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The Twilight Saga. New Moon [2 Discs]

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Based on the novel "New moon" by Stephenie Meyer.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2009.
Special features: 6-part documentary going behind the scenes.
Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Billy Burke, Ashley Greene, Anna Kendrick, Peter Facinelli, Elizabeth Reaser, Kellan Lutz, Nikki Reed, Dakota Fanning.
Bella is still very much in love with Edward. The rest of the vampire coven who call themselves the Cullens, especially Alice, decide to throw Bella a private party for her eighteenth birthday. Things go wrong when Bella cuts her finger and thirst overcomes the vampires. As a result of the danger Bella was put through, the Cullen family decide to leave Forks, Washington. Bella becomes so depressed that she exempts herself from all social activities. But, she realizes she can coexist with childhood friend, Jacob. As usual for Bella, things aren't what they seem. Something is happening to Jacob that he can't explain to Bella, and their friendship starts to deteriorate. But when Alice returns to tell her that Edward thinks she is dead, Bella must go on a journey to save Edward from wanting to die himself.
DVD, widescreen presentation; Dolby Digital.
Contents: Twilight saga series.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Bad submitted by Daniel Saltzman on March 13, 2010, 3:04pm Like the movie Twilight, New Moon is just another heart-throb movie. The one semi-three dimensional character, Jacob, is sorely under-used and the main characters are still just as badly acted. Totally predictable and having an absurd plot, New Moon isn't worth waiting for, except to make fun of.

Dark thoughts on a dim series submitted by SarahRose on April 9, 2010, 5:00pm So why watch the Twilight movies if I didn't like the books? Partly because it's everywhere, partly because I do like a good vampire-werewolf thriller, and partly because I was hoping maybe if you took Stephenie Meyer's writing away from Stephenie Meyer's premise you might come up with something decent. Unfortunately, this is not a good vampire-werewolf thriller and although Stephenie Meyer didn't write the screenplay, there was really no incentive for the woman who did write it to improve upon the quality of the dialog, when squeal-jillions of fanatic chicks are going to see it anyway. The 18-year-olds in the movie flip flop rapidly between talking like melodramatic 14-year-olds and talking like uncommonly dull 40-year-olds. That said, I'll probably watch the next one, like a sucker, before swearing off the series and pretending that "Breaking Dawn" is a movie where Edward breaks down and drinks somebody, and Bella sees the light and leads the werewolves on violent rampage to slaughter all the vampires.

Depressed persons -- Drama -- submitted by CasualTim on July 8, 2010, 1:54pm Rating this one's tough. I'll grant that this is my least favorite of the three Twilight films that have so far been released. But at the risk of my reputation as a man's man, I do have to disagree with the other reviewers. New Moon, like Twilight and Eclipse, isn't that bad. It's just that it's not really for us.

This one is the most annoying because of the pure and extreme devotion to moping that Bella develops (and which we are thus dragged along for the entire, painful ride). But consider this in light of the intended audience. Boy, did I do a lot of moping when I was in high school (Okay, I still do a lot of moping, it's just that I've shrugged off the melodrama). I remember being convinced that the world would end if the Love Of My Life (for that week) didn't return my phone calls. I might even be guilty of having thought that my particular love interests were supernaturally shiny. Okay, maybe not. Still, I imagine I might've found some solace with a film that so completely commits to the Hamletization of its main characters.

If the dialogue in the movie comes mainly from the book, Meyer captures the inner teen voice suspiciously well. So much so that if you forget who the film is aimed at, you may become tempted to exclaim "It's like this was written by a 15-year old!" Which, in the case of New Moon, ends up being a compliment.

... submitted by imracom on June 22, 2011, 11:58am Well, it's new moon. What did you expect?.....

ok submitted by harajuku528 on June 29, 2011, 3:26pm ok

Ok submitted by Lmd3577 on July 4, 2011, 9:10am This movie is ok the dierctor did a good job at respecting the novel but it lacked in some places but over all a good movie.

Great submitted by LuckyDuck on July 12, 2011, 3:42pm Fun and romantic

Twilight? submitted by northeorg on July 13, 2011, 1:29pm I'm not a huge fan of twilight but never watched this but i head some ppl say its good and some bad so i guess you ppl should just go see for ur self :)

Entertaining submitted by jarroyo on July 14, 2011, 12:32pm I liked this movie although it is my least favorite of the 3 that have been released so far. There isn't much action. It's more building a relationship between Bella and Jacob.

really bad submitted by ftan on July 16, 2012, 4:08pm im sorry to those who enjoy this saga, but i do not. i find the plot terrible along with the writing. this translates to a movie with terrible actors. a disaster. to those of you who don't care for a good, touching story: this is ok.

Awesome submitted by Dayoung Nam on July 26, 2012, 9:27am The movie is very similar to the book, and I really like it very much.
The worst part of this movie was when Bella began to hang out with Jacob
and abandoning Edward.

So, so bad submitted by crazypockets on June 19, 2013, 5:56pm A friend and I went to see this in the theater just for a laugh, and there were so many hilariously bad parts. But then again, there were some seriously disturbing parts, too. I think this movie summed up for me all the things that grate under my skin about the whole premise of this trilogy. Bella has zero personality or relevance outside of how she relates to the male characters. She has no interests of her own, no thoughts that aren't about being painfully awkward or being devoted to some guy. When Edward leaves her, she becomes reckless and puts her life in danger over and over just so she can "see" him begging her not to kill herself. I understand that a lot of teens can feel this way about relationships, but it's glorified in this movie and shouldn't be shown as an example.

The most disturbing thing to me though was the conversation she has with Jacob in the truck where he tells her that they can't be together because he's "dangerous" and she might set his wolf-self off to where he hurts her. Um...domestic violence analogy, anyone? He has something "dark and untamed" within him, and if he hauls off and attacks her, it would be her fault. The worst is when she tells him that that would never happen because she'd never ever make him mad, she'd only tell him all the time how wonderful he is. This is what little girls are watching? A love triangle between a dead guy who controls her to the point where he disables her car so she can't go anywhere he doesn't want her to go, and a wolf-man who might abuse her if she makes him angry. The more I think about this story, the less funny it seems, and the more horrific it becomes.

Not as good as the previous (and future movies) submitted by Josie Brown on July 6, 2013, 11:03am What struck me about this movie was that Edward suddenly just tells Bella that he needs to leave and he can't see her anymore. She starts spending more time with Jacob Black and finds out he's a werewolf!
Things just got a lot more complicated in this movie.