SPOILER ALERT: Breaking Dawn: Before the Spawn Review

Hi there,

I am hoping you have come on over from Twitarded, where I posted a spoiler-free review of Breaking Dawn: Before the Spawn. If not, I suggest you go there first, as this post makes the most sense if you've already read that one. Off you go, I'll still be here when you get back.

IF YOU DON'T WANT SPOILERS, YOU HAVE COME TO THE WRONG PLACE. 

You have been warned....

@SparklyJul, T, Kiwi-Ed, me, and B ready to go. Oh, and a cucumber.

This post is a little all over the place. But it is 3.45am and I've been awake far too long, so deal with it.

In my opinion, Emmett has some of the best lines. K-Lutzdoes a fine job. Watch out for the wedding speeches, and his snide remarks throughout.

Charlie is.... he’s Charlie-tastic. First class honours to BillyBurke. There's a flashback to him pre-moustache too!

The wedding is awesome. The kiss is EPIC. I loved the speeches, Emmett, Charlie and Jessica all rock the party. Jessica let some of her damn-Bella-got-the-guy-I-wanted shine through. There's a really grizzly dream Bella has the night before that involves a pile of bodies - THAT really set the scene and let you know this was a very different Twilight movie.

The dress! The dress.... yes. Well done, Alice. Very Bella.The shoes? Yikes! No way I could walk down a mossy, grassy isle in those bad boys.

Isle Esme was wonderful. I loved the touch of the red chessset, although we all knew that was in there. The waterfall scene is really fun,and Bella is – funky. She’s playful, snarky and a little bit naughty and it’s reallyrefreshing to see. There were laugh-out-loud moments, and the sex... the sex is really well done, mostly a flashback from Bella the next morning. So don't freak out when you see fade to black, there's more. Nice.

The transformation scene – not bad. I’ll be interested to hearpeople’s opinions, it was not what I expected. Lots of blood... duh. Not as dramatic as the book I thought, and I found myself willing Edward to hurry up, it seemed all a bit too casual for me. I thought they could have played up the 'burning', although she was lying still, it wasn't really obvious the level of pain she was going through inside. I did like the really visceral scenes of the venom going through her blood stream though.

The baby was fucking creepy. Not at first, but when you see it in Rosalie's arms... Oh, and hearing them talk about 'the' name... there was a shriek of laughter in the cinema.

Rosalie's role is quite down-played compared to the book. I expected her to feature much more heavily, but she really didn't. I'm not sure how I feel about that. I was sad that the scene with her making the 'dog bowl' for Jacob wasn't in there.

The wolves, on the whole, are really really well done. Leahis not nearly as annoying as I anticipated. Not sold on the way their ‘hearing’was portrayed, but it was effective, if a little creepy. And no shirtless tubby wolfpack either, they all miraculously have clothes on after phasing back.

THE WIGS. Jasper was... eek. But, you don’t see him much, soit’s no biggie. As suspected, the greatest casualty was poor ol’ Daddy C. Iliterally shuddered every time he was on screen. Peter Facinelli may havebeefed up a little – hard to say – but that wig. The travesty. As we’ve said amillion times, Twilight – making beautiful people fugly since 2008.

Pregnant Bella – very well done in my opinion. She looked very realistically unwell. At one pointI actually asked myself if it was really Kristen. She did really well, and notnearly as much ‘twitch’ as I thought I’d see.

The final fight scene is random, and to be honest, a little unnecessary. It was an add-in, and I kinda see why they did it, but it didn't need to be there.

Oh, and you wanna know where they split it? Do ya? Do ya? I'm gonna tell you after this photo....

Bella opens her bright red eyes. To be continued!

That's all I got folks. I'm writing this at stupid-o'clock, and I am beat. Special thanks to @NixHaw, who also saw it today, for emailing me her thoughts from South Africa. Thanks babe, they really helped.

Mandy over at Malicious Mandy's Mind has done a REALLY detailed spoiler post, click here.

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A MO-ment in Sydney

I was in Sydney this week for yet another conference.

I love it, really. *eye roll* You see, when you work on the exhibition stands and go to the lectures, it's fecking tiring, you get me?

So what do I do to unwind and chill? Skip a session and go shopping, of course!

I found a store within steps of the convention centre. It stocked awesome stuff. Awesome MO-stuff. I thought of my h00rs @jaymes805; @amandakmelby & @rikki_dd* immediately. For some reason, they love the lip-forest look.

Personally, I'm all about the stubble... I likey likey all over, like this:

Aaaand not so much like this:

But since I love my MO-h00rs so, I shopped until I dropped. And I found some amazeballs things. A few examples....

I managed to resist most of these items, but did buy the 'Moustaches of the World' 2012 calendar. It's lined up to replace my Eclipse 2011 one - hey, I wasn't about to get the clusterfuck that is the Breaking Dawn hair-tastrophe calendar. I shall think of my h00rs with every passing month.

And then, as if the universe was trying to tell me something, we went to Luna Park for the conference dinner. Luna Park is a famous amusement park just next to the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Check out the entrance:

Now that's some scary facial forestry right there. But wait, there's more:

I nearly ran away screaming. He smelled funny.

The conference dinner was really fun, in the big top, with a circus theme (duh). We rode the Ferris wheel, danced with hot guys (who turned out to be hot married guys, bummer), and had a gay old time. I proved to myself that I don't need to drink to have a good time (see earlier post here) and generally had a good night catching up with my colleagues from all around Australia and New Zealand.

I just kinda wish I'd taken a marker pen. Then I could have drawn some moustaches on people. That would have been entertaining :-)

*Disclaimer: if you're part of the moustache fan club and I missed you, sincere apologies. I tend to get a little grossed out when it gets a bit too moustachey on twitter.