While flipping through the channels tonight a buddy of mine and I found Twilight on FX, so we thought we'd watch. Strangely, I was attracted to this movie. However, it was still mostly cheese. The baseball scene with the 1910 hats was laughable...and really up until that point, there wasn't much going on with the plot except for Edward trying to get Bella to trust him. That was over an hour into the film.
After watching for a while, I started to note that there was a funny noise Kristen Stewart was doing, almost a grunting. She does it three times when talking to her mom on the phone in the one scene. Once I mentioned it, it was all we could focus on and made the movie quite laughable. It's half a shame too, because I went into this movie with two thoughts on my mind and they were opposite thoughts. One was it might be cool if this ends up actually semi-good. The other was I sort of want to make fun of this movie. I think after the movie was over I was leaning towards camp funny, versus camp good. It honestly felt made for TV. I didn't know that wolf guy was even in this movie. I guess jokes on me. He must get more involved in the future movies once he goes and works out 24-7. The family of vampires related to Edward were not good. They should have cast those roles better for sure. I guess the one guy is now married to a girl from 90210? We also kept wondering why he (Edward) didn't just bite her and make her part of his clan? That was odd. Perhaps in the next movie? Which, I might watch....??
I do think now however that I'm very inclined to go back and watch Taintlight, a wonder of a movie by none other than Chris Seaver. But, I heard the book is much better. I bet it's really funny now that I've seen Twilight. Edward specifically I bet is funny. Watching him act is pretty painful, although of his entire family he's really the only one that looks the part. I kept laughing when he was driving and would lean forward a bit to yell or talk to Kristen Stewart in a stern vampire voice....like when he said, "just let me get you out of here" after the baseball scene.
I was very tempted to give this a D+ but I was somewhat intrigued and would watch the 2nd movie for sure.
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I agree with your comments and glad that you're approaching the follow up "saga" films with an open mind. They're all loaded with cheese, but I advise watching them as if you're reading a book.
Anything else interesting happen while you watched the movie?
Hi Chris. This is you know who. I would watch Taintlight with you again.
Hey Mike, I'd like to watch it again especially now that I've seen the real live Edward in action. Is it still on instant? If so, I'm in...
Hey anonymous, I'm not sure what you are getting at, but I did do some exciting couch sitting during the event, also my sister-in-law slammed silverware around when she was unloading the dishwasher - so there's that...
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agreed with your thoughts anonymous. FYI, I didn't read the book Twilight. But I bet it is better.
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