The movie Eclipse (based on the novel of the same name) is a lot better (50% at rottentomatoes.com) than the previous two series in the Twilight Saga, Twilight and New Moon (New Moon was particularly bad). A lot of the themes are done better, especially the supernatural powers of the vampires, before, they way they had shown their super speed (blurring effects) were really lame and gets you thinking, “are you serious, you’ve got to be kidding me, this looks really stupid!”. There are still room for a lot of improvements and so hopefully the changes in the final two movies will make as a great a leap as Eclipse did with it predecessors. Story wise, it’s really faithful to the book, to the point where I am surprised, only major thing they changed was how Bella sacrificed herself (not in the conventional sense) in the final battle, which she never did in the book, and was the whole point of a lot of self reflecting in the book too. The movie skipped a lot of the reflection so viewers don't understand the significance or even link it up to an earlier scene (which puts the idea into Bella’s head), and changes the character a bit. I mean, I guess the writer did that to create a more interesting fight at the end, but that really bugged me. Eclipse was one of the better books in the series and so translating it into the big screen, the movie wasn't so bad, but it’s still fairly boring, I got distracted quite easily through a few screens, I just wished they pushed the pace a little bit faster or cut out some stuff as it is too long with not enough things to keep your attention at 2 hours long. I still don't like the whole love triangle thing as it feels really contrived to me, but that’s more the fault of the source material than the movie. Only worth watching if you’re a fan of the books, otherwise you won’t know why vampire romance suddenly is like the most popular thing ever.
