Comments on: Melissa Rosenberg Talks Eclipse With Reelz Channel

By: GE

GE — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:58:27 +0000

Oh my. This is not good at all. What is wrong with her. When she confess that she wrote for the movie “step up” i knew the Twilight Saga was doomed. That was a horrible movie and real cheesey with bad acting. Are they going to even include the part where Alice show Bella her wedding dress? I hope to GOD she does not write the script for BD!

By: Bil

Bil — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:02:35 +0000

Debra you are SOOOO right! So right that i´m writting english comments first time in my life (sorry for mistakes girls) The magical love stoty between Edward amd Belle is the reason why we go 2-3-4 time to watsch the movie, not fights or shirt-less-wolf-guys SO PLEASE KEEP THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF THE STORY AUTENTIC and GIVE BD TO A OTHER SCRIPT WRITTER!!!

By: Debra

Debra — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:32:49 +0000

I have seen New Moon 4 times just to try and scrape together what little intimacey scene they gave us in New Moon between Edward and Bella. In this regard I was left TEASED and UNSATISFIED wanting more. Chris Weitz and Melissa so dropped the ball on this. Catherine Harwick might not have shot the most beautiful looking movie but she SOOO understood the importance of the love story and showing it on film.

I LOVE the Twilight Saga as written by Stephenie Meyers. Twilight is a 21 century Love Story…please respect the character dynamics from the book and reflect it in the screen play and in the movie direction. It’s Bella and Edward’s love story and what they overcome to be together against all odds because it is their destiny, . IT’S BELLA AND EDWARD, NOT Bella and Jacob. You wouldn’t try and change Romeo and Juliet to Paris and Juliet, or Cathy and Heathcliff to Cathy and Edgar (Wuthering Heights), or Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy to Elizabeth and Mr. Fitzwilliam (Pride and Prejudice) great love stories. GIVE US THE EMOTIONAL connection between Bella and Edward again.

I felt cheated in New Moon. It was beautifully shot and grand but Bella and Edward’s reconciliation story (which is what I could’nt wait to see on film) was almost an after thought at the end of the movie; and in the book it was clearly one third of the story. I AM NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO FEELS THIS WAY.

You gave us the BREAK-UP scenes but you DIDN’T GIVE US THE MAKE-UP scenes, (with all the beautiful dialogue between Bella and Edward 3 chapters), and you know what they say about MAKING UP AFTER BREAKING UP THERE IS NOTHING LIKE IT. It clearly explains why Edward left and sets up Eclipse. SUMMIT please pay attention.

By: Erynne

Erynne — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:14:13 +0000

As unpopular as this opinion is gonna be, I’m gonna say it anyway: movie!NM kicked the pants off of book!NM.

I like the book, but I’m rereading it after seeing the movie, and I gotta say, I’m BORED through whole sections of it. I get tired of seeing “glistening” and “beautiful” and “perfect” and “godlike” etc etc etc. And it’s really tiresome reading from the perspective of someone who really should just Put On Her Big Girl Panties and DEAL.

Do I like the stories? Heck, yes. I enjoy the entire series. I enjoy the love that Edward and Bella share, the near-obsessive quality that we are all familiar with when we start a new relationship.

However, I have to agree with Robert Pattinson when he was commenting on reading ‘Twilight’: “When you read the book, it’s like, ‘Edward Cullen was so beautiful I creamed myself.’ I mean, every line is like that.” And not just ‘Twilight;’ all the books are like that. It’s really almost boring, reading over and over how perfect someone is.

Movie!NM cuts through all that empty verbosity and gets right down to the details: something bad happens to Bella, Edward leaves her because he thinks it’s the Right Thing to Do, Jacob steps in to fill the void, Bella leaves Jacob hanging to run off and save Edward.

So, honestly? I have hope for movie!Eclipse.

And please don’t tell me I’m not a ‘real’ fan. Because that is just trite and tiresome. I like the books. I like the movies. I check the Lex daily to get my Twifix on news. So I don’t accept every single piece of the Twilight universe as godlike and perfect… and? I enjoy the series for its good points and admit to its bad points, without tossing up my hands and leaving it behind. Kind of like a mature, adult relationship (because, sad but true, no one is perfect. not even edward cullen. perhaps especially not edward cullen).

- E

By: Maelina

Maelina — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:17:32 +0000

Yeah, I get what your saying. It’s really difficult to make these movies and not everyone is going to be pleased with them no matter what they’d do. I think I come across more negative than I mean to, I thought New Moon was pretty good, but they could’ve tweaked the script a bit to make the ending longer. I know I’m gonna get used to it, but I still think it would’ve been possible to make the movie better. It’s nice that you like my name, BTW!

By: dancermommy

dancermommy — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 06:06:47 +0000

Wow, that’s an awful lot of time to spend typing a response to a fan site of something you don’t care about. Sorry you have nothing better to do.

By: Teamedward

Teamedward — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:31:51 +0000

I agree with you Talya. I hope to see more of Edward and Bella and how easy it is for him to be with her. New Moon was not my favorite book but I loved the movie. My 15 and 10 year old girls have seen it with me twice already and they want to see it again this weekend!

By: CD

CD — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:02:44 +0000

I thought NM the movie was amazing – much better than the book and much better than TW the movie!!!

By: sillygirl

sillygirl — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:45:45 +0000

Thank you.

By: sillygirl

sillygirl — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:28:59 +0000

Maelina, I respect your opinion (and I like your name), but try looking at it from a different angle. Of course the movie doesn’t have the same feeling. Books are more personal, they stay with you long after you read them. And while you read them, you are contributing to the story with your own interpretation of it. Movie’s can only show one person’s view, they are not able to take into account all the different ideas each of us have, and I think thats why it loses some of it’s luster. When reading it, we make it ours, when watching it, we are watching what someone else envisioned. Take Alice’s frolicking vision for example. If we would have read that part in the book, we would have loved to imagine Edward and Bella alone in the forest together holding hands being all vampiry. But when you put it in a movie, we all busted out laughing and it was almost embarressing to watch. It wasn’t personal any more. I think it’s good that you have to go back to the books to get that “feeling”. If movies were a perfect impression of their novels… how many of us would still read?