The Moth Diaries (2012)

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best movie i've ever seen.

A Disappointing Continuation

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

I really want to like this film, I really do. But I can't.What's not to like? A vampire film with Scott Speedman! plus a title similar to that of the TV series The Vampire Diaries, and a poster showing the face of a mysterious female vampire and promises of an interesting story.Sadly, this pathetic film is simply not my cup of tea.The acting on Rebecca's part is awful, awful, awful... Her hysterical cries over Lucy's body are laughable... Hahahaha! How come? Because the story is not touching or intriguing at all. If you want the audience to feel the pain and grief the characters feel, you have to set up the stage first by giving us a story that will really make us feel involved and care for those characters. Instead, what the audience get is simply a story of a bunch of female juveniles doing drugs and talking about sex... That's why when Rebecca loses her bestie, Lucy, demanding audience like myself don't give a damn.Scott Speedman! Yes! He's the main reason I was attracted to this film. He did the role Michael Corvin in the Underworld series really well, and I look forward to seeing him return as Michael Corvin in Underworld 5. He does the role Mr. Davies in this film pretty well. His handsome face radiates with emotions...Ernessa was a character well done. Pity, she was taken out too easily. I thought there could be an epic battle somewhere towards the end, but then suddenly Ernessa was burnt and the film was over.Rebecca was an extremely annoying and irritating character, and I just hoped Ernessa could torture this lame girl to death slowly because that is what that awful awful awful Rebecca deserves.When I look at Rebecca's face on the poster, I only feel the sense of repulsion.

Rebecca is at a boarding school with dress codes, early morning meetings, prayers, and the like. Her friend Charlie gets kicked out for breaking a window, for instance; students get detention for being late for morning meetings.Rebecca and Lucy were best friends until Ernessa came along. Rebecca suspects that Ernessa is a vampire, but no one want to hear anything negative about Ernessa. Rebecca's attempts to straighten this out only backfire as Lucy gets sick, then weaker, then dead. Her attempt to confide in Mr. Davies results in his hitting on her; later, he reports her 'troubled' behaviour to Mrs. Rood to get ahead of any child molestation charges, one guesses.Rebecca's own problems (her poet father committed suicide) are brought up frequently. The school is concerned for her. Some of her daydreams are ridiculous.Will Rebecca stay in school? Will she expose Ernessa? Is the school complicit in Ernessa's actions? ------Scores------Cinematography: 8/10 A bit dark and fuzzy in some passages, but mostly fine.Sound: 10/10 No problems.Acting: 4/10 This film might appeal to teen girls; others, perhaps not so much. The adults are all imperious or criminal. Most of the teens are portrayed as short sighted. Sarah Bolger portrays a deeply flawed individual, but is not all that believable.Screenplay: 5/10 The story was short on ideas, and the few it had were not executed all that well. Rebecca gets to do all sorts of things at the school with no detection, no reprimands, or even discussion. It seems like she would have been expelled for any number of her actions.

This movie is slow, predictable, & not in the least bit scary. It feels like a made for TV movie. Yet I still kind of enjoyed it! Lily Coles performance alone makes this movie worth watching. She's perfect in her part as the creepy new girl. The other lead actress isn't bad either. When it was over, there were still a couple of questions left unanswered. A really good movie will leave you turning things around in your head but in this case, once the main question is answered you just really don't care. In the end, not something to watch if you're in the mood for a good scare but not a total waste of time. I would rather see a movie like this one than a bloody gorefest with a crappy plot any day.

What is beyond bad? Annoying...yes, that's it. No scene lasted more than 20 seconds, emotions flashed by like humming birds, people came and went, slept woke and slept again within seconds, got sick better and died just as fast. No time to care about any character, and certainly no reason to care about this movie, with it's bad acting, inexplicably bad direction, and pointless plot. Ick-too-ee...bad taste in mouth movie...be warned.If you want to watch a scary movie with children, and vampires, see "Let the Right One In" in English, or it's foreign original. Heck, any one of the Twilight movies would be infinitely better.