My Movie Reviews: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn: Part I (2011)

Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) and Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (2011) is a thriller starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner and covers the first half of the novel Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer. Part 1 covers the long awaited wedding of Bella and Edward and also covers the Quileute closing in on newlyweds when they find out Bella is pregnant with a possible vampire/human hybrid, which poses a threat to the wolf pack.

The script was written by Melissa Rosenberg while the film was produced by Wyck Godfrey and Karen Rosenfelt, along with the series author Stephanie Meyer. The film was directed by Bill Condon.

THE CAST

Kristen Stewart as Bella Swan/Cullen

Robert Pattinson as Edward Cullen

Taylor Lautner as Jacob Black

Nikki Reed as Rosalie Hale

Peter Facinelli as Carlisle Cullen

Elizabeth Reaser as Esme Cullen

Ashley Greene as Alice Cullen

Kellan Lutz as Emmett Cullen

Jackson Rathbone as Jasper Hale

Julia Jones as Leah Clearwater

Booboo Stewart as Seth Clearwater

Billy Burke as Charlie Swan

Sarah Clarke as Renée Dwyer

Chaske Spencer as Sam Uley

SYNOPSIS

Bella Swan and Edward Cullen prepare for their wedding sending out invitations to family and friends. After the wedding, the to have there honeymoon on Isle Esme and make love for the first time. Subsequently, Bella becomes pregnant (much to Edward and the Cullen's surprise) with a fetus that is harming her body. Once the Quileute wolves here of this, Jacob takes a stand with the help of Seth and Leah to protect Bella and the Cullens from the wrath of Sam's pack.

TRAILER

 MY THOUGHTS

OMG... I am actually pretty impressed with the way Summit has tackled The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1. Of course I have my swift remarks but I'll add those in later (and when I say swift I don't mean Taylor Swift... see, ha ha... never mind). Anyway, this film did to some extent keep me going and a little on edge, despite the fact that I already knew what was going to happen. But I must mention the films down side. There were several unnecessary points at which one will probably ask themselves "what the h*** am I watching" and become bored until something jumps out to get your attention. SPOILERS: There was a particular part in the film when I absolutely felt lost and I just sat there wondering "how long will this last" was the scene where Bella tells Jacob and Edward the baby names. This boring scene gets interesting when Bella's back bends backwards and she begins going into labor. The Birth of Renesmee scene was pretty epic and I loved the flashing in and out (the music was pretty epic too, and on that note I will be getting the score in December). It was pretty sad when Bella died, but it was really sad that everyone in the theater began to cry... I was like "really people!? Y'all do know she's coming back to life right?" Any who, then the scene were Jacob imprinted on Renesmee... It was pretty tight. And of course the cliff hanger. I was sitting in my set wondering how they were going to pull it off by letting the audience know Bella was still alive but not show her new graceful vampire look. The film closes with the Cullens and Jacob in the room with Bella as her natural beauties switch from dead to stunningly beautiful. The screen scrolls over Bella's eyes and they open newborn red. I have to say It was pretty sexy... oh, my bad. SPOILERS END. I have to be honest and say that the Twilight stars have definitely stepped their game up and did their best to bring Breaking Dawn to life.

That being said, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 gets: ★★★★★ 3 out of 5 Stars

"If you kill her, you kill me!!"

Revenge of the Countess (A Dark Romance Novel)

Copyright © 2011 of James Pettis, III

Revenge of the Countess is a dark romance novel about a young man who is being sadistically tortured in his sleep by a young woman from his past life.

Jamie Ciumak is a young man attending Heavy's College in Paterson, New Jersey. He is Romanian American and is about to celebrate his twenty third birthday. For years Jamie has had a recurring dream of a young woman sadistically torturing him and he can't seem to figure out why. His Uncle Gaius explains to him that his dreams are just his imagination and a way of him expressing his sexual desires. But Jamie disagrees. Things turn worst when he meets a young woman identical to the one in his dreams and his nightmares suddenly become more violent. Jamie eventually figures out that the woman is from his past life and that she has returned from the dead to kill him, due to a mutual sin they committed together that he somehow escaped. Will she get her revenge or will Jamie put a stop to her evil ways?

This novel has been interesting coming up with, although it was difficult to put my finger on exactly what I wanted it to be about. But I managed to put together a great plot and I am hoping that others will be interested in it as well. Stay posted for more info about Revenge of the Countess.


BTW, here is an alternate cover for the novel.

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My Movie Reviews: Abduction (2011)

Nathan Price (Taylor Lautner) in Abduction

Abduction (2011) is a thriller starring Taylor Lautner as Nathan Price, a young man who finds out his parents aren't really his parents when he finds his baby picture on a missing person's website. He becomes determined to find out the truth and uncover his past.

The Script was written by Shawn Christensen and Jeffery Nachmanoff and the film was release September 23, 2011.

Apparently, the script was bought from Shawn Christensen by Lionsgate in 2010 with Taylor Lautner attached to the film. The film is being directed by John Singleton. When a more detailed synopsis is released I will post more info. The film stars the following cast:

THE CAST

Taylor Lautner as Nathan Price

Sigourney Weaver as Dr. Bennett

Maria Bello as Mara

Lily Collins as Karen Lowell

Alfred Molina as Frank Burton

Micheal Nyqvist as Viktor Kozlow

Jason Isaacs as Kevin

SYNOPSIS

What would you do if you found your own picture on a missing persons website? Teen Nathan (Taylor Lautner) finds himself facing this very dilemma. Setting out to uncover his real identity, Nathan quickly learns his parents are far from who they say they are. When the police, government agents and shadowy figures start to pursue him, Nathan’s quest for the truth erupts into a full-blown “Bourne”-like man-on-the-run thriller.

TRAILER

MY THOUGHTS

OK... I guess I shouldn't have expected an extremely awesome action film that I'd want to watch over and over again because of it's awesomeness (like Bourne Identity), but still, I expected better. It wasn't so much the acting, but how the story unfolded and how so many questions were left unanswered (not like there's gonna be an Abduction sequel... I hope not). I do have to commend Taylor Lautner for venturing away from The Twilight Saga to prevent from forever being labeled the "half naked shirtless werewolf hottie from Twilight." I actually really like Taylor Lautner as an actor, it's just some of the movies he's been in haven't done him justice. Abduction was one of those movies where you are sitting on edge of your set the entire movie until it reaches it's climax... then you retract and become disappointed. As I said early, this movie leaves several questions unanswered that should have been as the plot unfold. SPOILERS: Like did anyone ever get why Nathan's dad took the cell phone with encrypted codes from Viktor Kozlow?............... anybody?............. chime in anytime.............. somebody?............ nobody?................. forget it. Or the cropped picture... they never figured that out or mentioned it again. And why would a picture of him be cropped at age six if by that time he was with Mara and Kevin? He was put under their care when he was like two right? RIGHT? Anyway, the other thing I was totally disappointed about was Nathan and Karen's almost sex scene. Not that I'm a pervert... cause I'm not, but why did they stop and Karen say "We should get some food"... really? OK... you about to have sex on a train and all of a sudden, you realize you haven't eaten in forever and you're hungry? Alright, sure. But maybe they are waiting for Taylor Lautner to turn twenty one before his first REAL sex scene in a movie... he's still a teenager. SPOILERS END. Any who, like I said the movie wasn't all bad, it had it's moments, but it wasn't amazing either. Abduction was just... OK. Taylor Lautner, I have faith someday you will make an amazing Action thriller that will knock people's socks off, but for now... um, yeah.

Anyway, Abduction is getting a bias review from me because I like Taylor Lautner, but it's not that bias because I'm still rating the film accordingly. 

That being said, I give Abduction: ★★★★★ 3 out of 5 stars

"If I was adopted, why would my picture show up on a missing persons website?"

The Doll Master (A Horror Novel)

Copyright © 2011 of James Pettis, III

The Doll Master is a horror novel I just recently came up a few weeks ago. To be honest, this idea was not originally going to be a novel, let alone have its on series. It was originally titled "Child's Play" and was episode 16 in season 1 of The Beginning of Vampire Chronicles (TV Series). The episode was going to be about a man named Roger Smith who created dolls and toys to harm children and in return he was executed. But he would soon return to finish his evil deeds on the now adult children that were going to include Richard, Aaron, Rebecca, Olivia, Ingus, and Sapphire. Then there was going to be a sequel to that episode titled "Child's Play II" which was episode 20 in season 2 of The Beginning of Vampire Chronicles (TV Series). This episode would mark Roger's revenge and his second return. The final installment of the Doll Saga was going to conclude in season 3 of The Beginning of Vampire Chronicles (TV Series) titled "The Doll Master" (which is where the book title came from). But after these ideas came to me, so did the thought of making "The Doll Master" a series of its own. So I basically took concepts from the episodes and combined them creating The Doll Master (A Horror Novel).

Anyway, The Doll Master is about a man named Roger Smith whose toy creations continue to be rejected by Great Toys Incorporated. In retaliation, Roger taps into Black magic and begins seeking revenge on children.

PART I

Roger Smith is a twenty seven year old man who has been trying to make it big as a toy maker in Newark, New Jersey. He continues to create works and present them to Great Toys Inc., but every time he's told that they aren't good enough. Finally fed up with rejection, Roger somehow taps into Black Magic and begins creating toys that attack children, which is his revenge on the toy company for rejecting him. In the end he is caught and sentenced to death by lethal injection.

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Part II takes place sixteen years after the events of Part I.

PART II

Juilian Beckmann is a twenty year old young man who attends Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey. Juilian attends the school with his friends Henry Stallord and Ashley Frederickson and their other friends. The gang loves living in the small town of Newark, that is until strange killings among the youth in Newark begin to spread like wild fire. Fearing for his life and his friends, Juilian seeks the help of a young man named Zeke Baxter, a student at the university, after he witnesses Zeke using supernatural skills to protect himself. But when the killings get worse, it is almost certain that the culprit is none other than Roger Smith himself. Will the help of Zeke and the will to survive be enough to save them?

The novel will consist of 16 chapters (excluding the preface and a special chapter). The Table of Contents is as follows:

Preface: What Could Be Upstairs?

Part I

Chapter 1: Just Not Good Enough

Chapter 2: Sweetness of Revenge

Chapter 3: The End of His Wrath

Part II

Chapter 1: Roger's Revival

Chapter 2: Dummy In the Street

Chapter 3: The Doll

Chapter 4: Unacceptable Circumstances

Chapter 5: Zeke Baker

Chapter 6: Karma

Chapter 7: 183 Cliffwood Avenue

Chapter 8: The Realm of the Dollhouse

Chapter 9: The Ventriloquist

Chapter 10: The Dollhouses

Chapter 11: Escape the Dollhouse

Chapter 12: The Greatest Work of Art

Chapter 13: A Regular Day

MADNESS

This novel has been fun coming up with and I hope others will enjoy it. Stay posted for more info about The Doll Master.

By the way, here's an alternate cover for the book.

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My Movie Reviews: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II (2011)

Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part II

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part II (2011) is Part II of the closing chapter in the multimillion series Harry Potter. It covers Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger destroying Voldemort's last Horcuxes and the final battle between Voldemort and Harry Potter.

The Script was written by Steve Kloves and the film was directed by David Yates. The film is based on the book Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling. The film was released on July 15th, 2011.

THE CAST

Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter

Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley

Emma Watson as Hermione Granger

Ralph Fiennes as Lord Voldemort

Helena Bonham Carter as Bellatrix Lestrange

Jason Isaacs as Lucius Malfoy

Tom Felton as Draco Malfoy

Alan Rickman as Severus Snape

SYNOPSIS

Voldemort's power is growing stronger. He now has control over the Ministry of Magic and Hogwarts. Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger decide to finish Dumbledore's work and find the rest of the Horcruxes to defeat the Dark Lord. It is up to the trio to find the Horcruxes and stop Voldemort once and for all.

TRAILER

MY THOUGHTS

Oh my gosh. As I anticipated, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was indeed an epic conclusion to the film series. I have to commend the graphic arts team that design the scenery and buildings. Although this was the film were Hogwarts gets blown up, it was amazing how realistic they made it. Again the acting was incredible as always (the entire Harry Potter cast can act their little butts off). I know when I read the book a lot of things shocked me leading to the climax of the novel. SPOILERS: Like for one, I couldn't believe that Severus Snape had such a love for Lily Potter as he did. For a second... I thought the book was gonna get all Star Wars like and be like "'Harry... I am your father,' Snape said as he took his last breath"... but it didn't. But to find out how much Snape really was good and that he really did care about Harry was intriguingly interesting. I gained a whole new respect for Snape *tears up*, lol.  The epic battle between Harry and Voldemort was also another fav of mine in the book. It was also well executed in the film I was very pleased. And to be quite honest, the "19 years later..." scene was probably the one I anticipated the most, and it was also done greatly of course. Harry and Ginny married with their three children, Hermione and Ron with their daughter and son. It was all wonderful. SPOILERS END. And I can't complete the this review without giving a big round of applause to Alexandre Desplat. His score for the film was absolutely phenomenal!

OK, I hate to do it again... but Harry Potter is never getting a bad review from me.

That being said, I give Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part I: ★★★★★ 5 out of 5 stars

The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. All was well.

Psychasthenia (A Novel)

Copyright © 2011 of James Pettis, III

OK... it's official, I have no idea what I want to do with Psychasthenia. I think I'm going to make it a novel (but then the next thing I do will probably be to make a blog for Psychasthenia and post all of the various plot changes it has gone through).

Anyway, Psychasthenia is a story that I have obviously been developing for a long time (4 years to be exact). They plot is similar to the plot I originally posted Here, but it is slightly different as far as the main focus of the story.

Eighteen year old Ethan Pachsyis is an outgoing, exuberant, and caring young man about to graduate from his high school and is going to the University of California to study Social Sciences. Ethan is also borderline bipolar, with a tendency to have frequent mood swings and hallucinations. Despite all this, Ethan is determined to make something of himself. That is until his father is murdered brutally in their 10,000 square foot Cape Cod Style home in Los Angeles. After this tragic event, Ethan is no longer outgoing, exuberant, and caring, but somber and callous as his father was. As more lives are lost, Ethan becomes more insensitive than before, leading detectives on the case to believe he is the murderer. But all the while in the shadows, Ethan has a secret admirer who is obsessed with him and is dying to get his attention… even if he has to be killed.

This will most likely become a novel (and may be my first to publish, to prevent anymore plot changes). Stay posted for more info about Psychasthenia.

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† WING Blade † (Book Series)

Copyright © 2011 of James Pettis, III

† WING Blade † is a book series I have recently come up with. It is about six young children that have created an alternate world that has now come to life and they must use their alternate egos to stop evil from taking over.

Utopia, a once beautiful home for a group of children, has been shattered into pieces and is corrupted by the darkness that demolished it years ago. The chosen children of Utopia were sent to planet Earth to be protected from the darkness that would soon destroy their home. Though the darkness was sealed with the power of the WING Blade, the darkness returned. The darkness soon finds out their whereabouts, and sends a thunderous storm that sweeps them all back to the world they were born. Now the children have taken on the physical appearance of teenagers and become WING Blade Fighters of Utopia. But when the forces of darkness begin to rise, the group of young teens must use their new found abilities and defeat the forces of evil and restore Utopia.

This book series has been very fun to come up with and I hope others will like it. The Series altogether is composed of twelve books (one of which will be released in the UK only): † WING Blade †, † WING Blade † (UK Version), † WING Blade † : Elemental Remnants, † WING Blade † : The Dragon Sealer, †WING Blade † : The Resurrection of the Apollyons, † WING Blade † II: The Androids of Black Lake City, † WING Blade † III: The Rise of Clownee Town, † WING Blade †IV: The Legend of the Wolf, † WING Blade † V: Rise of the Dragon, † WING Blade † VI:The Phantom of Utopia, † WING Blade † VII: The Land of the Fairies, and † WING Blade †VIII: The War of Darkness. Stay posted for more info about the † WING Blade † series.

Rose (A Novel)

Copyright © 2011 of James Pettis, III

Rose (A Novel) is a romance-drama novel I came up with recently. Its young woman named Rose who leaves her old life as a prostitute and tries to start over again.

What would you do if you had basically ruined your life? You would at least try to start over right? Well that's what twenty nine year old Rose Stevenson is trying to do. Currently a recovering prostitute, Rose has left her old life as a struggling prostitute in Brooklyn, New York to start anew in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Once there, she meets twenty three year old Tristan Madison, a young man who works at a local bookstore. Rose and Tristan begin to form a strong bond and as they get closer, they start an intense sexual relationship. The two subsequently fall in love and want to be together forever. But when Rose's past comes back to haunt her, she finds her self face to face with her reason for escaping and puts Tristan right in the middle of it all.

I love this idea because it forces me to venture into a different genre I've never written before. I am very excited about Rose and I will enjoy writing it. Stay posted for more info about Rose (A Novel).

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