Is it really as scary as everyone says? :question: I had a friend say it was the creepiest thing since 2005's Van Helsing, though the original Rocky Horror Picture Show still holds the honor of the film that made me fear the most. :buggedout:
It seems like it'd mostly be scary for teenage girls...or maybe it's just heart-breaking.
Haven't read the books nor seen the film (and don't plan on doing either), so I dunno.
Stay the hell away from it.
My 13 year old cousins wanted me to read the books. I got a little ways into the first one. It was about a girl with no personality who falls in love with a vampire with no personality. If you were a teenaged girl with no taste, you might like it. Otherwise ...
Stay the hell away.
I was HIGHLY upset with this movie.
I thought the books were pretty good, but the movie was absolutly HORRIBLE!
It was full of terrible acting. The characters showed no emotion. And the emotion they actually did show (which was little) was terrible. For example when Bella first went into the Biology room, having Edward sitting next to her, it looked like wanted to blow chunks. He acted like she smelled bad. Which is not the case in the book. like i said....horrible acting.
And the scene where Edward had Bella on her back jumping from tree to tree was crap. I laughed in the theater at the bad effects. It looked totally dumb and fake.
Even the scene in the ballet studio between James and Edward.
It wasnt as good as it was in the book.
Thruout the movie, Edward acted stupid, emotionless, and downright weird.
Bella and Edward fell in love wayyyyy tooooo fast.
Give us some more of a plot.
The movie just p**sed me off.
But even though it sucked, i will be in line for New Moon, to see if they trashed it as well
My girlfriend has declared her intention to make me sit through Twilight as retaliation for me making her (which is debatable) through Manos, the Hands of Fate (Mystery Science Theater version). However, she has purchased the Rifftrax for Twilight, and has stated that she won't screen the movie for me without the Rifftrax.
Quote from: Saucerman on May 29, 2009, 06:04:54 PM
My girlfriend has declared her intention to make me sit through Twilight as retaliation for me making her (which is debatable) through Manos, the Hands of Fate (Mystery Science Theater version). However, she has purchased the Rifftrax for Twilight, and has stated that she won't screen the movie for me without the Rifftrax.
She sounds like a keeper.
Quote from: akiratubo on November 23, 2008, 01:27:40 AM
Stay the hell away from it.
My 13 year old cousins wanted me to read the books. I got a little ways into the first one. It was about a girl with no personality who falls in love with a vampire with no personality. If you were a teenaged girl with no taste, you might like it. Otherwise ...
Stay the hell away.
I agree and would like to add that Edward acts like a stereotypical abusive boyfriend using stalker tactics to keep up with Bella (in the book anyhow). If I had a daughter and she wanted to read this crap, I'd sit her down and explain how possessiveness and stalking have NOTHING to do with love. Well, not normal love.
Personally, I'd like to see a bullet and a stake for every character in the first book. And, if you couldn't tell, I haven't and never plan on reading any of the other books in the series.
Now, why haven't they ever made a good shoot-em-up version of the Mack "Executioner" Bolan books? I'd pay to see those.
Quote from: Javakoala on May 29, 2009, 08:47:56 PM
Quote from: Saucerman on May 29, 2009, 06:04:54 PM
My girlfriend has declared her intention to make me sit through Twilight as retaliation for me making her (which is debatable) through Manos, the Hands of Fate (Mystery Science Theater version). However, she has purchased the Rifftrax for Twilight, and has stated that she won't screen the movie for me without the Rifftrax.
She sounds like a keeper.
I agree.
Well, we watched Twilight. We had some difficulty keeping the Rifftrax properly synced, it kept drifting a bit, so we began to improvise our own riffs.
I gotta say, it's the funniest comedy I've ever seen. My ribs ache from laughing so hard. Even without the Rifftrax, this was possibly THE GIANT CLAW level goofy fun.
I had her in tears when I began to do "celebrity testimonials":
"Hallo, I am Bela Lugosi, and I in no way endorse this film!"
"Guten abend, ich bin Graf Orlock, und der kino "Twilight" ist der Scheisse."
Do they really have sparkling vampires in the movie?
Quote from: Niolani on June 09, 2009, 11:59:25 PM
Do they really have sparkling vampires in the movie?
yes :teddyr: Edward is sparkling.
I haven't read the books but do have a 13 yr old daughter so I was forced to watch the movie. :bluesad: I can see why guys hate it and young girls are crazy for it. Its not a good movie by any stretch and sends the wrong message to impressionable girls IMO. Obsession and stalking are not good things.
AGH..... For all that is good.... WHY does this film exist? Robert Patinson? Acting? Ridiculous...
In the sun vampires don't sparkle. They either burn to death or they become weak until sunset.
Also if the vampire has a love interest she better be the reincarnation of his lost love or something along those lines.
In Twilight they claim that to kill a vampire you must rip off it's head and burn it's remains. But they forgot that the vampire must be impaled through the heart.
Uhg... That's enough internet rants on Twilight for tonight...
Good night to all and death to the romance genre!
where the hell did you hear that this flick was "Scary"? it is THE worst vampire movie, if you can even call it that, ever. its also a terrible love story. No Fangs, No Bats, they sparkle in the sunlight instead of combust and they don't sleep in coffins. As far as im concerned they aren't even vampires, i dont know what exactly to call them, undead wizards? not to mention the lead looks like she is going to throw up on herself ever other scene. Do yourself a favor and skip it, go watch lost boys.
Quote from: Joe on June 15, 2009, 10:22:21 AM
where the hell did you hear that this flick was "Scary"? it is THE worst vampire movie, if you can even call it that, ever. its also a terrible love story. No Fangs, No Bats, they sparkle in the sunlight instead of combust and they don't sleep in coffins. As far as im concerned they aren't even vampires, i dont know what exactly to call them, undead wizards? not to mention the lead looks like she is going to throw up on herself ever other scene. Do yourself a favor and skip it, go watch lost boys.
In my review I coined the term "Wimpire" for them.
Quote from: Joe on June 15, 2009, 10:22:21 AM
where the hell did you hear that this flick was "Scary"? it is THE worst vampire movie, if you can even call it that, ever. its also a terrible love story. No Fangs, No Bats, they sparkle in the sunlight instead of combust and they don't sleep in coffins. As far as im concerned they aren't even vampires, i dont know what exactly to call them, undead wizards? not to mention the lead looks like she is going to throw up on herself ever other scene. Do yourself a favor and skip it, go watch lost boys.
Okay, I may be in the
vast minority here when I say... Twilight is one of the most unsettling films of the decade o_o .
The sheer fact that this mad creature wants, no, lusts to experience human emotion, only for his kind, who are more familiar with and revel in their common animalistic nature, to hunt down both his "vegetarian" self and his object of deluded desire... was more than simply chilling, but thought-provoking as well.
The film and book series brought a whole new level of symbolism to the vampire mythos. Vampires as we know them are not based on some archetypical boogeyman, but instead simply on on an idea of the pervert: the preyer on the innocent. The stalker
does not lose his power in sunlight in these modern, naive, and often too complacent times, to some, he does in fact sparkle.
There is more to this film than symbolism though. Vampires are actually given supernatural power, almost demigodlike here, that make them much less vulnerable and in fact a much more everpresent threat than in classic representations. When it is only a monster that can stop a monster, what is humankind to do but to be forced to take volatile refuge with the very objects of its' fear?
In the end, it almost seems the main vampire, Edward, shows true humanity in the beating and killing of his own kin. And, since other vampires seem to condone the in-fighting, it truly raises some questions as to whether or not a human can be safe in such company. Would Edward react the same if James were not out to kill someone who he deemed worthy of his affection?
A more unsettling conflict representing traditional human nature has not been as effectively posed in a horror film since the original Rocky Horror Picture Show, and not with such frighteningly conflicting poles of love and hatred since Edward Scissorhands.
Mr. Briggs we may have to begin worrying about you.