Twilight ...................... :o
So my friend and I had read the book and decided to have a girl's night, knock back a couple of beers, and try to live our teenage romantic years... ... ... OK, I really don't have much of an excuse for watching this movie, especially since I had heard how awful it was from various sources, but I just finished the book and I had hoped that at least a PART of the film would make me feel like a silly 17-year-old in love again...
But not so much. It was pretty turgid. Over-dramatic. TERRIBLY acted (ok, I'm a total pedophile for saying this, but I think that Robert Pattinson is ridiculously hot, but he can't act his way out of a paper bag), and just... really really cheesy. I realize that the target demographic are "'tweens," but could we please give them some damn credit! Sure, I was brooding and moody at 17, but I was also intelligent, well-spoken, and enjoyed movies with
substance. Of course, there isn't much to the book outside of the silly love story (not very much conflict or drama, so I'd say that the movie at least added a bit of that), but the on screen "intensity" was enough to make me scoff. They should have made this a silent picture with the amount of baleful glances back and forth.
Ick.
Oh, well. This will remain a guilty pleasure and nothing but, but it was still pretty awful regardless. I think that it could have been a lot better. Not amazing, but at least watchable.
2/5.