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Twilight

Review by [Alexi Ice]



Are you afraid of vampires, or maybe just poor cinematography? Well, with the new Twilight movie, you get a healthy dose of both!

For the sake of my review I am going to pretend that I never read the books and am a completely nonpartisan observer of this film. Also, in the film's defense, it was created by an independent film company with a very low budget and with an almost unknown direction holding the reins.

The film itself consists of vampires, a twisted tale of love, and even some shockingly gruesome violence towards the end. As a short synopsis, it is about a girl named Bella Swan who meets a vampire named Edward who seems to hate her at first, but eventually admits that although he craves her blood as well, he loves her too. Eventually, the bad vampires James and Victoria enter the scene and stir up a whole lot of trouble. In the end, the bad guys are ‘vanquished’ (as you would expect) and Bella and Edward go to the prom. So cute.


However, the scenes are all scrambled. Speaking as someone who did in fact read and enjoy the book now it seemed almost as if the director placed every chapter title in a hat, pulled them out and lined them up in that new sequence. Because of this blatant lack of development they make Edward look like some kind of stalker and make Bella look like a masochistic, love crazed girl who is easily swayed by a man with piercing golden eyes and auburn hair. They skipped over some important scenes needed for the next few books (like the blood typing chapter), while the scene in the meadow was awkward and seemed almost forced.

The chemistry between the main characters was undeniable but Kirsten Stewert had a tendency to get a little too into her role and stutter and stumble over her lines, and make a bigger scene out of some things than she should have. They did a very good job setting up for the second movie during the final scene and the battle scene was nice and gory, wrought with very good acting on Kirsten's part even though she mucked it up by freaking out later in the hospital.

I will, of course, watch New Moon when it releases, but the 2009 rendition of Stephanie Meyers Twilight will only receive a three out of five stars from me-- and I am most certainly not afraid of vampires.



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