Twilight Series: New Moon opened this weekend and I was one of many who packed into a crowded theater to see it.
I was pleased with the production and must say the movie was intriguing and exciting until the end. I wanted to interview excited fans about the movie before and after so Las Vegans who saw the movie could relate to them or hear other perspectives.
In my youtube video below, I interviewed people before the movie on their expectations. After the movie, I asked people if it met their expectations.
New Moon Interviews
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It is from two completely different point of views when you talk to people who have read the books compared to people who have only seen the movie. In my video, Angela Semana has read all the books so she already knew who she was rooting for in the movie.
The reason I asked all my interviewees if they are team Jacob or Edward is because the movie concludes with who she chooses to be with. The two interviews that were following the movie were from people who never read the books. Therefore, they got the full experience of the thrill and surprise the plot had to offer and shared their opinion on it afterwards.
For a more in depth movie review, click here.
This weekend, I went to see Couple’s Retreat. This movie was hilarious, but besides the laughs, it left a deep message for all married couples… Marriage takes work… but if you’re willing to go through counseling, you can move from the dark tunnel heading to divorce and head into the light.
The movie starts off with the every day scenes of four couples, all friends. One of the couples, Cynthia and Jason, are considering divorce and beg the other three to come with them on a couple’s retreat on a tropical island resort because they can not afford to go by themselves. They persuade the other couples to come by saying they don’t have to participate in the couple’s counseling and they can just enjoy a vacation.
What the couple’s find in counseling is there are emotions they hide from each other and this causes the hardships they are experiencing. One of the couples, Dave and Ronnie (Vince Vaughn and Malin Akerman) have a seemingly happy marriage, but when they are forced into either going to counseling or getting kicked off the island, they go. What they find in counseling is they are just fighting their way through marriage and life and not enjoying each other like they should.
The climax in the movie begins when the couples travel to the single’s resort, Eden East, to rescue the 20 year old girlfriend of what of their friends. On the way over, Cynthia and Jason get in a fight and the couples split up. Chaos happens as Joey and his wife urgently seek to cheat on each other and then run into each other at the single’s resort.
I enjoyed this movie because it had a distinctive beginning, middle and end. There was no unnecessary scenes leading up to the climax and end of the movie. There was plenty of comedy in the movie, but also serious fights between the married couples and friends. They were great moments of truth and allows the audience to relate to these confrontations.
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