Breaking Dawn Pt 2 at 100% on RT

Darth Ledger

Hurry look before it goes away!!!

www.rottentomatoes.com

Richard

Omg lol someone screencap lmao

darthorcrux

Well Deathly Hallows Part 2 you had a good run.

darthorcrux

Make way for Lord Condom.

Isaiah

WTF! I mean WTF!!!!

darthorcrux

Dude look at the number of reviews. That's sort of important.

Darth Ledger

darthorcrux said:

Dude look at the number of reviews. That's sort of important.

lol that's why I said hurry

Richard

1

Darth Ledger

I liked Part 1 to be honest :P

darthorcrux

Darth Ledger said:

I liked Part 1 to be honest :P

I didn't downright despise it if that counts for anything. It comes down to what I've always said: the Twilight movies will always be better than those terrible books simply by the virtue of there being less of it. The movies can't spend so much time on bullshit dialogue-- there's a lot of it-- but compared to Meyer's text the movies look like they were written by Damon Lindelof.

Richard

To me every viewing gets worse.

darthorcrux

Richard said:

To me every viewing gets worse.

They're bad, make no mistake, but they kind of can't really help it. The source material is bad. It's like trying to plant a seed on a planet with conditions unsuitable for life. You can give it as much water and soil as it needs, but without desirable conditions, despite how good your intentions are, that seed is not going to sprout into beautiful sunflower, but rather a wilted tulip with a side of horse shit.

Isaiah

^^LMAO!

[Deleted User]

Wow. Didn't see that coming. Especially from important sources like Variety and HR

Martin1

Look at the reviews, lmfao. All of them are along the lines of "wow, this exceeded my expectations of 3/10. Fresh!"

darthorcrux

Martin1 said:

Look at the reviews, lmfao. All of them are along the lines of "wow, this exceeded my expectations of 3/10. Fresh!"

Seriously take a look at this hidden gem from Todd McCarthy:

"The final installment of the immortal Bella/Edward romance will give its breathlessly awaiting international audience just what it wants."

darthorcrux

And then we have this glower from a very reputable, respected source of film critique:

"Twilight Breaking Dawn: Part 2 really does stand up to be the epic conclusion that we were all waiting and hoping for"
David Sztypuljak
HeyUGuys.co.uk

darthorcrux

hey u guyz this movie was gud it has pop stuff in it call me maybe

aaron

LOL

Isaiah

darthorcrux said:

hey u guyz this movie was gud it has pop stuff in it call me maybe

Thats not helping.

darthorcrux

Kristen is going to be monumentally awful in this. In this movie she's going to try and act like a vampire. She can play Kristen Stewart well enough but she'll be stepping out of bounds in this film.

Or she'll play Kristen Stewart playing a vampire.








o god

Isaiah

ET interviewed her at the premiere last night.

She called the reporter "dawg"


Oh God.

darthorcrux

Isaiah Weasley said:

ET interviewed her at the premiere last night.

She called the reporter "dawg"

She's so with the times!

yonythemoony

The positive review from Box Office is awful.

Pumpkinjuice

It's on 87 % after 13 reviews. That's shockingly high!

Richard

Itll end up in the 60s.

Darth Ledger

I still think it will drop down to around 50%... 60 or a higher and Bill Condon might be deemed a demi-god for such an achievement.

chester

Let's just acknowledge that reviewing 'Breaking Dawn - Part 2' for this site is a no-win situation: regular Indiewire readers don’t believe we should even cover it, while the fans who anxiously scour the net for early reviews rarely are those who are willing to hear a single bad word said about it, and will vehemently go three or four times no matter what is written here, or anywhere. But we did kind of love the idea of surprising everyone and suddenly saying "You know what? This is terrific!" and went in with optimism and contrarian bravado. But it's not. 'Breaking Dawn - Part 2' ends a bad series with a bad film, but in relative terms: it's better than 'New Moon' and 'Breaking Dawn - Part 1,' maybe as good as 'Eclipse,' and worse than 'Twilight,' and that's about all we can say for it.

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/do-not-publish-rome-review-the-twilight-saga-breaking-dawn-part-ii-20121113

darthorcrux

One thing I will never understand is how the first one is considered the best. It was fucking awful. Eclipse and even BD Part 1 run circles around that shit.

Richard

The first one is definitely the best. The other two you mentioned were beter made but ultimately, the STORY is what makes it the best.

Pumpkinjuice

Twilight and New Moon were bad. Eclipse surprised me positively by being as good as mediocre.

Richard

I skimmed eclipse

Pumpkinjuice

I'll dig up my Eclipse review:

I will give the filmmakers credit for trying to inject some life into the franchise again by opting for more suspense than in the past and for focusing on Bella's choice of marrying Edward and becoming a vampire or living a normal life as represented by Jacob. That said, it's a pretty thin and drawn out conflict (introduced in the last movie) with two-dimensional characters that once again ruins all its credibility as the serious drama it attempts to be. A couple enjoyable moments of self-irony, like Bella joking about the seriousness in telling her father about the marriage (who for some unexplained reason hates Edward), merely goes to show how laughably blown up the whole concept is. The middle drags, the relationship between Bella and Edward is as stiff and forced as ever and Jacob is too much of an egoistic drama queen to care about. Kristen Stewart's limited facial expressions make almost half of her scenes awkward to watch, and is Bella ever happy?

Technically, the series upped its game with this installment. The cinematography was at times gorgeous and without the exaggerated use of colour filters that plagued the first movie, and the climax managed to engage. Something that surprised me positively was the parallel between the werewolves' tale and Bella's action at the end and the contrast between her mindset and that of the vampire who is jealous at her for having a choice, whose backstory is shown in a flashback. Otherwise there were too many backstories and irrelevant names thrown out when something more relevant to the plot like Bella's promise in the second movie to become a vampire needed to be made clearer to the audience than just being referenced.

I may watch the newest movie and the upcoming finale one day... If only out of curiosity to find out whether the films manage to immortalize the mediocrity of this installment, which is the best we can hope for from this franchise, or if they fall back to New Moon dreadfulness

darthorcrux

Richard said:

The first one is definitely the best. The other two you mentioned were beter made but ultimately, the STORY is what makes it the best.

What the fuck? The story in all of them are atrocious, so the very fact that Eclipse and Part 1 are far better made films make them, by far, the better films.

darthorcrux

Seriously, Eclipse has vastly better direction and it lacks all of those goofy made for TV shitty "tilting" camera angles during "action" that the first one had. Hardwicke is awful. Slade's action directing alone makes it a better movie. Watch the climax in Twilight in the museum compared to the Edward vs. Victoria fight and you'll see what I mean.

It's no contest.

Richard

I believe that the story of Twilight is way bettr than the ones that follow. The fucking wolves and love triangle is just ridiculous to me.

darthorcrux

The whole thing is ridiculous, Richard. I'm not sure what you're getting at here.

darthorcrux

I mean from my standpoint all I can see is you saying "well the story in the first one is only slightly less fucking retarded than the others" in which case I would actually disagree anyway as the first Twilight is about as exciting as watching alcohol fermentation.

chester

I agree with Richard: the first sort of had a story, it went from A to B. All the others are just made/written for money and money only. But the decent story in Twilight doesn't make it a good movie, the acting and the pace were too horrible.

Pumpkinjuice

I mean this alone makes the story of Eclipse the most thought-out one:

The parallel between the werewolves' tale and Bella's action at the end and the contrast between her mindset and that of the vampire who is jealous at her for having a choice, whose backstory is shown in a flashback.

Overall it's bad of course, but it did have a few nice story elements that the others lacked.

darthorcrux

The first one didn't really have much of a story, it just set everything up. The following installments IMO had more tension/action and whatnot. They're still not good, but yeah, I simply disagree. I thought the first one was bad in every single way, but that, at least, Eclipse and BD Part 1 had decent filmmaking. I think the entire story sucks so I can't really relate when it comes down to comparing the plots as I find each one to be a disaster.

Richard

What Im saying is that in Twilight there was only Edward and Bella and the music in that movie was pretty good. The acting was laughable and so was the direction it was too foggy at times. But there was alot of Billy Burke and the villains were cartoony but they were interesting. The bad guy in the first was fucking shit up at the end and there was just more to it, the high school, the whole human thing, the climax was actually a climax, I feel like Jacob completely cursed the rest the story couldve gone to a far better direction than it did which was unfirtunate. I feel like Twilight works as a standalone movie where the others dont you know?

darthorcrux

No. I don't think anything about it works at all because there's no interesting or engaging conflict and the filmmaking was terrible. Eclipse had good filmmaking and better handled action, and much better music than the first movie.

Richard

You type like a fucking vampire brandon LOL

Eclipse was indeed better made but by that point I called it quits I didnt even finish it. I saw BD1 because it was free and Ill see BD2 as well. It just didnt keep my interest the whole wolve thing. Its just rudiculous to me,Newmoon, how it just splatters everything.

Pumpkinjuice

New Moon's score was far superior to Twilight's.

The climax was actually pretty decent in the first one though. I seem to recall Bella wondering at the beginning of the movie how it would feel like to die, so when she was in danger at the end, I think we were supposed to believe that she was going to die. I knew she wouldn't due to the existence of book sequels, but I know some who did. I wished they had killed her off as that would mean the end of Twilight.

darthorcrux

But really, for me its pretty simple: the first Twilight is the one with that baseball scene. That automatically puts it in worst movie of all time territory. The following movies, not even New Moon, has anything that bad in it.

darthorcrux

Pumpkinjuice said:

The climax was actually pretty decent in the first one though. I seem to recall Bella wondering at the beginning of the movie how it would feel like to die, so when she was in danger at the end, I think we were supposed to believe that she was going to die. I knew she wouldn't due to the existence of book sequels, but I know some who did. I wished they had killed her off as that would mean the end of Twilight.

The idea of that is okay, but unfortunately the director failed to execute it in any worthy fashion. I mean, just the cinematography and how poor the acting is during all of that stuff kills it for me.

Richard

The baseball scene? What was so bad there?

Richard

I mean besides the cgi and direction lol.

Isaiah

Richard said:

The baseball scene? What was so bad there?

To me, that was the only interesting thing in the movie.

darthorcrux

"What was so bad about the baseball scene? I mean, aside from it being one of the most cringe-worthy scenes ever put on film"