June 12, 201114 yr No actress is worse than January Jones. Kristen Stewart is at least watchable, I couldn't sit through Unknown because January Jones was that bad.
June 12, 201114 yr I've only seen January Jones in Mad Men but she's pretty great in that?! And I've always really liked Kristen Stewart. I think she has the socially uncomfortable teen girl thing down to a tee.
June 12, 201114 yr I've only seen January Jones in Mad Men but she's pretty great in that?! Apparently that's the only thing she's good in. She's been ripped to pieces in absolutely everything else she's been in. She's dreadful.
June 12, 201114 yr Being ripped to pieces by critics is all very well but they're not always right. She's clearly a very capable actress so maybe aside from that she's just chosen bad roles? I don't know. But 'she's bad because the critics say so!' doesn't really stand up.
June 12, 201114 yr Being ripped to pieces by critics is all very well but they're not always right. She's clearly a very capable actress so maybe aside from that she's just chosen bad roles? I don't know. But 'she's bad because the critics say so!' doesn't really stand up. I'm not talking about critics... I'm talking about the general public. Look at the IMDb forums for example. She's painful to sit through and I'm really hoping that she doesn't ruin the new X-Men film for me, when I getting around to seeing it.
June 20, 201114 yr Kristen Stewart is perfect as Bella in my opinion :wub: Seriously can't wait for this now. I might get midnight screening seats! Then watch it again the following morning!
September 14, 201113 yr So frigging excited! I wonder if we will actually see the birth scene in this film. The wedding looks stunning! Roll on November 18th!
September 14, 201113 yr It's not KStew I can't stand, more the character of Bella Swan, who is the worst character I have ever come across in any book I've read. I will go and see this merely because I have watched the other three, though the book was a dreadful end to the series. I agree with Jark in that my jaw was constantly on the floor, but not in a good way! I do think I've outgrown the series really. Plus, Stephenie Meyer herself BUGS the hell out of me thinks she's a feminist and compares the saga to Jane Eyre which she has apparently read 'hundreds of times a year' etc etc.
September 23, 201113 yr Author 'It Will Rain' is going to be the lead song for the soundtrack and will be sung by none other than Bruno Mars. Much more mainstream than Paramore, Muse & Death Cab For Cutie, so I'm quite surprised. Released in the US on Tuesday. http://cdn2.team-twilight.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/BrunoMars_ItWillRain_rs.jpg Edited September 23, 201113 yr by Jáhq
November 5, 201113 yr http://www.dailyblam.com/sites/all/files/breakdawn1sound.jpg 1 Endtapes - The Joy Formidable 2 Love Will Take You - Angus & Julia Stone 3 It Will Rain - Bruno Mars 4 Turning Page - Sleeping at Last 5 From Now on - The Features 6 A Thousand Years - Christina Perri 7 Neighbors - Theophilus London 8 I Didn't Mean It - The Belle Brigade 9 Sister Rosetta (2011 Version) - Noisettes 10 Northern Lights - Cider Sky 11 Flightless Bird, American Mouth (Wedding Version) - Iron & Wine 12 Requiem on Water - Imperial Mammoth 13 Cold - Aqualung & Lucy Schwartz 14 Llovera - Mia Maestro 15 Love Death Birth - Carter Burwell Yay so soon.
November 14, 201113 yr Author I have my tickets ready for Saturday night but I'm not feeling the same excitment that I felt for the last couple of films. :( Haven't even got to the birth section of the book either. The couple of songs I've heard from the soundtrack aren't as good as the past soundtracks - what is happening. :( But I'll still turn up on Saturday dressed head to toe in Twilight and probably still find it amazing.
November 14, 201113 yr I'm not talking about critics... I'm talking about the general public. Look at the IMDb forums for example. She's painful to sit through and I'm really hoping that she doesn't ruin the new X-Men film for me, when I getting around to seeing it. MONTHS BEHIND. I think the main reason people dislike January Jones so much is not just because she is a terrible actress but because she is so effortlessly unlikeable. She's an ice queen with zero charisma. She is decent in Mad Men purely because she is playing the sixties version of herself (monotone bitch who gets by on her looks). ETC. Edited November 14, 201113 yr by ▲▲▲
November 14, 201113 yr I liked Kristen Stewart in both 'Into the Wild' and 'Adventureland' but everything else has been painful.
November 16, 201113 yr Hilarious review from the Telegraph. The Twilight Saga, a set of films about a love triangle between a vampire with a quiff, a dour-faced schoolgirl and a werewolf who can’t act, has always attracted an unreasonable amount of bile. Unusually, it hasn't come from critics, so much as the droves of young, straight males with a broadband connection who resent that a popular movie series has the gall to pander to an audience other than them. Crowds largely made up of teenage girls and their approving mothers have so far spent £1.13 billion watching Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson), Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) and Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner) brood and mumble their way through three increasingly well-made films that authentically captured the misery of being a love-struck teenager. But this fourth and penultimate film, in which Edward and Bella marry and finally consummate their relationship, takes an Olympic-pole-vault-sized leap backwards. Director Bill Condon and screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg have adapted Stephenie Meyer’s awkward source novel into a formless, gormless soap opera: it’s a humourless, incoherent bore that lives down to the very worst stereotypes associated with the franchise. After a brief prologue in which the cast receive their wedding invitations and Jacob gets so angry he takes his t-shirt off – don’t question it, it’s what he does – the film opens with Edward and Bella’s long-awaited nuptials. These are admittedly well-mounted and the bride’s Pippa Middleton dress is very on-trend. They also give the unsung heroes of the Twilight cast, Billy Burke as Bella’s father Charlie and Anna Kendrick as her friend Jessica, their once-per-film chance to show off: in this case, in an enjoyable after-dinner speech montage that recalls a scene from this summer’s sleeper hit comedy Bridesmaids. The happy couple then jet off on their Brazilian honeymoon, during which the groom’s enthusiastic lovemaking demolishes their four-poster bed – well, after 200-odd years of abstinence, it would do. At this point, Bella falls pregnant and finds her human womb struggles to cope with a foetus that’s 50 percent vampire. She tells her father that she’s fallen ill and is checking into a Swiss clinic – which must have put his mind at rest – before she returns in secret to the Cullen house, where Edward’s family do their best to make sure she survives to full-term, making her drink human blood in an attempt to feed the baby (Edward thoughtfully decants it into a fast food cup first). Meanwhile, the local werewolves swear revenge on the Cullens, firstly because Bella’s life has been threatened, and also because they take a dim view of human-vampire procreation generally. As the above paragraph shows, it’s almost impossible to make the plot of Breaking Dawn sound sensible, but it would have been nice if the film made a token effort to do so. Instead, Rosenberg’s screenplay foregrounds the book’s loopiest ideas while burying anything that might have made for compelling drama: Edward’s anxiety over fathering a child that’s killing his wife and Jacob’s strained loyalty to his revenge-hungry pedigree chums, for example, go almost completely unexplored. The script is often startlingly lazy: in one confused scene, Edward explains the nuances of werewolf behaviour to no-one in particular, just to give the audience a fighting chance at comprehension. Earlier, Bella croakily reveals that she wants to mix her and Edward's mothers’ names together and call their baby Renesmee. The line is presented without a flicker of irony and was deservedly greeted in the critics' screening with gales of scornockery. The special effects sequences are equally bad. Unlike the superb werewolf-on-vampire battles in Eclipse, the David Slade-directed third installment, Breaking Dawn’s action scenes are muddled and gloomy. They’re also not particularly easy to take seriously thanks to the wolves speaking with bizarre half-human, half-canine voices that put me in mind of Scooby Doo. Sadly, it’s unlikely that Breaking Dawn – Part 2 will be any better than this (both films were shot back-to-back by the same director), but an incongruous mid-credits teaser, featuring Michael Sheen as the camp vampire king Aro, hints that it might at least have a sense of humour. We can but hope. At least that way, some of the laughs might be intentional.
November 16, 201113 yr LOL oh dear. Eclipse was a genuine improvement over New Moon so it's a shame this sounds like it's undone that good work. SCORNOCKERY is going to be my new word.
November 16, 201113 yr Hilarious review from the Telegraph. The Twilight Saga, a set of films about a love triangle between a vampire with a quiff, a dour-faced schoolgirl and a werewolf who can’t act http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_loukoyfpoK1qd41g8o1_r1_500.gif
November 18, 201113 yr Haha I'm so ridiculously cool that I went to a 'Twiathlon' yesterday, watching the four films back to back. Nearly TEN HOURS. Actually loved 'Breaking Dawn' just because it's so different to the first three. Watching them back to back you realise how repetitive the whole story gets and a after a while it's just BORING. In this one though? Maaaan a lot of stuff happens. The ending was so predictable but I still loved it, it was the moment everyone was waiting for so I guess it was the perfect ending to the first half. The part where the wolves are speaking with human voices though? That scene pretty much ruined the whole film for me. So ridiculous! Oh and a YEAR for part 2? Are you f***ing kidding me?!
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