Review: The Twilight Saga: New Moon

I like the gay indian werewolves, that's one of the funniest things I've seen in years.

Couldn't agree more - while I understand why teenage girls are attracted to Bella's tortured internal monologue in the books, the films can't portray this so Kristen Stewart just spends the films looking hurt and confused...and that's it.

Not only is it insulting to women, it's ridiculously irritating to watch.

While it's really nice to see girls geeking out over a genre movie like this, there's elements of it that really worry me, and Chud.com sums it up perfectly: -

"So if the mythology is paper thin, it must be the characters that keep drawing people in. Except that Bella is barely a character, and it's embarrassing watching Kristen Stewart have to play this absolute zero of a human being. Defined only by the men in her life, unable to do anything on her own, completely helpless in every way (there are a bizarre number of scenes where men drive Bella's truck for her, as if she's incapable of such an indelicate task as hitting the brakes), Bella is a retrograde nightmare. If the Twilight books had been written by a man many of the grown women I know who love the series would have been disgusted by the appalling misogyny on display. Other, better writers have covered the series' Cro-Magnon take on sexual politics better than I could, but I will say that as it relates to New Moon these sexual politics essentially sink the movie. Bella's only emotional modes are horribly needy and annoyingly depressed; spending time with this character is torture. That anyone could relate to her on any level frightens me; I have to assume that it's Bella's utter blankness and emptiness as a character that allows girls to project themselves into her hollow shell."

http://www.chud.com/articles/articles/21614/1/REVIEW-NEW-MOON/Page1.html

Edited at 12:16 on 24/11/09

Fuck this movie.