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mousefeathers

Thoughts on Twilight

Jul 02, 2009 10:57

So I went to see the movie Twilight with some other folks, so we could snark and otherwise enjoy hating the thing. Having gone in expecting to be entertained by the badness, I was a little taken aback to be disappointed in it. You could see the bones of a story that had the potential to be a decent movie, but the acting wasn't even wooden, it was ( Read more... )

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dwer July 2 2009, 18:14:40 UTC

I would agree that it was the directory and the editing as well, because the girl who played Bella is in another movie called Adventureland or something like that, and I quite liked her in it.

amorsalado July 2 2009, 19:50:51 UTC

Except Kristin Stewart couldn't act in that one either. Even you made fun of just how bad her acting was. Remember? Especially there at the end.

Anyway, Ruth have you read THIS -- Twilight in 15 minutes? I laughed so freaking hard I cried.
CARLISLE: Bella, I'm so sorry... your father's weird friend was killed by a feral plot point.

BELLA: I didn't even know we had those in this movie!

CARLISLE [significant look ]: I know. They're very rare in Forks.

dwer July 2 2009, 19:57:02 UTC

she did drop the ball on the ending. But she wasn't drywall flat, either.

kitwench July 2 2009, 21:56:14 UTC

No, Bella's entire personality is expressed in the first chapter, and it goes downhill from there.
I read all 4 with my Dd, and they did not improve until #4.
(Mother daughter reading clubs, meh)
But I did read the Edward version on SM's website and it had more kapow than the other 4 put together.
Frankly, I think she suffers from over editing.

Does this mean I have to go the web site? mousefeathers July 2 2009, 22:13:41 UTC

I was hearing her comments as dry snark rather (along the lines of Mary from In Plain Sight; perhaps it's the desert that does it) than witless self-absorption--but self-absorbed is what adolescence is all about, and she was sounding at least intelligent enough to think. Maybe; it was just the first three pages.

There was no slightest hint of depth in the movie Bella, nor the presence of actual personality. She was a plastic cut-out doll they pushed around from cafeteria to tree-top, and couldn't even throw a tantrum that didn't sound like the little gremlin pulling the strings inside her head was trying to imitate a teenage girl when it hadn't ever heard one before.

I'm glad it wasn't MY Netflix rental.

sheyeblaze July 3 2009, 01:36:17 UTC

I really liked the Edward version. I did like the books and they were so much better than the movie. But, I do like romance novels and that's what these were - romance novels.