Mar 27 2009
Twilight Film Was OK
After all of the hype surrounding Twilight and everyone having long discussions about the film I thought I should take some time out and watch the movie. After all, so many teenagers were reading the book and were in hysterics when it came to the movie. The girls fell in love with Edward and started wearing the t-shirts and buying anything and everything Twilight.
I anticipated the film would be great. For how everyone talked about it I thought it had to be good. No one said it was a disappointment, right? Well, I must say there are a few things I would change, but after all of the hype I have to admit it wasn’t that bad. There were definitely parts that were too long and drawn out when they could have gotten to the meat of the movie much sooner. I thought the actors were rather goofy at first, but I can see why teens love the characters. Even with all of the silliness you actually can start to get drawn into the story. I imagine the book was very good.
All of the actors were relatively unknown. Smart move here, but I would have changed the main two actors. They were ok but there had to be better actors who could portray the parts better. These two tended to be a little too silly to me and sometimes corny.
The best part of Twilight was near the end when the family went out to play baseball. Though I didn’t understand why they kept emphasizing why they had to play in the rain. When the team of human killers came along is when the film started to take off. It regained my interest and I was also pleased that they were able to eliminate all potential horrific gore that sometimes ruins the film. The friction between the two vampire groups was very cool and the idea of the werewolves fighting the vampires is also interesting though Twilight lightly touched on it. I believe they are setting it up for the next edition of Twilight.
All in all, the film was ok. I can’t highly recommend it but I would recommend reading the book since it probably went into more detail of the storyline. Direction was alright but spent too much time with Edward and Bella (the main girl) staring at each other without explaining anything. And I have to gag when Bella appeared at school and was considered soooo hot that every guy seemed to desire her. Hence the name Bella which means beautiful. Gag again! Most new kids are harrassed when they show up at school so I just thought this was kind of ridiculous and annoying especially since the girl wasn’t beautiful at all.
