My Eclipse DVD extras review. Squee!

*SPOILERS* - natch, cos I'm a Spoiler h00r. But, you knew that...

03/12/2010 - UPDATE: This post was just pimped on TWITARDED. Like, my whole reason for even being in Twi-land. The holy grail of Twi-blogs. I am currently on my knees (not like that, durrrty girls) kissing LatchkeyWife's feet. If you're here because of her post, PLEASE leave a comment and let me know! Thanks!

So today was the day I've been waiting for for AGES. Like, months. Eclipse released!

Before I go on, I want to get it out of my system that for once, something Twilight happens in NZ before it does in the States. Please remember this has NEVER happened before. We don't have the cool merch, we don't have the twi-cons, the chances to even been in the same airspace as the stars etc, so let me have my moment in the sun here, peeps. I know you've all been sick of me tweeting about this, but hey, it's just this once...

I pre-ordered online some time ago, and I always get anything bought online delivered to my office, since I'm never home during the day. So I was waiting with baited breath when the courier arrived! Practically snatching the post from the receptionist's arms, I tore at the packaging. If only it wasn't 1 o'clock in the afternoon and a whole eight hours (I worked late today) before I could get home to fully appreciate the Precious.

I know you're all dying to hear my thoughts on the commentary, extended scenes etc. I've only watched once, with the importance of posting before bed tonight weighing heavily on my mind, but here goes nothin:

Commentary with Rob & Kristen:
Or, as Kristen says at one point... "The musings of R-Pattz in the commentary of Eclipse"

To clarify between their ramblings and mine, I've colour coded Rob's text in blue and Kristen's in purple.

Oh. My. God. Right from "I'm Robert Pattinson".. I was hooked. They played up some hilarious accents and talked smack the whole time. Right from "Xavier would make a wonderful hamburger" in the first scene, to Rob mocking a Southern accent in the meadow "You're gonna need that ring."

I've taken some quotes from the commentary and added my two cents worth. Hopefully this will give you an idea of some of the stuff they're on about and give you a taster for Friday when you can watch for yourselves.

"You do a different thing [different to Riley] when you get bitten by a vampire... and it's a LOT sexier."
Ahem... yep. We've seen the feathered hand, and we CAN. NOT. WAIT.

"What are you gonna look like when you turn into a vampire?"
"I'm gonna be really white... I'm gonna be...the best one!"
Hellz yeah you'll be a good vamp, but the BEST one, I'm gonna reserve judgement on that.

"That's a weird sideburn. I always have some kind of... follicle issue" 
Rob talks about his hair ALOT. Like, obsessively. Although, it is very nice hair. I can see his point.

This comment is followed by K discussing the fact that she feels she looks like Jacob in Twilight with her Eclipse wig on... whilst Rob compares it to Damien Marley!

Rob thinks the Jacob/Renesme imprint will be the best scene of Breaking Dawn. Really Rob, better than Isle Esme? I think I know a few people who may disagree with you there. 

"Why do you care if these two kids have sex?"
They get into a discussion about why it should bother the fans if Edward and Bella are bumpin' uglies or not, and Kristen gets REALLY deep. Seriously, love, it's fiction. And surely you know that everyone loves a lemon. Deal.

"I like that little bow in her hair"
What. The. Fuck. Surely I am not alone in hating on Alice's look at the party. Reminds me of the horror story that was Volterra Alice and the stripey grey tent. Ewww.

"Peter also uses his wig as a cereal bowl, it's completely solid"

This was fucking hilarious. They take the piss out of the wigs. ALOT. Although, strangely, they never talk about Jasper's, which I thought was weird.

Rob keeps referring to this movie being so full of kissing. So much kissing. He thinks he's a prude! Oh, no... bb. Pop into Twitardia, we can help you out with that shit. Maybe it's because he was self-conscious of talking about kissing Kristen... when we're all thinking what he's thinking. Or perhaps I'm overthinking. Gah.

During the bit when Jacob carries Bella through the forest, Rob does this hilarious impression laugh that sounds like Gargamel from the Smurfs, IMHO. Hilarious.

"I gotta hitch my leg and everything!" 
"The leg hitch scene? What are they talking about? Was it called that before the movie?"
You didn't know it was called the leg hitch scene? I really could educate you more on the series, Rob. In fact, hows about you come over to my place right now for a 'lesson'?

There is some heavy breathing and throat clearing between R&K during the leg hitch make out... followed by "let's see some of that chest hair". Nice line. They also discuss the fact that it's very awkward for them to watch and comment on the scene... oh really?

When Edward stops Bella taking her clothes off, you can tell that K really wanted to say something like "you cockblocking son of a bitch" but clearly had to watch her language. Then they lead into some deep 'power struggle' discussion... blah. It's about the smut guys, you know it.

During the 'Bella wipes her blood on the trees' scene, Rob goes off on this rant about this story reflecting real life, when "some little punk with no shirt gets all up in your business" and K just shoots him down. It's fucking hilarious. The boy can do a mean accent or two, fuck I'd love to see him to do stand up... and he does hate on Jacob a fair bit here, not that I'm complaining. You know my rule, no dogs allowed.

"I can kick his arse in two seconds. He's, like, the worst guy in the world."

Turns out Rob is a funny bastard, with the one liners:

"Kellan and the wolf, there's the sequel. that's gonna be a magical relationship."

"I don't need a six pack, or a wolf pack, just need my little wristband!" [referring to the cuff]

She giggles so much at things he says, it's so sweet and so fucking obvious these two are mad for each other. Talk about audio sexual chemistry. Good thing they were in separate places recording this, they may well have jumped each others' bones halfway through otherwise...

Did you know?

*Kristen filmed the whole 'third wife' sequence, complete with 'tan', and it was replaced. Rob never saw it and wishes he had.
*It was really hot in the tent scene, which made Kristen feel quite unwell as she was covered in so many layers for 'warmth'.
*The 'snow' on the mountain was made of slippery wet paper and they had to rearrange the choreography for the whole fight because everyone kept falling over.

Extended scenes:
There are six extended scenes - most, if not all of which have been floating about on the interweb. I've avoided them until now (!) but in my opinion, they were all cut in a good place, except 'We're creating an ahhhhmy' - Emmett has a rockin' line at the end of this one: "But, we're still gonna kick someone's arse, right?" LMAO. 

Deleted scenes:
There are two deleted scenes. One with Ange & Bella, talking about jealousy. Quite good, added some depth I think. The other is with Charlie & Bella after graduation - they did well to delete that one, IMHO.

I have yet to watch the six part making-of doco, but you can bet I'll be watching that sooner rather than later.

And... my Hunger Games boxed set arrived yesterday. It's a big ol' SQUEE fest around here right now. Good thing I've got a day off tomorrow to watch DVDs, lick my television, and read....

Hope you enjoyed my little round-up, and I look forward to hearing your impressions after Friday! xxx

UPDATE: You can find part two of my Eclipse review here.

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