Eclipse and Dragon

I decided to write a review of the most recent movie I have seen coupled with a review of the most recent book I have read. OK, I admit it, I am a Twilight fan. I have always had a fasination with vampires, and this is just one of the recent vampire chronicles that I enjoy. I am also currently a follower of True Blood and The Vampire Diaries. Eclipse was my favorite of the 4 Twilight books and I was not disappointed in the movie-version. I actually saw Eclipse twice. The first time was the weekened after opening week and I had the unfortunate experience of sitting in front of some pre-teen ‘Twi-hards’ who were most certainly members of ‘Team Jacob’. Everytime Taylor Lautner was on screen, they let out high-pitched screams; very annoying when trying to watch the film. I got a much better sense of the movie by my 2nd viewing, sans pre-teen girls. The film was entertaining, very true to the book and had great effects. This was my favorite of the 3 Twilight movies so far. I highly recommend it to any Twilight fan as well as anyone who just likes vampires and maybe a few werewolves (and these are HUGE werewolves). I am at a loss as to how they will be able to accomplish turning book 4 – Breaking Dawn – into 1 or 2 films. I was quite disturbed on many levels with the storyline of that final book. I don’t think it would make a good film, unless they drastically diverge from the book. I guess we will have to see what happens with that…

I just finished reading ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ by Stieg Larsson and loved it. The first 60 pages or so I found to be very uneventful and somewhat confusing. Beware that the author is Swedish and the character names can be a bit unusual and confusing to remember or even pronounce. Once I got past the boring part and onto the beginning of the plotline, things were much better. I really like the 2 main characters in the book, the mismatched duo of - Mikael Blomkvist and Lisbeth Salander. After the plot began to unfold and about 250 pages into the book I wasn’t able to put it down. The story was exciting and thrilling and I just needed to find out more. This book has already been made into a Swedish film which I heard was very good, and will be made into a US film as well. I believe the book definitely lends itself to being a great film. I highly recommend this book.

The next film I want to see is Salt and the next book I intend to read is The Hobbit – Look for my reviews of those soon!