Finally saw "Twilight" tonight
Dec. 30th, 2008 09:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fenchurchNow, I must say first off that I haven't read any of the books yet. I've had the first one on my Teetering Pile for quite awhile now, but still haven't gotten around to it. I hadn't actually planned on seeing the movie until after I read the book... but my sisters-in-law, mother-in-law and niece were going to see it at a matinee today and I decided to go along.
Well, it wasn't anywhere near as bad as I was expecting... which probably isn't saying a lot, because my expectations were incredibly low. It's not a movie I would have gone to see on my own, although I suspect we eventually would have gotten it through NetFlix or something. Definitely aimed more at the young teenager set and I'm not surprised that the director has been replaced for the second film because, um, yeah... long, repeated close-ups of the main characters not talking and sort of staring intensely? Not art. Really.
The movie was unintentionally funny in many, many places... and knowing my niece was sitting only two seats down from me (and that she's quite enamored of the books and movie), I tried very hard not to laugh out loud, but it was pretty tough. The last half of the film was MUCH better... since there was some actual action. But I'm afraid I never really understood the angsty romance that teenagers are supposed to go through (it was not a phase I ever experienced), so the rest of the film seemed more than a bit silly and overly melodramatic.
Oh, and unless the movie is about clowns or punk rockers or cross-dressers, the male lead really should never, EVER be wearing more lipstick than the female lead. That was incredibly distracting and I'm not sure what the make-up artist was thinking. Probably the same thing as the one for that Season 1 BtVS episode where David Boreanaz has WAY more lipstick than does Alyson Hannigan (who was sharing the scene with him)... that was also weirdly distracting.
I'm actually a bit more interested in reading the book now... although I haven't completely gotten over my trepidation that it's going to all be about the teenage angsty romance stuff.
Well, it wasn't anywhere near as bad as I was expecting... which probably isn't saying a lot, because my expectations were incredibly low. It's not a movie I would have gone to see on my own, although I suspect we eventually would have gotten it through NetFlix or something. Definitely aimed more at the young teenager set and I'm not surprised that the director has been replaced for the second film because, um, yeah... long, repeated close-ups of the main characters not talking and sort of staring intensely? Not art. Really.
The movie was unintentionally funny in many, many places... and knowing my niece was sitting only two seats down from me (and that she's quite enamored of the books and movie), I tried very hard not to laugh out loud, but it was pretty tough. The last half of the film was MUCH better... since there was some actual action. But I'm afraid I never really understood the angsty romance that teenagers are supposed to go through (it was not a phase I ever experienced), so the rest of the film seemed more than a bit silly and overly melodramatic.
Oh, and unless the movie is about clowns or punk rockers or cross-dressers, the male lead really should never, EVER be wearing more lipstick than the female lead. That was incredibly distracting and I'm not sure what the make-up artist was thinking. Probably the same thing as the one for that Season 1 BtVS episode where David Boreanaz has WAY more lipstick than does Alyson Hannigan (who was sharing the scene with him)... that was also weirdly distracting.
I'm actually a bit more interested in reading the book now... although I haven't completely gotten over my trepidation that it's going to all be about the teenage angsty romance stuff.
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Date: 2008-12-31 01:32 pm (UTC)