Eclipse Movie Review

Yes, I am a semi-fan. You can not say that I am a die hard by any means. However, when my friend (Amy) told me that she had an extra ticket for the opening midnight showing I jumped at the ticket!!

*I should of done this review ages ago*

We did not get all dressed up and stand in line for hours. I actually showed up at 11:30 to pick up the tickets she had on hold.

Mission 1 - Complete

Now, I am off to see if I could find and save four seats in a row.

Yikes! In the front row... Bring on the heat pad for my neck!

Mission 2 - Complete

With saved seats in tact I was off to use the restroom then pick up a lovely order of pretzel bites. I am the pretzel girl and she the popcorn.

I am the regular soda girl and she is the diet.

(How are we friends?)

Mission 3 - Complete

11:54 PM

Oh, where Oh where is Amy?

She is on her way. Time to get her ticket to her.

Mission 4 - Complete

Time to sit, relax and enjoy the show!

Mission 5 - Complete

(Me and my Ticket!)

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Review:

First off, let me just say that this movie was way better then the first two! I enjoyed this movie greatly.

~Rob Patterson~ Wow, he can act (finally). He was really pushed to his limits with his characters emotional roller coaster throughout the movie. Amy and I were both pleasantly surprised with him.

~Kristen Stewart~ Her character was bland. But guess what her character is supposed to be bland. If they jazzed Bella up for the movie it just wouldn't be right. They are already so far off track of the book.

~Taylor Lautner~ HOT! Yes, most of the time Jacob has no shirt on. There is even a part in the movie where Edward asks if he has a shirt in his closet. I hate the whole Native American is a savage thing, so lets have him wear as little as possible (and the wolf pack). However, that boy can take his shirt off for me whenever he wants! *Drool*

~Movie~ As for the whole movie... I thought that the fight scenes were pretty good. Who does not like to see a wolf tear into a rouge vamp? Victoria and Riley were interesting and kept up their end of the movie. Emmett is still amazing to look at. There were a few corny, and I mean corny, areas. I bust out laughing at one of those parts where everyone else goes "ahh". So did the girl next to me and well, my giggles are contagious when it comes to Amy. After a few seconds there we were having have the front row laugh at the "ahh" part.

Rating:

Stardust - Book Review

Book: Stardust

Author: Neil Gaiman

Publisher: HarperTeen

Pages: 333

Read: 4/05/2010

Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy Fiction

Reviewed By: Elyssa

*For The L♥ve of Reading group voted Stardust to be the first group read.*

Neil Gaiman's words spins together a unique world that many people should not miss. There are pirates who fish for lightning bolts, unicorns, evil witches, helpful hairy men, trees that talk, and many other new world phenomenon that will keep you flipping pages. It is good to escape every once in a while. Neil's simple prose allows you to do just that very easily. Brilliant.

Dunstan's mischievous rump during market time results in a small bundle being pushed through the broken wall with a small name pinned to it.... Tristan Thorn.

Young Tristan is an odd lad who wants nothing more then to woo his true love Victoria Forester. In his quest for her lips he offers her everything under the sun. Still a proper lady she declines his offers. However, shortly he will be on a quest for a most unusual object to win his lady loves kiss and hopefully her hand in marriage.

Tristan says farewell to his family in Wall and starts on his journey in Faerie after his beloveds request, the fallen star.

Young feet and a love sick heart fuels Tristan's journey throughout Faerie laced with a bit of good luck. He finds his fallen star, except this star is not what he thought he would find. It was not a rock but yet a beautiful young lady. This odd duo disagreed with each other, the star did not want to go with Tristan to be an object for his love and of course that is all he wanted. Lets just say she did not make his life easy.

This book is not all mushy love quest but it has a very interesting sub plot that intertwines pretty nicely. The sons of Lord Stormhold were sent out on a quest to retrieve a family amulet. Several of the sons are already dead but they are hanging around as ghosts. The sons that are alive are trying to kill each other off in attempt to grab ahold of the family throne.

From start to finish Tristan's quest is anything but bland.

This book has also been turned into a fantastic movie, which doesn't happen often. I did watch the movie a very long time ago. I was sure that I didn't remember most of the movie except for Michelle Pheifer looking really grotesque. But as I read the book the images of the movie came flooding into my head. Most often that is exactly why a reader likes to read the book before watching the movie. But I have to say the movie images did not hinder this book in anyway. I might just have to go and burrow the movie again.

Rating: 4 Kisses

Quotes:

"I would not wish to marry someone who had already been married. It would be,' she opined, 'like having someone else break in one's own pony."

"The manly heroes of the penny dreadfuls and shilling novels never had these problems getting kissed."

"Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel."