Okay so I saw the Twilight movie last night and I have to admit, it was the biggest failure and waste of my time. Since the books aren’t too great I kind of saw this coming, but even my expectations were ever so slightly higher than the performance that I received. I couldn’t help but try not to laugh throughout the whole thing. I also boo-ed at the end. If anyone else did, kudos to you.
First off, before I address the actual movie, I have to address the fanbase. WHY CAN YOU NOT STOP SCREAMING OVER EDWARD?! Honestly people, he may be the amaaazing guy of your dreams, but chill out! The whole beginning part of the movie I was ready to shoot some people in the back of the theater. The movie starts: *AAAAAAAAH* Bella appears: *AAAAAAAAH* (who’d scream for her? She’s an asshole. Haha Sam you let me see the light). The Cullens appear: *AAAAAAAAAAAAAH* And Edward appearing: hooooly crap. My ears blew out. That and when they kissed – those had to be the two worst screaming parts.
Seriously though, it’s a wonder how you people don’t lose your voices. I don’t understand either why the fans HAVE to scream at everything. Yes, Robert Pattinson’s good looking, and yes Twilight may have been the book of your wildest fantasies, but then again, in Harry Potter, Daniel Radcliffe’s good looking, and the HP book series were to some people the books of their wildest fantasies, and yet whenever I go to a Harry Potter movie the crowd is quiet, respectable, and DOESN’T SCREAM OVER EVERY LITTLE STUPID THING. Grow up and shut up people.
Alright, now to the actual movie. The main reason the movie sucked, besides it being based off a sucky book, was because of the acting. Kristen Stewart had the same apathetic acting throughout the whole thing. I don’t know if she was bored or if she didn’t really want to play Bella, but whatever the case may be, her acting was ridiculously horrible. She never seemed to portray ANY emotion whatsoever to dear old Pattinson, and her smiles were all “oh I don’t really want to smile but I guess I’ll force myself to for the camera”-type smiles. Even Bella in the books had a more diverse ensemble of emotions than Stewart. She had the same “I don’t care” expression on her face throughout the whooole thing. The parts where she attempted to be upset and mad were extremely unimpressive. Pattinson’s performance was not much better, but he hates Twilight so his awesome level negates his bad performance. Plus he mentioned that he deliberately tried to portray Edward as “as a manic-depressive who hates himself,” which I believe he managed to get down. However, Kristen Stewart has no excuse for being horrible. All the other characters, such as Emmett, Alice, and Charlie, were very well portrayed by their actors/actresses (Charlie was amazing), but the main characters were not. How ironic.
Next off: the whole entire movie seemed like a giant soap opera. It didn’t really have a movie feel. I know it was intentionally made with a “different” feel, but it gave off such an alien feeling at the end that I think it became a little too different. It jumped from point A to point B all the time without a really full transition to link the scenes together. If I hadn’t read the books, I honestly think I would have lost the actual plot before the movie was even half over. Oh wait, Twilight has no plot. It’s just all sappy romance and EDWARD I LOVE YOU. My bad.
I’m not going to compare the book to the movie because books are always better than their movie counterparts (and, grudgingly, in Twilight’s case as well). I think the movie followed the book pretty well (horrible romance: check, Bella being an obvious Mary Sue: check, Edward being a creeper: check, “epic” fight scene: check), so fans of the book who are going to see it for the sake of the novel won’t be displeased.
Overall, the movie was just ridiculously humorous in my opinion because it sucked so much. Anyone who sees it and honestly thinks it’s good really needs a nice whack in the head that will hopefully put their brain cells back in the right place. Even if you’re a fan of the book series, I don’t see how in the world you would have considered the movie remotely good. I think most fans like it because they got to see their beloved Edward and Jacob on the big screen, but quite honestly, if that’s what you go to see a movie for and if that’s what you base your rating of the movie off of, that’s slightly sad. Then again, that’s what most of the Twilight fanbase is like. Screw the plot and writing style, we just want hot guys and romance!
Oh I nearly forgot, THEY PUT IN THE SPARKLING, although I was expecting more than a slight shimmer. They should have dunked his head in glitter or something. Now THAT would be the sparkling I expected. However, since they did include the sparkling, the movie gets a +1. It was already at around -9000 in my opinion though, so the +1 doesn’t help it very much.
One last thing: I did not hear River Flows in You by Yiruma anywhere in the movie. I don’t know how it got spread around that it was going to be used, but the song I heard in the Edward’s Lullaby part definitely wasn’t it. I also noticed Pattinson’s a little clumsy at the piano, whereas he’s supposed to be graceful and at ease in the books. It made me giggle inside.
There you go. My general views on the failage that is the Twilight movie. At least the performance was consistent with the books: they both sucked!
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EDIT: Kristen Stewart, your bad performance has now also been compensated for due to this:
‘Even as small crowds of the books’ fans would follow from one outdoor location to another, she says she “kept her head down the entire way.”
“I just didn’t pay attention,” Stewart recalls. “I was like, ‘You guys are celebrating something that has not come true yet. So, you are really retarded and have nothing to do with this creative process and I really don’t want to hear you celebrate in front of me. Get out of here! It’s my responsibility!’”
Already an industry veteran at 18 with roles in films such as “Panic Room,” “Zathura” and “Into the Wild,” the actress says she first realized how intense the fan base was when she sat on the film’s Comic-Con convention panel this past July.
“You can go online and it’s very intangible. I mean, who knows how many of these girls there are? It’s probably just the same five girls going on every message board and gabbing on about it,” Stewart says. “But to have literally, like, a room of over 5,000 people screaming at you makes you want to cry. It’s not like, ‘Oh, this is so great.’ I think it’s literally like an instinct. To have that sort of energy forced at you? You start to wither.”‘
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I found one reply on the Twilight fanforum that I saw this on when I was looking for fans’ reactions to the movie rather hilarious: a person was disappointed that none of the actors were “embracing the fandom.” Well uh, hello, maybe if most of the fandom didn’t act like rabid animals and scream at every sight of them they might be a little more accepting. Maybe if you acted a little more MATURE and less OBNOXIOUS.
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