Eclipse, the old school action movie?

In a new article, Entertainment Weekly called Eclipse “THE old-school action movie of the summer”.
According to the L.A. Times, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse snagged an audience that was 35 percent male, a whopping increase from the 20 percent male population that sat through New Moon. And I’m betting more men will see it in the ensuing weeks, because, in a weird way, Eclipse is an old-school action movie, recalling the plotline of Seven Samurai in its narrative economy and slow-burn build-up.
Consider: in Seven Samurai (and its fondly-remembered, actually-meh cowboy remake, The Magnificent Seven), a gang of outsiders help distrustful locals repel an invading force of nomadic bandits. Replace “Samurai” with “Vampires,” “distrustful locals” with “distrustful werewolves,” and “nomadic bandits” with “freaky newborn vampires,” and you’ve got Eclipse. Sure, you could argue that not much happens in the first three-quarters of the Eclipse…but that’s pretty much how old action movies worked, in the pre-Schwarzenegger era. Action movies like The Dirty Dozen are about 85 percent build-up to one big action sequence, not dozens of tiny action sequences sprinkled in between unconvincing character arcs and terrible dialogue. (Hi, Transformers!) And what makes Eclipse even more interesting is that all the action-movie shenanigans are refracted through the eyes of Bella. Most old-school action movies featured a female character, usually a girlfriend or a damsel in distress, and Eclipse almost plays like a Wicked-style re-imagining of an older movie from that damsel’s perspective

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