30 Days of Movies: Oh Goodness, Why Am I Doing This....

Damnation  but I hate Twilight.

I won't even post a picture, cause I don't want to even Google the movie poster.

I have seen a LOT of movies. A lot have been based off of books, cause I really like books. But from my years of experience reading books and watching movies, I have learned that book to film adaptions can go really RIGHT or really WRONG.

Twilight went really wrong from the beginning.

I can't blame everything on the film itself, the source material was pretty lousy. But the first Twilight movie was just so bad...so very bad

. First off, the movie is blue. VERY blue. As in, shot through a blue lens for no reason blue. I still can't figure out the bizarre lighting choice, if it was meant to set a tone, well it didn't really work too well. It just made everything look weird and all the people look like they had frostbite.

But once you stop noticing all the weird lighting choices, you notice all the horrid actors. And you WISH you could stop noticing the bad acting and go back to that blissful time when just the lighting was weird. But the acting is bad. Like, how do these people call themselves professional actors bad. Again, I realize they were working off piss poor source material, but still! They are all so stiff in their roles, clearly trying to live up to the impossible standards that millions of Twi-hards had dreamed up by the time the movie released! It was pathetic to see actors that in other roles were superb (Rob Pattinson MADE Cedric Diggory) so ridiculously miscast. I've seen the actors who played Jasper and Rosalie in a few other roles and they actually weren't half bad. But really, for the most part, the cast sucked. Kristen Stewart can't even PRETEND to like her character, and the rest of them are all over acting, trying to 'embrace the character' and its 'full potential'. GAG.


Ugh, even just thinking about how much I used to like this fandom bugs me.
Ah well, live and learn, I suppose.

My rating: 1 star. Watch at your own risk. Unless you have rifftracks or something to make it more tolerable.



When you live forever, what do you live for?
 
Better movies than this one.