn releases November of this year.

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The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010) review

Synopsis: As a string of mysterious killings grips Seattle, Bella, whose high school graduation is fast approaching, is forced to choose between her love for vampire Edward and her friendship with werewolf Jacob. Having seen the first two from the Saga, so far, this would be my breakdown of the three- Twilight: easily the best of the bunch so far. New Moon: Utter disappointment, from a Film standpoint, anyway. Eclipse: a slight step up from New Moon, very impressed with many aspects, including the acting, surprisingly. What a segway to begin the review. I'll also state again that this review will be written from a Film standpoint, so none of you hardcore Twi-Hards be hatin' on me. So Eclipse. Although a little slow at the beginning, it picked up a little when it delivered some intense fight scenes between some of the scenes. I was impressed, but I wasn't too thrilled about the CGI in the film. It just didn't work, the scene where the 'transfomed' Jacob is comforting Bella looked pretty effing stupid. There were some funny pieces of dialogue in Eclipse, which, quite surprisingly made me laugh. Kudos to the screenwriters, here. I'll be honest, I did enjoy this installment moreso than New Moon, but still not as good as the oh-so wonderful first film. Lovely film, there were some really bad, stupid moments which made me want to murder everyone in the theatre. 5.5/10 Kazed.

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Twilight Review

If I'm going to be completely and utterly honest, I was excessively hesitant to watch this film, simply because, well, I didn't really have a reason. I saw it from a negative perspective, but within the first 20 minutes of the film I was hooked into it. So Twilight is about a girl, Bella Swan, who moves from the hot, scorching wasteland that is Arizona(No, I kid), and moves to a small town, Forks, close to Washington. She encounters a 'young' man by the name of Edward Cullen, who seems a little angry at the world, or maybe at his hairstyle. So they both fall in love, and she discovers that Edward is actually a Vampire who has been alive for quite a while. A while means a couple of hundred years or so. So Edward loves her alot, and seems to be incredibly insecure or something, because he can't seem to stand it when she's around other Males. Bella gets into trouble a couple of times, and Edward saves her. Granted, I haven't read the book(s) by Stephanie Meyer, but generally, when a book has been adapted for a script, the book is usually better. Of course, like I said, I haven't read it, so my opinion won't count for that element. There were several elements of this film that I really enjoyed, and still fresh in memory right now.  One, and the main one I though, was the film gave me an impression of an Indie film. Alot of it seemed so organic, and fresh- until they introduced the vampire. Once the establishment of Edward's 'powers' had become apparent, the interest curve had dropped, quite steeply. Not so much that I wasn't interested in the film, just enough so I wanted to almost 'block out' said scenes. I admired how there was a certain 'innocence', if you will, about the romance between the two, until they began smothering each other in her bedroom. It regained some of it back, to some degree, but it was refreshing, it wasn't a clichéd concept, just a number of elements within the film which were all too redundant(the bland, all-too-familiar clichés, a girl who enters a school and seems to be clumsy and inept at pretty much everything, the girl who falls with the alleged 'hottest guy in school')and I've seen far too many times alternated and adapted for different plots. I think another reason why I was drawn to this while watching was most probably the fact that it was directed by Catherine Hardwicke, Director of 'Lords of Dogtown', a film which will be reviewed in the near future, and quite possibly in my top 10 of all time. I did, however, feel that Stewart's acting wasn't as 'organic' as the film itself, and she seemed to struggle a slight bit at one particular scene, where she was lying in the hospital bed, I got a little confused when she was trying to emote her anger to Edward. Robert Pattinson seemed to be doing almost the same thing, and had a depressed teen thing happening, yet another cliché which wasn't at all required. All in all, it was an interesting film to watch, yes, it had it's downers and it's clichés, but which film doesn't? Good film, respectable acting, familiar plot lines with characters who screamed  cliché, Twilight sort of lived up to the extensive build-up. 7/10 Kazed

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New Moon breaks The Dark Knight single day record

So, as much as alot of people will hate to know this, it seems as though New Moon did it. HARD. The following from ComingSoon.net

After setting a new record for midnight openings with $26.27 million at 3,514 theaters, Summit Entertainment's The Twilight Saga: New Moon has also broken the record for a single day, earning $72.7 million on Friday at 4,024 theaters. The previous single day record of $67.2 million was held by The Dark Knight.

It looks like The Dark Knight's 3-day record of $158 million may be in jeopardy now as well.

Surprised, but expected I suppose. We'll have more as it develops. Kazed