Love to Hate Film!

Rating: 7/10 (15 August 2010)

Let me just start by saying that I have seen this movie a multitude of times due to my mothers obcession with it and the fact that I have just moved back into my mothers because.... well....
So, Twilight...
The first time I saw this movie, I watched it out of the corner of my eye, because I had utter contempt for everything about it, the hype, the culture and more to the point, the fad.
This movie could have been so much more, but it is what it IS, I can sit here and bone it all day, there are so many bad character choices, so many bad cinematographic decisions to throw a cat at. However, after a few viewings, when you look past these flaws, the movie doesn't do too bad, I've seen worse.
They have all the right ingredients, a decent story, an excellent score, two lead actors who do gel, lovely backdrops, but it just isn't mixed together as good as it could have been. But as I said, it is what it is and this movie is for Vampire Flicks, what Harry Potter is for WIzard/Fantasy genre's. It's a fad.
One of the things that kind of makes this movie bad is that it feels rushed, it really does, some of the lines, some of the acting and some of the cinematography. I feel that if they had taken their time on this movie, gone with their 2nd, 3rd or maybe 4th choices, the overall feel to the movie could have been polished.
If you are a bonafide Vampire buff like me, don't expect much, expect a teenage faddy spin on a generic genre.
God Bless.