Twilighting badly.
Twilight from Wikipedia
On the first weekend of this most awaited film from hordes of guilty 20-somethings (me), to the guiltless teenyboppers was huge massive proportions of disappointment on my part. I could list a hundred reasons why it is bad and a couple good.
But before you start snarling at me with your make believe fangs and have plans to burn me alive, this is a matter of opinion, I have a couple of star-struck female friends who were absolutely drooling how beautiful and hot Robert Pattinson is and the ideal man, minus the blood sucking qualities. Or maybe, they like that sort of fetish…
Twilight was directed by Catherine Hardwicke who was known to have directed the controversial and edgy film called Thirteen (I shall need to watch this), I was reading about this in E! if I’m not mistaken before the movie came out and I was relieved that she would be directing this book, which if we leave out everything, would just become a love story as tragic as the Titanic. I was hoping for more dark and dreary scenes together with the matching witty dialogue. Stephanie Meyer was actually in the set, helping with the creation, how she agreed to this, I don’t really know.
As my sister points out, it was supposed to be an adaptation. The Romance/Action/Thriller/Suspense description was now downright cheesy. The only actual lines that were used were the romantic and syrupy sweet, like Bella and Edward are cheese-heads who were madly in love and nothing more. The first book was very short, but it seems the whole budget was focused on the close-ups of Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson. Everything else was an extra, not only was the baseball scene shortened, James didn’t even put up a fight on the last part, which lastly a very measly 3 minutes, from Bella scrabbling around the ballet studio, and James holding a video camera before Edward flies in and saves the day.
I was glad that I missed the first 30 minutes of the movie. As I accurately predicted what I missed, (I have read the book of course), my boyfriend was gagging although out the film and to my surprise, I was also. Edward Cullen sounds more like My Chemical Romance than a Vampire. Where is the manly (vampire-y) bravado? He seems to be so out of it, it just sounds like a regular whiny person with issues who was too pale, with the Final Fantasy signature protagonist cool hair in high school.
For the 1.5 hours in the film, Bella did not once trip on her own clumsy account.
I came out of the movie ranting how awful it was. While male species around me were commenting how stupid the film is.
To be at the bottom of the bell curve gives more interesting insights to this movie. I maybe one of the huge fans of this series that I was swooning and putting up the cheesiest lines on my Yahoo Messenger status everyday to him teasing my that I’m absorbing too much twilight, the movie did no help in heightening the Twilight fangurl in me.
I will not recommend that you would watch this film with me, I just might laugh out loud and ruin the moment. But it’s everybody’s choice. This is one way of looking at the movie, aside from the hundreds of gushy blog posts, this is truly, my own very honest, very frank, and very disappointed opinion.
