Why I'm so grateful the twilight franchise is over

I'm sad to say this knowing what I now know about Edward Cullen, but I was once prone to the Twilight movie franchise. Indeed, I too had the whole "Team Edward, Team Jacob" obsession and watched each movie perhaps a bazillion times. When Breaking Dawn part II came out, it was one of those things where you started the god-awful thing, might as well finish it.

The last time I saw a book butchered this badly was in Blood and Chocolate.

First off, Renesmee's ability to communicate via touch is hardly ever shown, Irina showing Aro what she witnessed is never shown, and the vast majority of the film is comprised of hand holding "...." moments. This kills time and leaves the viewer going okay can we please get on with it?

Secondly, Renesmee has even less dialogue in the film then she does in the book. Garret's speech to the Volturri is completely cut from the film, and the various clans' dialogue is miniscule.

The only decent scene in the movie, a scene of a great battle where Bella kicks serious ass, is completely useless. You watch this battle and think to yourself, hells yea I wish this was how the book ended and then.....yea that whole scene was just what would've happened if the Volturri decided to act.

There is I'm sure infinitely more wrong with this film, but the bottom line is it falls flat. There is no great ending, no climax, just idiotic dialogue and characters that just sort of hang around.

Prometheus-the prequel that never was. really.

Generally, I'm not one for alien movies. Sure, Close Encounters of the Third Kind had it's magic and I am dying to see how well The Host measures up, but generally the alien theme falls flat with me. On a whim, I rented Prometheus because it's supposed to be such an epic prequel to the epic franchise of the aliens movies.

Before I thoroughly disembowel this film as it should have been long before hitting the silver screen, let me make one thing clear:

This movie is NOT a prequel to the alien franchise. At all.

The movie basically centers around this team of astronauts, mostly human with one robot/android, who go to a far off planet because they believe they will find the origins of mankind. What they find instead answers nothing in regard to this, and basically tries to kill everyone.

You have a mystery goo that presents interesting results in taking over the body of one astronaut, thereby resulting in his imminent let the mo'fo burn death, a chest-buster that doesn't even kill the girl effectively but just kind of wiggles around on a hook for a little bit, some underlying racism (albino's are evil alien things that will kill you), and no closure whatsoever.

At the end of the film, the only decent part of the movie shows an alien from the alien movie franchise just kinda hangin out on the abandoned ship.

Why is this review so short? Simple. Nothing memorable whatsoever. Watch at your own risk, but it's two hours of your life you will never get back.