Twilight (Two-Disc Special Edition)

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The special features for Twilight kick off with an audio commentary with director Catherine Hardwicke and stars Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson. There's some mumbling and groaning from Stewart (one gets the impression that Stewart is quite similar to her reserved character in the film), some standard behind-the-scenes observations from Hardwicke, and a lot of awkward self-deprecating remarks from Pattinson (of their big kiss, he opines: "This is quite difficult 'cause I have a really flat head, and so it's quite difficult to get a correct angle."). What's funny is Pattinson stumping Hardwicke with some basic plot questions, like "Why doesn't James just kill [Bella when she's packing at her house]?" While Hardwicke and Stewart attempt to answer, Pattinson doesn't appear satisfied. The deleted and extended scenes include an additional dream-sequence kiss (rightly cut because it took away from the buildup to their first kiss) and more footage of Victoria (Rachelle Lefevre). The seven-part documentary is a pretty thorough look at the development of the film, including stunts, special effects, and the involvement of author Stephenie Meyer. Another featurette looks at the Comic-Con frenzy; however, it spends no time on how the actors were cast, which would have been fun for fans who did all their own mental casting while reading the books. Also included: three music videos and trailers. --Ellen A. Kim

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(5 stars) - I love Twilight!
The movie was just as good as the book! I loved the series and I just watched "New Moon" yesterday.

(2 stars) - An Honest, Neutral Review of Why "Twilight" is NOT a Good Film
The Twilight Saga is unavoidable in both film and book form. The books, which I've never read, were bestsellers and the recent release of "New Moon," the film is breaking records. Teenage girls are absolutely gaga for the star Robert Pattinson and it finally intrigued me enough to watch this film. I do have a slightly biased opinion as the entire premise of the film seemed ludicrous to me, but I found a glimmer of hope in the film's director Catherine Hardwicke, who was responsible for the very honest look at teenagers with the film "Thirteen."

What really surprised me about this film is that it doesn't have much of a plot. Kristen Stewart plays Isabella "Bella" Swan, who moves from Arizona to Forks, Washington to stay with her father (Billy Burke). Bella inexplicably begins school moments after arriving in Forks and discovers The Cullen's, a group of mysterious foster kids from Alaska. Even more mysterious and intriguing, to her and the rest of the student body, is Edward Cullen (Pattinson), a quiet, pale, reserved 17-year-old. Bella starts to notice the Cullen's are more than just a little different and when Edward stops a van from running her over, she realizes that he may not even be human...99% of the world knows that he's a vampire, but not a vampire of the typical, blood-sucking variety. The Cullen's are "vegetarian" vampires who only snack on the blood of animals. There's a story here, obviously but nothing really happens in it.

Almost everything here is underwritten, characters and plot included. The characterization is particularly hollow and calling the characters "characters," is inaccurate; these are names with pretty faces attached to them. We're talking about a film here with an uneventful plot and characters completely void of depth. Twilight is supposed to be a supernatural love story geared towards a teenage demographic, but where's the emotion or poignancy that a love story needs in order to work as one? It's certainly not here. The dialogue in this movie is so melodramatic, I almost felt nauseous. The conversations between Bella and Edward are particularly embarrassing to watch. This does not sound like the "Romeo & Juliet" of the 21st Century, but the banter of two prepubescent children. A quick example; "Beautiful? This is the skin of a killer, Bella."

As for the performances, no one seems to be putting any effort into them. Pattinson looks uncomfortable and his facial expressions, as well as his delivery of the film's dialogue sound pain fully forced. I do believe Hardwicke is a talented director, but she made a lot of poor creative choices here starting with her decision to direct such a poorly written script in the first place. One of her most annoying directorial decisions was her overuse of the slow-motion to illustrate the anxiety of a character. I can say only one positive thing about the film's production value and that is the somber, gray color palette utilized by the film's cinematographer...It could've been really effective if the tone of the overall film had been altered. Anyone who doesn't agree with what I'm saying about the film's poor quality need look no further than the baseball scene. How horribly executed can a scene be? The acting, the dialogue, the choice of music, Pattinson's snarl, and the cinematography are so bad it's embarrassing. Finally, this scene has no relevance to the plot of the film. It's muddled, meandering filler slipped into the film as an excuse to bring the character's to a different conflict in the story. If I was not aware of the inescapable Twilight frenzy, I would swear this film was a direct-to-DVD release; no one with a knowledge or appreciation of American cinema would call Twilight a good movie.

Quite frankly, watching Twilight was like watching a high-school play written by a socially inept teenager. Obviously, my opinion isn't going to affect the success of the series. Twilight is one of those things that strikes some chord with young American audiences and has become a record-breaking smash success. I guarantee that Twilight will not remain a part of the American moviegoer's consciousness for any prolonged amount of time and just like hugely successful boy bands, this is a phase that will fade away in time.

Twilight left me shaking my head so many times in the two hours I was watching it. I was not fascinated, intrigued, or stimulated about anything going on in the film and the only way I can imagine someone being those things is if they were not educated. That last part is sarcasm, but quite honestly this is a film that people will look back on ten years from now and think "how did I possibly think that was any good."

GRADE: D

(1 stars) - A total puzzle
Why people bought thousands of copies of the book? -- Hype.
Why someone made a movie based on it? -- A total puzzle.
There have been so many classic vampire movies starring world known actors. This one is a repeat, which just a few twists attempting to make it different (and they don't succeed, for the most part). Choosing unknown young actors is a plus, but it doesn't offset the repetitiveness of the subject.

(1 stars) - Awfully boring!
What's all the silly hype over this movie and this vampire series?!

Go read the book, if you've the time to spare.
Go watch "Blade" if you want to see fast-paced vampire action.
Go watch re-runs of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" if you have to.
Anything but this silly Twilight-vampire BS romance movie/series!

I had resisted watching this movie when it first hit cinema screens knowing that the hype was all misplaced. My suspicions were right when I got to watch it yesterday: it sucked! What's all the zoom-in close-ups of the lead actor and actress? Whatever hyped up expectations of the marketing agencies, I guess they must have made misplaced fantasies come true for this movie.

For those of you who have yet to watch this Part 1 of the "saga", it's about a lonely teenage girl who moves into a small town where she meets a lonely teenage male vampire. The kind of fantasy that most female fantasy writers like to muse over when they have too much to escape from in everyday mundane reality of our modern world. Guys, if you want to know how dirty minded women are, just read all their trashy "romance" novels and their "fantasy" novels.

In this movie, a lonely human girl falls in love with a male vampire who turns out somewhat to be a "vegetarian" vampire and can't resist the girl. Male saves female from accident, introduces her to his vampire family. Other more blood thristy competiting vampires, one in particular, sniffs her out and hunts her down. Protective vampire male tries to save human female again, and finds her in time. His family members appear and take care of the attacking blood-thirsty vampire. Case closed, or so we may think. Yada, yada, yada, you know how these fantasy tales end. If you're an avid reader of fantasy novels, they all have the same theme and similar sounding escapades. Nothing new or spectacular, very predictable genre.

If not the seemingly humble Kristen Stewart, this movie doesn't even deserve a single star rating! Sorry, Kristen, you fared better in "The Messengers". If you want to explore your dark side, come chat with me, not with this Robert guy.

Viewers! If I can think of a good romance fantasy movie involving vampires and stuff, I'll let you know! Do you guys like foreign language movies? I don't think you can find them on Amazon.com.

(2 stars) - Two stars only because it's like a train wreck you can't turn away from...
I went to see this movie with my X-GF and she warned me about all the hubbub with the books, the teen crowd and the fact this was not like a regular vampire story. I recall she mentioned something about this being love story first. First off I will watch most any vampire flick, the more action, blood and gore the better.

This is not even a vampire movie at all, just a sappy teen romance flick about two characters that clearly can't seem to breathe without each other. Although, as a capitalist I will have to give props to the author of these books, as she (these books HAVE to have been created and written by a woman) clearly found a huge female teen audience. That being said, it's amazing how you can dangle trash like this in front of kids and they come running to it like moths to a flame.

When I saw this movie and watched the way the two primary characters looked at each other I could not figure out what the deal was. The leading man looked like he had just eaten bad sushi or something and the way the leading lady looked at the guy was nearly as bad. She looked at him like he was last cheeseburger she was going to get the chance to inhale before she took a forced 100 year journey into deep outer space.

So I patiently waited for some fangs, blood, violence or anything that was remotely interesting and juicy but nothing really happened except the two lead actors perpetually looking at and longing for each other (described in the prior paragraph). I almost forgot to mention that there theater was fully loaded with teenage girls who just kept saying things like "there he is" and "om my god he is so beautiful" and "I can't believe how perfect he is" etc...

I gave this movie two stars only for the reason that the experience in going to the movies to see this kooky flick with a bunch of teeny bopping 'Twilighters' just made me appreciate my home vampire movie collection that much more. This movie is good for two things: 1) Watching this will surely remind real vampire movie fans how thankful they are that movies like Horror of Dracula, Blade, Underworld etc... actually got made. I could see how this trash could absolutely supplant real vampire movies just by the sheer box office sensation this whole Twilight craze created. 2) Any bad DVD can serve as a coaster in a pinch.

As for me, I could pick out my 10th favorite Hammer vampire flick made 40 years ago and know that it is a million times better than Twilight.

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