Twilight (2008)

director: Cathrine Hardwicke

writer: Melissa Rosenberg

starring: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson

genre: Fantasy, Thriller

I never stop myself from seeing a movie necessarily because its bad or even popular. Twilight was one of the films that avoided at start but my curiosity slowly started arising. The frenzy that went on for this film by little girls and older women was huge. Now that the second film is coming out I thought I should indulge myself to my curiosity and see what this is all about. And the truth is it wasn’t that bad.

The story is about Bella (Kristen Stewart) who moves to the town of Forks with her father. There she has to reestablish her self with a new life away from her mom and with new friends, challenges to look up to. As she starts to get used to the environment she gets a weird vibe from this kid Edward (Robert Pattinson). After many weird encounters the two of them, they both see that something drives them together. As their connection grows Edward makes the revelation that he is a vampire. But all is not that bad, as Bella will find out that there are a lot of secrets in the small new town of hers. And her love for Edward will grow but at a cost.

You will be wondering how could I like this film, how could I like a tween drama with vampires? Will because it wasn’t bad. The drama is done properly, the acting is satisfactory, the romance and the school scenes are all realistic, funny, cute and never too cheesy. I mean yes there were a couple of clichés and some stupid moments I can mention but let us remember who this film was made for. And for who it was made for its really good. For others it could be considered low quality but that’s a stretch.

After saying some of the good stuff let me talk about the bad stuff. The film as well as it is its still kind of amateur. When Edward finally reveals he is Vampire is has some of worst exposition ever. He acts like a complete moron and jumps from tree to tree like Tarzan. The effects are pretty cheap. Vampires run as if they were the Flash and not high powered Vampires. Also I have a couple complaints about the authors idea on Vampires. Vampires don’t have fangs which is kind of stupid and the reason they don’t go into the sun is because there shiny and there skin turns to diamonds. How silly and crazy addition is that to the Vampire mythos. That they look like diamonds, is that the best she could do.

Now let me talk about the haters of this film and the people that love this film so dearly. Hating this film without seeing it is wrong. Its easy to bash something when its popular and not of your age group. But dont talk bad about the film, talk bad about the kids that are seeing this film. That’s the problem, that kids think this film to be good and cool. And really Id like to know what they really think is cool. Oh yeah I know the vampire dude. Why because he's hot and he's a vampire. Haven't mothers realized that there tween kids liking a film because subconsciously they want to have sex with him. Are people this unconscious to realize these simple facts. I mean they don’t like the film for its realistic portrayal of school and friends or family. Just because of a silly romance that could never happen. Its like the Jonas Brothers, why are girls into them, for the same reason.

To conclude the film is ok. Its kind of fun and never gets too boring. This film could never have been great because of the books low standard as literature. But things could have been avoided to make things better like the effects that were mediocre, the small and little action scenes or some bad dialogue from the Vampires. Even the silly Edward scenes were hes acting like crazy dude. If all of that were missing this would have a cool and memorable film.

Personal Rating:

Review by Paul