It's coming to the end of another weekend and I’ve shockingly done no crafting! Sadly I really needed to write a report up yesterday for the museum I’m currently doing volunteering at, as it needed to be emailed to them, as I won't see them now before I go on holiday and they really needed it. And then today.... well today has been playing catch up on housework and doing some online Christmas shopping and now I just can't be bothered to do any crafting as the light is awful and I have a headache from the bad weather. Oh well! maybe I’ll get some done before I fly to Egypt on Thursday.
So onwards with the movie review: last night, mum and I went to see the second part of the Twilight Saga - New Moon and it didn't disappoint. For those who know nothing about this series (which can't be many of you I'm sure) the Twilight Saga is based on a series of bestselling novels of the same name by a lady called Stephanie Meyer. The books took the literary world by storm, really hitting it off last year in the UK following the launch of the first movie 'Twilight'. The books are, to sum them up in one word, incredible! Now don't get me wrong, I’m not a screaming twi-hard fan who faints at the thought of been bitten by a vampire (well, I probably wouldn't say no, but....) and I'm not a lust-filled hormonal teenager (who the books were originally aimed at) but I am an avid reader - I’ve lost count of the number of books I’ve read through the years and I’m nothing if not critical of everything I read and as such few authors or books every get the highest of praise from me, but I can't fault these books and as such I was waiting to be disappointed by the movie - after all, how could it compare to my imagination of how the story plays out?
Nevertheless, the movie didn't let me down. For all the hype I’ve read in recent weeks about this film and how the cast aren't right (yet they were perfect in the first movie - so how does that one work?) and the director failed to produce anything of note, I think it's the fans who really should have the final say - not a critic who has failed to read more than the synopsis of the book. Whilst there are elements of the story missing, it simple remains the case that you cannot transfer the book line for line to the screen, it’s just not possible without dragging it out and boring the viewer and besides, these movies aren't aimed at generating a new audience, they simply need to please the fans who know the story inside out, back to front and probably better than the author now! as such, missing elements don't matter as they are easily filled in by the preset knowledge of what takes place in the books. As such, I thought the scripting was brilliant, it was enough to keep the tension going throughout all 2 hours 10 minutes of running time and heartbreaking enough that I wanted to adopt a werewolf before the end of the movie!
I won't spoil the film for those of you who have interest in seeing the movie but for those of you sitting on the bench about it (or the books) I’d recommend borrowing/buying the first (of both the book and movie) and seeing what the hype is about. This isn't a 'teenage' book, adults of all ages have read this series and fallen in love with it - when I was still working for Waterstones I had a lady of 85 talk to me about how much she had enjoyed the series and how her husband was just working his way through them, their grandchildren thought they were the coolest people ever! lol!
Having rambled for far too long and most likely lost everyone’s interest I’ll leave it here. But I’d be interested in hearing anyone else’s views - if you have one.
Anyway, I hope all are well and had a good weekend. Take care and Happy Crafting x
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