TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE trailer is moody, absurd
TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE trailer is moody, absurd
Mar 30
The Twilight Saga: New Moon made the original Twilight seem like a masterpiece in comparison — faint praise at best. How will the next inevitable vampire / werewolf / teenage melodrama movie fare compared to its forebears under the auspices of new director David Slade (he directed Hard Candy and 30 Days Of Night before this)? Well, judging by this trailer alone, it looks set to continue the underwhelming trend set by the first two and romp gleefully into the realm of awfulness pioneered by its older siblings, heedless to the desperate cries of critics the world over.
I actually laughed out loud while watching this trailer, around the time Jacob Black rationally requests that Bella consider him as her lover instead of stodgy old Edward, or something. Goodness me, this is ridiculous; I’d all but forgotten about Bella’s boring, soapy life in the past few months since reviewing New Moon, but it all came crashing back when I watched this trailer — all the frustrated amusement, boredom, rage, and indignation inspired by that tepid title. Don’t these people realise they’re teenagers (well, not Edward, I suppose) and that they should be having fun and running amok and not starting worldwide wars with supernatural beasties? Idiots.
It feels like mere weeks since New Moon was polluting our screens — the 6-month turnaround between titles is astonishing. I suppose striking again while the iron is hot is probably a better marketing strategy than that employed by Warner Bros. in distributing that other tween supernatural series (Harry Potter) with irregular gaps and delays between instalments that only serve to drag the franchise out interminably. Whatever the reason, it means there is less time until the whole Twilight series is over with, which can only be a good thing.
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse inflicts itself on US viewers on the 30th of June 2010; the UK release is scheduled for the 9th of July
