I like a lot of things in the vampire genre. However, the people who made the Twilight movie deserve slow and painful retribution. I mean they freaking hyped the shit out of this movie, and so I figured the girlfriend and I would go check it out. Movie mistake of 2008.
Now, I realize that the books, which I have not read, are written for teenage girls. However, the Harry Potter books are written for kids, and they managed to make some pretty good films.
Robert Pattinson, who plays the main vampire character, wears more eye make-up than the Cure and comes across like a man who should be hitting the gay club scene. This would work if it weren't for the fact that he's suppose to be head over heals for a CHICK!
By the by, vampires don't go out in the sun because they sparkle!!! That's right!!! They fucking sparkle!!! Sparkling-in-the-sunshine Robert Pattinson has got to be the homo-erotic material of 2008. This probably wouldn't bother me, if it weren't for the fact that he's suppose to be head over heals for a CHICK!
The female lead doesn't do anything to help the movie recover either. Kristen Stewart's character has almost no personality. She haltingly delivers lines in what I suppose is to come across as dramatic... It ain't. Her interactions with Pattinson just hurts the brain.
Finally, special effects in movies today are fairly advanced, or so I hear. Next time I would suggest spending some of the over-inflated advertising budget on good F/X's because frankly they sucked in this film.
Bad acting with over drawn pauses interspersed between deep-and-meaningless looks does not make for good film! Vampires sparkling in the sunlight, and hissing like house cats does not a good film make. Thinking for an instant that your movie is so good the effects might as well be done by Dewy, Cheatum, and How ain't going to save your piece of shit film. |