boe_dye sez: Louie, Louie... Still whining Louie...

Rating: 5/10 (24 March 2009)

that's not really all that fair...
or maybe I could say: "Micheeeaalll, Micheeeeealll" And then have the frog brothers jump out of their comic shop to do some serious damage on some po-dunk Vampire Arse.
Which again isn't really fair but in all honesty if you did combine Lost Boys with Interview with the Vampire and sprinkle in some teen movie angst you generally have this film.
It wasn't so much that the story line was bad. It was original, or at least as original of a story you can get in the 21st century. However what really killed it was that it was so melodramatic and over acted, I could not take anyone seriously.
And it is obvious to anyone with half a brain that this movie is marketed to emo, angst ridden, dark teenage girls. But it was just so absurd, and so overplayed that it made it hard to get into the world.
I don't know, maybe as I get older I expect more. And maybe that is the refinement of age is that the things that amused me as a child don't even scratch the surface anymore.
And again, it's not the story so much as the acting. The majority of the dialogue was one worded, stuttered phrases that were just a slight bit above Neanderthal grunts.
There was no real character development, and it seemed as if everyone was tossed into the mix solely because they were in the book, which I did not read.
As always with any movie based upon the book one must keep in mind that the movie is BASED on and NOT the book itself so of course certain liberties must be taken. Dramatic license is expected. However with movies that are based on books it always seems that the film makers are either trying to cram too much book into the movie, and producing a random disjointed film that makes a bad film.
Or.
Not having enough of the book and changing too many things around, thus angering and upsetting the fans who made the series popular in the first place.
In the end, it was amusing to me from the first moment that Edward appeared in the cafeteria. Almost as if walking out of a Calvin Klein ad of the 90's. Wind blowing in his hair, even though he was indoors. A cold, mysterious stare, a hip and cool air about it...
So overplayed that I started laughing...
But again, I am not a young girl just hitting puberty, and I have long since been that age when hormones were raging and overly dramatic romances inspired me.
Perhaps I am just too old for this sort of thing, or perhaps this sort of thing is just as ridiculous as it was back in my youth.
The fact remains that I do like a bit of cheese now and then, and I do enjoy a cheesy teen romance.
This however was cheese that took itself way too seriously.