Reel Review: Twilight 'New Moon'
By Jacob Cole / STAFF WRITER | December 3Director Chris Weitz fails to bring anything aesthetically captivating to his work on "New Moon," the second entry in the "Twilight" saga; compared to Catherine Hardwicke's slimy blue color timing and queasy camera movements; however, his direction is as exciting and breathtaking as Scorsese's.That's more or less where the positive aspects of this film end, sadly, as "New Moon" is an arduous slog through a mythology that seems as long as a round-trip to Mordor in real-time.Codependent protagonist Bella (Kristen Stewart) is still in chaste bliss with vampire hunk Edward (Robert Pattinson), though her impending 18th birthday reminds her that she ages, while Edward remains eternally young.Naturally, she suffers nightmares of being an old lady chained to her eternally teenaged beau, which Edward believes is a bit obsessive (it is important, here, to remember the relativity of perception).His vampire family invites Bella over to celebrate, she cuts herself on the birthday card, yadda yadda yadda, and tensions (and appetites) are stoked.Edward decides to leave, to where he does not say, nor did I ask owing to an old saying about gift horses and mouths.
