(WARNING! May contain spoilers!)
After a year’s worth of waiting, I and my sister were able to watch the first part of Breaking Dawn, based on the last book of the Twilight Saga. (It’s my sister who came with me since my husband along with a lot of the male population doesn’t want to watch romantic flicks since as they say, they will just sleep over the entire movie.)
Unfortunately, critics generally disliked “Breaking Dawn,” with just 27 percent giving a favorable review on aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes. Audiences were far more upbeat, scoring the movie a B+ on average, according to survey firm CinemaScore. Females gave the movie an A-. These were taken from gmanews.tv
I tend to agree with the critics since the most awaited wedding failed to send the message across, that it’s a special one between a vampire and a mere human. Although kudos to Kristen (Bella) since she was able to show the wedding jitters one gets when walking down the aisle, that is until she sees Robert (Edward).
It’s a good thing also that they were able to retain some humor that was on the book like when Billy (Charlie), Bella’s dad was giving a toast to the couple but instead was warning Edward to be faithful since he’s a policeman and he can find him anywhere.
The only saving grace was Bella’s pregnancy. You could see how good the make up artist was in making Bella look like a blushing bride at the start of the movie to a skeleton-looking mother-to-be who’s risking everything, even her own life just to have a supernatural baby. I believe that’s how it always is when you’re having a baby; it is a great risk on both the mother and the baby’s life.
Even the Computer-Generated Imagery (CGI) effects in making Bella have an anorexic body and look ghastly while pregnant and the grand transformation from a human being to a vampire with the aid of Edward’s venom was really good (except for me the part when suddenly her chest expanded! Maybe her bones were broken from Edward’s repeated heart pumping to immediately spread the venom.)
With the movie costing about $110 million to make but opening with a massive $283.5 million in worldwide ticket sales over the weekend, I’m just hoping that the last movie Breaking Dawn Part 2 will be better and more close to how the book was written to be able to convey the spirit in which it was created. Not thinking about the length of the movie like what they did with Lord of the Rings. After all, isn’t it good to return the favor to the passionate fans that fell in love with the book first by creating a movie that they will love and appreciate?
