Andrew: Hello readers! Our weekly preview is back
after a one-week hiatus, and while it's not going to be a particularly long
preview, there are definitely some talking points here for us to touch on.
Sarah, there are only two wide releases for this weekend - the final installment
of the hugely popular Twilight series, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2,
and Steven Spielberg’s Abraham Lincoln biopic, Lincoln. We'll also
briefly touch on a smaller film we've been waiting for that has finally hit our
neck of the woods, The Sessions, starring John Hawkes and Helen Hunt.
So let's start this
off with the new Twilight movie, shall we? Sarah, can you summarize what the
last film is about? Where does it pick up from where the last one left off?
Sarah: Well in the first part of Breaking Dawn, we finally
get to see Kristen Stewart’s Bella and Robert Pattinson’s Edward tie the knot
and the final breakdown of Taylor Lautner’s Jacob as he realizes that that
Bella will never be his. While Bella and Edward are on their honeymoon, she
makes the grave discovery that she is somehow pregnant...and apparently a
couple of months along. This is what happens when you get are impregnated by a
vampire, people!. The rest of the story follows Bella on her very painful
pregnancy as the baby grows at an accelerated rate and basically sucks the life
out of her. The Cullens quickly realize that the only way she is ever going to
survive the birth is if she is turned to a vampire at the right moment. The
movie ends with Jacob imprinting on the Edward/Bella baby and Bella opening her
blood red eyes.
I have to say I am
excited to see this one; a little bit because I am ready for it to be over, a
little bit because I want to see some vampires kicking butt. I am hoping to see
Michael Sheen more in this one, because he plays such a good vampire as the
head of the vampire police, the Volturi. It is one of the most anticipated
movies of the holiday season, so I will be interested to see if it lives up to
the hype.
