Whoever came up with the idea to make something enticing for 'boys' laden with out of place romance should be kick in the pudenda (because I'm quite sure nobody with balls will suggest something this ridiculous) again and again until they bleed. Supposedly this movie is made for teenagers hence the life-like severed heads and whatnot but what exactly it means? Laser/railgun and super power with a dash of romance thrown in for good measure?
shareThis is a book series and nothing like twilight. Book one (which was the only book out when the movie was made) is probably the weakest of the series.
Twilight? really? Twilight has ZERO plot. This is a movie about an invasion centuries in the making.
Twilight was a love story...this is an action movie with a light romance..
shareIf there was going to be a sequel, it would have been done by now - before the actors (ersatz high school kids) reach 35.
This is a movie about an invasion centuries in the making.
Im not comparing the movies. Im comparing the books. I havent read twilight. I did see one of the movies... nothing happens.... at all.....
Anyway.... Sarah is not an outcast in the book. Shes the most popular girl in school. This is one of the many changes they made in the movie. The most significant being Henry dies in the big battle, not before and was actually training John to fight the invasion.
Five shows up in book 4. Six shows up because she was the only one looking for the others. (Well, she and number 10). Technically, five is the last "Guard member" to be found so he could be considered showing up in the "third" act as hes last to arrive.
It sounds like this could have been fun. Like I said X-Files/Buffy/Smallville-type fun. Shame. Maybe if Spielberg had overseen this more closely . . . he knows how to do alien allegories ("E.T." was originally a much darker story than it ended up being on-screen).
I just can't get past the fact that this was written by James Frey! I don't know why I think that's so strange, because he is a good (fiction) writer. It just . . . is.
So, since we're not going to see any more . . . how does it all go down in the end? (You can redact the answer).
The books arent over yet. five of the seven have been released. The sixth is due out later this fall.
Basically, Long story short so far:
There are 10 "garde" members who escaped the alien planet. The evil Lord who is leading the invasion was an outcast elder. The 10th grade member is the grand daughter of the evil lord. She is also much younger than the others.
Book 2 is basically about Finding seven and Sams father. The book is told from Seven and Four's perspective if I remember correctly. Six and John split up. Six saves Seven (a healer) and Ten shows up to help her. John and Sam find his father. While they are trying to get him out of a mogodorian strong hold Sam gets captured, but four finds and saves nine.
Book 3 is all about finding Sam/ Eight. They split up. Half of them find Sam and Sarah who they didnt know had been captured by the mogodorians and the other half find Eight. (a teleporter).
Book 4 is basically about Five's betrayal/ A mogodorian shows up with one of the Gardes gifts to help them.
Book 5 is about the start of the invasion/ We learn more about The evil lords past.
Five turns out to be a traitor. He was captured as a young kid and they were able to enhance his powers. He kills eight. He feels bad about it and tries to rescue ten. (Who is being held "captive", but really her grand father is just trying to manipulate her.)
Six and Sam get together.
Sarah and Four are still together.
Seven and Eight were together. (until he dies)
Nine is a rich frat boy essentially.
Three's soul/ power/ gift was absorbed into a mogodorian who was trying to help her and he is working with the Garde.
At the end of the last book, the Garde activate ancient alien technology to give Powers/ inheritance) to the people of earth to fight the invansion at the same time the invasion is about to start. The book ends with Sam gaining the power of Telekinesis to save four as the invasion begins.