Rebirth
Nikki: can we talk about how robsten laughing brings up a good filming point
Jamie: and what’s that?
Nikki: that these “love” scenes are some epic sex scene and it’s way more clinical and less hot and heavy as the robsteners would like to believe. I mean i dont know about you but doing it in front of 20 big burly crew guys isn’t a huge turn on
Jamie: of course they are technical, it’s a film. Stop, more your head here, start again, less noise, etc
Nikki: they show it a bunch later but i just wanted to bring it out
Nikki: literally she asks bill if her hand looks ok
Jamie: DAYUM, Kristen looks SUPER skinny in the face
Nikki: she IS skinny
Jamie: but she lost weight for the pregnant part (said no one pregnant ever) and now she’s beyond
Nikki: she needed a couple more sammys
Jamie: let’s talk about her approaching the scenes as Vamp Bella. Do we believe the conscious decision on how she approached human bella?
Nikki: DUDE i love that melissa rosenberg looks like she just left your cousin’s wedding.
Nikki: i want to give kristen the benefit of the doubt on that but ya know. i mean she did acknowledge that she hadn’t played someone much diff from herself
Jamie: I feel like it’s more indicative of her playing Bella very close to herselfNikki: do you ever just want to give bill condon a hug?
Jamie: How much do you think Rob hated the running shots?
Jamie: I wanna hug Bill ALL THE TIME. I bet actors randomly stopped just to give him hugs
Nikki: i dont even know if he’s a hugger but I’d be down
Nikki: i would NOW. Imagine me at the gas station or trader joe’s and i see bill and just walk up and hug him and then walk off
Jamie: that was cut, huh? “Want to hunt in Canada?”
Nikki: I’m sorry but a COUGAR. You can just imagine ALL the twilhard cougar jokes on set
Jamie: the ultimate symbol of the series
Nikki: totally on purpose. somewhere twilight cougar mom or whatever her name is is super happy
Jamie: just for her
Jamie: Remember when Comic Con CRACKED up at the cougar scene?
Nikki: YES i do. i mean it’s hard not to
Jamie: especially for half of hall H not there at all for Twilight
Nikki: Now last summer when Summit invited us (LTT) to the edit bay to screen the first 10 min for us, the cougar scene was in there and it was NOT a cougar yet it was still the “potato” and we all laughed and it looked crazy. Bill and the editor virginia were like a cougar will be in the final cut. CLEARLY
Jamie: I LOVE that they changed the Bella/Jacob Imprint confrontation and she actually hits him
Nikki: LOVE it
Nikki: Jacob is #2 on my hug list. i just want to give taylor a hug. HAHAHAH Taylor not Jacob
Jamie: hahahhahahaha
Jamie: You and every 15-year-old
Nikki: TEAM JACOB!!! also i love that you can see the wide shot and she’s wearing jeans under her dress
Jamie: She should have just killed him here. I appreciated that Kristen joke about them sleeping in the same room.
Nikki: i did too! that was cute
Nikki: FUN NOTE: at that edit bay visit we also saw this arm wrestling scene and the rock was like foam
Jamie: so Kristen doesn’t have super strength?
Nikki: BILL – hair to her KNEES???
Nikki: Sadly kristen is NOT super woman
Nikki: OMG THIS COSTUME DESIGNER IS EVERYTHING
Jamie: look at these old shots
Nikki: omg any time they show Twilight i get a little (A LOT) nostalgic
Jamie: she’s a baby!
Jamie: me too
Nikki: she looks SO young
Nikki: “slouchy alt thing”
Nikki: OH BILL
Nikki: why did no one mention the blue blouse and khaki skirt?!
Jamie: “Slouchy Alt thing” another conscious decision
Jamie: where’s the ugly green sweater?
Nikki: a conscious descicion to look like kristen…
Nikki: OATMEAL SWEATERS FOR EVERYONE
Nikki: I was hoping they would throw rob in a white sleeveless button down as a nod to the fans and how terrible it would be in real life.
Jamie: No you weren’t. You would LOSE it
Nikki: edward in the books = very international male
Jamie: Let’s also remember although sleeveless button downs for men were never really in, Stephenie did write this back in the early 00s
Renesmee
Nikki: i dont know how much i can say about this section, the film makers acknowledge this and i echo it they needed like another YEAR to figure out renesmee
Jamie: I love Mackensie
Jamie: little bebe FREAKS ME OUT
Nikki: i love bill part 3: “this kid who spoke 20 languages and read milton” HA
Jamie: haha
Nikki: also i LOVE Mackenzie Foy
Jamie: She’s going to be beautiful when she’s older
Nikki: I’ve been at a couple events with her, comic con presser, roundtables etc and she is beyond poised. It’s crazy and SO cute
Nikki: agreed. she will be a KNOCK OUT
Jamie: i would say we could move on, but I believe there’s the part coming up that the Robsten’s love: Rob and babies
Nikki: HAHAHA yes
Jamie: we’ll keep this short
Nikki: also I will say even though they needed a hale of a lot more time to perfect renesmee i actually defended this to someone the other day
Nikki: theyre like why didnt they just use a bunch of kids. and i was like IT’S IMPORTANT TO THE STORY LINE. and then i was like who the fuck am i???
Jamie: hahahhaha, she’s an advanced bebe
Nikki: ok rob with the babies
Jamie: Rob paid Bill to say that or rather the Robstens did
Nikki: you cant see but nick frenkel’s off screen holding a checkbook
Jamie: totes
Jamie: omg that eyeball section is the freakiest
Nikki: i will agree that rob with the kiddos is freaking cute. it’s surprising he doesn’t have a niece/nephew
Jamie: can we skip now?
Nikki HAHAHA YES
The Cottage
Nikki: The cottage is defs March on the Thomas Kinkade calendar
Jamie: definitely storybook
Nikki: so awkward or not: kristen and ashley’s interaction?
Jamie: I can’t decide. Do we think they get along? I know the Krisbians made up reasons to hate on Ashley, but who knows
Nikki: i assume they get along but they dont seem like BFFs
Jamie: they are no fake lesbians
Nikki: no this isn’t twilight Nikki and kristen or whoever her new fake lesb is now
Jamie: Katy Perry’s assistant
Nikki: side note: WTF is that about??
Everyone but Bella’s dream closet
Nikki: i have to agree with stephenie and bill. i pretty much want everything inside the cottage. can set designer david slessenger come design my house??
Jamie: it just looks cozy. please do this for my apt
Nikki: please
Jamie: and i love how the crib is just smack in the middle. Only on the movies
Nikki: the cottage “tour” part is SO lady porn: baby’s room, closet with clothes and then MASTER BEDROOM
Nikki: reason #4 i want to hug bill: “it’s all about the bed” HAHAHA
Jamie: CROSS BODY PURSES SHOT – Jamie P0rn
Nikki: right?
Jamie: Oh, Vamp Loving. I LOVE THIS PART
Jamie: RIP IT OFF
Nikki: now it’s about making it artistic and about the feelings and less about freaking robsten
Nikki: also imagine (cinematographer) guillermo navarro in the same room as robsten getting it on. this isn’t SEXY people, it’s work.
Jamie: SHUT UP NIKKI, it’s MAGIC
Nikki: SORRY! WHERE IS THE BEARSKIN RUG?? did they bring their own??
Jamie: I kinda wish they had that in the scene. Like a wink, wink, nod, nod to LTT
Nikki: a FIREPLACE YOU SAY?!?!
Jamie: MAGICNESS
Nikki: this section should have been titled “MAGICNESS” and not “THE COTTAGE”
Jamie: We need to consult from now on. Hear that, summit/lionsgate?
Nikki: we do
Jamie: Do you think they made love at vamp speed?
Nikki: “younger audience?” do these people know who’s watching this movie?!?!?
Jamie: i think they make love at vamp speed now
Jamie: Let’s get the Rated R director’s cut
Nikki: JUST KIDDING robsten is broken
THE GATHERING
Jamie: With all the hot vamps in one place, why no giant orgy? Just send Nessie down to Grandpa’s
Nikki: srsly. just everyone go for it, why not?
Jamie: because I feel like the Vamps would be a bit more free with it
Nikki: I LOVE CASTING VIDEOS!
Jamie: Since I just recently watched all of Alias, now I”m all MIA!!!
Nikki: they make casey lebow look terrible. She’s SO cute in real life
Jamie: They are all so pretty in real life. I don’t understand how or why they smack them with the ugly stick
Nikki: and myanna (aka that hussy that tries to steal tom branson in downton) looks like a cat, right?
Jamie: I love that we saw Mia and Maggie getting their nails done and I was slyly trying to get your attention
Nikki: RIGHT!! hahaha – i couldn’t remember when that happened — Comic Con!
Nikki: Ok, Peter Facinelli your “gift of compassion” joke is getting old my dear.
Nikki: “angela has those eyes” cut to angela looking crossed eyed on the audition tape HA
Jamie: hahahha and when did she say that line in the movie?
Nikki: NEVER??? half these misc. vampires never say anything
Jamie: maybe she tried out for Irina, originally
No lines in the movie, but HUGE in Fan Fiction
Nikki: like Peter aka Erik aka Christian Grey doesnt have ANY lines right?? though arguably the most popular of the misc. vamps, right?
Jamie: Peter’s huge in fan fiction
Nikki: well there’s THAT
Jamie: right, did Tracey have a line?
Nikki: i don’t think so
Nikki: LEE PACE. Is garrett big in Fic?
Jamie: In some fics
Jamie: Now this was a fun role
Nikki: right?!?!? lee killed it
Nikki: i love lee and i love how he created garrett
Jamie: how tall is he? He looks tall. I LIKE TALL.
Nikki: NOMADS
Nikki: im pretty sure erik doesnt own any shirts that aren’t a henley or v neck
Nikki: TONI TRUCKS!! i love her
Jamie: BEEP BEEP
Nikki: Bill Tancredi!! aka poor man’s rascal flatts
Jamie: ALISTAIR
Nikki: Ok, now we’re just yelling out names
Nikki: DUDE HIS EYES!!
Jamie: DAYUM. JOE ANDERSON AUDITION TAPE
Nikki: it sucks they covered up his beautiful eyes with the red contacts
Jamie: Yes, he’s FINE. *makes note to stalk later*
Nikki: dude i appreciate how honest patrick brennen is in this interview about delivering pizzas, yea.
Nikki: poor Siobhan they put her in the most unflatering clothes
Jamie: and didn’t mention her “power”
Nikki: whats her power, i totally forgot?
Jamie: REALLY REALLY good luck
Nikki: HAHAHAAHA is that her power??? i love it. so irish
Jamie: I’m sure we could wiki it, but I’m positive someone will tell us in the comments
Nikki: cause it’s JERRY (aka Guri Weinberg) TIME, aka the craziest vampires ever – they are the most camp of this film
Jamie: it’s so funny
Nikki: also they make jerry look puffy and he’s NOT!
Nikki: poor noel and his Draco hair
The Romanian’s Inspiration
Nikki: jerry is another dude who’s active on social media and thats just fun and nice.
Jamie: They’re so Count Chocula
Nikki: SO count chocula or the count on sesame street
Jamie: I would randomly start counting on set if I were him
Nikki: OH HEEEEEEY JD, another super nice dude
Jamie: he does seem sweet
Nikki: it’s funny seeing them in this film cause it’s like oh i kinda of know you yet you’re in this thing ive talked about for years
Jamie: and he buys shots, which is very nice
Nikki: always appreciated
The Field
Nikki: reason #5 i want to hug bill: his crooked glasses. they get more crooked as this thing goes on
Jamie: I love that they spent weeks here shooting this
Jamie: We SO could have been a Volturi Witness. we should have made that happen
Nikki: TOTALLY COULD HAVE. freaking summit. come on! give me a black cloak i can stand in the background and not look creepy.
Jamie: How did anyone keep a straight face with that Aro laugh?
Nikki: how did MACKENZIE keep a straight face??
Nikki: Jamie campbell bower: the challenges of being inside – sweat, tears, nipple clamps, cheese wheels
Jamie: bwahahahah
Jamie: fandom stalkers in your shiz
Jamie: LETS TALK MORE ABOUT THE CONTACTS
Nikki: RIGHT i love that four years later they devoted an entire section to THE FLIPPING CONTACT LENSES
Jamie: Anyhoo, i like how it’s all tented so NO FAN would ever see them leaving them reduced to stalking at hotels and dropping off cheese wheels and nipple clamps
Nikki: they had to cause those paparazzi would have ratted them out and we would have posted it!
Nikki: yup, fans gotta do what fans gotta do. including hotel stalking. HAHAAH man all the stories we’ve heard
Jamie: Remember when we broke into that house Rob and Kristen rented with Bear? I mean…
Nikki: SHHHHH dont tell them ALL the secrets, especially not when we rolled in their bed and rolled out our own (travel sized) bear skin rug
Jamie: at least we’ll have the pictures forever
Nikki: framed.
Nikki #FOREVER
Jamie: I miss Wyck
Nikki: also the science and tech behind this whole battle scene is insane but all i can think about is how in most of the shots it’s NOT rob and kristen and just stand-ins. theyre officially a BFD
Nikki: oh here we go…the much ballyhooed “dance off”
Jamie: #flashmob
Nikki: so its kinda like not a big thing in this doc and they ALL were talking about it in the BD2 press last fall. do we think they have all the angles of this in the archives somewhere? and are going to relrease it on the inevitable box set because like you see 20 seconds of it here
Jamie: it’s all far away…I wish they had some over head and different angles
Nikki: right!!! also i think it’s cause they didn’t want to license the song cause you cant even hear what the song is playing in the background
Jamie: but they didn’t do the thriller dance, it was sorta B-way/Saturday Night Fever
Nikki: what do you think the song is?
Jamie: Party Rock – OBVS
Nikki: Thriller??? a Van Morrison song??
Nikki: tribute to robsten?
The Battle
Nikki: oh look rob’s in this movie
Jamie: HA! the amount of people in the scene is amazing, that they could coordinate that all
Nikki: totally. and what a pay off – i STILL get anxious and ive seen it 3-5+ times at this point
Jamie: This scene still makes no sense according to the lore they set up previously
Jamie: but I’ll put this aside
Nikki: what doesnt make sense?? it’s a vision of what could be
Jamie: haha, at the premiere, I jokingly said to Bekah that Carlisle always dies in Fan Fiction, so my guess he would die and then he was the first
Nikki: SAAAADDD
Nikki: can we just give michael sheen ALL the awards. he is so good it’s crazy
Jamie: did you hear he broke up with Rachael?? We have a miniscule chance!!
Nikki: yes i did! him and liz lemon should get back together
Jamie: the best!
Jamie: This Alice sequence is pretty cool
Nikki: i do enjoy me some ashley greene
Jamie: I like how Nikki just admitting to be lazy, I like stunts, but on my schedule
Nikki: RIGHT!!! i wanted to be like you dont like making money? you dont want to be on set with your costars?
Jamie: well, she was married then, so probably off writing songs with her husband. She’s a smug married. She’s busy
Nikki: this was 2010 was she married? or was it just awkward robsten drama?
Jamie: this was 2011 at this point, right?
Nikki: pretty sure it was 2010 or early 2011 cause bd 1 can out nov 2011
Jamie: ooh, yeah, I guess so
Nikki: and they filmed them back to back
Jamie: so, still single then?
Nikki: i think so
Jamie: still pining over Rob?
Nikki: IMPORTANT THINGS
Jamie: This is when Robsten was unbroken
Nikki: glad we figured this out
Niiki: yes definitely unbroken at this point
Jamie: THAT WE KNOW OF *evil laugh*
Nikki: * joins evil laugh *
Nikki: im PRETTY SURE rob’s stand in/double is the same dude he’s had since TWILIGHT! (Twilight nerd of the day award)
Nikki: you see him during the somersault section when rob cant tumble
Jamie: That’s how he bags chicks: “I’m Rob’s stand in”
Nikki: him at the bar – ladies, i’m ALMOST rob pattinson
Jamie: So, am I the only one that could not tell the difference between wolves?
Jamie:In the battle scene I had NO CLUE which wolf died
Nikki: i knew the light one is seth and i knew the black one is sam and jacob is rust, but i have NO idea that was leah saving Esme. i knew seth died
Jamie: in the moment, i didn’t know it was Seth
Nikki: and it makes way more sense now that you know but in the battle you have NO idea
Jamie: I figured it was probably either Seth or Leah
Bucking Jacob, Who can last 8 seconds?
Jamie: Do you think Mackenzie can now ride a bull at the saddle ranch? does that go on her resume?
Nikki: so saddle ranch should clearly have a twilight night and cover their mechanical bull with a fur and tell ladies they can ride jacob
Nikki: HAHAHAAH jinx saddle ranch jokes
Jamie: and then MrsK can yell about her thighs can handle it. “THESE THIGHS WILL OWN IT”
Nikki: and scene
Jamie: heh heh
Nikki: kudos to this guy for trying to maim mackenzie foy
Jamie: WHOOPSIES
Nikki: and rami tries to grab her off the wolf and no one gives a shit that he fell over
Jamie: SAVE THE TALENT
Nikki: those two VFX guys – did they let kristen stewarts friends do the VFX or are they in a local band?
Jamie: Everyone goes nuts if you knew it was Seth and not dense like me
Nikki: also all of us asshole fans should have known this battle scene wasn’t real cause it was SO over the top. i mean seth the wolf dying. how terrible was that!? and vampires just punching wolves in the face
Jamie: True, I mean, I sorta knew it couldn’t happen…but hey in the moment, that was ROUGH
Nikki: 100% in the moment i was like ON my neighbors (Little Lauren and Elena from Twilightish) laps yelling like CRAZY
FOREVER
Nikki: oh dude don’t make me cry. this is a slower more painful version of the end
Jamie: I felt so down after watching this. It felt more final than anything else
Nikki: ugh. i have cried EVERY time watching this film. EVERY DANG TIME
Jamie: well, you saw me at the premiere. I cried at so many randoms spots. I was a mess
Nikki: reason #6 i want to hug bill: I CRY EVERY TIME
Jamie: You, me and Bekah holding hands while I cried
JamieI wish her flashback/seeing thoughts portion was a little longer
Nikki: right, they should have just hung there for a moment longer
Nikki: I DIE when i see her from twilight. UGH
Nikki: i love thay they went back into old footage that wasnt even in the films
Jamie: VERY cool
Nikki: Reason #7 to love bill: alternative OLD footage
Jamie: Awww
Nikki: I LOVE THE END
Jamie: Yes, so appropriate
Nikki: it just feels like all the characters are coming off the page, just coming out of where they live
Nikki: CRY ALL THE TEARS
Jamie: I’m starting to tear up now
Nikki: right, and my roomie walked in
Jamie: are you snot-sobbing?
Nikki: i was to tell her i was writing something and not just watching again…HAHAHA…
Jamie: hahahahha
Nikki: no just a little watery eyes
Nikki: the snot sob happens when jacob shows up and it says “i’m jacob black” and then gets progressively worse through edward and bella
Jamie: Robsten’s mantra: NOBODY IN THE WORLD HAS LOVED EACH OTHER AS MUCH AS ROB AND KRISTEN
Nikki: repeat the mantra!
Nikki: OMG young kristen kills me
Jamie: Oh Billy
Jamie they’re babbies!
Nikki: TAYLOR: IT IS TOUGH TO SAY GOODBYE, shut your lovely face
Jamie: AWWWWWWW *tears*
Nikki: #forever
Jamie: #forever
And just so it doesn’t have to end yet, check out this behind the scenes video we found over on Breakingdawnmovie.org.
What did you learn from the special features on the DVD? Any actors that you wish had more lines? Have you stopped crying yet?
Photo Sources: Breakingdawnmovie.org, sciencefiction.com
