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this movie is disgraceful to vampire movies of all times!!! 1. it isnt a horror film, even though the content is so bad it is horrible. 2. it isnt even a well done movie in the first place! 3. they are not even vampires to begin with!!!! since when has a vampire been able to stand in the sun and the only thing that happens is that his skin sparkles? "we all have our own powers"? what is this bullshit? BD should remove this vampire wannabe movie from the website!!!
i thought the movie was okay i just didnt like the way vampires were depicted in the movie the whole twinkling in the sunlight thing really did make me quite sick "your so beautiful" i dont think ive ever felt so mad as when i heard this line in a movie describing a vampire in sunlight, the truth is it was okay the relationship between edward and bella was okay if a little cheesy, i loved catherine hardwickes direction which kept the film feeling fresh and intresting at the end of the day i know im not the target audience for a movie like this so i dont feel totally comfortable slating this movie, i feel for a 12 year old girl you will adore this movie and worship at its feet but for anybody who has gone through puberty id prob give the movie a miss if i was you
Ok, So The Acting Wasnt terrible, the film wasn't terrible, the terrible thing was the fangirls that made everyone practically hate on the film because they can't stop drooling over 'Rob Pattinson' (Edward Cullen) Who in my oppinion has a shovel head, and the people that made this film, can make anyone look good with the effects even people like Robert. And Kristen Stuart looks like she has Sinus problems almost all the way through the film, its worth watching, though a VERY slow start, things seem to pick up more after the Baseball Scene.
I never thought I would hate a film as much as I hated Twilight. I honestly regret watching this film. The acting was unbearable. The script was so awful, I could not believe what I was hearing. I also can't believe that the youth of the world think this is romantic. The fx was funny and i was the ONLY person in the theater who was laughing my guts off from start to finish.
Most of all, I hated the romance between Bella and the guy with the bad hair. I could not understand why people liked their duo?
TWILIGHT is the worst film i've seen in all of 2008. What a FAKE vampire movie, and a ridiculous love story. And this is comingfrom a guy who liked 50 First Dates and Music and Lyrics.
So why is this stupid movie on this site??? this was the dumbest movie ever! why cant we rate movies a zero??? terrible terrible film. hollywood should be ashamed of themselves for even allowing this movie to be aired.....
oh my fucking GOD!!!!!! this movie was horrible why the fuck does he turn all fucking glittery in the sun... it doesnt take a fucking smart person to know that vampires get killed cause they burn up
this movie made no sense horrible acting the reason why this god for sakeing movie made so musch god damn money is because of these little 12 year old girls like robert patenson this movie was horrible and dont fucking buy dont fucking rent downt even red box it just walk away from the double middle finger fuck you of a movie
The worst part of this movie is the script. The writing is terrible. Also, the bad vampires are not developed enough, which makes the last part of the movie ridiculous. There is barely any blood and the vampires don't even have fangs. That's fine if they are like the ones from Near Dark, but they aren't. Some of the directing is alright, but overall it just isn't a very good movie. It definitely isn't a horror movie.
There is nothing that will ever make me watch this shit. Fuck this teenage love crap. As for anyone here who watched and hated it, you should've known better. Vampires are lame.
I like this movie. It is a little different from other vampire movies. It reminds me of a vampire love tale actually. I was disappointed to that fact that it did not have enough blood and gore, it was a vampire Romeo and Juliet tale. But it was good. The story line was easy to follow; it did not jump around like crazy. If you like your vampires to be sensual and erotic i suggest this movie. Otherwise stay away from it.
i had higher expectations for this movie to be more of a vampire flick and was pretty disappointed. it wasnt too horrible, just a lot less vampire action than i was hoping for
Since when did vampires turn into emo listening homosexuals? I miss the old days. When Vampires wanted to kill mother fuckers and get drunk off blood like they were at a keg party in Transylvania. But apparently a lot has changed. Vampires want to buy extremely tight jeans that show off ankle socks and T-Shirts tight enough to reveal areolas. I was praying to the big guy upstairs that Wesley Snipes was going to cut the power to there high school and cut people up. That never happened.
But what did happen was a 120 minutes of tragedy forever holding a spot in cinema history. Watching this movie with my girlfriend I realized just how different men and women really are. At the parts she laughed at, and aww'd at.. I just wanted to bang my head against my air conditioner.
This is your typical young love romance movie. Girl’s parents get divorced; Girl doesn’t want to move to some hick town to be with her father. But ends up wanting to stay because she meets the love of her life… an old ass feminine vampire that looks like a 15 year old girl caught between a episode of “The Hills” and a Clash concert.
And the girl! Don’t even get me started... The girl should be put a mental institute. This guy watches her while she sleeps, eavesdrops on everything she does, and puts her entire family in danger. She brought home Scott Peterson with fangs. Yet, this is her true love. And she can’t help whom she falls in love with. I hope she enjoys a life of spousal abuse and the complete “The Cure” discography on repeat.
Dumb characters, Dumb plot, Disgrace to the vampire name. This movie deserves to be shot with a silver bullet and stabbed with a wooden stake through the heart.
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This movie was actually pretty good. It's not the best Vampire movie, but it's not really the worse either. Now I haven't read the books and don't really care too. I do however look forward to the sequels.
Any way on with my review, So the first half of the movie is a little slow, which I didn't really mind, then the second half gets really interesting and pretty exciting. The only real problems I had with the movie was, that the vampire are glittery in the sun, we saw no fangs or hint of them having fangs and that the "Vampires" were each given a "special" ability like in the Anne Rice novels. Granted these are all things I can look past to enjoy the movie for what it is, an enjoyable 122 mins of entertainment. To those that are reading this review, I say go out and rent the movie and decide for yourself if you like it. Instead of letting us tell you what to think, who knows? you might actually enjoy it!!
The first hour of this illogical film is very lame and involves constant emotions and actions that don't make much sense. Then it gets a little interesting for about 20 minutes, though still doesn't make much sense. And then the ending could've bumped this up a few points for me, but chose not to do anything interesting to any of the characters.
Picture a human and a vampire falling in love for no good reason, and then nothing really happens. That's what this movie is about, and it is told in a manner that will usually make you laugh when you are supposed to be touched, and will leave you wishing you watched "Let The Right One In" again like I did. If you don't love the book, and aren't a young girl, you probably won't find much to like here.
didn't want to read the books, and definitly didn't want to see the movie when I heard it was being made into one. I got a lot of crap for it, so I feel out of the loop today when the DVD was brought home to me. After a couple of no, no, and no i'm not watching this movie. I decided to, and it wasn't that bad of a movie at all, quite enjoyabe if I don't say so myself.
Posted By: Necronatalusz at 10:05pm, February 23, 2009
This film is only for 13 year old female emotional mallgoths. Shitbuster.
Better than expected. When the ad's are on T.V I didn't initially want to the see the film, but i'm glad I did. The film is very unique in it's storyline, and just a simple love story between a vampire and a mortal. The music for the film is great, and the films dark feel is also a plus. The dilogue between the vampire and Bella, is very old fashioned, and im sure the author of the book is very pleased with the end result of the film, even if she had had nothing to do with it.
The plot was very fine, with the setting's dark, gloomy and ultimately stunning. I haven't read the book but if the film is anything to go buy, the book must be great.
The acting, is as good as it gets. "Kristen Stewart" is the lead female, who is very very good at her role. The emotions she pulls of in the film, assures she has versitility and has a great career ahead of her. "Robert Pattingson" is the lead male (vampire), and also has these great expressions which are believable as well as suited to the role. The supporting cast was well assembled, and all were part of a creat cast, which made a great movie.
Overall "Twilight" is a great watch, and although not intriguing at first, when watching you can't kepp your eyes off the screen. My rating is 3.5/5
I loved the book series and i loved this movie...The story was touching and i loved the music used in the movie. The action was good although i wish they didn't change some of the things about the end...in the book Bella was bitten on the hand not the wrist but besides that i loved this movie!!!!!!!!
This movie is absolute teenage garbage. The plot is ridiculous, the whole romance fetish crap is straight up bull and the tween hype surrounding the film makes me want to vomit. An absolute waste of time. The horrible movie Blood and Chocolate was an award winning cult classic compared to this shite.
I wathced this movie with my girlfriend and she liked a lot,but for me was nothing special.I wanted to be a horror movie,but it was not.anyway,a good movie.
Posted By: J0hnnyD3pp<3 at 3:22pm, January 25, 2009
chick flick. nothing really happens till the end. All my friends thought it was the most fantastic thing since grated cheese... but not so much. Love story is 5/5. Action 1/5. Good movie with a friend.
Warning: dont watch it alone hehe .. it worth watching with ur lovely wife or girlfriend..such a nice romantic thriller movie.. first i though its Dumb but its not .. it was gri8 enough .. im waiting for the Second part .. but plz make it little scary...NOTE : i prefer LET THE RIGHT ONE IN cus fucking Scary
To me it's as if Stephanie Meyer set out to answer the question: just how can I further bastardize the vampire legend. An absurd premise, cookie-cutter characters, and a stupid love story between two factions than can never be together makes for a story I can barely stomach. Wouldn't a human and vampire having sex be akin to bestiality, since humans are the food of vampires? Clearly inspired by what proved to be a successful but glaringly stupid TV series in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, there is nothing original about this story. NOTHING! That so many people like it is a scathing indictment of the education system, since it takes such stupid plots and cliched characters to get their attention. That this is mentioned in the same breath as Harry Potter is such an insult to J.K. Rowling she should sue for defamation of character. Just because something is wildly successful doesn't make it good ... and any story that promotes a weak female character always requiring male intervention to save her is just plain sad. You'd think a particularly misogynistic man wrote it, not a mother of three. That this story was not only published but made into a film shows that any turd can be polished off and sold as a delicacy to a nation of fast food-eating, beer-swilling morons. And people put down Stephen King while lauding this book. It's a good argument for annihilation of a race that has become too stupid for its own good.
Someone below made a wonderful point: this story has neutered the vampire. Who's going to respect Dracula now? There day of the fearsome vampire (as a real threat, because come on, did anyone believe for a second Bella was going to die?) are going the way of the dodo and it's sad for me, coming from the era of Near Dark and The Lost Boys, both of which I guess popularized the vampire to the extent that half-wit young adult authors like Meyers feel they should homogenize vampires into a product for kids. And yet people will keep buying into this crap, meaning in the years to come we have even worse imitators to look forward to: Thank god for the splat pack, a groups of directors who feel horror should be just that, horror, and not Dawson's Creek with vampires.
This movie was not good at all. I like the book and the idea of a human and vampire in love, but this movie was bad. I laughed through a lot of parts that were not even suposed to be funny, but serious. The acting wasn't all that good and i dont understand why everyone thinks edward is so hot. He is not at all!
Ok maybe it's because I have never read any of the books but I hated this movie!
It was dull and dragged out... I didn't like any of the caractors or the acting... it felt like I was watching a WB/CW tv drama that just so happened to have so-called vampires!
I nearly fell asleep in the theater I was so board.. then why did I go see it you ask... I took my 15 year old neice to see and she loved it?
I guess you have to be a teenage girl to properlly like this film and I'm no teenager any more lol.
But what it comes down to with Twilight it is a bad movie that has been hyped by young girls to be the greatest film of all time
when in all actuallity it's a waste of time and money... not a horror movie not even a good movie of any genra!
I give Twilight 1 day walking gay ass teenage vampire out of 10 day walking gay ass teenage vampires!!!!
Posted By: coffinjoe at 11:29am, December 18, 2008
This is NOT horror. This is what 8th grade girls think horror is. It is the neutering of a classic horror icon. Count Chocula is more of a vampire than these dorks. When is the vampire genre going to be scary again? They haven't had a fresh vampire idea in years. I move that bloody-disgusting remove all Twillight crap from their site. How do I give it a zero?
I want the 2 hours of my life that I wasted seeing this garbage back !!! Seriously my first complaint, a vampire movie where the vampires don't even have fangs !! WTF !! Secondly the actors who played Bella and Edward were awful. He just looked odd and weird while she was plain and spoke so bloody monotone. BORING! Thirdly, there was nothing dangerous or even remotely exciting about this movie, it was all so safe and nice . Urgh!! I wouldn't even call this a vampire film. Big fucking deal he can run fast up a tree BIG FUCKING WHOOP . One of the most boring , unexciting , flat , uninteresting films ever made. Avoid, avoid , avoid !
I'm not going to lie, I'm absolutely embarrassed to have seen this movie. It was the only major movie coming out that weekend besides Bolt, and my girlfriend had already read the book before seeing the movie, so I was pretty much stuck. The theater was jam packed with teenage, and even pre-teen girls all waiting to see the first part of the vampire romance saga hit the big screen. I knew full well that I was going to hate this piece of crap, but I didn't know just how much.
This movie is absolute garbage. I don't know how else to put it. Let's start with the plot. It's generic, teenage girl, Bella, moves into estranged dad's home and starts out as an outcast in her school. She makes a few friends, learns about some clan of students that don't talk to anyone else but themselves, one of which being Edward.
Ugh, you can see where this is going right now. The two start to talk, he tries to avoid her, blah blah blah she finds out he's a vampire.
There's honestly not much that goes on in this movie. The scenes are pointless, the dialogue is garbage, and pointless, and the acting is ATROCIOUS. I was sitting in the theater waiting for something to go on and when you thought something was going to go on...nothing really happened. The pacing was beyond terrible. One minute Bella and Edward didn't know eachother, the next minute they're madly in love. Talk about clingy and obsessive. Bella is a psycho and Edward needs to either drink her blood or get the fuck away from her before she puts a steak through his heart out of obsessive love. Now I know you can't take a 500 page book and make it into a commercially successful movie because it will be about 4 hours, so the pacing has to be rushed. (Just look at Kill Bill and Grindhouse; Kill Bill had to be separated into two films and Grindhouse was a colossal flop. Goddamn mainstream public!) That's no excuse to rush an entire plot and love story line. You have to get the viewer engaged into their love instead of just telling us they love eachother after what seems like 2 days in the movie. That's just plain stupid.
The vampire aspect was astonishingly bad. It was a disgrace to anything vampire, no matter how ridiculous or even homosexual they can be. This movie absolutely pussified vampires to an astonishing level. What happens to them in the sun is something that you would find on Elton John's wardrobe. It was stupid. I understand taking vampire lore and creatively twisting it, but to make something about an undead clan of bloodsuckers so...gay is just pointless, stupid, and offensive to anyone who calls themselves a fan of vampires.
In the end this movie is just not recommended, not even for the fans of the books. I found myself laughing throughout the movie that is supposed to be 100% serious and "deep". Their love is a joke and the vampire aspect is even more so. The whole thing is just a trash can full of shit.
0/10, not even a 1 for anything. There's no excuse for a book movie to be this bad. I don't even like Harry Potter and those movies are exceptionally better than this.
Posted By: Guitarded at 11:43pm, December 12, 2008
Why is this movie even on this site? It really wasn't that good. I mean, it was okay for a chick flick or kids movie, i guess, but it was still sub par as such. What the hell is with the 3 minute climactic fight? I thought he had "unparalleled senses," lol
Posted By: killerkong56 at 7:39pm, December 7, 2008
i thought it was fantastic. i read the book, and i thought robert pattinson played a superb edward. and for the record, this is not horror. it's a fantasy, y'all. ok. i don't know why it's on this site as horror. lay off the film!
Posted By: Ardeth Blood at 2:52pm, December 4, 2008
I don't think the hype around this film does it justice. Holding what I think is a less then break out performance by the lead actor (thou I have gone on record saying I know why he's the next big thing) the marketing for a teen vampire movie was over due.
It is always refreshing to see a vampire story that is about the characters and not just sex. The innocence within the film's characters are worth seeing it.
I had read Twilight long before it became a number one best seller, I won't lie, I thought the book was okay at first and then it hit me that Twilight was indeed a cheap shitty rip off of Anne Rice's vampire chronicles..but anyway, when I heard Twilight was going to become a movie that's when i thought to myself "Ohh dear.." and that thought was exactly right, OH DEAR indeed! The movie was so horrible, i actually FORCED myself to finish it, the acting was pathetic, honestly Edward looked constipated through out the entire film, i felt like screaming "dude, go take a shit already!"
Bella, well.. lets just say she looked as if she were about to rape Edward, and i never though it possible to stare at something so damn much.
Edward: Hi
Bella: *stares*
..what the hell?
The romance itself was as dreadful as the acting also, its so cliche its sad. SM i believe needs to stop writing fan fiction and need to start writing some real material, not 100 and something pages of bullshit, i'm sorry to say to all the SM fans and "EdWaRiisS3Xii" team.. but sadly enough Twilight is utterly crap.
Kristen Stewert SUCKED at Bella Swan. The rest of the cast I am very pleased with. I liked how the made the charecters more open and funnier. I am dispointed that they didnt mention Jasper can change Emotions like whats up with that.I am glad the gave Jacob and Billy more Screen Time. I was really excited for it to come out like most of you but i walked away a little dispointed.
Here it goes:
First of all, Bella had two expressions: Blank...and slightly less blank. (I wish I could take credit for that statement, but it's from a newspaper.) Robert Pattinson played Edward really awkwardly, like, he didn't know how to play him. Actually, all of the actors did that except for Alice, Emmett, Rosalie, Victoria and...I hate to say it...Jacob. Anyway, even though Edward is my favorite character in the book, I thought the best actress in the movie was Alice. Here are my ratings for the main characters:
Bella: 2--No facial expressions, no emotion AT ALL!!
Edward: 6--Edward is supposed to be very in control and confident...Rob wasn't. :(
James: 7--he was hott!
Rosalie: 9--She was a very good actress and if anyone's ever seen MIMI'S FIRST TIME, you would agree that Nikki Reed was the best to play Rosalie. I also liked her because she was funny. :)
Victoria: 10--She was exactly how I pictured her!! She was amazing in the movie and she had great acting skills and confidence. I loved the ending scene when she was looking out the window!! :)
Alice: 10--She was exactly the short, perky always-pissing-Edward-off Alice that we all love. :D
Emmett: 8--Was hilarious as ever. He was a pretty good actor and smiled a lot. I just wish he could've been in the movie more.
Charlie: 5--He didn't have enough emotion either and I thought that he was also played awkwardly. He should've had MUCH more emotion than he did during the scene when Bella (expressionlessly) packed her bags and left.
Billy: 7--He acted like an old wannabe ghetto dude... :)
Jacob: 9--Jacob was suprisingly pretty good. He was very funny and I liked the actor too. Not to mention that he was totally hott!! Even with the long hair. :)
Overall, the movie was okay, I just thought that some of the actors were sucky and I also thought that the movie went too fast.
Ok this is what happend. My old lady and I every weekgo and do somthing she wants, dinner and a movie type Shit. well we whent to dinner and the she draged me to the theater and with out me knowing had already bought tickets to see "Twilight". So we go in and sit and wait for it to start. the whole time bitching at her for bying tickets in advance. anyhow the movie started after 30 minutes into it I told her I had to the batroom. Thank god the theater we when to had a bar next door. I when in Had a couple of beers and whent back when it was letting out. She asked what happend and I told her I need to get drunk after seeing somthing that gay. She agreed that it sucked a massive one and that she would never do that again. by the way I think we were the oldest people in the theater. Please make this the end of Gay vamp movies.
Like many before it, Twilight appears to be an unoriginal, recycled cash cow for the masses.
Since I have respect for myself, I have not read the popular Twilight series. I would have preferred not to see this movie, but I figured I could laugh at it. However, this doesn't even fall into the category of so-bad-its-good. Its just all bad.
Isabella "Bella" Swan (which should be a key indicator of how original this book is) moves to the "wettest city in the continental US" to live with her father while her mother is doing something that no one cares about. She is a bit dark and moody, a routine that bores quickly, but manages to make a pack of friends in roughly 4 minutes. This is where she meets the elusive Edward Cullen. He shuns her and appears downright revolted by her. Then, after a brief disappearance, is completely smitten with her. Bella then proceeds to tell her family tree to him. This is approximately where the movie lost me.
The acting is wooden (can Kristen Stewart really use a monotone for the whole movie?). The plot is missing. And how about that Go Green subplot? I find little liking or sympathy for a female character who falls head over heels for a guy who is controlling and bipolar to the extreme. I'm also lenient with the vampire "rules", but I can't believe that they can walk outside when it's simply cloudy, and glitter in the sunlight (not to mention why they would go to school for fun). I can't get over how much staring and gazing happens in this movie. Bella stars into nowhere. Edward gazes at Bella. Bella stars at Edward. Edward stares at Bella staring at Edward.
In the end, this is nothing but every cliche complied together.
Posted By: BrotherJustin at 4:59pm, November 27, 2008
Quote from aeedotcom: "I have to admit, I went in really really high expectations, and was really disapointed. But, I loved it, and will probably see it 57489213 more times, so I'll keep this positive."
Uh, you were really disappointed with the movie, but gave it five stars? Look just because you liked the book, doesn't mean you have to rabidly defend the atrocity that was this movie. Every positive review on here is written by fans of the book who are not educated enough to realize that this is poorly written, unoriginal emo-tween drivel authored by someone who wanted to do nothing more than push her Mormon beliefs on teenage girls. The whole thing is a metaphor for abstinence. Besides, the way Bella feels about and interacts with Edward is completely misogynistic and sets the women's movement back twenty years.
Oh wait this is supposed to be about the movie! Well the movie sucked, so I'll keep it short. If my wife didn't promise our niece we'd take her, I'd have never seen it. The trailers looked like everything I hated about movies like The Covenant and Jumper. The movie is nothing more than a Sci-Fi Channel original movie mated with a CW show. Not even CW, Disney. Fangless vamps who sparkle in sunlight? Really? Yeah, you read it right, they f'n sparkle. This would have best been adapted as a mini-series on TV.
The only reason I never read Twilight when it first came out, long before it was popular, was because I read a book review stating that it was a clichéd and traditional—two things that I hate more than anything. The only reason I watched the movie was so I could actually understand what the vast majority of America was talking about when they raved about it. I came with low expectations and an open mind. I reassured myself, after all, I do enjoy love stories when they're original and memorable, so this couldn't be too bad, right?
Three hours later, I left the theater feeling as if I was just released from a torture device and struggled desperately to my car on weak legs that just walked through hell on earth. Is my last sentence melodramatic? Maybe, but compared to the cheesy melodrama that IS the plot of Twilight, me sitting through that atrocious movie looks downright life-or-death.
From the first scene to the last, at least 1/3 of every scene in the movie is filled with nothing but characters staring at each other or at various things. I've never thought I would have to sit here and actually type up a complete paragraph complaining about the amount of staring in a movie, but, folks, the day has come. Bella meets Edward: they don't talk, they literally just stare. The vampire plot point is reveled: they stare. Bella is in a life-or-death situation: she stares at whatever is about to kill her. At one point, a car is ready to crush her, and what does she oh-so-realistically do? Stare at it.
The acting is that hilariously bad. During the majority of the movie Bella has a look on her face that is a mix between being high and having an orgasm—while staring. Edward, despite what the horny pre-teen girls (and middle-aged women) want to believe, is a walking self-parody. Cheesy lines (that he repeats over and over again), unintentionally cheesy lines ("I'm so hot, and that makes me a perfect killer!"), and did I mention he's supposedly hundreds of years old yet he still acts like an angsty-creepy-weird-virgin-guy?
So, how was the story? It's based on a novel, so it has to have a plot, right? Wrong. Put simply, vampire romance is the most unoriginal idea ever to hit literature. Not to mention movies like Near Dark and Let the Right One In already beat the overused plot bloody on the big screen. Essentially, Twilight in one line is: boy and girl fall in love, boy must sacrifice everything for girl as she sits there like a pretty Barbie doll (and Kristen Stewart isn't even much to look at here), then they both commit. And while you're watching it, it seems even less interesting than that. There is zero entertainment value unless you're a hopelessly horny female who humps her pillow with images of Edward in her head, or you're a hopelessly pathetic male who just wants to impress his girlfriend because he can relate to a "emotional love story". I can't comment on the former, but, seriously, I'm a guy who likes love stories and this is NOT a love story. It's a traditionalist middle school English essay with flat characters and no plot other than: put two horny kids together, but appeal to the "dark" crowd by making it a vampire story . . . without even showing fangs.
I almost feel sorry for Catherine Hardwicke. She's an amazing director, and she singlehandedly turned this stupid crap-fest into a well-done movie on a technical level, and everything else was out of her hands. But who would honestly turn down the money this movie would bring in? I don't blame her, I blame Stephanie Myers, who I put on the same level as Christopher Paolini and James Patterson as far as unoriginality and ridiculousness goes.
I also feel sorry for the countless people who watch this and think it's a quality love story, thus never being exposed to the true love stories out there. What is Twilight? A horny, unoriginal, childish fantasies put into a movie. That, like always, wins mass reader, and now viewer, acclaim. I just wish one day popular fiction wasn't a synonym for retard fiction.
Difficult one this. Never seen the movie and unfortunatly, never will (although I do apparently have to give it a 2 on the ratings, bloody liberty). Romantic vampirism for me stopped right after I finished reading Queen of the Damned and finished watching Tom & Brad get all homo-vamp in Interview. Anne Rice is the only legitimate author in this genre and even she has now long since fallen of the band wagon. Regretably however there is still a youthful contingent of sad emo fools willing to fork out their cash for some trash storyline that speaks to them, and only them. In the upcoming Xmas spirit Baaahhhhh Humbug.
i dont think this was ever supposed to be considered horror..i didnt get that from the books at all when i was reading them so why does everyone keep referring to it as horror??? it stayed true to the book in the sense that edward and bella were building their relationship and thats pretty much what the book was about so i enjoyed it and was very happy with it. I hope they keep goin and make movie adaptations of all the books.
Posted By: lucimasters at 12:51pm, November 25, 2008
I had low expectations for this film (and book for that matter) so it's unfortunate that I still didn't like either. All I wanted was a tongue-in-cheek, teeny-bopper version of vampire love, but was left feeling insulted. They glitter when they go out into the sun? Vampire baseball?! Are you serious??!! I've read the book and seen the movie and frankly, I just don't get it. Oh I get the plot (or lack of it), but I don't get the appeal. I feel like I'm on the outside of a big inside joke perpetuated by the High School Jonas Brothers Cyrus Musical machine.
Posted By: tylerdq14 at 12:21am, November 25, 2008
this movie is one of my favorites so far, for people who say "im pissed, this was a stupid love story". well yeh it is, i dont see why you would think it would be like lost boys or anything, what im trying to say is it is a sifi-love story and i loved it and want to see it over and over again
Posted By: ♥LOUIS_YO♥ at 6:01pm, November 24, 2008
UH
Loved it.
Chyeah.
I have the biggest
Crush on Edward.
Hottie.
Low rating i give this movie based on the rating of PG-13 horror, I will never go see a PG-13 Horror movie about teens that obsess with drama and love, if the movie pulled an R and was a lost boys type of movie I would been there as quick as my heart pumps blood through my body. Lost Boys is a classic and we got tennagers running around saying this movie was the best horror films in ages. TRUE BLOOD on HBO now thats some vampire horror, yeah its got some love drama but it makes up for it with the blood, sex and language
I have to admit, I went in really really high expectations, and was really disapointed. But, I loved it, and will probably see it 57489213 more times, so I'll keep this positive.
I feel like Edward and Bella's relationship wasn't defined enough, like it was really distant. But the Rob totally god the whole tortured look down. He's brooding the whole movie, and he was undeniably sexy. I feel like he portrayed Edward really well, but, being a man, he can't really play the whole perfect man thing that all the girls see in Edward. He did the best he could. Like, I could feel his pain for a good portion of the movie. The kiss scene was so intense. But where were Bella's pants, seriously?
Kristen portrayed Bella as well as anyone could, she sort of reflected a clumsy, in love teenager off of herself. Though, I was getting sick of the blinking and monotone by the end of the movie. She was really beatiful though, as was Rob :]. They looked great together. But I didn't really feel like I could feel her obsessiveness towards Edward until the hospital scene and after. But the prom scene was so desperate and sad, I loved it.
I have gained such a soft spot for Charlie. I have to say he was probably my favorite character in the movie. He wasn't just a part of the background, he was really funny and socially awkward. I loved him.
Favorite parts:
The reveal scene, when she says I trust you, and he takes her face and says don't. It is so intense! I was on the edge of my seat and very very into it. I could like feel the physical chemistry and longing. He was beatiful. And I totally don't hate on him in the sun. He was really great. If it was any less subtle, it would have looked so fake. I think that they tried to make it more like he was reflecting the sunlight, instead of generating it himself.
The baseball scene was so exillerating. Emmett, Jasper and Edward were so competitive and hilarious. I loved the side comments and the loudness, and the background song was really awesome.
Even though it was not in the book, I loved the part where they were flying after she saw his room. Especially in the tree, for some odd reason I thought I would cry at that part. It was so cute.
And of course, the prom scene was amazing. Bella looked so devistated... The music was great, and I'm happy they kept in the part where he helped her dance.
Little parts that made me smile:
When James said, "I borrowed this from your house, I hope you don't mind." It was so funny. Haha I couldn't help but crack up. He was seductive and sexy.
In biology, when Edward first spoke to her. She agrees with him and says, "Anaphase," and he smirks really smuggly, and says, "Like I said." It's so subtle and cute.
When he drives her to school and everyone's staring. It's the really, really more Edwardesque part in the movie. I felt like it was REALLY him :]
And I actually liked that he almost killed her at the end, the look in his eye was so devistating! Oh god. He looked so ravenous, but I loved it.
It was pretty good, hope the sequels are good too.
Posted By: edward42069 at 3:23pm, November 23, 2008
twilight was by far the best movie i have seen sence dark night. i know people might disagree but i have been a fan of the book for year....and when i saw who was who in the movie i was sceptical but, besides that i was exsited. i saw it i would have done some things like the metto sence different and also have the secen in the book where the bio calss (they have together)when they started to date. the sence where the teacher puts on a movie instead of the feild trip. but they did a good job crunching a 4 hour movie into a 2 hour gap. hopfully they would be able to add alittle more of the book in the second one. i know it was a poor bugeit and that is what i take in consideration. well all i know is this movie gets 5 skulls in my opinon.
I read all the books and couldn't wait for this movie to come out. I bought my tickets for Friday a week early just to make sure they wouldn't be sold out. I even dragged my hubby along with me, since I know I'm going on opening day of the Friday the 13th remake.
All that being said, this movie was a HUGE disappointment. Bella, Alice, and Charlie were the only actors in this movie that were alright. Its like the rest were cast solely to give teenyboppers with no brains wet dreams. Sheesh. And what the hell was up with the constipated look on Jasper? To give the movie a lil' credit the style and cinematography was well done, but thats about it. I liked the artsy feel to some of the scenes and dream sequences especially, but to dilute so much of all the different storylines from the book so that you can try to get everything in, was straight up retarded. They ended up with some sort of hodgepodge of epileptic snipits of the story. They probably should have hired a man for director who could have come in and trim some fat, as well as ACTUALLY DIRECT the crappy actors. Yes, the books are great, but unless you want to make a 4 hour movie that actually goes into all the little nuances, that Stephanie Meyer delineated in them, then for f---sake make some decisions about whats most important and what can be let go, and actually focus on something for long enough, so that joe-blow on the street can be able to actually get it. The script was bad, the acting worse and I hope y'all at Summit choke on the 16 bucks I ponied up to see this piece of shit.
I feel sorry for anybody that hasn't read the books (like my hubby) and watches this movie because it would be rather confusing since alot is shown but not much explained. I am SOOO pissed that they f---ed this movie up. To try to salvage anything out of the next 3 movies seriously hire a dude to direct or something cuz if they keep going like this every teenage girl in america may show up since they're lacking on some fundamental brains in the "OMG department" but anyone with any appreciation for good movies will most certainly sit them out.
My suggestion, read the books and skip this f--kin' movie like its the plague.
To be honest, I thought that the movie was crap. The acting was terrible, the actors were not the best choice, it was short and a little choppy. And they destroyed the ending. Read the book only,its so much better....
On a better note, it was hilarious. Couldn't stop laughing though the entire thing.
~Spoiler~
Victoria appearing at the end ruined the whole Edward and Bella happy moment at the end.
I suggest reading the book before you see this movie. If you haven't read the book then you probably won't understand why this movie is absolutely perfect.
Posted By: VampFangFreak at 5:16pm, November 22, 2008
Personaly, i LOVED it. it stayed true to the book (pretty much) and the acting was amazing. People who say that they were too nervous while acting should read the book because they acted the same way. I'd give it a 9/10. i, as i said, loved it...
to death.
Really funny, but low budget; and the romance and intense scenes were laughable. Let's hope with the higher budget it'll = better filming conditions (they plan to film at an ideal time), a well made script that WON'T be rushed (it was written in only 5 weeks, due to the need), better filming equipment, better stunts and cgi, better makeup (and contacts that WON'T cause the actors to make strange faces, due to the pain and tunnel vision...They should try CGI this time), and better transitions and editing. Most of it can be fixed with a higher budget and once again, BETTER script. Overall, 5/10 (the school kids and the dad saved the movie for me; hilarious).
Posted By: HisNextVictim at 9:32am, November 22, 2008
I have to say, it wasnt good
i gave it 3 stars for solid acting but in my opinion the actual storyline bored me :|
also to the person who said were all not reviewers cus some people reviewed it quite high is a total retard. People are entitled to their opinion.
Posted By: Big Bad Wolf at 9:31am, November 22, 2008
First of all, ignore the reviews that suggest this is a good film. Rabid fangirls are responsible for that.
Now, as for the film itself, I felt like I was watching a really long, bad episode of the O.C., and not a film, let alone a vampire film. There's about as much logic in this film as there is hair on Colin Mochrie, and the same goes for the book.
The romance is not even real romance, it's like typical teenage puppy love, played out to look good for the kinds of teens who go through that teenage puppy love, then think their life is over when reality smacks them in the head and their "true love" turns out to be a total ass. I can almost guarantee that if Edward was not a vampire, and he was just some mysterious dude, she'd only be going out with him for a couple months, and then they'd go their seperate ways without much of a thought, unless of course Bella decides to pull the typical stalker ex routine.
As for the vampires, nothing new was added to them at all, except for the stupid sparkling thing, and there was only one interesting character in the entire film, and we barely saw any of him, and that's Carlisle. Carlisle seems a lot like the familiar classy vampire, like Lugosi for example, but he's his own breed of that at the same time. There's an air of mystery around him, I was left wondering about his story, such as why he would choose to "adopt" the other vampires. His acting was not bad compared to the others.
Now, I don't need fangs, or a sunlight allergy, for a vampire film to be considered a good one. NEAR DARK, and fucking BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA are proof of that, but rarely did any of these characters ever seem like vampires to me. They were more like fairies, or even Peter Pan. Infact, there's a lot in common with this story and Peter Pan, and not in a good way.
Overall, it was just very bad, and everything one would ask for in a vampire movie is denied, and instead we're given overly-dramatic false puppy-dog romance, dressed up to look like real romance, so even romantics ought to be let down by this. Hopefully, this film pulls an Eragon with critics and Box Office, and the sequels are not made into films, so that hopefully this garbage can be put to rest.
It's pretty clear that most of the audiences who have given this bad reviews haven't read the books, so therefore they can't really understand why the vampires are the way they are and why the characters act the way they do. But as a fan of the book, I thought this movie was amazing in every way. It was probably the most faithful book-to-movie adaptation I've seen in a long time. Even though it did have nonstop romance through it all, which I normally hate, I still enjoyed the movie. It's undoubtedly one of my favorite movies of this year.
Posted By: Kaname Tousen at 2:34am, November 22, 2008
Alright if you can't tell most of the good reviews are written by fans I give it a half skull for trying to reinvent the vampire in a stupid way(oh the direct sunlight dosen't hurt or kill us we just like to stay out of it so our skin dosen't become all shiny, And we can only be killed if you burn us.....Kind of like Harry potter re-inviting the the wizard), the acting and action are subpar(kind of like harry potter, seeing a trend?) it's more fan service for those who read the book then anything(...hmmm do I have to say it again) and the lead male vampire is a whimp half the time.
If you love the woman change her if your going to protect her go all out, fuck the rules, do it by your own that's the way a real man will instead of all this BS.
The movie was completely awesome. The only 2 bad things I noticed was that it went too fast and the whole thing with Bella, Alice, and Jasper. They were great actors but it should have shown them more friendly with each other. It also should have showed when Bella wrote the letter to Edward tellin him where she was. But other than that it was incredible. I'm goin to see it as much as possible.
Posted By: DiegOmen16 at 10:45pm, November 21, 2008
The movie was awesome but i would of prefered more action and less talk but let me tell you the music, the acting and specially the directing and script were really great i dont why the hell the movie is in here its not horror its fantasy like harry potter so i really recomend this for a second viewing and definetly a buy.
Posted By: BoogeyMann at 8:58pm, November 21, 2008
Who the hell are you reviewers and did you watch the same tripe that I did??? How can anyone watch this as an objective filmgoer and say this is a good movie?! The acting, make-up, sfx, all of it was absolute shit.
Okay, First of all, the voice over's were really great for me since they took from the book directly, the only problem was that they used the voice over as kindof a cheat to leave out some things.
I felt that the relationship between Bella, Alice, And Jasper was lacking alot because they kindof jumped through the drive and hotel, it just left alot out character wise for me, i mean by the end of twilight Alice and Bella were supposed to be joined at the hip. and Jasper was suposed to tell her that she shouldn't feel the way she does because she was worth it, thy didn't really show him using his abilities... i wish they put that in a little more instead of fully focusing on the love between bella and edward....
The kiss was PHINOMINAL! like... it got me going... they start kissing kristen takes it into her own hands then rob like pins her and i was like DAMN they kiss very well together and it was very very sexy. like... gah.... wow...
the music was set in awsome part's, like i never expected but it worked.
for me the real only flaw was it went to fast. it hopped from scene to scene, i would have loved for it to be like 3 hours... but hey what can you do?
i have to be honest, i wasn't sold on taylor lautner, i just couldn't picture him as big or mean... but jacobs final scene, the look him and edward share, totally sold me!
and i wish kristen cried... like actual tears... lots of them but she still did amazing!!
Posted By: KingOfHorror at 4:47pm, November 21, 2008
Stunning Visuals! Great Special Effects! Kristen Stewart Kicks Ass! Vampire Baseball is more FUN!Vampire family Creepy as Hell! Movie lives up to HYPE! Some Scares but very little blood and Gore! More of a Vampire Romance! Great Soundtrack! Best Picture this year after Dark Knight! I have Crush on Bella! See this Film Now Children of the Night what music they Make!
Posted By: grieversangel at 2:54pm, November 21, 2008
I saw the Twilight at the Midnight showing and I have to say that I have never been so pleased. I knew that Catherine Hardwicke, as well as the cast, wanted to keep the movie as close to the book as possible and I think they did a very good job. There is no way they could have put everything from the book into this movie and I understand that. I think the characters (Especially Edward) were prortrayed very well. There was really some depth into his character and I am definetely seeing this movie again.
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