Twilight review

Its spring the suns out, the birds are singing their beautiful little songs, flowers are coming out hiding and I am in love. I meet a beautiful woman who for some reason or another is insane enough to like me, and in my love we hang together, go to restaurants, watch movies, and SHE MADE ME WATCH TWILIGHT. SHE MADE me WATCH SHE MADE ME WATCH (Sin City reference)

Its a story about a guy, and a girl falling in love. The biggest twist in the movie (using the word twist lightly) is that the guy is a vampire, and he has to protect the girl from a group of rival vampires. Its a very simple story, however because of all the hype Twilight gets, this simple story gets blown way out of proportion.

Many people love this movie, many people hate this movie people disagree regarding the quality of this movie simply because of how average it is. The most interesting thing about twilight is how strongly people feel about the movie. The movie itself isn't that remarkable.

The stories simplicity is a plus, because its more of a character driven drama than a movie with a set story to tell. The movie revolves around a girl liking a guy and letting nothing, including him wanting to physically eat her get in the way of that.

The characters are all one dimensional and that makes it easy for people who aren't all that interested in the movie to remember characters. Everyone was the physical or personality trait with the word guy, or girl at the end.

The imagery in the movie was this super bright fantasy small town. which was kind of unique not a lot of fantasy stories are told in modern small towns. Its either mid evil Europe, or some random endless forest. Although technically Twilight does have a random never ending forest.

The movie overall is very bland, and forgettable for people who aren't already Twilight fans. That's what I like most about the movie. It was a movie made for the fans of the book series. it wasn't a movie made to capitalize on a vampire craze. it wasn't made to chase some trend, it was a movie made for the fans. I'm a huge comic book fan, and I hate some movies inspired by comics that change much of the story for the movie. I can understand that some things have to be adapted to fit a different medium, but sometimes its like if you have changed this much about the story why not just change the characters names, call it a day.

Movies inspired by other mediums suffer from tweaking the process of changing characters and events to better fit with the new medium. The problem is that with too much tweaking your no longer adapting something from one medium to another your re-imagining the story of a whole, and luckily for twilight that isn't a problem at all. Their not re-imagining the twilight book their just telling the story as a movie. now the movie isn't that great because the book isn't that great. twilight is a faithful adaptation. if you didn't read or like the books Twilight the movie is a huge middle finger. screw you this isn't for you. Batman was made for everyone, Star Trek was re-imagined so that non Star Trek fans could like it. Twilight was the only franchise that could say screw you were not changing anything. I for one can respect that.

so time for the break down.

Did critics like it?
They were split. Rotten tomatoes had a perfect 50/50 split between critics who loved it and critics who hated it.

Did I like it?
No not really. I love the idea of Twilight a movie made for its fans, but as a movie Twilight just didn't have much that I found enjoyable.

Is it worth watching?
Yes. yup another one of those times in which I didn't like a movie, but you have to see it. yeah its unremarkable, but plenty of people feel quite strongly about this movie I say watch it see how you feel.

Twilight gets 3-5 stars. Its average what else needs to be said.