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11 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
TWILIGHT - a Vampire Story with a difference..., 10 April 2009
Bought this on Blu-Ray yesterday and watched it as soon as i got home - Bought it with people telling me it was good, people telling me it was awful (Someone even told me it was basically the Buffy Season 1 Episode "ANGEL" spread over 2 Hours), so i bought it expecting to get a film that was good but could be better.
I'm Glad to say that it was better than good and will go up on the list of Interview with the Vampire and Bram Stoker's Dracula.
As well as being a teenage love story, it has a few adult inclusions (Edward saving Bella from a group of guys with less than noble intentions in the sexual area and edwards explanation of a Vampire's need for blood as being like a Heroin Addict...)
It's a good film that i would recommend for anyone who loves Vampire Films and/or Romantic Films...
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13 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Sparkly luv, 7 Jun 2009
Like Harry Potter and "Eragon" and other such younger-reader literary phenomena, Stephanie Meyers' bestselling vampire romance "Twilight" has gotten the big-screen treatment.
Will its countless fans love it? Undoubtedly. Will the rest of the world love it? Ehhhhhhh... probably not.
Basically liking "Twilight" all depends on whether the idea of teenage vampire/mortal romances with no sex and lots of longing looks appeal to you. It's essentially a teenage fantasy about finding the Perfect Hot Immortal Coverboy Who Longs For You Alone, and as such, it's neither amazingly good nor hilariously bad -- just sort of blah.
On her first day at her new school, klutzy Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) is struck by the ash-pale, vaguely incestuous Cullen family -- an especially by the Hawt and Brooding Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson). Edward doesn't seem to like her much -- but when Bella is nearly killed by a runaway car, he somehow manages to zip across the parking lot and knock away the car.
Bella does some speculation about how Edward did this particular trick, throwing off some Superman/Spiderman comparisons. "But what if I'm not the hero? What if I am the bad guy?" he asks. Of course Bella believes he could never be, because he's hot. Er, because she trusts him because he's hot. Umm... never mind. Anyway, Bella eventually figures out that he's a vampire-- a "vegetarian vampire" with the power to read thoughts... except hers.
Despite his fears that he'll hurt her, their smoldering chemistry (and Bella's "heroin" smell) draws them into a relationship... at which point, since the plot has had zero non-teenybopper tension, three two-dimensionally evil vampires enter the scene, intent on hunting Bella. The Cullens whisk her away to keep her safe from this trio -- but they have more than one way to find her.
The book "Twilight" is essentially the eroticized fantasies of a teenage girl, purple of prose and taking itself hilariously seriously. Director Catherine Hardwicke and screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg thankfully remove most of the sentimental drippiness and damselly distress, but Hardwicke's "Twilight" focuses more on the stars' pretty faces than on their personalities. Or the plot.
Hardwicke paints the whole movie in dreary shades of misty grey and blue, which has a certain appropiate visual prettiness. Too bad about the choppy, jerky fight scenes and appalling CGI, including a unintentionally silly "vampire baseball" scene. Think supersonic pitching. Add that to some oatmeal-bland dialogue ("This kind of stuff just doesn't exist!" "It does in my world"), and you don't exactly have a winner.
The biggest problem is the plot: it goes nowhere fast. "Twilight" is your basic teenage romance -- angst, whining and OMG-does-he-like-me-does-he-hate-me? -- except that the Hawt Guy is a vampire, and the only real obstacle to their Eternal Luv is that he can't make up his mind about whether to date her or not. This is not terribly riveting as a story, especially since it's glaringly obvious whether they'll get together or not.
To make matters worse, the main source of tension is the cliche sex = bloodsucking formula, where Edward is constantly shying away from Bella's virginal neck (what does that imply about sucking blood from animals?). Hardwicke wrings a few pretty moments from the movie -- such as Edward and Bella in the Northwestern pine treetops -- but her skills seem to be stifled. You can only wring so much interest from "Meet the Vampire Family."
The talented Pattinson is undeniably a beautiful guy, and he has the bad boy thing down to a fine art. Unfortunately Edward doesn't call for much more -- Pattinson broods, smolders and stalks Bella as a sign of how he loves her. Stewart does a passable job as the rather flat Bella Swan (whose main ambition in life seems to be eternal undeadhood with Eddie-boy), but it's hard to forget that that she's basically playing a self-insert for the masses.
The blu-ray edition is having a rather confusing run -- for the first few weeks of its release after March 21st, it will be available only in Target and Wal-mart. Not sure why, but by May 5th ordinary stores (and online ones) should be permitted to ship. As for the extras, they're pretty standard material: audio commentary by Hardwicke, Pattinson and Stewart, a seven-part documentary about translating the novel to movie form, a Comic-Con featurette, music videos from Muse, Paramore and (shudder) Linkin Park, and both extended and deleted scenes (five apiece) introduced by Hardwicke. I smell a mega-super-deluxe edition in the future.
Those who adore the works of Stephanie Meyer and dream of eternal love with an Immortal Hottie may find "Twilight" a delight, but it's no more than a thin, flat guilty pleasure at best.
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5 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
What no fangs?, 27 Mar 2009
This is by no stroke of the imagination a vampire movie though I will concede that its quite a good adaptation of the book. The vamps are so sanitised that they might as well be aliens and the only air of menace in the film is the music for the opening scene which owes a lot to the unique soundtrack of '30 Days of Night'. The bad vampires when they appear are more cool than evil and the whole love triangle with wolf-boy has been ignored, in fact the wolves only get a passing mention. Basically this is Harry Potter for romantics but nowhere near as dark. Check out 'Let the right one in' for a real vampire romance.
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