'Eclipse': The Reviews Are In!

SOOO who went to watch Eclipse last night at midnight?? i was going to go but the truth was that i was just too tired.. i had been traveling all day and didn't make the trio with my sister"s i got their reviews this morning .. and they LLOOVVED it and said they would see it again. soo now i didn't read this article but i mean I'm sure we all have out opinions.


Would it be an exaggeration to say "Eclipse" is the most polarizing film of the year so far?

In one corner, you have the Twilighters lining up outside theaters across the country to be among the first to check out the latest romance-laden adventure starring Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner. Those fans will line up again and again before the weekend is over, likely bringing "Eclipse" an opening box-office haul to match, if not exceed, the $142.8 million that "New Moon" grossed in November. In the other corner, you've got the skeptics, the who-watches-this-crap haters and the bloggers taking to the Web to spew vitriol at every moment of teen romance "Eclipse" has to offer.

There will be no détente for these two camps; the gap between them as unbridgeable as anything on today's pop-culture landscape. Critics on both sides of the Twi-divide have weighed in on the third installment of the vampire franchise, and MTV News checks out what some of them had to say.

Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly does an excellent job of trying to get the fans and the haters to see eye to eye. "The 'Twilight' movies, like the books on which they're based, are often mocked," he wrote. "But that's only because we're still, on some level, getting used to the novelty of a highly contemporary blockbuster saga that's this rooted in old-fashioned, borderline masochistic girlish romantic rapture. The movie version of 'Eclipse,' with its dueling boy-monster hunks — a chaste orgy of male gazing — revels in the power that Bella experiences by giving herself over to the powerlessness of love. The movie is about a girl's primal dream of being desired. That may well be corny, but it's also an essential antidote to summer-movie hardware."

Of course, not all reviews are as generous about what they see as the film's abundant shortcomings. Take MTV News' own Kurt Loder: "[N]ew director David Slade is still stuck with the story — which, deriving as it does from the paceless goop of Stephenie Meyer's books, and having been wrestled into a script by Melissa Rosenberg, is a threadbare quilt of pre-teen romantic clichés padded out unconscionably with long character flashbacks and rambling dialogue that's deader than any of the vampires in attendance," Loder said. "(The picture runs two hours, and might have been more enjoyable — and certainly less exasperating — if it had been cut down into a one-hour TV special.)"

Salon.com's Andrew O'Hehir approached the film with an open mind and found some fanboy pleasure to be had up onscreen. "It's a geek-friendly genre flick, with plenty of CGI effects and fight sequences, along with extended detours into the back stories of rural Washington's undead and shape-shifter populations, and the tense relationship between them," he offered. "Melissa Rosenberg's screenplay even has a few flashes of comedy, and develops an emotional power that goes far beyond the depressive, lovesick languor of 'New Moon.' "

What of the castmembers' performances? Opinion, predictably, is split, with some slamming the big three and others applauding the young actors for giving their best effort yet in the series.

"There is a new tenderness and sweetness that Stewart brings to her relationships — more playful with Pattinson, more affectionate with [Billy] Burke (especially when Charlie tries to have 'the sex talk'), and more intense with Lautner," wrote Betsy Sharkey of the Los Angeles Times. "Bella doesn't want to let down anyone, and Stewart makes sure she doesn't. But it's Lautner, in particular, who has grown, giving Jacob an emotional interior nearly as hard-packed as those abs, which are very much on display."

We'll give the final word to one of the film's true fans. "Sure, the book itself is a fan favorite," a reviewer wrote on TwilightMoms.com. "How could its visual counterpart not be entertaining with the leg hitch, the tent scene, and all the grandiose displays of outrageous vampire and werewolf skills? I must say, however, that it wasn't just those scenes that blew me away, it was the film in general. The Cullens are cooler, the wolves wolfier and the acting supreme. This visual experience is not just a fan treat, it's a full-on dessert potluck of Twilight movie-goodness. And you will walk away feeling like you just feasted."

Now that you've seen "Eclipse," tell us what you thought of the movie. Share your reviews in the comments!


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Actress Amanda Bynes Retires at the Age of 24

Actress Amanda Bynes says she is ready to retire from Hollywood completely at the age of 24.

Taking to her Twitter page to express her disgust with the industry, the former Nickelodeon star said “Being an actress isn’t as fun as it may seem.”

“If I don’t love something anymore, I stop doing it,” Bynes wrote. “I don’t love acting anymore, so I’ve stopped doing it.”

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After working on such shows as “All That,” “The Amanda Show” and her own sitcom “What I Like About You,” Bynes made the transition to film, appearing in “She’s the Man” and “What a Girl Wants.”

But after her latest film “Easy A,” which hits theaters this fall, Bynes said, “I know 24 is a young age to retire but you heard it here first I’ve #retired.”

Bynes further complained about her image in roles, saying “I’ve never written the movies & tv shows I’ve been a part of. I’ve only acted like the characters the producers or directors wanted me to play.”

A rep for the star has not officially confirmed the Twitter announcement.

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Hollywood Hopes ‘Toy Story 3’ Can Spur Summer Sales

Grumpy moviegoers have left the film business trying to dig itself out of a summer slump after a series of big-budget disappointments and the lack of a single blockbuster comedy.

Memorial Day weekend attendance was the lowest since 1993. Box office receipts for the next weekend plunged 24 percent compared with the same weekend a year earlier.

Sony’s remake of “The Karate Kid” sold a surprisingly strong $56 million in North America over the last three days, landing firmly in first place, but a much more expensive adaptation of “The A-Team” from 20th Century Fox fizzled with $26 million.

It was enough to put this weekend up 11 percent over the same one last year, according to Hollywood.com, which tracks ticket data. But total domestic box office revenue since early May — when “Iron Man 2” opened with a bang — has fallen about 6.4 percent, to $1.02 billion, from $1.09 billion in the period a year earlier, according to Hollywood.com.

So it will take more than a robust performance from “The Karate Kid” to truly kick-start Hollywood’s summer, the period between early May and Labor Day that typically accounts for 40 percent of annual ticket sales. Indeed, now comes the hard part: convincing turned-off consumers that studios have held back the good stuff.

The best chance for studios to prove that the down cycle has actually broken, box office analysts and others say, is the arrival on Friday of “Toy Story 3,” starring Buzz Lightyear and pals. It is the long-anticipated third installment (this time in 3-D) in a series that helped Pixar establish computer-animated family fare as the film industry’s most reliable moneymaker.

“Toy Story 2” opened with more than $75 million in 1999, when adjusted for inflation. Hollywood hopes the follow-up will handily beat that total, delivering the kind of opening weekend tally that the industry expects from its big-budget, heavily marketed releases.

Still, it may be tough to win back the favor of an audience that has been trained to expect more than Hollywood has delivered in the last few weeks. One danger is that potential filmgoers tend to overlook a next round of pictures when they did not like the last batch.

“It’s all about changing their mood,” Dennis Rice, a marketing consultant who previously ran Disney’s publicity operation, said of the entertainment business.

Kevin Goetz, chief executive of Screen Engine, a marketing and research consulting firm that specializes in entertainment, says viewers increasingly reserve their ticket purchases for pictures that promise something truly special, whether that means amazing visual effects or extraordinary reviews.

“If you don’t have a product that delivers in a unique and powerful way, then certainly the messaging has to do that,” Mr. Goetz said.

A variety of other factors may be holding back the box office, including blowback from consumers over higher ticket prices. Perversely, the improving economy may have taken the edge off ticket sales that were buoyed last year, when filmgoers sought a relatively cheap diversion from financial woes.

But the primary reason is most likely ho-hum movies. In the last few weeks, Hollywood’s offerings have lacked luster. “Sex and the City 2” got some of the worst reviews in memory for Warner Brothers, while “Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time” from Walt Disney was received with a collective shrug.

New comedies like “Killers” from Lionsgate and “Get Him to the Greek” from Universal Pictures registered barely a blip when compared with “The Hangover,” the spring-summer comic juggernaut of 2009.

And for all the talk about a 3-D revolution, only one major 3-D film, the hit “Shrek Forever After,” from DreamWorks Animation, has been released since May. At least four 3-D movies, including “The Last Airbender” from Paramount and “Despicable Me” from Universal, are still on deck for the summer.

But those will arrive without the momentum that powered last year, when eight action fantasies and animated films topped $150 million each at the spring-summer box office. They were led by four — “Up,” “Star Trek,” “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” and “Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian” — that had already been released by this point in the year.

“Yes, there seems to be a slump,” acknowledged Tom Sherak, who is a consultant for Marvel Entertainment and president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences — and is generally known as an industry cheerleader.

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Mtv Movie Awards 2010

As most of you already know the MTV movie awards were on last night and we all know they are filled with corny , racy and sexual jokes that we just cant help but not laugh at. unfortunately i didn't get to watch! i only saw a few parts here and there but I'm sure it will be playing over and over so hopefully i get a chance to watch it sometime this week. I'll be completely honest i wasn't really that into watching it.. and as i suspected of course new moon took all the wards but I'm curious to see the kiss between scarlet jo and Sandra bullock haha. long article but lots of detail about the night.


The MTV Movie Awards are known for making twenty-somethings like me (and thirty-somethings like you) feel pretty old. The red carpet is always filled with young-bloods who have more hair and muscle mass than we do, and the movies honored are the ones we pretended to have swine flu so we'd get out of having to take our nieces to see them. Of course there's the occasional recognizable figure to get us through such an unimportant award show, like the all-star Betty White and Sandra Bullock (who we recently found out happens to have been married to a Nazi! Imagine that!).

Other than those two forces, if you spent two hours folding your laundry instead of watching the MTV Movie Awards, you deserve a full scholarship to Harvard or a Ferrari. Because you're a better person than I am...with way more clean clothes.

I'm sure deep down you're wondering what you missed, but you're too embarrassed to ask any of your friends if they caught the show. It's actually okay, because it turns out...you can see what you missed right here! On this very page of the Internet! No need to drill around from website to website, looking for the best clips from the award show you missed (where the trophy is non-edible popcorn) simply because you had a conversation with your wife or fed your kids. We at Hollywood.com salute heroes like you, who had to forgo watching Scarlett Johansson kiss Sandra Bullock in real time because your dog wanted to go outside and walk behind the ice-cream truck for awhile.

First, we saw Ken Jeong (who used to be a doctor, actually...as in a person who gets your heart to start beating again) and Ed Helms sing about the subject matter of tigers dreams, which if you might recognize from their movie, "The Hangover." But it was coldly interrupted by a Tom Cruise-looking (get it?) Les Grossman, who then appeared on stage and grinded with Jennifer Lopez. But not before making it clear he has the dancing skills of a light bulb. It was kind of great.


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Then, Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson won "Best Kiss" for the tonsil hockey they played in "New Moon." Typically, the winners of this award are supposed to reenact the kiss when they're holding their faux-gold box of metallic popcorn. However, KStew and RPatzz hate fame and refuse to do anything the way they're supposed to. So instead, they did this little song and dance, which was even more fake than any movie where baby geniuses talk or spend a day out in New York City without getting run over by a city bus.


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Next, Katy Perry performed "California Gurls." Eh, well. Her day-glo clothes are cool and LED-lit glasses were pretty sweet. But other than that, it wasn't bamboozling. But people are talking about it, so you should see for yourself. It was kind of like what would happen if the Beach Boys sniffed lots of highlighters and decided to become Cher impersonators.


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Then Christina Aguilera sang a mashup of "Bionic," "Not Myself Tonight" and "Woohoo." Now I don't know about you, but I much prefer the "Lady Marmalade" and "Dirrty" Christina to this one, who seems to be addicted to laser tag and "Iron Man" movies.


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And finally, the moment you've all been waiting for, Sandra Bullock's acceptance of the "MTV Generation Award." It's just like those young people to refer to us middle-aged people (note: I'm not even close to being middle aged) using old terms like "pre-seatbelt era" and "generational." In what must be an attempt to counter those ageist words, Sandra Bullock plants a nice wet one on Scarlett Johansson, a la the closeted nyphomaniac on her spring break vacation to Cancun! Oh Sandy. Don't let MTV or your Nazi ex-husband get you down. You're as young as ever.

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Twitter Campaign Wants 'Community' Actor to Be First Non-White Spider-Man

Could the movies soon have the first African American Spider-Man?

If thousands of Twitter users get their way, the star of Sony's upcoming reboot of the franchise will be Donald Glover, best known from his role on NBC's "Community." This weekend the Twitter hashtag "donald4spiderman" became the #3 trending topic in the U.S., and the campaign is still gaining steam.

The origins of this latest attempt by social media users to influence casting decisions occurred last week. After surveying the five mostly unknown white actors said to be vying for the role, Marc Bernadin, a writer for the sci-fi site io9.com, called the choices "bland" and asked, "In this day and age, why does Spidey have to be a white guy?" In response, commenters threw out Donald Glover's name as a possible contender, and a Twitter campaign was born.

A unique aspect of this latest fan campaign is its wholehearted support by the subject in question. Glover seems to like the idea (though he makes it clear on his Twitter page that he's interested in auditioning, not just being handed the role without first having to prove his worthiness). While he had nothing to do with its inception, Glover himself has been promoting the campaign, instructing fans to tweet the #donald4spiderman hash tag at strategic times to keep it trending.

In years past, an Internet petition of this kind might not be given much credence, but given the overwhelming success of the recent social-media uprising to get Betty White a hosting gig on "Saturday Night Live," this could be Glover's ticket to director Marc Webb's tryout room. He and his fans will have to act fast, though: The Hollywood Reporter is already forecasting the five most likely contenders for the role, and Glover is not on the list


Glover, a comedian and former writer for "30 Rock," has starred in only one movie so far: "Mystery Team," a comedy he co-created with his sketch comedy team, Derrick Comedy, which came out in 2009.

One hurdle Glover's fans will have is in his presumed bankability as a movie star: "Mystery Team" brought in a meager $89.4 thousand in domestic box-office sales.

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