Twilight

This is the first film review I’ve done where I am going to utterly bash a film for everything. This film is Twilight.

Twilight is a film based off of the immensely popular books series of the same title. I guess I understand that it could be popular for women because it’s about love and passion, but it also a stupid premise. The basis of Twilight is that a seventeen-year-old girl, Bella, moves to live with her father in Forks, Washington after her mother remarries a minor league baseball player. She attends school there and becomes entranced with an odd man-boy, Edward Cullen. After school one day, she is in the parking lot and a van nearly hits her, but Edward stops the car. With his hand. She then finds out that he is a vampire and falls in love with him even though he sparkles when sunlight hits him.

Does this sound like a sensible premise? Oh and one other thing, Edward is a vampire who is 108 years old. And they fall in love. This does not sound like a legal thing to do. How is this accepted by almost all of the pre-teens and teenaged women? Anyway there is also a soon-to-be werewolf that fights for Bella’s attention, but he loses to the vampire. The only good thing that happens to him is that he gets much more attractive from the first to the second movie and is now a rising action star.

The cast of the film is made up of the trio of Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner, and Robert Pattinson. Kristen Stewart is blowing up now due to the success of this film franchise and has landed parts in the upcoming Snow White and the Huntsman as well as Akira, the live-action adaptation of the 1980’s film. She became really noticed as an actress for her film, Panic Room, starring alongside Jodie Foster in the action thriller directed by David Fincher. For Robert Pattinson, his big break was playing Cedric Diggory in the fourth Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Twilight also really helped the actor, who now has multiple films waiting for him including Bel Ami and Cosmopolis. Taylor Lautner had his big break starring in this film. He was cast in multiple other films prior to that including The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D but it wasn’t until this film that he hit the big time. As of 2010 he was considered to be the highest-paid teen actor in Hollywood.

Anyway, the director Catherine Hardwicke has since moved on since doing the first film and directed an extremely similar film in Red Riding Hood that maintained the same audience of Twilight and was also critically panned for being bad.

If you’re a woman and want to see a weird romance film, here you go. If you’re a guy, don’t see it, unless you have a girlfriend and are forced to. It’s not worth it. There is still one more film left, so be wary gentlemen. Also there aren’t really any attractive women to watch, so you won’t even get that benefit if forced to see it. Sorry guys.

1/5 stars. Needs improvement on content as well as just about everything.