Now Playing Review – The Twilight Saga: New Moon

Even with director Catherine Hardwicke’s take on bringing the first book of this series to screen, Chris Weitz fails to do little more than use her vision as a guidebook on how to direct The Twilight Saga: New Moon, and therefore, recreates a lot of the problems that plagued the first film while simply trying to appease the salivating masses of obsessed fans.

If you have read the books of this series, then you know exactly what happens in this ridiculously faithful adaptation. For those of you who haven’t, New Moon begins with Bella’s 18th birthday, which proves to be just as traumatic as she believed it would be.   [Read more...]

Review: The Twilight Saga: New Moon

The Twilight Saga returns with a new director, a new set of monsters, and a New Moon, but the film feels rather rehashed and far to similar to previous film instead this time it is girl meets wolf; compare to girl meets vampire.
Everything starts off alright, in fact it was making me feel quite positive about everything unfolding. Chris Weitz’s direction is far stronger and more confident than Twilight’s Hardwicke, with the camera doing far more interesting things. The focus seems to be solely on Bella, her father, and Edward and the Cullen’s as it should be and pushing all the unnecessary characters to the background. The actors seem to be doing better; everything seems to be going in the right direction and then the Cullen’s leave. The most, and almost only, interesting thing about these films is taken away for the majority of the film and only return in the final few scenes to save the film from being a fairly bad experience.
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Suggestion Box (Sept. 7 – 13)

The Guild – Season 3 Episode 2 was posted this week. Not as good as the others in my opinion, but you should still check it out here.

The Legend of Neil – 4th episode of season 2 released this week. There is much bonding over drinking. Check it out here.

Borderlands Claptrap Movie – Okay, so this doesn’t really have too much to do with the gameplay or anything like that, but it’s pretty funny. And this short does show off the look they are going for in the game, as well as the humor it will have (hopefully). Check it out here.

Assassin’s Creed 2 Gamplay Walkthrough - This time we do get to see some of the new features in the second Assassin’s Creed. Check it out here.

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